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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1900
Page
6
Batesville area publishing firm Batesville Publishing Co operates in Batesville Indiana, with Batesville Publishing Co listed as the publisher in local notices and records.
History of a Week reports a catastrophic blaze wiping out the Kelly Axe Manufacturing Company plant valued at 800000. The factory north of Alexandria was the world’s largest axe maker, employing hundreds at full capacity. Fire spread with no local water supply or city aid. insurance about 450000. Cause under investigation, suspected overheated boiler.
In Elliott County Kentucky a feud between the Adkins and Howard families left two men wounded one fatally. The trouble began over a quarrel involving a young woman and drew in both families bringing reinforcements. Adkins kin including a preacher father were arrested and jailed in Martinsburg.
Dawson Georgia endures record heat with temperatures just over 100 degrees for days. Farmer W T Everett displays sun popped popcorn kernels as proof of intense heat scorching crops and warming the region.
The yacht St Francois on a Tadousac to River du Loup pleasure cruise capsized during a squall off White Island. Five aboard, Captain Foster, Adelard Savard, Couzine Morin, P Morin, and P Boucher, were thrown into the sea. Jamboree of Quebec, passing nearby, rescued Savard and Boucher. Foster and the two Morins were drowned.
The west bound Lake Shore Limited wrecked at a Bay bridge west of Sandusky Ohio. The fourth express car and a combination express and smoking car jumped tracks and rolled down a slope to Sandusky Bay. Several were injured and fourteen occupants were rescued by trainsmen and passengers. fears of fatally injured remain.
A Rock Island passenger train traveling from Denver and Colorado Springs to Kansas City crashed into a freight train at a curve in a deep cut about a mile west of Bethune. Engineer James Boyle and fireman Charles Kimm were seriously and perhaps fatally injured. The passenger engine went through the caboose. the freight crew suffered no injuries.
Dispatch from Montrose Colorado reports forest fires burning fiercely in all directions. To the east a large blaze erupts in Black Mesa while the Grand Mesa and Uncompahgre plateau send up vast smoke plumes to the north. Westward three fires spread, with thousands of acres of timber already destroyed.
The total wheat crop across Oregon Washington and Idaho is estimated between 82 000 000 and 35 000 000 bushels a decrease of about 5 000 000 from prior estimates The wheat is said to be of very fine quality.
The United States cruiser Baltimore with Rear Admiral John C. Watson aboard sails from Grave Send bound for Belfast as part of its homeward voyage from Manila.
A pine cottage and a fashionable boarding house burned on Mackinac Island Michigan. Guests escaped in their night clothes as flames caused about 30000 dollars in losses.
A false work failure on the Monon bridge over the Wabash River at Lafayette Ind dumps a gang of brick workers into the river among falling timbers. Four men are badly hurt and one is not expected to survive.
A passenger train derailed near Perkiomen due to obstacles on the track involving multiple horses. No injuries reported, but service suspended while authorities inspect the line and restore safety.
The long siege of foreign legations in Pekin ends as allied troops reach the capital and relieve the besieged. US Marines and Russian, British, Japanese, German, French, Italian forces advance from Tientsin and Pekin amid heavy fighting. Diplomatic fallout and possible indemnities loom.
A mob of hundreds grew to more than 1500 in New York near West Thirty-seventh Street after Policeman Robert J. Thorpe was killed during an arrest attempt. The crowd assaulted Black residents and fired into upper floors as police reserves restored order.
Reports detail Admiral Seymour's relief attempt near Tientsin, the collapse of expectation his force would reach the city, and the prolonged siege. The murder of German minister Baron von Ketteler is confirmed as June 18. U.S. and British forces race to Pekin amid mounting casualties and a declared armistice.
Gen Dorward leads remaining forces to defend Tien-tsin as German orders a squadron to Shanghai amid British plan to land 3 000 troops.
War Department releases Agui naldo papers captured months ago by Gen. Sunston. A letter from Dr. Montague R. Leverson of Fort Hamilton New York dated July 17 1899 urges Filipinos to seize U S officials and charge piracy. Officials consider treason charges unlikely. Leverson age 60 native of England now U S citizen resides Fort Hamilton. Leverson and Anthony Comstock once sued each other for libel in Albany union station dispute.
The superior jury finished awards at the 1900 Paris Exposition and named a five member committee to conclude tagging. Prof. J. Howard Gore heads American juries and is the only foreigner on the panel. M. Delauney Belleville praised U.S. superior planning that kept America ahead of all nations.
Twenty new passenger engines were received by Santa Fe. Rock Island reports June earnings of 1 991 5381.08. Colorado sues Pullman over incorporation fees of 11 085. Grand Trunk awards double tracking Hamilton to Clifton. Great Northern notes refusal to join transcontinental passenger association. Eastern lines plan a 10 percent coal rate hike and seek next season business at higher rates. Santa Fe orders 200 ballast cars and several steam shovels. Western railroad presidents’ freight rate pact drifted toward collapse amid efforts to curb robberies. Huntington urges armed guards on mail trains for nationwide protection.
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