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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1909
Page
6
Otis Giery and his wife of Clear Lake Indiana died when their vehicle was struck by a Lake Shore train near Montgomery Michigan. Their year old daughter Goldie survived with minor bruises as the engine pilot lifted them from the wreck.
The three-week-old daughter of J. F. and Clementine Deshon, dubbed the $100,000 baby, dies at their country home near Jeffersonville Indiana. The child's birth preserved a $100,000 Holt farm intended for the Clark Masonic Lodge of Jeffersonville, a claim lawyers say the Lodge cannot enforce due to lack of issue.
A Trieste dispatch reports Walter Wellman departed Spitzbergen on Monday August 16 in his dirigible Thalia bound for the North Pole. A favorable wind aided the launch from Hammerfest, Norway, according to a telegram from the ship's captain.
The Modern Miller notes fall seeding plowing under way in Missouri. Drought and heat slow field work as weevils appear in stacked wheat and Illinois farmers plan to market infected grain after last year’s losses. Roosevelt trophies arrive in New York from Marseilles aboard the Provincia.
Three bulldogs attacked 5 year old Lewis Mains and 7 year old Vernon Mains as they passed Dr. A. L. Lonsacre’s home in Covington Indiana. Lewis suffered painful bites to neck and legs before pedestrians intervened and drove the dogs away.
Michael Hall, 80, near blind, was shot on his doorstep in Walsh Ontario. His wife, aged, four times wounded but alive and may recover. A youth named Shelley, alleged to have quarreled with Hall, has been arrested.
A collision of two trains thirty miles north of Santiago Chile killed and injured many. Both trains were destroyed and the financial loss is expected to reach 150000 dollars.
The Grand Army of the Republic standard reported missing in Salt Lake City Utah was located stored in the Commercial building where the encampment executive committee held headquarters.
The steamer Fred Swain traveling between Peoria and LaSalle caught fire in midstream and burned to the water’s edge. Two hundred people were aboard but all reached shore safely.
A blaze swept Fort Worth Texas causing about 206000 in damage to the business district. Among the ruined properties were Nash Hardware Company J Goldstein clothing store and two restaurants.
A large number of miners are reported dead as a fire devastates the Camelia mine at Real del Monte in Hidalgo state Mexico. The incident tallies a severe disaster for local industry and labor.
On the fifty fourth lap of the Prest-o-Lite 250 mile race at the new speedway, William Bourque and Marty Holcomb were killed when their car left the track and overturned. Clifford Litterall died later from injuries. The accident occurred as Robert Burman won the big race and two speed records fell, including Barney Oldfield's mile in 48 4-10 seconds and Louis Chevrolet's ten miles in 8 56 4-10.
New York to Venezuela dispute over 1901 concessions ends out of court. Venezuelan authorities sign protocol to pay the New York Venezuelan Company 474000 dollars for development expenditures, defusing a diplomatic rupture after months of hearings and Hague Tribunal plans.
In Fulton Kentucky George Speed shot and killed Abe Vinson then fired on his sister, Mrs. Vinson, who was his guest at Speed's home. The victims were sleeping on Speed’s balcony due to heat when Speed, believing burglars were entering, opened fire without investigating.
Theodore Harris a long deceased Louisville banker leaves over 1,000,000 to the Baptists of Kentucky in a will dated April 15, 1907. His surviving children receive modest life tenures of about 150 dollars monthly each. If named beneficiaries die the estate reverts to the church. Harris cites inherited wealth as seldom useful and vows these gifts will aid thousands unborn.
The standing of clubs in the major baseball leagues highlights tense races as teams bid for pennants. Leaders edge closer to titles with late-season surges, while challengers mount come from behind pushes to close gaps.
Jay, the 13 year old trotter, drops his time to 2 07 44 in Detroit State fair Grand Circuit races. Minikahda Club of Minneapolis, Harry Legg wins the trans Mississippi golf title 10 8 over Bernard Guinand at Des Moines CC. Glidden tourists feature a dead heat between Din Patch and Minor Weir at M W Savage stock farm. Orloff racing horses from Moscow to tour American fairs to gauge interest for import.
Two masked robbers drill a bank vault in Kiefer Oklahoma late Monday night fatally shooting City Marshal Inford and wounding Cashier Webling before fleeing. A posse organized quickly pursued the suspects as the two men escaped after the vault was nearly opened and nitroglycerin prepared for use.
Floodwaters overflow the Arkansas River in Colorado washing out tracks at Royal Gorge and damaging lines on the Denver Rio Grande Midland and other railroads. Trains—especially eastern tourist travelers—are detoured via long routes, with some lines diverted toward Amos, Colorado. Homes are abandoned as water levels rise and tributaries flood nearby areas.
An extreme heat wave pushed temperatures to 110 degrees in several cities and caused at least three deaths in Kansas City with prostrations and crop damage across Missouri Kansas Oklahoma and the Southwest. Topeka recorded 102 degrees and Oklahoma City 112 the hottest in fifteen years.
The Egyptian lotus grows wild about three miles east of Hammond Indiana in the Calumet River with thousands in bloom. The flowers measure five or six inches, are yellow with green tips, open by day and close at night. Local settlers doubt any importation and believe the plant is native to both the Calumet and the Nile.
An unknown elderly man about 70 years old hanged himself and was found by berry pickers near a public road in Pittsburg after approximately three months, with no identification on the body. Hundreds pass daily along the road.
Iowa plaintiff Russell Johnson wins in the U S Court of Appeals over a St Louis doctor. Johnson was operated on for appendicitis on March 30, 1907, and a second surgery found a gauze fragment twenty four by nine inches in the wound. The court sustains the judgment against the surgeon for damages.
An explosive fire damp incident at a Clermont Fer rand mine in France caused the deaths of twelve miners. Separate reports note Macklin near Winnipeg wiped out by a recent tornado destroying two stores with no fatalities. Cuban cabinet resignations except the justice minister aim to reshape the government. South Australia to acquire 1600 acres for dairy farming demonstration led by a government expert.
A moderate earthquake was recorded early Monday by the Washington Weather Bureau seismograph. Officials estimate the epicenter roughly 2,500 miles away, possibly along the California or Mexican Pacific coast or near the Azores.
The 1908 crop year raises the value of farm products to 7.778 billion, the highest in world history, up 280 million from 1907 and 3.061 billion above 1809 census. Secretary Wilson notes a 75.7 percent increase in the agricultural trade balance over twelve years with widespread farm improvements and rising per acre yields.
Fifteen skeletons found with three 1712 coins during excavations for the United States Medical School Hospital near the Potomac suggest an early American tragedy. The unearthed remains point to possible Indian or piratical violence. theories name a red man, a legendary pirate crew, or a mutiny tied to slave trading. The case remains unresolved and the bones may stay silent.
A Georgia act prohibits Negro secret societies from using insignia, ritual work, grips, or orders composed of whites. It effectively eliminates Elks and Knights of Pythias for Negro groups while allowing Negro Masonic and Odd Fellow bodies to continue by renaming badges and rituals.
A gang of forty armed men aboard eight gasoline boats attacked the Millegan and Jassell traps of the Pacific American Fisheries Company at Point Roberts near the boundary, holding watchmen at rifle point and escaping with 10000 dollars worth of sockeye salmon.
The Commerce and Labor Bulletin reports July 1909 imports into the United States rose by 25.854 million dollars year over year from July 1908. Exports for July 1909 increased by more than 46.6 million dollars compared with the previous July.
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