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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1913
Page
5
July death rate climbs statewide with 2,962 deaths and 4,645 births. Smallpox shows in 22 counties but only one death from 110 cases. diphtheria tallies 126 cases with 20 deaths. infantile paralysis yields eight deaths. Indiana federated clubs district meets at Winona Lake with reforms and suffrage discussion.
Dr Charles P Emergon dean of Indiana Medical School says the Robert W Long State hospital will be ready for its first patients by the end of November. The facility will be supervised by Indiana University trustees and directly overseen by the university school of medicine.
Waynetown Electric Light Company petitions the Public Utility Commission to overturn a Montgomery circuit court decision. The company seeks relief after the town board approved a $10,000 Crawfordsville to Waynetown electric line to light streets, which the company says freezes it out or forces a sale of its plant.
Chief Examiner Hendren of the state board of accounts informs the ninety eight field examiners they may not drink intoxicants. He notes that if an examiner is seen drinking by county officers in rural areas the examiner’s prestige and usefulness to the department would vanish. He emphasizes exemplary conduct as servants of the people.
At the Lafayette reunion of the One Hundred Sixteenth Indiana Infantry, secretary’s report shows about 200 of Lafayette’s 1000 soldiers remain from the front. Only fifty survivors attended, visiting Camp Orth near Purdue University where they bivouacked half a century ago. All field officers of the regiment are deceased.
Petersburg reports two hundred men fought a mine fire after three hundred workers were rescued from cramped coal shafts. The blaze began in the fanhouse near the C and Z Railroad owned by S W Little Coal Co, with repairs planned and operations to resume in three days. In another item, a vicious rooster led Lovinsport police to order its destruction after it attacked a neighbor’s child, causing injuries and necessitating cauterization.
Hammond August 22 A former Hobart resident Mat Franzen once legally dead in Lake Superior Court has been found alive on a Lewiston Idaho ranch and is filing claims to part of his father's estate. Franzen left home in 188 before joining the U S Army at a western fort. Relatives believed him killed in an Indian uprising. He is now an older man, married with a large family.
Clarence B. Tufts, 55, owner of a large land tract in Washington township, Was, collapsed from heat and went violently insane. After hours of family searches he was found on his hands and knees in a herd of sheep eating grass. He was confined to jail and an insanity commission later deemed him of unsound mind. He will be sent to Southeastern Insane hospital in Madison for treatment. Pearl Worth $700 Found in White River by John Alford
Winfield Burney trapped a half grown monkey-faced owl near Milford in Decatur County on August 22. The bird was fleeing a flock of crows when first spotted by Burney.
Mrs Madeline Yocum twenty five widow of ten weeks and Christopher Yocum seventy five were married by Justice George F Law. After the ceremony they attended a circus. Terre Haute reports Flora Licklite ten injured when a broom stick trapeze end penetrated her body. hospital says she may recover.
In Tipton on August 22, Dr. N. V. B. Newcomber, 76, fell from an interurban car after misjudging the center step. He sustained multiple injuries including a broken leg arm and nose, with additional unspecified injuries.
George Myers fifteen of Rochester drowned Sunday afternoon in the Tippecanoe River west of town. The body was recovered later in seven feet of water.
In Lawrenceburg a 13 year old girl named Henrietta Bach elor wed 36 year old Claude K. Landran. Landran her aunt Mrs Martha Carter Gray and T Spencer are jailed on charges of assault and battery subornation and perjury. The license was secured by falsified ages with the Bible record. The child bride was beaten and tied in bed after the ceremony.
A roundup from Indiana towns notes a Woodmen of the World field day in Linton, a derailment near Burrows, and various incidents. Highlights include a 12 year old injured by railroad torpedo, barn lightning damage near Seymour and near Borden, a dry Clark county, school program upgrades in Milton, a theft of letters from Maude Carleton, and chautauqua tickets in Greenfield plus local option battles in Crawfordsville. A child run over in Tipton and an heir notification in Logansport close the report with reform and university ties in Chicago.
Old steamboat days on the Hudson end with the Mary Powell’s retirement due to her small size. The piece recalls Fulton and Livingston rivalry, the Chancellor Livingston, Paragon, Car of Neptune, and the Victory, South America and North America as famed river craft, noting their speeds, innovations, and later fates as rivermen remember their era.
Miss Harriet Chase eighty six committed suicide by drowning in a water barrel in her kitchen after undressing and dressing in a nightgown. Two Fryeburg nieces and a nearby woman found her head visible as they searched. She leaves a brother Richard Chase of Cornish and a sister Mrs Ove Young of Portland.
Pittsburgh George Reese and Joseph Sturz, two sextons at Mount Pleasant cemetery, resigned after cemetery officials ordered all graveyard workers assisting with casket duties to wear white gloves.
Marcus M. Wood, seventy three, and his wife of Webster, claim they lived nearly three months on four cents a day. They say a home, a small farm and marriage of $1,000 insure a comfortable and healthy life.
A summary from the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis reports that in 1913, 30 states enacted tuberculosis laws and 34 considered related bills. Over 5 million dollars was appropriated for treatment and prevention, mainly for sanatoria, with 39 sanatoria across 31 states. Delaware funds a sanatorium for tuberculosis among African Americans. Congress will allocate nearly 1 million for federal health sanatoria and the District of Columbia hospital.
A quip about an actress who fell short in a swoon scene. The joke notes she claimed a faint effort rather than a convincing faint, turning a dramatic moment into a light pun.
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