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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1901
Page
6
A compact miscellany recounts varied world events including crimes accidents and fires from the north south east and west with brief notes on affairs and people involved.
A Black man named Hleary Noles was captured near Cowan and hanged at a tree by a mob after abducting and killing Mrs. Charles Williams. The crowd, estimated at about 6000, watched as the body burned to ashes without resistance or further incident.
Charles W. Nordstrom faced execution in Seattle after being condemned for the 1890 murder of William Mason. He wept and struggled as guards restrained him, then collapsed inside the death chamber before six men finally hoisted him onto the scaffold and the trap was sprung within moments.
Dispatch from Winnipeg reports several thousand angry harvesters from eastern Canada and the Midwest. About 660 from Minnesota and Dakota threaten to appeal to the American Consul unless work or free transport home is provided.
The article reports a circulating rumor that William Jennings Bryan will move to Chicago to run for office, but it states the claim has no foundation and Bryan plans to stay in Lincoln. It notes Bryan’s brother Charles W. Bryan confirms the political rumor is false and Bryan intends to continue publishing his paper. It also lists several U S Navy retirements announced in the Navy department within the coming days, including Rear Admiral Sehdew and Captains Forsyth and Ide with retirements around early September.
Grand jury in Pecan County returns indictments against ten of thirty persons believed to form a mob. Several witnesses refused to testify and were placed on bail for contempt. These are among the first indictments against alleged offenders in the state.
Military government offered a 4000 reward for Ling Lina dead or alive. He was killed at Corral Falsoi in Matanzas alongside four other bandits captured. The body will be photographed for ID. Fires across towns caused 10,000,000 pounds in losses, with 260,000 acres of forest burned and 187 villages wiped out.
Five masked men entered Philip Stikes’s home near Deshler Ohio and tortured and threatened the six family members for four hours. The intruders escaped with $60 in cash as bloodhounds traced the trail and police expect arrests soon.
Western soap manufacturers in Kansas City announce plans to form an association to secure cheaper supplies such as fallow resin and related materials. The group states it will not aim to control prices.
An array of short items details suicides and murders in Ogdensburg and Scranton, accidents in Baltimore and Philadelphia, a lynching attempt in New York, and various robberies and arsons across Boston Belfast Pittsburg and other cities with several fatalities and missing persons.
Napoleon Pierre Guideveau dies in New Orleans at 118. A West Virginia justice of the peace derails a trial to shoot a Black man aiding a prisoner. Houston labor leader JOW McArthur commits suicide. The City of Golconde capsizes near Paducah with sixteen drownings. An explosion at a Big Springs grist mill in West Virginia kills two and injures two. A pot of over $20 000 in Confederate era gold is found in Madison County Alabama. Louis Baggett is noted in Bessemer Alabama.
A mob of 5,000 farmers burned Abe Wildner at the stake twelve miles from Whitesboro Texas after witnesses say he murdered the wife of white farmer W C Caldwell while Caldwell was away. Shrump refused a drink and was killed by a 17 year old, per witnesses. Gov McSweeney pardons Col Neal who faced a funds case and repaid bonds. Ged Samuel Pearson sues British consul Vansittart for slander in New Orleans.
A passenger vessel between Pleubian and Plongrescant capsized at Treguier, fifteen people drowned. Senor Don Carlos Marla Vicuna, Chilean minister to the U.S., died in Buffalo. A Spanish hurricane destroyed sixty buildings in Villarogo, Jilota. six killed and many injured. France’s Loobet honors University of Chicago President W R Harper with the Legion of Honor. Moo Nyssens commits suicide in Brussels. A 400-strong force raids Armenia, destroys twelve villages. all males killed, young girls carried off. Diplomatic tensions rise over Panama Isthmus and French Turkey relations remain strained.
Fragmented dispatches describe storm damage across Barbacos Saint Vincent and nearby islands with wrecked wharves and letters. Prof. Jeremiah W. Jenks of Cornell is commissioned to report on Philippine currency conditions, while Syr facies Showed Compacts notes consolidation within major shovery firms and public trade disruptions amid the garbage war aftermath.
Market notes show prices across cities for cattle hogs and sheep with wheat corn and oats. Futures and cash values cited include No 2 white corn around 64 cents and No 2 red wheat near 64 cents, with regional variations in butter eggs and clover seed.
A federal injunction, issued by Judge Kohlsaar in Chicago, bars striking machinists and molders from picketing Allis-Chalmers plants and disrupting operations. The order targets the National Association of Ironworkers and related unions, with a hearing date to determine permanence.
The State Department issues a proclamation by President William H. Taft declaring an international exhibition of industries and products in St Louis to celebrate the Louisiana Purchase. Representatives are invited to exhibit in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition with openings and closings set by official dates.
A. Cregan supervising engineer with Daly Construction died by suicide in Brooklyn. In Texas John Tindall died after being thrown from a mule. In Wheeling West Virginia a fall from an elevator killed Jacob Ruth and fatally injured John Heller. R. W. Carleton of Joplin Missouri shot himself in the newspaper office. Edgar A. Allen named assistant superintendent at Carlisle Indian School after serving Quepaw School. US Treasurer Hoberts received a $420 cash donation from an unknown donor via Father A. Baggi o of Santa Clara.
Secretary Butler reports on child saving efforts by state boards. Michigan’s plan centers on a State Public School with homes afterward, while Indiana uses multiple foster homes for wards of the state. New York and Ohio show different approaches and costs in caring for dependent and neglected children.
A State Board of Health push urges uniform inking of death certificates before burial permits, citing German record practices and past issues with legibility. Indiana officials seek better preservation of certificates and stricter adherence to handling rules by physicians coroners health officers and undertakers.
An Attorney General inquiry reveals widespread issuance of marriage licenses in various counties despite laws requiring county residence affidavits. Clerks allegedly fail to enforce rules, allowing nonresidents to wed anywhere. officials promise a thorough probe and potential prosecutions.
An Indiana educational initiative extends benefits to women by creating a woman’s auxiliary under the State Agricultural College. Prof Latta secured funds to launch branch institute work focused on household economy and homemaker topics with lectures by experts such as Alire, Virginia Meredith.
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