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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1900
Page
6
A roundup of international happenings with brief notes on crimes fires and notable incidents sourced from telegraphic reports. The column surveys events abroad including disturbances accidents and other public matters across distant lands.
The Fredonia State Normal School burned, with losses around 250000. President Palmer expects seven victims still in the ruins. A house to house canvass is underway to locate missing students. One body has been recovered, believed to be Miss Storms of Ellington, New York, as search efforts continue amid intense heat.
William J. Bryan, former Democratic presidential candidate, plans a new newspaper named The Commoner. He says he will devote his life to studying and discussing public questions, with the first issue due in January from Lincoln, Nebraska.
Reports from Madrid state the German training frigate Gneisenau foundered off Malaga eighty kilometers northeast of Gibraltar. Private dispatches indicate over one hundred drowned with only masts visible and cadets seen clinging to rigging shouting for help from shore.
The Jessie Morrison jury was called into the Eldorado Kansas courtroom. Each member said no hopes of agreement and Judge Shinn discharged them. Ballots showed initial 9 to 2 for acquittal with one blank, then 9 to 3 for acquittal over manslaughter in the fourth degree. Miss Morrison wept deeply.
Paris states the French government will not oppose U S Congressional action on the Clayton Bulwer treaty. They favor canal neutrality and recognize U S strategic reasons for fortifying the canal while France’s interests are minor and unlikely to prompt interference.
A gang that robbed Doersehuck's bank at Shanesville Ohio reached Bridgeport West Virginia aboard the Massillon line of the Cleveland Lorain and Wheeling Road just before night. Two members were captured after a gun battle with officers and trainmen. Four escaped, a posse pursues them.
Chicago dispatch notes Santa Fe officials report mobs assaulting operators who filled strikers' posts at Wilton Springs Illinois and Lamont Illinois where a shotgun helped hold back the mob. The railroad seeks protection. In Rockport Indiana two Black men Jim Henderson and Bud Rowlands were lynched in the jail yard by about one thousand men after abducting and murdering Hollie Simons the white barber.
Rosso C. Hoffman a 22 year old messenger for Adams Express Company was arrested in Cleveland Ohio on charges of stealing fourteen diamonds valued at 2800 dollars. The gems were found on his person and had been consigned to a New York house.
The day express No. 8 from Chicago on the Pittsburg Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway collided with the Leetsdale accommodation east of Edgeworth Pennsylvania. Both trains wrecked with ten passengers and trainmen injured.
A minor earthquake was felt in Joplin Missouri lasting about one minute with motion from north to south according to local reports.
John Addison Porter journalist and former private secretary to President McKinley died at his Pomfret Connecticut home.
The two year old daughter of Peter Eder, a saloon keeper in Elwood Indiana, fell into a ten gallon soup can prepared at the tavern. She was cooked and died shortly after the incident.
Mrs House of six miles south of Greenfield Indiana went to a neighbor for water. Her 2 year old child caught fire and died from burns after the clothing ignited while she was away.
A range of late 19th century notices reports deaths by accident and suicide, shipping sales, political events, and local crime. Notable items include Mrs. Mary L. McLean’s death in Washington, the Atalanta sold to Venezuela for 125000, a Pennsylvania governor’s sister killed in a train incident, a clerk accused of grand theft in New York, eyesight restoration claims at Hoboken’s Saint Thomas Monastery, a New York judge’s midnight home rule, a child roasted in an Newark oven, and a Washington centennial parade. Also reported are a fatal wreck on the Western New York and Pennsylvania lines at Olean, a Brooklyn fire of 2637 Prospect Avenue causing 300000 loss, a junk dealer’s wife hurled from a window, Mrs. Washington McLean’s estate near 2 million, temperance gains in Massachusetts towns, a Long Island City prisoner’s suicide attempt and success, Booz family statements over West Point hazing, and George S Wagner’s self-inflicted death in Philadelphia.
August Waldauer dies at 75 in St Louis. Senator C. K. Davis leaves $65,000 to his widow. W. W. Campbell named director of Lick Observatory. Wrecks kill and injure on Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain road at Des Moines and other incidents from Iowa to Montana. Million-dollar fires, political counts, and a wide range of crimes and accidents fill the docket.
In Nashville the firm Hunter Hart coal dealers faced suspension amid allegations of crookedness by Thomas Hart. A contract to build Mississippi a new capitol was awarded to W A and A Ewells of Chicago for 831748 to be completed in twenty eight months from January 1 next. Suburban Electric Company of Covington Kentucky property sold at auction for 181000 to a member of Senator Woraker’s law firm.
Reports recount a daring robbery on the Cotron Belt Railway at Bassett Texas where Postal Clerk John N. Dennis was nearly killed and mail pouches looted. Other items note the laying of a corner stone for a textile building in Charleston the Illinois Central wreck at Tuzley Kentucky with eight injured and six cars derailed and an Austin Texas telephone exchange attacked with prussic acid disrupting operations.
Reports indicate Colombian forces recaptured Port Tamasco and sank the rebel steamer Galtan while Bongland seeks Salvora Island for a coaling station. Britain votes large war credits, Chamberlain defends war profits, and a Turin theft nets $50,000.
Washington rumors allege frauds by army clothing contractors while Gov Wood abolishes the Cuban Bar Association after affront. The AFL kills a labor department plan. L G Tewksbury, a fugitive broker, is reported thriving in Mexico City. Postmaster General Smith warns on second class mail abuses and rural free delivery. Two children killed by wolves at Englishman’s River. Interior official Hermann suspends White Earth pine land sales awaiting approval. US-registered vessels built 1900 total 495 tons 149,968. major gains in Great Lakes steel steamers.
Illinois Indiana Ohio and New York market figures show cattle bids from $2.50 to $5.75 in Buffalo and $3.25 to $5.60 in New York. Hogs range from $3.00 to $5.35 with regional variations. Wheat mostly 70c to 77c, corn 34c to 45c, oats 21c to 31c, rye around 45c to 52c. Butter and eggs quoted mild, clover seed noted at $6.00 to $6.35.
After almost four days of deliberation the jury in the Jessie Morrison murder trial at Eldorado Kansas failed to reach a verdict and was discharged. The prosecution emphasized jealousy and unrequited love as key factors in the case. Miss Clara Wiley, a popular Eldorado belle, pursued by many, loved Olin G Castle, a store clerk with Miss Jessie Morrison, also a clerk in the same shop, as Castle declined Morrison’s advances.
Miss Morrison is accused of killing Mrs. Castle after a razor duel at the Castle home following a dispute over Morrison's employment and alleged enmity with Mrs. Castle. The bride, Miss Wiley, had married Castle on June 13. Morrison was jailed on bail, then charged with murder after Mrs. Castle died from neck wounds.
Report notes 5 million farmers petitioning for the Groat bill to tax oleomargarine as part of federal internal revenue. U.S. oleo sales reached 104 million pounds last year, up 25 million from the year before, with 26 factories now operating nationwide. Some states ban imitation butter colorings, yet 80 million pounds were sold there. The bill aims to tax oleo at the federal level and would not restrict sales where state laws fail.
A proposed tax change targets oleomargarine based on color and presentation. Uncolored oleomargarine would be taxed at a reduced rate while colored yellow varieties would face a higher ten cent per pound levy to deter fraud against consumers and farmers. The brief notes also mention a Chicago stock exposition steer price, McKinley’s veto posture, a British submarine trial, and irrigation prospects in New Mexico.
Steuben County claims a land spot near Clearlake where vegetation will not grow, a circle fifteen feet wide in a lakeside grove. Tradition links the site to Bawheese Indian torture grounds where stakes were set and ashes of murdered people allegedly cursed the soil.
John Reddington was convicted at Anderson of forging certificates of deposit belonging to his father Patrick Reddington and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. The father filed the affidavit. the son, a former Elwood schoolteacher with a good reputation, had previously forged his father’s name. The father, a well-to-do farmer, often paid to save his son. The prosecution pursued the last offense vigorously.
William Gates was found guilty of manslaughter in the Richmond court for the killing of James Rairden Macks. He received an indeterminate sentence ranging from two to twenty one years in the penitentiary, and fainted upon hearing the verdict.
Bishop O'Donoghue of Indianapolis led ceremonies in Richmond for the laying of the corner stone of the new St. Andrew's Catholic Church. The edifice, to cost 55000 dollars, will replace the church destroyed by fire last August.
Mrs A Byron Darby wife of State Senator elect Darby died from severe burns in Waterloo while preparing liniment on a stove. The liniment exploded and was thrown over her burning clothing causing fatal injuries to her face and head.
The era short news brief covers diverse Indiana items: Herman Gilder of Monrceville dies of smallpox, Kendallville contemplates electric lighting, Bunker Hill saloon loses license, Lake Wawasee stocked with 500000 black bass minnows, Charles Major hosted in Shelbyville, D E W Fisk dies in Greencastie, Scott township school consolidation movement begins, Anderson plant switches to coal, Greenfield brick factory destroyed by fire at $5000 loss, Terre Haute mill resumes after eight months idle. Also: a Michigan City boy deemed insane, Maggie Michert’s suicide at Evansville, Samuel Jones killed in cattle stampede near Frankfort, Emery Lacy misses his wedding, Mrs. Margaret King dies at 108, safe robbery at Martinsville with nitroglycerin blast, Kokeomo police board abolished, Lorenz Seagraves and Harvey Lennon incident, Muncie divorce reform movement, Evansville public whipping of four boys, Nathan Hoffmaster dies in China, Union Traction to light towns, Athena Kinney to inherit $80000, Purdue locomotive collection planned, Finest Hill home dedication at Anderson.
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