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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1899
Page
2
This brief item reports a weekly record of global happenings including crimes, Baltic matters, fires, and other incidents as relayed by the telegraph from ports and distant lands. It emphasizes a paneled roundup of notable events across nations and regions.
Major March of the Thirteenth Infantry has halted the chase and reached Bagnon in the Grand Cordillera where food is scarce and travel is nearly impossible. Native couriers report Aguinaldo left Bon with three women and two soldiers three days earlier heading south toward Bayombong in Nueva Vizcaya, where he may face American forces. Major Marek’s command was reduced to zero by the two day march from Avantes to Bagnen, and he returned to Cervantes on December 10.
London special notice from the War Office states Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford will be Commander in-chief in South Africa, with Lord Kitchener as Chief of Staff, to focus on the Natal campaign and general operations.
In Sinai Temple Chicago Rev Dr il G Hirsch denounces Jewish celebration of Christmas calling it inappropriate. He says every Jew should remember persecution in Europe and observe the day in gladness but with sorrow.
A special loaded with construction material broke from control near Endrick Idaho on the Northern Pacific branch and jumped the track. Engineers Arthur Bain and John Ogden Fireman Bradshaw Brakeman Budge and Brakeman Peterson were fatally injured as the wreck occurred.
William T. Morris an engineer at the Weth erell rolling mill in Frankfort Indiana was instantly killed in a mill accident. He was caught in the flywheel of the engine and hurled against the ceiling, receiving multiple injuries as stones and brain matter were described in the report. He leaves a widow and one child.
Secretary Root proposes commuting the death sentence of Corporal Damhofer and two Washington Volunteer Regiment soldiers convicted of ravishing Filipino women. The recommendation suggests imprisonment for twenty years instead.
Rev. I. T. Sams of Hardwick Creek Estil County Kentucky reported $654 stolen from his home a few days ago by unknown parties. He kept the money in a feather bed rather than in a bank, the two years’ savings.
Senator Foster as chairman of the committee on Coast and Insular Survey will introduce a Senate resolution asking the Secretary of the Treasury for information on current survey progress and the plan for future development in the next sessions.
Three Reynolds children aged 6 8 and 1 years in Nicholasville Kentucky were burned to death after being locked inside their home while Mr and Mrs Samuel Reynolds visited a neighbor. Parents returned in time to witness the collapse.
The Comedy Theater in San Francisco, once the Alhambra and later Hig h Street Theater, was destroyed by fire. It was a pioneer show house where many prominent actors appeared.
Captain Arthur Barnes, employed by the Senate, died at his residence in Washington from heart disease. J Oswald Parsons, 23, was killed instantly at the United States quarry in Pen Argyl, Pa, when powder ignited as a blast was about to be set off.
Distress in the famine stricken districts is intensifying with aid reaching about 2,250,000 people. The situation worsens as relief efforts expand to affected communities and surrounding areas.
A series of obituary notes and corporate updates from December 1900 include the deaths of prominent figures such as Very Rev P V Cavanaugh Niagara University president in Buffalo and Col Julius Walker Adams pioneer Brooklyn bridge engineer in Brooklyn. Other items report executives like John O Donner of American Sugar Refining and E P Wood U S N dying. Mergenthaler Linotype declares 2 percent dividend. Colonial Sugar Refining plans a $100 million NJ incorporation. reform actions in Hoboken indicting mayor and council. and personnel shifts including William Wright leaving Vandalia Line for Pressed Steel Car plant.
A run of incidents spans Minneapolis warehouse blaze and North Amherst Packing Co loss, reform debates in Detroit suburbs, St Cloud reformary damage, incorporation filings in Missouri, and media linked events. Other items include a Nebraska senatorial appointment, jury verdicts in Topeka and Lima, and notable accidents and legal actions across Kansas, Ohio, and Wyoming.
Reports from multiple fronts detail Mabini's capture by General MacArthur's forces and a rising international scramble over territories and alliances. France cites proof of a London-backed plan to purchase the Galapagos Islands to control a canal route, while the Hongkong junta vows a dictatorship and continued guerrilla warfare against Americans.
A papal decree sets the end of the present century at midnight December 31 1899. The Board of Agriculture estimates Britain 1899 wheat yield at 63,529,325 bushels versus 73,028,856 last year. Multiple crime and war items follow, including bank fraud sentencing, mine gas blast fatalities, and Yaqui campaign actions. The Supreme Court handles naval prize money, while lake shipping closes a profitable season driven by iron ore demand. Indictments in Savannah relate to a $575,949 fraud scheme.
A consolidated market report lists cattle hogs and sheep prices in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York with grain quotes for wheat corn oats rye and other commodities. Prices vary by city with cattle 2.50 to 7.50, hogs 2.00 to 8.25, wheat 65 to 75 cents, corn 30 to 41 cents, oats 22 to 32 cents, rye 50 to 63 cents, and related items like butter eggs and clover seed included.
Charles H. Shackleton, famed in Louisville musical circles and a director of several art societies, died in Louisville Kentucky. A Norfolk and Western passenger train collided with a siding at Panther West Virginia, killing engineer W. S. Bishop and fatally injuring fireman Coontz of Bluefield. The Southern Railway ordered all employees to quit smoking or resign. In Irvine Kentucky town marshal Edward Parks was killed by Fred Ashcraft, with Charles Wallace fatally injured. Ashcraft and Wallace had caused prior trouble for Parks.
The Abyssinian emperor Menelek requests France and Russia lend money to fund his travel to Europe. The extraordinary session ends as the Peruvian Congress approves a measure.
News from London reports a major British setback at Tugela river where Gen Sir Henry Buller’s three brigade assault failed. Artillery was wiped out by concealed Boer rifle fire, forcing a retreat to Chieveley and signaling a shift to a war footing with mobilization and delayed further action.
Congressional action focuses on the currency bill with speeches from Representatives Overstreet Dolliver Maddox and McClellan. Senate debates include Mason on Boer sympathy and Pettigrew on Navy and Philippine questions. Adjournments and committee actions follow with mentions of Wood’s confirmation and a Christmas recess.
The Republican national convention will meet in Philadelphia on June 19 1900 after a national committee vote of 25 24 with Ohio and Colorado absent. Philadelphia carried Southern states territories and two New England votes while Chicago had Western states and four New England votes. The decision cited sentiment money and Philadelphia’s historical ties and a $100000 certified check offered by Philadelphia.
The John P. Squire & Sons pork packing firm, Boston, the region’s largest, failed with liabilities of 3 million and assets of 5 million. Paper held mainly by Boston banks. H. W. Capli named attorney. Linked to Globe National Bank troubles, aiding the collapse’s impact.
A collage of brief items notes fires in Hot Springs Arkansas and Cumby Texas, a $20 000 burned Augusta Kentucky school, mine blast deaths in Wellston Ohio, multiple murders and stabbings, labor and transportation news, quarantine at Galveston, political shifts, and notable deaths including Joseph C Hoagland founder of the Royal Baking Powder Company.
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