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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1910
Page
5
Aviation drawbacks and proposals mingle with fashion notes and global rounds. Nicaragua hints at drift, King Chulalongkorn dies with Chowla Maha Va jiravandi named successor, a Toronto mis marriage ends with a burglar. Deer shot by women in Bangor.
A massive new 46 story tower is set to rise in New York City. The project promises a substantial daylight impact on the street level as construction proceeds.
A preacher argues that young women favor marriage over mission work yet warns that pursuing marriage may still lead them into missionary duties. He frames domestic roles as a stepping stone to service, suggesting women will encounter callings beyond home life.
Only scientific institutions or learned chemists may buy radium. At $36,000,000 per pound the regulation burdens the general public seeking radium bargains.
In Detroit a man was arrested after he shot off firecrackers to mark his twenty fifth wedding anniversary. A local requirement or offense led to his arrest despite his intended celebration and a wish for priviliges for long marriages.
An Oregon detective was decorated by China for guarding the Chinese prince on his recent tour. A detective wearing a yellow jacket and a peacock feather would hinder secret identity work in such duties.
Andrew Carnegie transfers 10 million in five percent first mortgage bonds valued at 11.5 million to a trustee board of 27 led by Elihu Root to promote universal peace by ending war. Taft to serve as honorary president. funds to be perpetually managed with annual income of 500,000 for the trustees to decide.
A Snohomish river tragedy reports six men drowned after a closed cabin launch turned over near Marysville. Seventeen aboard, six escaped by breaking windows, climbing to the keel, or reaching shore.
Tommy Burns former heavyweight world champion was severely injured in a collision on the Seattle Tacoma Interurban railroad on Wednesday and will be confined to bed for an indefinite period.
The sea going dredge Barnard, after repairs in Mobile, left Wednesday for Havana to assist in raising the wreck of the battleship Maine.
Attorney General Wickersham reports over six million dollars either collected or tied up in judgments for customs frauds including smuggling and under valuation. He urges harsher penalties, end to rewards for informants, and no immunity for witnesses. Three major Supreme Court cases are set for January, including Standard Oil and the tobacco trust. He also calls for higher federal judge salaries to bolster prosecution.
Washington reports Mexican federal troops have routed the revolutionists in Chihuahua and captured Guerra, clearing the state of organized resistance. Dispatches from El Paso say rebels and government troops eyed renewed fighting near Cerro Prieto after a Sunday clash. 74 people were killed in the engagements.
Henry Walther Jr. 18 is released by District Attorney English after a coroner's jury rules the killing of his father, who was assaulting the boy’s mother and sister, justifiable.
Thomas J. Lynch was Wednesday re-elected president of the National Baseball League for a one year term in New York.
A congressional subcommittee reported that allegations of bribery in Senator Lorimer’s election were unproven. The inquiry followed White’s confession alleging a $1000 payment to secure Lorimer’s vote, with later indictments and unsuccessful Browne trials.
President Taft sent Senate the nomination of Associate Justice Howard Douglass White as chief justice and received immediate confirmation. He also named Willis Van Devanter and Joseph Rucker Lamar as associate justices, plus several judges for the new Court of Commerce and two new interstate commerce commissioners.
The Alaska Steamship Company’s Olympic ran aground on Blight Island Reef after a gale near Cordova. All 106 passengers and crew were rescued by the government launch Donaldson and the Juno, with mail and baggage saved. The ship, valued at 250000, cargo 50000, may be a total loss.
President Seth Low opened the eleventh annual National Civic Federation session in New York. The agenda includes regulation of corporations and combinations, railroads and municipal utilities, compensation for industrial accidents, arbitration and conciliation. Delegates from organized state councils attend as federation departments plan special meetings.
James N. Huston former U S treasurer from 1889 to 1891, with Harvey M. Lewis of Cincinnati and Everett Dufour of the city, were convicted by a criminal court jury on indictments charging mail fraud linked to National Trust and related concerns. The offense carries up to two years in jail and a $1000 fine, but all three were allowed to remain free on bonds pending a motion for a new trial.
The will of Mrs Mary Baker Eddy founder of the Christian Science church was filed for probate in Concord New Hampshire. Bequests include a diamond cross to Mrs Augusta Stetson excommunicated leader in New York City and ten thousand dollars to her son and each of his children. Residue goes to the mother church.
Christmas mail for Europe may arrive late after 210 bags of letters and gifts were left in New York when the steamer Adriatic sailed for Liverpool on Wednesday, delaying holiday correspondence for many recipients.
Golden Gate Washington news reports Louis R. Glav was acquitted Wednesday of starting a forest fire. The Pinchot Ballinger hearing figure was the principal witness. the jury deliberated about 20 minutes.
Coroner Wilson clears Stuyvesant Peabody of Chicago a Yale senior of blame in a Stratford fatal crash. Louis Peterson a motorman is held criminally responsible for the death of Mrs. Jessica Saunders of Mystic who was a passenger in Peabody s auto struck by a trolley car last Thursday.
Minneapolis notice reports Dr. George Edgar Vincent named by regents to succeed Dr. Cyrus Northrup as president of the University of Minnesota and to assume the office. Vincent, dean of arts and sciences at the University of Chicago, accepted the post.
Two men were killed instantly in a premature dynamite blast at the Charleroi Commercial Works on Tuesday. Investigators began work to determine causes and assess safety procedures at the site.
In Chicago a clash between striking garment workers and police left one workman dead and several others seriously wounded. Non union tailors escorted to a shop were pelted by strikers armed with home made bills. Police rescued colleagues as one officer was beaten and another fatally wounded. One strike suspect, P Nogarrecks, identified, and Sergeant Nagle captured a rioter.
The Greeno mine explosion near Norton Virginia killed ten miners. Nine died at the scene and one died later. Two men survived by crawling to an air pipe and breaking it with a hammer, preserving life for twenty hours until rescue.
The Tacoma gathering marks the first national convention of women voters to be held January 14. Governor Brady of Idaho called the event and four equal suffrage states Utah Wyoming Colorado and Washington will participate, representing about 270000 women. The promoters propose naming the organization the National Council of Women Voters.
Congressman Joel Cook of Pennsylvania's Second District dies in Philadelphia after a stroke and prior paralytic episode. He suffered a cerebral attack in Washington, later moved home, and had returned to duties last summer before his death at age sixty eight.
Star Pointer the famed pacer died at Rosewood stock farm Maury county Tennessee at age twenty one. Owned by J A Murphy of New York the horse earned a noted race record and will have its hide skinned and bones sent to the University of Chicago for study.
Frick Coal and Coke company, a U S Steel subsidiary in Uniontown Pennsylvania, purchases 50 000 pounds of candy for 30 000 children of its employees.
Three children of J. B. Peregoy were burned to death when a fire destroyed their home six miles west of Gravette. The mother, who tried to save them, was seriously burned and may die.
Rev. C. B. McLain was killed near Vina Alabama when a millstone burst. A fragment struck his gun and shattered his leg in two places.
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