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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1907
Page
6
Cash Ross, a motorman on the Indianapolis & Cincinnati line, received 3200 volts in Connersville Indiana. He was thrown from his car and suffered a deep head wound but regained consciousness and received medical care at Rushville. The accident underscores the extreme danger of high voltage contact on streetcar lines.
Fire on the top floor of the Johnson-Hatcher store at Seventh and Adams ignited by a boy playing Santa Claus. Flames spread to adjacent buildings including James T. Jones B I Bartel and Myers stores until stopped by the Wressmer building fire walls. Smoke and water damaged the seven story Wressmer building contents. Explosion kills twenty five in Palermo Italy.
William Henry Rice known as Billy Rice the Minstrel died of pneumonia in a Philadelphia hospital at age 65. Born in Philadelphia he later worked as a singer and as a blackface female impersonator touring the United States and Europe. Survived by three sons in New York mercantile business.
The large turbine Mauretania left Daunts Rock at 10 Fifty a m December 15 and arrived at the Sandy Hook lightship on December 20 at 6 35 a m after five days and fifty five minutes. Its average speed was 23 knots and its highest day’s run 655 knots. Fort Smith fire destroys Haglin building and two others with losses of 175000. James McVitty and a man named Kauffman are missing, believed dead. John Mitchell, United Mine Workers president, improving in hospital in Indianapolis. Senator Mallory of Florida dies at Pensacola home at 12 48 a m.
At a privy council in Buckingham Palace London King Edward signs a proclamation summoning Parliament to meet January 29. He also gives five million dollars to charity. A Dresden dispatch reports Queen Carola bequeathed most of her estimated five million dollar fortune to charitable organizations.
Senator Tillman dominates Monday's Senate session with speeches on financial stringency and inland waterways reform. Senator Culberson introduces a resolution for investigation but shelves it. Oklahoma's new senators are sworn in and committees named as Speaker Cannon announces the appropriations panel.
The President sent to the Senate Frederick T. Magdeburg as pension agent at Milwaukee. Ohio Representative Ansberry introduced a canal survey bill for Toledo to Chicago. DeArmond proposed making bank speculation a felony for banks or officers. Indian affairs urged broader self management for tribes. Metcalf reproved Justice Delacy over a theft-discharge case. Ohlson-Mahoney offered $124,372 for 6,000,000 feet of lumber for the Isthmian canal. Perkins reintroduced inheritance tax with split state and federal shares. Senator Mallory ill at Pensacola may retire. Owen and Gore sworn in as Oklahoma’s new Senators. Discovery by Oct. 12 holiday proposed by Goulden. Burgess urged a banking and currency commission. McKinley sought $30,000 yearly for engineering at land grant colleges. Agriculture estimate controversy over cotton crop. Stevens proposed a transportation bureau in Commerce and Labor. Williams reintroduced Blaine bill for hemispheric free trade with reciprocal conditions.
Pittsburg suffered a $100,000 blaze that devastated several prominent businesses. Graf & Co., stove makers, John Fleckler & Co., rope merchants, Seeley & Leard, hat wholesalers, and H. W. Johns, railway supplies dealer, were the principal losers.
A London rent roll valued at 2.5 million and estates worth 5 million are at stake in a sensational English case over whether the fifth Duke of Portland lived a double life as T C Druce. The suit hinges on identity and disputed property, with burial remains reportedly tied to the Druce claim but not subject to court exhumation.
Short news notes report Countess of Warwick returning to London asserting America’s only hope lies in socialism. Other items include a Petersburg VA furniture company fire causing $73,000 loss, a New York County murder-accused convicted for attempted murder, and various local incidents and reconciliations across the U.S.
A report to the New York Academy of Medicine shows a serum developed by Dr. Simon Flexner at the Rockefeller Institute cured 72.8 percent of meningitis cases. Notably, illness often terminated within forty eight hours after serum injection, with cases treated across the country.
Chief Shippy of Chicago grants 22 year old Dorothy Stewart a special police permit allowing her to wear the star and exercise full authority. She will be in full uniform at the Auditorium Theater to supervise women and children.
A massive explosion at the Darr mines of the Pittsburg Coal Company near Jacobs Creek and Youghiogheny River leaves 200 miners trapped. About 100 Americans and numerous Hungarians are among the victims. rescue efforts halted by fire and smoke. The mine lies on the Pittsburg Lake Erie line across from Baltimore Ohio access. the field is part of the Connellsville coke district with notable gas hazards.
The Monongah West Virginia Consolidation Coal mine explosion killed hundreds initial toll later revised to under four hundred with 336 bodies recovered and many still missing. Another deadly blast at the Yolande coal mine near Birmingham Alabama left 59 bodies found and 22 missing as investigators seek safety improvements.
Summary of varied historical items. WY Ledler W. R. Boges slain by Mexican laborers demanding wages. Bombs found beneath box of King Carlos of Portugal in Lisbon theater. Marquis Cito of Naples tortured by brigands. wife forced to write $20,000 ransom. Japan drives foreign lines from Chile trade as Pacific aims grow. Algerian frontier clash pushes native troops into Morocco. Steamer wreck on Nova Scotia coast. all aboard rescued. Oscar Erbsloch pays $30 duty on James Gordon Bennett Cup balloon win. Germany commutes death sentence of Prof. Karl Hall to life. Empress Alexandra of Russia gravely ill. court physicians summoned. Tschaikovsky and Mme. Breshkovskaya arrested, held at Saint Petersburg fortress.
The Chicago district shows an improving business tone with steady retail demand for necessities and Christmas goods. Wholesale activity slows at year end but delivery and mail orders for spring merchandise rise. bank conditions firm with renewed renewals and prudent financing, while gold reserves and currency expansion support currency shipments inland. Failures total 25 with five liabilities over 5,000. last year 29.
New York reports holiday shopping subdued with total retail demand below last year at this date. Outlook for next year mixed amid easing cash payments and improving export trade especially in grain. Business failures for the week ending December 19 total 298 in the United States and 40 in Canada, compared with prior weeks and years.
Market listings show Chicago cattle range 4.00 to 6.10 with prime hogs 4.00 to 4.55 and sheep 300 to 4.23. other cities such as Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit and Milwaukee report varied prices for cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye hay butter and seeds with several No. 2 grades and per bushel figures across the Midwest and Great Lakes trading centers. Each entry lists commodity grade and price, indicating a broad snapshot of midwinter market activity and regional pricing spreads.
Thomas W. Lawson is elected resident of Bay State Gas Co of Delaware. The army chief of staff recommends building officers quarters at the army war college in Washington at a cost of 100000 dollars. Heinrich Conreid of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York reportedly faces Director trouble and will retire at season's end.
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