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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1900
Page
6
Will Keep Cuba Flag Up Says General Lee
General Fitzhugh Lee said at the Merchants Exchange in St Louis that the stars and stripes will remain over Mantanzas El Caney Morro and Havana. The remark drew astonishment and sparked speculation about Cuba's future amid past war events. He spoke to a welcomed audience with his staff present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Fitzhugh Wee
Cuba
Lee
Mantanzas
el Caney
Morro
Havana
Gas Explosions Level Three Beaver Falls Homes
Two natural gas explosions in Beaver Falls Pennsylvania wrecked three houses and injured seven people. The first blast hit Celia Cox’s house where the Barnes family lived, as gas traced through a water pipe from the street and fire followed, destroying the adjacent dwelling. An hour later H A Moore’s home across the street was obliterated by a second blast. Property loss is estimated at ten thousand dollars. The explosions were caused by a broken valve gate on the Fort Pitt gas line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaver Falls
Celia Cox
Barnes
H. A. Moore
Fort Pitt
Cape Colony Rebels Grow In Northern District
Dispatch from Cape Town reports 2000 Sgers have invaded the northern district of Cape Colony. Fears arise Dutch sympathizers may join the rebellion and spread it further. Though the ultimate outcome is not feared, a shortage of mounted troops troubles the British. The large waste of horses in South Africa is highlighted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape
Duel with Thieves at Nebraska State Treasury
Lincoln special reports a bold attempt to rob the state treasury in the capitol building. Watchman Good engaged the burglars in a pistol duel. a bullet pierced his coat and another cut his watch chain. The vault held from $100,000 to $209,000 as the burglars fled through windows abandoning their tools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
State Treasury
Capitol
Good
Death of Senator Frye’s Wife in Washington
Mrs. Frye wife of Senator Frye of Maine died suddenly in her Hamilton Washington apartment from heart trouble. He found her unresponsive when attempting to wake her. The body will be moved to Lewiston Maine. She was 57 years old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator Frye
Attorney General Sheets asks Supreme Court to dismiss oil and tobacco cases
Attorney General Sheets asks the Supreme Court to dismiss all oil trust and tobacco trust cases. He says the oil case lacks sufficient evidence for conviction and that Continental Tobacco is merely a large corporation, not a trust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheets
Ohio
Supreme Court
Continental Tobacco
Congressman Wise Dies in Virginia Home
Hon Richard A Wise a Republican member of the House from Virginia’s second district has died at his Williamsburg home. He was serving his second term in Congress and had previously been a professor of physiology and chemistry at William and Mary College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congressman Wise
Richard A. Wise
House of Representatives
Virginia
Williamsburg
Wise
William and Mary College
United States Warship Kentucky Enters Suez Canal
The United States warship Kentucky entered the canal Saturday morning. She will stop at Suez over Christmas and proceed December 26 for Colombo and Manila.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
United States
Canal
Suez
Colombo
Manila
Conger Ordered to Sign Pekin Agreement
The State Department instructed Minister Conger to sign the Pekin agreement on behalf of the powers. The document is not presented as an ultimatum to China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conger
State Department
Pekin
China
Lynching in Gulfport Pursues Suspects in Marshal Murder
In Gulfport Mississippi angry citizens lynched one Black man and chase three others after the murder of Town Marshal W E Richardson. The mob violence escalates amid tense pursuit and potential further harm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Gulfport
Miss
W. E. Richardson
Schley to Come Home for Spring Detachment
Washington reports Rear Admiral W S Schley will be detached from duty as commander in chief of the South Atlantic station in the coming spring in preparation for retirement next October at age 62. A separate Gulfport special notes Henry Lewis, the alleged black murderer of Marshal Richardson, was lynched recently with details fragmentary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schley
Washington
W.S. Schley
South Atlantic
Gulfporta( Miss
Henry Lewis
Marshal Richardson
Eastern: A roundup of varied misfortunes and local incidents
Several brief items report a string of calamities and legal actions across the region. Miles Novotny dies from asphyxiation in New York boarding house. Justice Henry Beekman dies of apoplexy on his steps. A 15 year old girl is arrested in New York for bank forgery. Liquor bans appear at Lake Erie harbors with discharge for violators. A Unadilla youth loses sight from heavy smoking. French Dominican monks return to France from Westchester. A Plymouth Township woman finds a diamond ring in canned salmon. Norristown jeweler puts a $300 value on the stone. A coal and rail loss hits Wilkes-Barre East Providence line. scene causes $200,000 loss. Beaver Brook embankment cave-in injures Italians. John Sterling of Camden is stabbed by three assailants. he is killed. Carl Rachel found murdered in Mountainville wine shop. burglars steal $100 and a gold watch. Michael Lyons dies after wagering on whisky and driving. body mangled. Marshals arrest Latshaw and Coast for counterfeiting. warm counterfeit dollars and plant seized. Fire damages W L Strong & Co. in New York, loss about $40,000. Verona residents alarmed by oil wells drilled in St Joseph Church cemetery. Union growth slows. labor membership declines slightly. Natalie shaft mine strike ends. 1,200 miners return to work with concessions for all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles “Novotny
Chicago
New York
Henry R. Beekman
New York Supreme Court
Nellie Moffat
Lake Erie
Fred Norton
Unadilla
Westchester County
France
Anna Stenner
Plymouth Township
Norristown
Wilkesbarre
East Providence
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company
Beaver Brook Pond
Stratford
Huntington
Conn
John Sterling
Camden
N. J
Sterling
Isaac Matthews
Carl F. Rachel
Mountainville
Edward Bloomer
Michael Lyons
Paterson
Athenia
United States
Samuel B. Latshaw
Geo. E. Coast
Coast
Lisbon
W. L. Strong & Co
Strong
Verona
St. Joseph’s
John MacMackin
New York Bureau of Statistics
Natalie
Shamokin
Shamokin Coal Company
Rockefeller Gifts and Bank Burglary Hit Midwest News
John D. Rockefeller gives 1.5 million dollars and Leon Mandel 25 thousand to the University of Chicago. The Bank of Cashion Oklahoma was entered and 3.4 thousand secured by burglars. The Chicago Common Council votes 55 to 14 to bar boxing contests. A fire in Elk Point South Dakota destroys the business district with about 150 thousand in losses. A mob from Rockport Indiana lynches a man in Booneville over a murder case. The steamer Centennial nearly founders in a hurricane but is saved by passengers. A Chicago tobacconist dies smothered in a folding bed at age 68. An alias Red Corbett robs a man but is shot by police. Bill Halley, lieutenant of Quantrell, dies in a Missouri asylum. Robbers blow a Guthrie bank safe with nitro glycerin. Former Governor Leedy plans to live in Salem as a state organizer for a fraternal order. A vast cave near Eureka Springs Arkansas is discovered. The Arbuckies withdraw a suit against Woolson Spice in Toledo. A rear end collision injures two on the Chicago and Alton at Drummond. damage is small. The Fred Kelly case in Omaha involving embezzlement is dropped. Sorg sues for a receiver for the Millard Hotel in Omaha.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Rockefeller
Leon Mandel
University of Chicago
Bank of Cashion
Oklahoma
Chicago Common Council
Tire
Elk Point
S. D
Rockport
Ind
Booneville
Barber Simons
Centennial
Honolulu
San Francisco
Wenry Bonn
Chicago
Bonn
Ohn
Red
Corbett
Kansas
Salem
Ore
Eureka Springs
Ark
Arbuckies
Woolson Spice Company
The
Sugar Trust
Toledo
Ohio
Chicago and Alton Road
Drummond
Fred. Kelly
Omaha
Neb
Phenix Insurance Company
Brooklyn
Sorg
Ohio Tobacco
Diverse incidents and trials across the nation spill into headlines
A wide array of vivid notes include corporate taxation disputes in Colorado, a fatal Fargo skating death, a Cincinnati murder tied to a church bill, a San Francisco consul’s suicide, a deadly Ohio rail crash, rural bank robberies in South Dakota and Indiana, a Grand Rapids pulp mill plan, dam permits on the Mississippi, wrecks and abductions, a lynching scare in Colorado, a Montana water works dispute, a Alder Gulch gold vein claim, and multiple federal crime reports across Muskogee, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dpwy
Colorado Supreme Court
American Refrigerator Transit Company
Colorado
Lonnie Timmins
Fargo
N. C
Joseph Richter
Cincinnati
Geo. Uchtmann
Paul Antoine
San Francisco
Riverview
East Liverpool
Ohio
Gaston Bend
Walnut Street
Bank of Gold & Co
Albee
S. D
Grand Rapids
Minn
Wisconsin
Eastern Paper
Mississippi
Claude Heger
Malieton
South Haven
Mich
Frank Gorman
New Baltimore
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
G. L. Mason
Chicago
Granville
Opera House
Montana Supreme Court
Helena Water Works Company
Helena
Virginia City
Mont
BE. Damours
Alder Gulch Placer
Robbery and arson kill three in Arcadia area
Reported in Arcadia Mississippi two African American men robbed and burned a trading boat after killing the owner his wife and baby. Suspects were captured and confessed. Shifts to other national notes about capitalists planning a Florida town and a Chicago Central Railroad train hold up in New Orleans with a detective’s identification. Local pursuit in Calcutta Georgia follows an assault on Annie Neal and a nineteen year old son Neal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arcadia
Miss
New York
Philadelphia
Washington
Florida
Jacksonville-Springfield
Springfield
New Orleans
Kin‘ahdrew
Calcutta
Annie Neal
Neal
Ingensi
Ashland Car Collision Injures Two After Fog
In heavy fog near Ashland Kentucky two electric cars collide with passengers aboard. Motorman John Sisco is believed fatally injured and motorman William Campbell remains in critical condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashland
John Sisco
William Campbell
Influenza Sickness and Global Tensions In Brief
Li Hung Chang suffers from influenza amid global tensions. Antwerp dock workers strike with 30 000 quitting. Morocco pays 5000 indemnity for a murder. Britain presses Turkey over indemnities. Pekin negotiations delayed. St Pauls service postponed. Cebu battle routs Filipinos by 44th Infantry. Kingston Jamaica race riot injures civilians. West India Regiment soldiers among attackers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Li-Hung-Chang
Antwerp
Morocco
Marcus Eszagui
Great Britain
Turkey
England
St. Paul’s
Lieut
Evans
Forty-fourth Infantry
Cebu
Cufig
Queenstown Harbor
Crosby
China
Canton
South Africa
Orange River
Kingston
Jamaica
British West India Regiment
Bill grants suffrage to women in Porto Rico house of delegates
A note reports a bill granting women suffrage introduced in the Porto Rico house of delegates. Other items include notable gambling results by David Allen in Dawson, shipwrecks near Alaska and Vancouver Island, Belen Keller's address at Radcliffe, a settled Pittsburgh traction dispute, a court martial verdict for Captain Steedman, and several minor seismic disturbances across the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porto Rico
House of Delegates
Dawson
David Allen
San Francisco
Allen
Topeka
Lynn Canal
Alaska
Alpha
Vancouver Island
Belen Keller
Radcliffe College
Fay Hall
William L. Elkins
P. A. B. Widener
George W. Elkins
William Flynn
Joshua Rhodes
M. I. McMullen
Drexel & Co
Whitney & Stephenson
Pittsburg Traction
Richard R. Steedman
Eleventh Infantry
San Juan
Tennessee
Virginia
Kentucky
North Carolina
Missouri
Knoxville
Tenn
Iowa
Market notes include mixed city and regional commodity ranges
Daily market report lists cattle hogs and sheep pricing by city including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo and New York with varied grades and grain futures. Prices show wide spreads across regions for cattle hogs and sheep plus grains and butter eggs and potatoes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
New York
House and Senate busily pass pension and district bills
Monday saw the House approve 102 private pension measures and actions to divide Kentucky and West Virginia into two judicial districts while adding a northern Ohio district judge. The Senate held long executive sessions over the Hay Pauncefote treaty as Money and Mason spoke on the matter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Kentucky
West Virginia
Ohio
Charles A. Boutelle
House of Representatives
Indian Affairs
District of Columbia
National Home
Senate
Money
Mason
United States
Mississippi River
Dubuane
Iowa
Southern Judicial Division
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Washington
Mall
Pennsylvania Avenue
Capitol
Washington Monument
England
Pennsylvania
Baltimore and Ohio
Cowherd
Mel Finley
Bontelle
Maine
John M. Palmer
John A. McClernand
Farmer
Hopkins
Burleigh
Crumpacker
Committee On Foreign Relations
Thurston
Gallinger
Wolcott
Bard
Chandler
Montana
Many Local News Bits Include Deaths Accidents and Industry Notes
Fifty new cottages will rise at Rome City this season as Knox businessmen plan a First National Bank. Oscar Bales near Montpelier loses a lower jaw after a horse kick. A body found on a Porter railroad track signals a grim mystery. Tobacco growers around Dillsboro hail the best crop yet. Brazil’s Crawford McCrimmon foundry death and Indiana officials shift posts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome City
Knox
First National Bank
Oscar Bales
Montpelier
Porter
Dilsboro
Jesse Gray
Crawford-McCrimmon
Brazil
John M. LeHew
Warsaw
Gov. Mount
Signal Corps of
Indiana
Wm. Richardson
Biilet’s Station
Vincennes
Alfred Thorpe
Lake Station
Western Bottle
Eaton
Ortis Wouse
Fountaintown
Charles Brock
Brownstown
Big smelter blaze at Helvetia wipes out large loss
A major fire at the Helvetia smelter in A T devastated the facility with estimated losses around 100000 dollars. The incident adds to a string of regional industrial fires and shifts attention to material damage and recovery timelines.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Batesville, Indiana
Batesville Publishing Co., Publishers
N. M
Fitzhigh Lee
Flag
Western
Muskogee
I. T
Robert O’ Keefe
Edward Cudahy
B. A. Cudahy
Packer
Omaah
Anna
Richard Rust
Divide
Colo
Clyde Gray
Gray
Fenton
Greenfield
Jim
Emory Scott
John Glasscock
K Kennedy
Hope
Pint Rock
Southern
Market Reports
Robert C. Rogers
Bloomington
United States Army
Philippines
Parker City
Muncie
Joseph Senefeld
St. Thomas
Henry Fangman
Lawrenceburg
Anderson Fair Association
Thomas B. Orr
Manville Moore
William Boland
Carroll K. McCullough
Tipton County
Fred Rufle
George McClure
Manchester
Rufle
South Whitley
McClura
Legrand Ammerman
Ammermann
Harry Lester
Leander Wathers
Wathers
Jackson County Court House
Seymour
Lake Erie. & ‘Western Railway
Fifth Cavalry
Tipton
Stovall
Bedford
Helvetia
A. T
Walnut Grove
Miller & Miller’s Wood Working Factory
Richmond
Wood
London
Victoria
Lord Pauncefote
Baden
Germany
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