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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1901
Page
2
A dynamite blast at Baker camp near Durbin Pocahontas County on the coal and iron railroad project killed six men during dinner and injured several others. Three more men died later bringing the death toll to six.
Grand Secretary Wa. Ii. Smythe of the Masonic Order of Indiana was shot in his Indianapolis office at the Masonic Temple. He remained conscious briefly and described a blonde woman entering to use the phone before drawing a revolver and firing. she fled after the shot.
Dispatch from Victoria reports the British ships Melville Island and Almora reached port after near fatal fires at sea. Melville Island caught fire October 28 and the crew fought the blaze for days before containment. Almora burned August 9 but a gale brought enough water on board to extinguish the flames.
The Japanese training ship Tsukishima Maru is lost with all 121 crew near Namatsu Japan. The steamer Rio Maru reached Victoria B C with news of the wreckage and the body of Captain Matsumoto. The warship Midsasha searched in vain before recovery clarified the mystery.
Advices from Mindanao report American forces mainly from the Fortieth Infantry captured the towns of Jimines and Langarine and routed several insurgent bands. Insurgent mountain strongholds in the northern island area also fell as fighting continued.
The Albert Dickinson Company engineers a new bean corner as Chicago dealers see prices rise from 1.34 to 2.20 per bushel in two weeks. Officials anticipate a further jump to 2.50 within a fortnight due to heavy government purchases fueling the surge.
Beaupre cables the State Department that Colombian authorities report government troops overtook invading forces at Rosario and defeated their leader General Uribide at Corazel in Bolivar province.
London dispatch reports an unsettled claim that Commandant De Wet President Steyn and General Hasbrook have offered to surrender if colonial rebels including themselves are not deported.
Bernacco and Sasse, members of an anarchistic society, resisted arrest in Barre Vermont for breach of the peace and fatally wounded Chief of Police Brown by three gunshots.
Vestor Griffin, who shot and killed Georgia King on the night of July 80 last, was hanged at Danville Virginia. The execution was successful. Griffin and his victim were both Black.
Governor Nash opposes moving the Jeffries Ruhlin bout from Cincinnati or any Ohio venue and will use every effort to stop the fight. The public stance signals immediate political resistance to staging the bout in the state.
Dispatch from Scranton reports that thirty-five of fifty-three men imported from New York were persuaded to quit by striking street car workers. Many townspeople refuse to sell food to the men brought to take the strikers' places. The strikers are orderly. In Vienna special a fire in Wiznitz Buckowina destroyed six hundred houses leaving 4,800 homeless and forty-six people dead.
On a Rock Island train toward Osawatamie a sheriff’s son shot at Mrs. Miner, grazing her arm near the corset. the boy fled after being ejected. The incident arose from a scandal involving Sheriff Seitz and Mrs. Miner, who denies wrongdoing and says she was hired to accompany Mrs. Scott to the asylum.
Ernst Haars a St Louis contractor found his missing daughter in the morgue after ten years of weekly visits. A dispute led her to leave home and later a woman identified as Rose Maddox died and was brought to the morgue for identification.
From Brule Indian Agency South Dakota comes a report that Handsome Elk a dangerous Northwest redskin attacked his wife with a neck yoke leaving her near death He then scalped Bear Bird's daughter and fled into the nearby hills vowing to ward off all comers with his rifle and other weapons
Otto Heink a Omaha brewer living near Third and Pine streets is jailed on charges of attempting to crem ate his wife after a dispute. He seated her in a red hot stove while she wore only her nightdress, according to the wife’s account.
John Tiger a full blood Indian near Eufaula drank and threatened L B Roper. He shot and killed Jesse Bock Dave Porter Jolson and wounded Bud Taylor before Deputy Marshal Johnson disabled him and Tiger surrendered at Eufaula. The episode occurred in Indian Territory near Fort Washington Street and involved a drunken soldier and a desperate chase.
The piece profiles Dr Edwarda Wilde and Senora Guillerminia De Oliveira Wilde as new diplomatic social hosts. notes London Truth on Lord Faunceote's possible title. mentions Miss Langham and Baron von Sternberg as leading society figures. comments on Senator Frye and other public figures. and reports on China's indemnity demands after the Boxer uprising with detailed figures and international responses.
James L. McDonough a private at Fort Washington D C attacked a sergeant and four privates trying to arrest him. He stabbed three with a concealed bayonet wounding Sergt Staab in the left breast. Two privates were only lightly injured. McDonough fled but was captured by Metropolitan police in a suburban district.
J Neilsen treasurer of the Mitchell Workmen Lodge was robbed at midnight by footpads, bound and gagged, $250 taken from his pockets, and left near death in an alley. He was found by a night watchman, with hands and feet frozen, unconscious. No arrests reported.
A compendium of bids and price ranges for cattle hogs sheep and major grains from Chicago to New York including Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo and Buffalo markets. Data covers prices for wheat corn oats rye butter eggs potatoes and clover seed with brief bid spreads.
The column weaves a tapestry of disparate notes from global affairs and society. It mentions De Wet plus the British, Li Hung Chang, Jessie Morrison, patterns of judgment, and a ship subsidy bill with reefs ahead. It cites William Waldorf Astor's tax case and Mrs Grace Robinson’s release in a Montana related flight.
The Department of Agriculture reports 1900 U S wheat output at 220 505 000 bushels with 42 495 485 acres harvested and 12 29 bushels per acre. Winter wheat 050 025 408 bushels and spring 172 204 096. areas 20 285 507 and 16 250 488 acres respectively.
Medical experts dismiss the claim that Viennese aurists prepare a new ear drum for Miss Alta Rockefeller noting grafting a natural tympanic drum or outer wall is physically impossible. The piece also recalls Christmas charitable feasts across cities including Roanoke Louisville St Petersburg Omaha Kansas City and London with Salvation Army and Elks aid.
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