Batesville Publishing Co. in Batesville Indiana
The Sribiune Batesville Indiana Batesville Publishing Co publishers in Batesville Indiana.
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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1900
Page
6
The Sribiune Batesville Indiana Batesville Publishing Co publishers in Batesville Indiana.
Brief weekly digest reporting worldwide events and home happenings. Intelligence from multiple regions summarizes foreign affairs and daily life in a compact news style.
A Newfoundland dispatch reports a large passenger steamship, nearly 8,000 tons, wrecked on a reef in St Marys Bay near St Johns. The two masted vessel caught fire after grounding, crew and passengers unknown, with all occupants presumed dead due to winter cold and panic. Fire fed by kerosene, wreckage shows blaze aft and submerged fore.
At Louisville Kentucky Mrs Mary Theobald aged 58 was burned to death and her daughter Lucinda aged 28 died shortly after from burns. Miss Theobald was filling a lamp before a stove when an explosion ignited clothing and Mrs Theobald perished while trying to save her daughter.
Edenburg Ohio merchant N K Goss was killed by burglars after alarms roused him at his store. A neighbor joined him and three attackers opened fire. A citizen posse pursues suspects toward Palmyra. three arrests reported. Also in Indiana a jury acquits Thomas Skelton of murdering his wife fifteen years ago.
Robbers blew open the Owensville Bank in Owensville Indiana wrecking the building. Officials refuse to comment on losses but the tally is believed to exceed 15000 dollars. The burglars escaped on a hand car toward Poseyville as police mobilize a crew.
The Manila hemp shortage leaves thousands in the Williamsburg New York cordage industry unemployed or on reduced time. London special notes the wartime theater remains opaque and public awareness is limited while awaiting further news on Gen Buller’s movements.
Ex bank employee Lewis F E Goldsmith, longtime assistant cashier at Port Jervis National Bank, pleaded guilty to stealing 100000 dollars and received an eight year penitentiary term. A noted bishop, Rt Rev Joseph Radamacher of Fort Wayne, died at the episcopal residence. In Hindman Kentucky Rev Wesley Hall shot and killed Mrs Lucinda Isaacs after she refused marriage, then wounded himself. Isaacs was sister of Hall's late wife.
A colored man named Blackbierg, real name unknown, was hanged at Seguen Texas for criminally assaulting a girl last summer. This marks the first execution in Texas for that crime.
The report lists a string of events: former congressman Edwin Osbornes death in Washington. Cornell debate winner Frank Hausner from Farmington taking first in the 1894 memorial prize. murders and hangings in Montrose involving Cornelius Shew and James J. Eagan for Jackson Pepper’s death. Maryland Governor Lloyd Lowndes yields to John Walter Smith. Brig. Gen. A. W. Greely is attacked in Washington by James W. Furnace. James Calhoun’s suicide while ill health. two female servants die in a fire at Joseph Pulitzer’s mansion with $300,000 loss. Admiral Dewey receives a silver loving cup from melted dimes. Rev. Benaiah L. Whitman resigns to lead Calvary Baptist Church. a man believed to be Benjamin J. Guerra found dead by suicide in Philadelphia. Max Krebs, the Jack the Slasher, confesses to hair-cutting crimes in multiple cities. William Wasco hanged for murdering a Hungarian woman at Pittsburg.
The report lists Wests Davis Iron Works in Denver and Cassel Minnesota losses reaching and over 100000 and 50000 respectively. Other items note Judge Howland’s death in Jefferson Ohio and shoe store fire in Canton Ohio with 50000 loss. The Iowa Supreme Court invalidates a state tax law. A Wisconsin nun Sister Augusta’s body found in Lake Michigan. Strikes and accidents sweep Cleveland Chicago Galveston San Francisco and Republic Washington. Awards and inaugurations noted in Ohio Kansas and Illinois.
The Liederkranz Society house in Louisville burned down causing about 45000 dollars in loss with insurance of 18000. Other items include acquittals for outraging public morals, a probate judge murdered in Florence Alabama, a Norfolk and Western train wreck near Pulaski Virginia with injuries, and several violent incidents including a lynching in Ripley Tennessee.
A mixed dispatch lists: a Chicago robbery at Lehigh Valley Coal Co cashier Louis Vitt losing about $350 and a gold watch. two accidental deaths from heart disease in Indiana. two young sisters die in Hawthorne from a lamp fire started by matches. a Minneapolis thrasher trust collapse. Akron’s first patrol wagon enters service weighing 5,500 pounds with two motors. Toledo indicts Lemont Bateman for coercion linked to a bicycle union. oleomargarine case upheld by Judge Adams. substantial oil land deal in Bowling Green, Ohio, totaling $3.8 million with 540 acres owned and 3,225 leased acres.
Natives of the Admiralty Islands killed and are the crew and fifteen men of a British trading schooner. Brazil's finance minister ordered to burn 2,000,000 in paper money weekly until 50,000,000 is destroyed. German papers admit England may seize ships aiding Boer contraband. An American passenger on the Calais express was injured in a Corneto collision. The American Line steamer Paris remains in dock after another float attempt fails. The US cruiser Albany completed endurance trials at Newcastle with 19.54 knots, 149 RPM, 5,624 HP, and 144 tons of coal per day. Advices of a storm off the Japanese coast report 171 dead and thirty-five junks lost.
A tidal wave and storm cause 411 river losses while influenza spreads across Great Britain and reaches Osborne House. Daniel Folkmar is honored with a Paris 1897 doctorate. The Finnish junta in Calumet, Michigan plans American aid and predicts 55,000 Finns will emigrate to the Northwest.
The Mor mon church leader President Lorenzo Snow declares abandonment of polygamy. The British Columbia ministerial association seeks legislation against recognition of American divorces. Ontario drownings occur on Baysville ice. London dramatization news of In His Steps reaches Charles M. Sheldon. Rescue and divorce cases reported among ships and public figures. Québec and U.S. war department notes, mission reports, and record fire losses wrap the year.
A dense market roundup lists prices across multiple cities for cattle hogs and sheep, and grains. Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York and more show range bids for wheat corn oats rye and dairy items.
Senate passed multiple resolutions pushing for itemized defense fund disclosures and Admiral Dewey reports while debating Philippine policy and a racial question. House investigations targeted Utah postmasters for polygamy and Wardner mining riots, with eulogies for Hobart Greene and Danford. Adjournments shifted speeches to Wednesday and Friday, with a census directorate expansion and Indianapolis building cost capped at 2.5 million dollars.
A wide range of incidents from Odds and Ende in Vienna Georgia to Nashville Tennessee report major fires causing tens of thousands in losses. Deaths include Salem Mason and Henry Oppenheimer with multiple industrial and store fires in Cleveland Tennessee Huntsville Alabama and Paris Texas. The record notes zinc trusts forming with large capital, thefts, wreck fatalities, and civic notices including new statues and municipal plans.
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