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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1900
Page
6
A compact weekly roundup reports varied happenings. It notes casualties from recent incidents, several crimes, a number of fires, and political and religious news items, all summarized in terse telegraph style.
Brookfield Massachusetts dispatch reports Boston National League catcher Martin Bergen killed his wife and two children with an ax and razor and took his own life at home. Bergen, 29, had long been suspected of mental instability and his behavior last season had raised concerns about his conduct with managers.
Calcutta dispatch reports the famine situation central to government debate. Official estimates put relief cost to end of March at 40 million rupees. Roughly 22 million people in British territories and 27 million in native states affected. Viceroy Curzon warns the famine area has expanded beyond worst fears with severe cattle water and food scarcity. About 3.25 million already receive relief.
Manila dispatch reports the southern island revolt, once downplayed as a police mutiny, as an organized bid to oust American rule. Lieut. Ledyard of the Sixth Infantry was killed in the action, and the rebellion was said to be led by autonomous government officials elected and inaugurated last November.
J P Molera arriving from Manila describes an assassination attempt on General Otis. He recalls Otis appearing on the firing line as a rifle shot narrowly missed his head. The shooter was not identified.
About 150 Ayrshire miners from Pike County, Indiana, marched to the Hartwell mines two miles away and forced non union workers to quit at gunpoint. Shots were fired but no injuries reported as the standoff continued.
Gen Otis reports an insurgent ambush on a Laguna Province pack train. Two Americans killed, five wounded, nine missing. The convoy of twenty ponies led by fifty men under Lieut. Ralston was lost.
Victoria announces intent to alter the alien exclusion act to allow Americans to hold claims purchased from Canadian locators. The concession is said to please Africans at Atlin.
A village raid in Otis La Porte County Indiana saw several stores looted of valuable goods. Hanna bloodhounds led a human posse on the trail of the thieves as pursuit continues. Will Die and Mrs Will Dryer were fatally struck by a Lake Shore train near Clay Center Ohio ten miles from Toledo.
The Bureau of Ordnance asks the Army Ordnance Department for 1200 magazine rifles and 2 400 000 rounds of ammunition for the Marine Corps in the Philippines. Requisitions for 2000 more army magazine rifles for the navy will follow.
In Buffalo New York seven people were seriously hurt and Frank Russow is believed fatally injured when a scaffold fell at Benzing's Crossing. Rescue units responded and investigations proceed.
A wide-ranging recap covers a bank robbery in Philippi, notable deaths including Charles Siegfried and Thomas Egleston, a proposed Buffalo art gallery, a 95-year-old alms house admission, a Pittsburg murder, Meriden’s factory suspension, electric headlamps in Scranton, a government yacht boiler explosion, charitable gifts to naval YMCA, rapid transit bids in Manhattan, train and ship accidents, and various political and criminal notes from across the country.
A sweeping Kentucky report notes J. C. S. Blackburn formally elected to the United States Senate. In other violent incidents, Andy Chitwood was shot dead at Almy Tennessee by Elvin Phillips after a quarrel over change. A Columbus Georgia banker shot and killed a teller then killed himself. Mrs. 8S. M. I. Henry of the WCTU dies in Graysville Tennessee from pneumonia. A lynching near Henning Tennessee targets Andrew Gauze for aiding Gingerly brothers. In Nashville a sheriff guards Will Morrison after a murder, and a deadly Capitol Hotel lobby duel in Frankfort ends with Scott dead and Colson wounded.
A collision with Lieut. Scott caused a fatal fall on a hotel stairway injuring six others and fracturing a seventh. The duel stemmed from a feud between Colson and Scott that began during the Spanish American War.
International items span a Wagner singer's death after a fall in Carlsruhe, a Serbian cabinet dismissal by King Alexander, ship losses near Hong Kong and Bombay rocks, a deadly explosion at an Avigliana dynamite works, a church collapse in Russia with many dead, bank arrests in Venezuela, a Venezuelan archy report from Caracas, a sale of West's Raising of Lazarus to fund a New York cathedral, and a perilous St Helena voyage surviving 15 days at sea before rescue.
General Joe Wheeler has resigned from the army and sailed from Manila to resume his duties in Congress. The Danube witnesses report on White Pass blockade lifting and Dawson business damage. The note recounts a series of events including a suicide, a divorce suit, a naval school ship cruise, and legislative friction over an eight hour law in British Columbia mining districts.
The Senate debated Philippine resolutions and a financial bill with speeches by Messrs Bacon Pettigrew Wolcott and Rawlins. The House advanced urgent deficiency and pension bills, heard attacks on Secretary Gage, and prepared to vote on census and river bridge measures plus a government department on dependencies. The week featured votes on gold standard timing, ly nching petitions, and merchant printing provisions.
Chicago cattle to prime 3.00 to 6.75 hogs 3.00 to 5.00 sheep 4.00 to 5.00 wheat No 2 red 62 to 68 corn No 2 31 to 32 oats No 2 22 to 7de rye No 2 53 to 55 butter 24 to 26 eggs RCC to 18 potatoes 40 to 5Vc per bushel Indianapolis cattle shipping 3.00 to 6.75 hogs 3.00 to 4.75 sheep 3.00 to 4.75 wheat 66 to 68 corn No 2 white 21 to 38 oats No 2 white 26 to 27 Detroit etc.
A washboard trust is being formed alongside reports of diverse news from 65,000 dollar losses in Hallowell Maine to New Yorkers planning a Mills plan hotel in Chicago. Other items include coal discoveries in Cuba enlisting a mix of political, crime, and social notes across cities, plus IMF style public concerns and notable deaths.
British forces crossed the Tugela under careful plan with two crossings near Potgieter's ford and Hank. Generals Buller Warren Lyttleton Dundonald push toward Ladysmith as Boers fortify positions and prepare to resist. The first skirmish north of the Tugela ended in a British victory.
Mrs Christina Hirth of East St Louis was declared dead after a three month illness. While prepared for burial at the county hospital undertaker detected movement in the supposedly dead woman and revived her with restoratives. She later spoke in a whisper and recovered enough to move, though exhausted by the ordeal. News notes follow.
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