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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1910
Page
6
Xavier Paoli recounts a Paris visit where royal officials prepared separate royal suites for the King and Queen. The next morning rumors spread that the king’s bedroom stood unused, prompting inquiries. An officer reveals the king never leaves the queen, noting couples rarely have separate rooms unless quarrelling.
English novelist Rita told a Washington luncheon that America has too many surgical operations and that heart operations, once proven possible, may become as common as appendix surgeries. She recalled a tale of a timid patient asking a surgeon if operation is absolutely necessary.
At a schad breakfast Atlanta Mayor Maddox remarked on the pleasant weather bringing out the flowers and the tramps. He recounted a visiting tramp asking a lady for food, claiming he was starving for 48 hours. The lady offered boots, the tramp replied with a tongue‑in‑cheek line about his chin whiskers not making him a goat.
In a recent address, Edward H. Crump of Memphis lauds charities that send slum children to country settings in hot weather. He notes the children’s pale, lean appearance and quaint reactions to rural charms as one boy mistakes a wheat field for a field of shrimps after a train stop at Green Willows.
Mrs Julia Ward Howe recalls a long forgotten play The Worlds Own written many years ago She believed it best work yet and notes it would have been produced by B L Davenport Critics praised its literary merit and its dramatic faults Howe remains in good health hopes to see it staged.
Hewitt asks about buying the summer hotel from Gruet. Jewett explains a dispute over who must pay the accident insurance premium due on the sea serpent associated with the hotel.
A playful exchange blends poetic affection with a sharp business turn. A suitor seeks royalties from the muse as he pushes for a formal agreement while the practical partner weighs the deal and its terms.
Lynchburg Virginia senior senator John W Daniel died at a sanitarium from cerebral hemorrhage following his third paralytic stroke. He was sixty seven, absent from Washington for months, survived by wife, son Edward M Daniel and daughter Mrs Fred Harper.
Washington reports the Sixty-first congress adjourned sine die after Taft’s first regular session. He warned lawmakers to reform river and harbor bills or risk executive vetoes. Taft signed the postal savings bank bill and the omnibus public buildings bill authorizing $22,000,000 in improvements with later appropriations.
A severe storm in Norfolk on Tuesday night felled a lightning strike on the wireless mast of the battleship Delaware, the only American dreadnought, wrecking parts of the mast and injuring at least one crew member who was knocked down a hatchway.
The Duke d Alencon, grandson of King Louis Philippe who was deposed in 1848, died in London on Wednesday.
Hamburg prosecutor ends official inquiry into Deutsche Vacuum Oil dispute amid a venomous German campaign against American graft methods. No charges against EB L Quarles, the American manager, and costs borne by the state. The ruling marks a notable American victory in Germany.
Three masked bandits held up the northbound Oregon Short Line No. 1 at Ogden at 1:30 a.m. They robbed all passengers and forced the express messenger to open the safe. Two passengers and two trainmen were injured. Bandits fired into the air and fled in a buggy as Sheriff Wilson led a pursuing posse.
Attorney C. W. Britt of Omaha faces possible loss of sight after excessive viewing of moving pictures. He underwent an operation on his right eye by Dr. Harold Gifford at Clarkson Hospital after a growth developed under the eyelid. Britt had been nearly blind in that eye and hoped the surgery would restore it.
Famous aviator Glenn H. Curtiss visiting Chicago said he might enter the Walter Darlington prize of 5000 dollars for the first successful flight across Lake Michigan from Chicago during the aviation meet on July 2 3 and 4.
The commission ordered reductions in class and commodity rates from Chicago to the Pacific coast and intermountain territory. Spokane and Reno freight tariffs were trimmed as the Pacific coast cases found local charges to Spokane and Reno excessive. Reductions affect eastern to far west routes with Phoenix Arizona also seeing about a 30 percent cut.
In Magoffin Floyd and Knott counties a cloudburst Tuesday left at least fifteen known dead with reports of similar fatalities raising total deaths to around forty. Saylersville and nearby towns report twelve recovered bodies. hundreds more affected as homes washed away and rivers rose after three days of rain. Property losses exceed $100000 with widespread homelessness and damage to stocks and grain.
In Irwinville near Atlanta Georgia W T Bostwick barricaded his home and after killing two besiegers was killed by soldiers in a rush on the house. His six children were taken unhurt.
Kansas City authorities report Dr. B C Hyde, convicted May 16 of poisoning Col Thomas H Swope, the millionaire philanthropist, was denied a new trial by Judge Ralph S Latshaw in criminal court.
Congressman Charles F. Booker of Missouri's Fourth District was robbed on a train in St. Joseph. He could not even negotiate a ham sandwich at the Union Depot lunch counter.
Mrs. James S. Sherman, wife of the vice president, a Johns Hopkins patient, was reported Tuesday to be somewhat improved since arrival and not in a critical condition.
In Paterson New Jersey a blaze in the business district wiped out about 500000 dollars worth of property on Tuesday. Two firefighters were seriously injured during the effort to contain the flames.
U S senator Robert M. La Follette spent two hours at Oyster Bay with Theodore Roosevelt. They discussed congressionally debated Republican insurgents and left Sagamore Hill with La Follette smiling and praising Roosevelt as the great living American in fighting trim.
Charlton’s case pauses as exchanges between Washington and Rome shape extradition. His counsel sought a postponed arraignment and promised no habeas corpus or insanity actions to seize the prisoner from New Jersey authorities. Arraignment set for July 8 amid expected resolution of international issues.
Ida Von Claussen, once wife of Dr. William F. Honan, filed in county clerk’s office a suit alleging slander and conspiracy by Theodore Roosevelt Robert Bacon ambassador to France Charles Graves minister to Sweden and Mrs Alice Wright Graves. She says machinations deprived her of a planned royal marriage to Prince Eugene of Sweden and seeks one million dollars.
Fire aboard the J S excursion steamer on the Mississippi near La Crosse Wisconsin killed four people and injured many as 400 were burned or hurt escaping. About 1,500 passengers were aboard when the vessel took fire and reached Bad Ax Island before calling for shore.
Governor Sloan issues proclamation fixing September 12 as the election day for delegates to a constitutional convention for the new state of Arizona. The city of Phoenix, Arizona is cited as the location for the proceedings.
English aviator Charles S Rolls who recently crossed the Channel twice competes in both the international balloon contest and the international aviation content in New York.
A morning blaze in New York along the Harlem river destroyed a dozen warehouses and factory buildings and damaged an amusement park. The fire killed twenty horses and about eight hundred chickens in a poultry storehouse, with estimated losses near $100,000. About 200,000 spectators watched as volunteers searched for a missing watchman.
Bishop A Zellow of Jamestown New York defended the right to vocal religious fervor at the Tri State encampment of Free Methodists in Battle Creek. He criticized local police efforts to curb the noisy revival and noted forty cures reported in twenty four hours from olive oil anointing services.
President Dar B. Harris General Manager A B Andrews and twenty one Southeastern Underwriters association members were convicted in a magistrate court of unlawfully conspiring to control city insurance rates. Each was fined 500 dollars. Appeals were filed. The case ties to the association act and a 3 percent city tax increase. The court found rate hikes retaliatory showing the association’s power to punish cities over tax policy. Appeals set for corporation court next September.
A thinly clothed youth leaped from the center span of Brooklyn Bridge into the East River, 135 feet down, in a bid for $3.50 in cash two new suits and fleeting fame. He was rescued unharmed.
In Upper Sandusky Ohio Rev E B Lashley and Ralph Biedler a hardware man from Fostoria were instantly killed while M A Stoneburner and James McConnell were probably fatally injured when their car veered into a ditch near Fostoria due to a steering gear failure and loss of control.
Eleven year old Freddie Beau chart son of Charles Beau chat was seriously hurt while helping load hay when a hayfork fell and struck his back. Dr. Kauffman says injuries are serious but the boy will recover.
Five men were killed and three seriously hurt when a split engine struck a gang of carpenters on a trestle of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Twenty First Street and the Belt Line tracks in Baltimore.
Charles A. Osland and a companion were prospecting along a high cliff seven miles from Valdez when Osland plunged five hundred feet to his death. The fall occurred as they moved along the edge of the cliff, the companion present but uninjured.
A bad fire at Paterson New Jersey caused injuries when a structure collapsed after a tree fell nearby. Authorities reported several residents were hurt as emergency crews responded to the scene.
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