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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1909
Page
3
Dun's Weekly Review of Trade reports aggregate resources near 1 billion dollars with 19 percent rise in payments, 12 percent in bank resources and deposits, 13 percent in loans, and surges in new buildings and business improvements. Failures decline. wholesale and retail demand climbs. transport and commodity prices firm.
Improvement spreads through weather and crop reports, with expansion in textile and steel industries. Leather trades remain strong, jobbing demand rises, and wholesale lines show crop support driving pricing. U S business activity ends June 24 with 825, up from prior weeks. Canada sees 30 business failures, compared with 28 last week and 31 in 1908.
Chicago and Indianapolis exchanges report cattle hog and sheep prices with grain quotes for corn oats rye and hay. Prices vary by market with No 2 wheat around 1.49 to 1.52 and butter at 22 to 26 cents per pound.
A Kieckhofer box factory fire in Milwaukee traps workers causing three injuries and two firemen to be overcome. Two Greeks, Peter Bongalos and Konstantinos Ganos, are feared dead after entering the building for clothes and not being found. Several men jump from windows, sustaining injuries, as the fire devastates the south end of the two story plant with a $30000 loss.
E. C. Williams of New York based Fidelity and Casualty shot Donald M. Bain in a Prudential Building office after Bain allegedly mocked Williams with a Milledgeville placard joke. Williams surrendered to police after the fatal confrontation in Georgia.
A dray carrying 10 million dollars in gold coin traveled Market street in San Francisco from the California Safe Deposit and Trust Building to the old city hall vaults. Fourteen top quality truck horses led the load while twenty-five mounted officers guarded the convoy. City treasurer John E. McDougall rode beside the driver as wreckers left only the east wing of the old city hall.
The Missouri Supreme Court Division No 2 unanimously rules it is not libelous for newspapers to criticize public officials in a fair spirit. In Gloverranch v Knapp Co publishers the lower court verdict for $12,500 damages was reversed. The plaintiff, a 1905 Legislature member, faced libel claims from his role in the Senatorship battle.
At a Toledo preliminary hearing Salvatore Lima Sebastian Lima and Salvatore Rizzo all of Marion were bound over to the federal grand jury. Bonds were set at 6400 for Salvatore Lima and 509 each for the others. If they cannot post, they may remain in the county jail.
A Georgia bill to exclude Negroes from firemen and trainmen work is being prepared by a committee of firemen and trainmen from the Georgia Railroad. The bill will go to the Legislature, which is in session. An existing House bill calls for an educational test for Negro firemen.
The body of Calvin Little Page, who killed Mr. and Mrs. Winner Jamieson near Valley Junction Iowa, was found by John Ritchie. Page had shot himself, despairing of escape from armed posses.
John Cunningham, a man described as a negro, was fined 100 dollars and given six months in jail in Hutchinson Kansas for bootlegging. Judge Campbell allowed Cunningham to work off the fine by harvesting in the wheat fields.
A plant in a window grows so tall yet yields nothing fair until a rich perfume blooms. The narration teaches two lessons: even the ugliest form may harbor a pure soul and patient effort brings beauty in time, as in Leslie's Weekly verse.
In a Sierra mining camp the Ten Strike venture tests Jim Potter and his wife as they chase cash and goodwill. Mrs Potter stages lavish parties and buys favors to placate miners while debt and danger loom, culminating in a tense eastward move with hopes of Hopkins’s interest and a fragile payoff.
Aelsa Kathryn Deming, ten, daughter of a landscape painter, lives at 5 Macdougal alley. She began modeling at five and cast a bronze rocking bear at nine, selling each for 15 dollars. Her early work reflects talent and business sense beyond her years.
A quip compares quitting smoking with feeling sheepish and notes a picnic's success hinges on disposing of pies. The light line blends self deprecation with rustic image, reflecting a humorous everyday observation.
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