19 Jul 1911
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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1911
Page
1
A collage of whimsical quips and local humor notes from D. McCallum, tracing satirical takes on everyday life. Phrases touch on weather, fashion, marriage, crime, and mischief with a playful Indiana-tinged voice.
Twelve dead and forty four injured after the Federal Express train on the New Haven line derailed at Bridgeport. The engine plunged down a 30 foot embankment at 60 mph. fire followed but was extinguished. St Louis National League players aboard aided rescuers in pajamas, helping victims for hours. An overdrawn crossover switch on Surf Road viaduct caused the crash with several cars left on the embankment.
Flames swept four hours from Standard mines to Porcupine lake destroying Eldorado and other structures. Hundreds feared dead with West Dome and Big Dome miners trapped. In Michigan Au Sable Oscoda救 waters area reports say three dead. Waters village and Stephenson Lumber yards may burn. thousands homeless.
President Taft sees victory as the Senate defeats Cummins amendment 14 to 82 on the Canadian reciprocity bill. The vote signals that the measure may pass unamended, foreshadowing the handling of further amendments and the president's expected success.
The Poltava, second of four Dreadnought battleships, was launched at the Admiralty Dockyard on the anniversary of the battle of Poltava. The vessel displaces 23,000 tons and was laid down in June 1900.
In Paris a large group of twenty five thousand union confiding workers walked off the job protesting piece-work reforms. The march highlighted labor tension as workers demanded wage protections and better conditions.
The steamer John Mitchell sank after colliding with the William H. Mack in dense Vermilion Point fog off Sault Ste. Marie. Three Mitchell crewmen drowned and six women and a boy were among thirty one rescued. the Mack ferried survivors to Vermillion Point as rescuers rushed to the scene.
Washington reports 40 000 rural free delivery carriers will receive a salary increase of 100 dollars this fiscal year raising the standard route pay from 900 to 1000 dollars with proportionate rises on shorter routes. The Postmaster General Hitchcock authorised the full 4 000 000 expenditure approved by Congress.
Indianapolis police arrest Frank J. Vinson fifty eight alleges embezzled 4460 from Brown Ketcham Ironworks where he served as auditor. Capital National bank trustee Frank D Stalmaker puts total embezzlement around 60000. Vinson left home as his wife’s critical heart disease worsened awaiting her death.
Prayer for rain preceded showers in Richmond hours after Governor Mann issued a proclamation urging state residents to pray. The timely plea coincided with a period of drought relief as refreshing rain fell over the capital.
A bill appropriating 9126000 for rehabilitating the New York state library, destroyed by a recent fire in the ite building, has passed.
E G Lewis once a magazine publisher and promoter was indicted by a federal grand jury on twelve counts of fraudulent use of the mails. He allegedly raised millions by misrepresentations tied to unsecured notes for properties in University City and a debts venture tied to his publishing company.
Eaton county farmer William E. Lonsberry was arrested in Charlotte Michigan after his mother testified she saw him choke his wife to death six years ago and hide the body in an old well, triggering an investigation of the remarkable claim.
President Taft will address the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in New York. The event is noted as part of the Washington address coverage dated August.
During a political riot in Ocotlan Oaxaca eight men were killed and more than fifteen wounded as partisans of Benito Juarez clashed with supporters of Felix Diaz. The fighting, which lasted throughout the night, saw improvised defense by merchants atop buildings and a failed British flag defense.
James Pettit president and general manager of Peavey Grain, Chicago, drowned in Chicago on July 8. A statement from F. H. Peavey & Co. says unauthorized speculations in the business caused a shortage nearing $1,000,000, carried on without the parent firm’s knowledge and contrary to policy. Pettit did not profit, and the actions violated company instructions.
Enormous crop losses reported across the country from a month of drought and record heat. Texas and Oklahoma corn and oats nearly fail, South Dakota small grains cut by two thirds, North Dakota spring wheat potential fallen by 7,000,000 bushels in eighty days.
After ten years of study the royal commission on tuberculosis concludes that human and bovine tuberculosis are practically identical. It states that milk from diseased cows can infect children, challenging Koch’s 1901 theory.
Director Frank Schlesinger of the Allegheny Observatory reported a bright comet visible just before dawn in the eastern sky. The object’s ascent is about 4 hours 46 minutes and its declination 34 degrees 30 minutes, located in the constellation Auriga.
Ten people died and twenty others were injured in a sudden hazardous material incident at a factory outside Frankfort on the Main Germany. The accident occurred amid dangerous conditions prompting emergency response.
Report from Toronto describes Porcupine disaster with 112 confirmed deaths including Jules Metayer a 30 year old French consul. Foreigners killed in Dome shaft incidents and at Porcupine lake where forty one victims drown or suffocate. Hunger and bread rations rise as wind wipes out mines roads and trails.
Government land totaling seventy million acres will be opened for entry after surveys by fourteen government parties in North and South Dakota Montana Wyoming Idaho Washington Oregon Utah and Colorado. Interior Department to act once coal quantities are ascertained says geologist W G Calvert.
Rumor resurfaces that the Goshen Battle Creek line known as the Pumpkin Vine may be electrified after reports of the New York Central dissolution. The route is jointly operated by Lake Shore Michigan Southern and Michigan Central with one daily train each. Plans for electric operation have been discussed previously.
A federal grand jury returned indictments charging two revenue officers and a former government official with accepting bribes. Twenty one factory workers are accused of conspiracy to defraud the government over butterine tax and bribery, with the government allegedly costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Rural carriers to receive more pay in Washington, about 40 000 carriers to gain an extra 160 over 900 salaries for standard routes this fiscal year.
Berlin announces the gunboat Eber will go to Aquadir Morocco to maintain communications for the cruiser Berlin and relieve her if she visits another port for coal. This suggests the Berlin's mission east of Morocco could continue longer.
Governor Marshall appoints C. H. Baldwin as state entomologist and biology instructor at Goshen High School for three years to succeed Benjamin W. Douglass, who was appointed in 1907 by Governor Wanly.
In Atlanta Georgia Governor Hoke Smith wins election as United States senator from Georgia on the first joint ballot by the house and senate. He succeeds Joph M Terrell, appointed by Governor Brown to fill the late A S Clay term.
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