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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1902
Page
6
A fierce cyclone from the southwest hit Baltimore causing eleven deaths and widespread damage in riverfront and harbor neighborhoods while business districts suffered mainly blown signs and roof injuries. The storm lasted under fifteen minutes and included thunder lightning and heavy rain.
Dispatch from Milan reports police in Bra near Turin arrest a young barber who recently arrived from Paterson New Jersey. The suspect named Tonetti claims the alias and confesses anarchist ties. Seized papers show links to Paterson anarchists and a plan to assassinate King Victor Emmanuel during his motor journeys.
Records of Captain Edwin F. Glenn and First Lieutenant Julien E. Gaujot tried at Manila for ill treating Filipino prisoners have been received at the War Department and will be sent to the President for review. There is belief that Major Glenn was convicted on one or more counts and sentenced.
A fire at the East Dallas exposition grounds rapidly consumed the main exposition building the music hall annex the poultry building and private structures of J I Case Plow Southern Rock Island Plow and Parlin Orendorff companies in about thirty minutes The total loss is placed at 100000 with insurance likely around 80000.
Mrs. George Joubert killed her husband George Joubert and his brother Moses Joubert after mistaking them for burglars. The pair, returning drunk from Ava, forced entry at the Joubert home about five miles east of Ava, prompting Mrs. Joubert to fire her husband’s revolver as she feared they would harm her.
A blaze of unknown origin razed Rawley’s saloon where it began and consumed Cadiz hotel Cumberland Telephone exchange J. J. Garton’s dry goods H. M. Garton’s hardware William Lynch’s dry goods and C. A. Chappell’s grocery. Loss estimated at $60,000 with $25,000 insured.
Stockholm dispatch reports police learned of a proposed duel between Capt Arvid Wester of the general staff and William Casper manager of the Grand Arena palace and prevented the meeting in what was described as a feared clash.
Three people died when struck by lightning near Millstadt in St. Clair County Illinois. Fred Weishbrod, 80, and Jacob P Muskof’s son and daughter aged 14 and 15 perished as a wagon pulled by two horses was struck and the horses were killed instantly.
The river is at its highest since the 1892 flood. On the Illinois shore between St. Louis and Alton farms are submerged and the Missouri River mouth area spans about ten miles.
Governor Nash appoints Judge W. D. Crew of McConnellsville as Supreme Judge on the Republican ticket to fill the vacancy caused by Chief Justice Williams' death.
Thomas Ford from Marion County and George Moore from Vanderburg County, each serving one to fourteen years for larceny, escaped from Michigan City Indiana prison using a ladder to scale the nails. It is the first escape in five years and both remain at large.
Fred Lee Rice was hanged at Toronto Ontario for killing a constable at Aurora Ontario. He faced execution after an attempt to escape during the robbery of a post office.
Western storms bring heavy rains and cloudbursts across Illinois Indiana Iowa Nebraska and Colorado. Five people are killed by lightning in Illinois and Iowa. vast floods threaten the upper Mississippi with hundreds of thousands of acres under water. Des Moines and nearby rivers rise rapidly as crops and granaries suffer. losses may reach millions.
The Dun and Co weekly trade review reports varied conditions with new labor disputes and weather hindrances. Iron output hits a record despite fuel shortages while steel and railway supplies are in urgent demand. Wheat and corn see sharp moves with futures buoyed by weather and acreage expectations. cattle and hog markets show highs for July though sheep falter.
Manila reports a destructive typhoon sweeping southern Luzon on July 14 and 15. The US steamer Shearwater vanished off Marinduque with nineteen crew members drowned, including three Americans. The Gutierrez brothers have been captured for the murder of apprentice Vienville, whom they buried alive. Vienville belonged to Lt Cmdr Gillmore’s party aboard Yorktown, captured in 1899. Manila moves 40,000 natives from slums to suburban camps to curb cholera, with camps to be sanitized, ground rented by the municipality, and indigents fed.
Congressman Frank C. Wachter of Baltimore and his daughter Hattie were bitten by a large St Bernard in the family yard. Wachter wrestled the dog from his child, suffered bites to both hands, and defended the girl as the animal lunged at them.
Two men suffocated by fire damp in an old farm well at Helsop Ohio. Jacob Schlart exploded nitroglycerin to clear debris then entered the well. He was overcome and George Greathouse descended to aid him. Greathouse also passed, and Solomon Greathouse died trying to rescue them beside the first victim.
The Lynn Massachusetts Board of Trade opens correspondence with US consuls to gather reports on shoe market conditions and opportunities abroad. Hundreds of replies received. manufacturers plan an overseas invasion to sell Yankee shoes in global markets.
Speyer allegedly attacked a 9 year old girl and tried to cut his own throat while a child slept. He claims fear of lynching drove him to harm his son and himself, but he denies the assault charge.
Robert Hayes, a crippled deaf mute, died at Mercy hospital after a fire at 2345 Cottage Grove Avenue Chicago. He saved Howard Dillon and family before flames burned him, two policemen smothering his clothing. Hayes had returned to help move property before succumbing to injuries.
Stanley Holmes, a five year old of Anglesea New Jersey, was pulled from the water after about twenty-five minutes submerged during a harbor squall. Life-Saving crews later revived him within four hours, reporting a remarkable recovery after the apparent death. Superintendent Kimball in Washington received no report from Captain Dundlam of Hereford Station.
In Wahoo Nebraska Judge Sornberzer issues a writ of habeas corpus releasing George Gould from custody. Gould was bound over to the District Court of Butte County on an accessory charge in the Bellwood State Bank wreck case. He has been arrested three times on this charge, with prior habeas corpus releases and one discharge on preliminary examination.
Report from Belfast says a score of policemen and a district inspector were injured while suppressing a Newry riot. Orange and nationalist combatants also suffered injuries. Storm destroys three towns in North Dakota and Minnesota with likely heavy loss of life and widespread property damage.
An article notes a lynching in Clayton Mississippi of William Odey a Black man tied to a tree and burned after an alleged assault on Virginia Tucker. It also mentions discussions on trusts invites Hague peace talks and a Minnesota anti merger suit, a Chicago murder case jury outcome and US non invitation to Russia conference.
The Maine achieved a moonlit record by reaching 19.95 knots in a half hour and 18.29 knots on the Delaware course, surpassing contract speed. Experts expect higher on official trials, noting the east by south course and 7:20 start as observers watched the moonlit run about forty miles off the gulf stream.
At Cannelton Indiana during a Owensboro vs Cannelton baseball game pitcher William Wharlen was mortally wounded by umpire Arthur Derrett who reportedly fired twice in the back as Wharlen neared first base after disputing a call. Crowds urged lynching and the town marshal jailed Derrett, who is described as about 20 to 6 years old.
John W. Bookwalter of Springfield declines a $1,000,000 cash offer for the Bookwalter steel process from President Schwab of the American Steel Casting Company. The process blasts impurities at the converter side, uses less power, and yields purer steel. More than twenty patents cover it and a $5,000,000 stock steel firm will operate in Philadelphia near the Cramps shipyards as the Brylgon Steel Casting Company.
Miss Marie Isarous of Omaha was blown from a train traveling forty miles per hour on an excursion from Wilber to Omaha. She was attempting to move between cars when the gust lifted her about twenty feet and she landed uninjured in a cornfield.
Clark University officers in Worcester Massachusetts report a cablegram from Andrew Carnegie pledging 100000 toward the 250000 needed to secure a 500000 bequest by the late Jonas G. Clark. The gift honors Senator George F. Hoar.
President John Mitchell’s Indianapolis convention address persuaded miners to avoid a national strike. A plan of weekly assessments and lump relief was urged to replace walkout risk.
Chicago to Buffalo markets list cattle hogs and sheep values by grade. Grain prices show wheat corn oats rye and barley across multiple hubs with range figures and brand names.
The Dawes commission has completed the allotment of lands in the Seminole nation located in the Indian Territory, finalizing the distribution process for tribal parcels.
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