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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1901
Page
4
The Batesville Tribune prints weekly editions with editor Donald McCallum and Thursday publication. Subscription options include one year or six months with postage paid.
Grand jury last week indicted three men from Motlock County California for murder. The case involves alleged participation in a lynching and awaits further legal proceedings.
In the Ohio Republican State contest for mastership the Hanna forces won all along the line. Hanna is surely a past master in organizing forces. All who oppose him go down.
The author notes that Russia accounts for just over one percent of total exports and argues that even if the Russian Czar blocked imports at his ports, the impact would be minimal on overall exports and trade.
A proposal from Alabama constitutional convention members argues that if all amendments offered were adopted, no man, woman, or child in Alabama would retain a constitutional right to vote. The debate centers on whether to accept proposed changes to the state constitution.
The statement notes William Jennings Bryan has been nominated by multiple parties with varying principles, yet asserts he will never become President. It highlights his fame as a political figure and the paradox of broad nomination without ultimate electoral success.
On July 4 the island will convene to adopt absolute free trade with the United States and set up revenue collection to fund the new government. The Philippines will also gain home government on the same day signaling progress over the old Spanish rule.
On Sunday June 23 General Cailles, leader of the largest Luzon insurgent force, surrendered along with 650 men and 500 rifles. Known as the insurgent Butcher, his capitulation is said to simplify affairs and could trigger more surrenders from other leaders.
Adelbert Hay, a young man once Consul at Pretoria, perished after a third story fall in New Haven on Saturday night. Despite strained relations between competing powers, he managed matters to the satisfaction of all concerned. His death is a great loss to the country and to its future prospects.
Adelbert Stone Hay, eldest son of Secretary of State Col. John Hay, died after a sixty foot fall from a New Haven hotel window on Saturday night. Witnesses say he sat on the sill to smoke, dozed off, and toppled to the pavement. A laborer saw the plunge and alerted authorities. the body was identified minutes later by a classmate. The elder Hay was overwhelmed by grief.
M Jules Henry ixaux, director of a French glass factory, claims glass will be a top dwelling material. He notes glass components are nearly inexhaustible and cites a new glass invention that reportedly has three times the resistance to granite and can bear three times the weight of ordinary glass.
The material is less sensitive to heat or cold than steel and endures hammer blows twenty times more powerful than marble. With abundant Indiana supply, people could live in glass houses without fear of stone throwers.
Ninety eight years ago Thomas Jefferson brokered the Louisiana purchase for fifteen million dollars. Today the territory’s taxable property values reach six billion six hundred million, and Americans celebrate the centennial with pride, despite 19th century anti expansion critiques. The piece notes the nation’s growth despite early critics and implies change in public opinion over time.
Gener al Grosvenor of Ohio and Senator Depew of New York sought to mold public opinion for a third term for President McKinley without his consultation. McKinley, not weak or ambitious, rejected their push, leaving them with temporary notoriety and no success as original promoters.
A West Virginia cloud burst in the Elkhorn Valley overwhelmed Keystone and Elk Horn, flooding mines and sweeping away rail lines. Initial reports feared 200 dead, but later estimates lowered to about 75 lives lost with property damage around $500,000. People fled to mountains with no shelter or provisions.
An explosion on the ground floor of a four story tenement in Trenton New Jersey destroys a display of fireworks. Twelve people die and eight are injured as debris scatters. A nearby boy is injured and a trolley car is scorched. Estimated damage reaches 35000 dollars as investigators seek the cause.
A call holds that a mine of explosives under three or four story occupied buildings is criminally liable. The speaker argues renters have no right to fill cellars or first floors with powder or nitro compounds, risking human life.
The president expresses resolve to serve a second term with acceptance from the country and to fulfill duty alongside citizens. He rebuts the charge of imperialism, arguing critics distort his aims and personality, and believes the people will trust his statements over detractors.
A Friday evening tornado near Naper Nebraska killed four children in one family ages 2 to 7 and seriously injured the father and an older sister and mother. In a separate incident another family lost two girls ages 7 and 8, with two more children crippled and the mother slightly injured. Mrs Anderson, mother of the four killed, recounts fleeing with the youngest, losing two more, and a timber breaking her shoulder as she describes the disaster.
The fragmented Bryan wing aims to reorganize the Democratic Party and refuse the Chicago platform. Meanwhile the Allied Third Party grouping, including Populists and silver Republicans, supports Bryan’s theories. If Bryan is renominated, he could unify disaffected groups to surpass the reorganized ticket. East leaders foresee a looming political cyclone.
Callat Baas drugstore promotes a free sample of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets described as an elegant physic. The product is said to improve appetite, strengthen digestion, regulate liver and bowels, and be easy to take with pleasant effects. G. A. Baas and Bigney & Co.
The party asserts no reply is needed to attacks on McKinley policy as prosperity is evident in all branches of industry and commerce. They credit national progress to Republican ideas and insist improvements are nationwide, not confined to any one state.
W S Whedon of Winterset Iowa notes in a letter that a carpenter employed by him suffered diarrhoea and stopped work. After trying Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera Diarrhoea Remedy, he reports one dose cured him and he returned to work. Sold by G A Baas Batesville and Bigney Co Sunman.
The Ohio Republicans nominated a state ticket on Tuesday with George K. Nash for Governor Carl Nipart for Lieutenant Governor J L Price for Supreme Court Judge John M Sheets for Attorney General Lawrence E Emerson for Clerk of the Supreme Court Isaac B K Cameron for State Treasurer and W G Johnston for Member of the Board of Public Works.
A veteran practitioner touts Snuffles as the sole cure for catarrh claiming it reaches diseased membranes. Priced at one dollar per month’s treatment, it ships prepaid to any U S or Canada address with free guidance from the discoverer.
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