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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1909
Page
6
Howard Phillips 22 a Terre Haute National Bank clerk confessed to stealing about 4000 dollars from his bank over three years. He hid the fraud by manipulating exchanges and accounts and carried about 1000 dollars when arrested after returning from vacation in Kansas City.
Reports reach New York of an Erie railroad hold-up on a western bound train just after the Bergen Tunnel exit. One or two men entered the first day coach, brandished revolvers, and robbed immigrants of money and valuables before escaping. railroad officers confirm a few immigrants were robbed and dismiss any wild west implications.
Danville Indiana brewer John Noone suffered a broken collar bone and likely fatal internal injuries when his car, driven by Dick Cannon nephew of Speaker Cannon, leaped a ten foot embankment at twenty mph near Crawfordsville. Cannon escaped with bruises as the wreck collapsed onto Noone.
Miss Eliza Warren a famed actress and head of a Cleveland school of elocution and acting was fatally stabbed by her sister Mrs Mary Sutton who was temporarily demented The stabbing happened in Miss Warrens downtown Studio in the Republic building on Euclid avenue Both women were taken to a hospital following the incident and Mrs Sutton had recently lost a son and grieved deeply authorities ruled it a possible mental breakdown
Theodore Gullen of Monroeville Ohio died and five men were injured when Wheeling and Lake Erie passenger train No 5 jumped the track at Trowbridge sixteen miles east of Toledo. The wreck occurred as the train traveled about forty miles an hour on a straight section, with the engine and combination coach in the ditch and three other cars off the track.
Five thousand people witnessed the hanging at Prandon Mississippi of Will Mack a Black man executed for the criminal assault of Mamie Myers daughter of a farmer near Pelehatchiex Mississippi on November seventeenth 1908.
Five people are reported dead after a cloudburst in Left Hand Canyon south of Boulder Colorado. A large amount of property was destroyed in the flood.
Samuel William Johnson professor emeritus of agricultural chemistry at Yale University died at his home in New Haven Connecticut at eighty years old.
A major blaze in Long Branch New Jersey destroyed two hotels and seven business buildings along a block of Brighton avenue between Second and Lakes avenues. The fire caused about 190000 dollars in damage and required extensive firefighting efforts to contain.
Stanislaus Machorski deacon of Lis sewo died in Thorn Prussia at age 102, reported as the world’s oldest Catholic ecclesiastic.
Galveston weathered a hurricane nearly as strong as the 1900 disaster with about sixteen deaths citywide and no lives lost within Galveston proper. The sea wall and thirteen guests’ tragedy on a north jetty tarpon pier near the bay marked the carnage, while Capt Bettison and family perished. The concrete wall seventeen feet high protected the gulf side, boosting confidence in the city’s immunity to future disasters.
One million dollars in damage is feared as Duluth endures a second flood in 24 hours. Streets flooded and basements underwater with two to three inches of rain per hour. The Bijou Theater flooded during a show, and streetcar service collapsed as cars abandoned.
The case centers on Mrs. A. J. Shea of Eveleth Minnesota whose $20,000 stolen in Seattle reappeared during legal proceedings. Court records show her husband, Mr. Shea, jailed for contempt after refusing to pay $6,900 of a judgment plus attorney fees. The affair follows a timber sale worth $29,000 and suggests the theft may have been an attempt to evade judgment.
The Clemenceau ministry collapsed after a fierce 176 to 212 vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies. Clemenceau and the cabinet left the chamber and offered resignation to President Fallieres. Delcasse led the attack criticizing the naval administration under Pelletan and Thomson.
Mrs. Rebecca Moore aged 69 of Bunceton and her son George H. Moore aged 80 a merchant died from ptomaine poisoning after eating tainted food.
Browndel Texas town suffers total loss as Kirby Lumber Company mill and its stock valued at 250000 dollars are wiped out by a major blaze. Fire departments fight flames through the night as property and jobs are at stake.
State's Attorney John D. Pallissard in Watseka Illinois announced plans to seek the death penalty for all four defendants in the Sayler murder case. The proceedings may split trials with Mrs Cora Miller and Ira Grunden facing accessory charges while Dr Miller would be tried separately for murder. Golda Sayler revealed new suspicions after vault evidence emerged and vowed to see Miller hang.
The Bureau of Education bulletin reports 15 416 people per library and an average of 72 volumes per 1000 persons in 1908. It lists 2298 libraries with over 5000 volumes, 3342 with 1900 to 4999, and about 2700 under 1000 volumes.
In New York, Umpire Truby of the National League retires from the league’s umpiring staff. Mrs. Ramsey and three companions from New York plan a cross continental motor trip to San Francisco. Jay Eye Lee the famed 2 10 trotter dies of old age near Racine Wisconsin at thirty one years old and his grave will bear a granite shaft. Newton Colver of Spokane notes Seattle climate fosters exceptional running records. Paducah Fair Association ends its exhibit with a race meet and over 300 horses expected from Oklahoma Missouri Kentucky and other states.
Argentina orders Bolivian minister and its envoy to leave Buenos Aires and La Paz within 24 hours after Bolivia rejects Argentina’s boundary arbitration. Buenos Aires cites Bolivian refusal to accept the Alcorta award and Bolivian circulars attacking Argentina as triggers for severing relations.
Mrs. W. J. Geeker, wife of a Salt Lake Railway station agent, and her 11 year old daughter survived a two day siege by wolves at a deserted sheep ranch cabin eighteen miles from home near Crestline California. They defended themselves with clubs and rationed crusts of bread as a crew of 150 section hands searched.
Joe Novak confessed as the defaulting treasurer of a Modern Woodmen local in Chicago. He walked into Chief McMahon’s office in Little Rock and surrendered himself, driven by conscience and fear of arrest.
A Sunday blaze tore through a quarter of the block at Third and Austin streets in Waco Texas, causing about 100000 dollars in damage. Several firemen were overcome while battling the flames.
William Hampton formerly of Ishpeming Michigan was hanged at Bodmin for the murder of his sweetheart Emily Tredres at 5 Erth on May 2 last.
Don Carlos of Bourbon, the Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, died Sunday in Varese Italy after a long illness. He led a northern Spain uprising in 1872, claimed the throne as Charles VIII, and withdrew to France after 1876 defeat. His heir is his son Don Jaime in the Russianarmy.
A plea to Washington officials from the West seeks 50,000 able bodied workers for wheat and crop harvesting. Representative Stevens of Minnesota urges federal help while noting many immigrants face poverty and cannot be left to suffer.
Judge Dungan denied a permanent injunction and supersedeas bond, allowing Father Murphy to hold services anywhere in the Lincoln Diocese. After the ruling he planned mass at his Ulysses church, with Bishop Bonacum planning an appeal to the Supreme Court.
Reports from Lemberg describe new anti Jewish aggressions with 100 Jews and landlords slain in Bessarabia. The text also notes the infant Spanish princess christening and naval policy remarks by Lord Beresford in London urging a fleet expansion to twenty six Dreadnoughts by 1914.
The Senate met briefly for eighteen minutes on Friday with only the swearing in of Senator Clay. The House, meantime, adjourned to Monday after a tense day over the urgent deficiency appropriation bill, striking $30,000 for Brussels exposition from the bill and debating the rest amid a baseball craze in the chamber. The session featured an omnibus bridge bill, an apology from Hobson, and a heated exchange over Francis Heney. The Senate later pursued a constitutional income tax proposal and reprinting bills, adjourning until Friday noon.
Ida Tarbell in the April American Magazine criticizes the Pittsburg Survey as a damning indictment of the city's wealth and privilege. She calls out greed and protected labor systems, arguing justice punishes those who thrive on privilege and refuse to acknowledge injustice.
Dr. W H Dieffenbach of New York told the Detroit convention of the Society of Psychical Therapeutics that Eddyism and the Emanuel movement show the power of suggestion. He urged medical study of suggestion as a medical tool and said medicine must go beyond drugs and surgery. He also stated that the X ray is indispensable for diagnosis.
Judge Clifford at Tacoma Washington declares the new State anti cigarette law unconstitutional. Loudon Chariton of New York named business manager of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Mrs William C Grant of Chicago aged 75 and her registrar Miss Catherine A Baker arrived in New York after a world tour.
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