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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1905
Page
5
Reports from Sentari and surrounding Balkans describe a powerful earthquake in Montenegro with over 60 houses destroyed. In Zen and nearby towns many residents were killed or injured as two shocks hit the area. Hundreds fled to the open as aftershocks rattled Cara and Cataroa.
Dispatch from Mesivatty reports laborers trenching for a telephone line near Cinco de Mare street uncover clay totems, temple foundations, and pottery with glyphlike markings. Whiteboards show pottery dates. scholars link artifacts to conquest periods. A wall fragment hints at a second city ruin lower down, with hieroglyphic traces from drilling operations.
Orville Davis, foreman at the Pioneer Tit factory in Wabash, is hospitalized with a possibly algine wound after a mysterious shooting. San Snyder, brewery worker and driver, surrendered, turning over his revolver and admitting guilt but offering no explanation beyond a claim of justification. Davis says Snyder arrived at the bottling works and Davis struck him before Snyder fired, injuring the left side. Snyder is held without bond as the investigation continues.
FE E Lollar, appointed receiver for the Bank of Fowlerton Indiana, returned to the closed bank with George Hopekins missing, found the safe opened and pennies totaling 15 dollars and 52 cents. Lollar received a letter from Chicago enclosing notes totaling 1080 dollars.
A major fire ripped through the Avenue Theatre during a matinee, completely destroying the venue and causing partial damage to the adjacent Grand Opera House. No panic or fatalities occurred. Estimated loss stands at £15004, with the blaze traced to crossed wires.
A Pottawatomie Indian at Poukacen Michigan attempted to derail a Grand Rapids and Indiana passenger train carrying 200 passengers. He scattered ties along a quarter mile before a freight crew flagged the train and he was arrested and jailed at Dewars after confessing to the attempt.
A serious fight between Servians and Dul arians near Kushevo, Macedonia, leaves twenty Bulgarians and twelve Servians dead with many wounded. The Servians capture a Bulgarian leader alleged to be a captain in the Bulgarian army.
Peter L. Kimberly an American mining magnate with extensive ties to Canada died in New York City from apoplexy. His fortune is estimated at 10 million dollars and he was a leading mining authority in North America.
A large blaze in St Louis Missouri nearly razed the Winkle Terra Cotta Works located just west of the city Innits. Six buildings were destroyed and the loss is pegged at about 400000 dollars.
A report from Earlham New Mexico describes a massive naval engagement in the Sea of Japan. Japanese forces under Admiral Togo reportedly sunk multiple Russian battleships cruisers and destroyers while capturing ships and taking heavy prisoners. The Russian fleet suffered devastating losses and many bodies washed ashore as the conflict unfolded.
A London Daily Telegraph report from its Tokyo and London correspondents portrays a brutal naval confrontation between Russian forces under Admiral Rojestvensky and the Japanese fleet under Admiral Togo. The engagement features intense gunfire from nearly fifty warships, Russian defeats, multiple flagship changes, and the capture of Rojestvensky after a chaotic retreat toward Vladivostok.
Russian admiral Rojestvensky’s fleet suffered a major defeat near the Korean straits as Admiral Togo’s forces struck decisively. Reports say twelve warships were sunk or captured, with heavy Russian casualties and chaos across the line.
Edward Arnold aged 7 handling a revolver accidentally shot and killed his sister Ethel Arnold aged 3 in Huntington Indiana. The child was asleep in bed when the gun was allegedly pointed and the trigger pulled.
The article recounts how Ohio’s veto power vanished after governors relied on fee based salaries. Before statehood the governor drew both salary and fees, with the veto wielded by none. The territorial and later state legislatures removed veto authority, leaving governors without real veto power to this day.
Excavators near Breslau Prussia uncover 400 graves and 100 bronze age cave dwellings. The site spans early and late bronze ages with a dozen hut village and artifacts such as spinning and wearing instruments.
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