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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1913
Page
4
A breezy montage of quips and curiosities in a 1900s Indiana newspaper column. Topics range from dogs in muzzles to fashion and taxes, with goofs about Goats and puns on censorship and aviation. It notes New Jersey banning sharp hatpins, Paris as a city of high flyers, and a colossal New York courthouse, among scattered jokes and social observations.
Washington reports that a Senate inquiry into an insidious lobby linked to tariff reform began with 16 senators examined. None admitted knowledge of the lobby or improper cash payments while all defended citizens' right to approach lawmakers. President Wilson reportedly took personal charge of the inquiry.
Theodore Roosevelt won a libel suit against George A. Newett editor of the Ishpeming Iron Ore. Damages were nominal as the colonel did not seek punitive verdict and accepted one cent. Judge Flannigan directed a verdict for the plaintiff and the jury returned it from their seats. Each party pays its own costs and expenses.
London detectives uncovered a vast conspiracy to arm Ulster Unionists to resist home rule in Ireland. The case follows the seizure of 12 tons of rifles and ammunition in Belfast earlier in the week. A separate Chicago item reports Miss Maude Cooke of Arkadelphia Arkansas facing possible total blindness and being excused from Northwestern University exams.
In Paterson New Jersey on June 7 Judge Klewert's court found 38 silk mill pickets guilty of unlawful assembly for April 28 protests. Hannah Silverman a seventeen year old leader received twenty days in jail for contempt after taunting the judge, while Harry Price and others faced prison terms up to three months.
In a fierce 12 hour fight between rebels led by Gen Lucio Blanco and federal forces, Matamoros fell to the rebels. Maj Esteban Ramos defended bravely before being wounded and dying in a Brownsville hospital as the glorying rebels entered the northern stronghold.
Viscount Chinda, Japan's ambassador, met with President Wilson at the White House to present Japan's grievances and a new proposition asking official recognition of Japan’s place among nations and equality of its citizens with leading powers. Officials call the move "interesting" and note potential trouble for the administration with California and Arizona states.
In Epsom on Derby day a suffragette tried to halt the race by seizing the king’s horse Anmer. She was knocked down and trampled, later identified as Emily Wilding Davidson who had a police record for suffrage violence. Craganour won but was disqualified for bumping. Aboyeur took first, Louvois second, Great Sport third.
Among over 2000 Columbia graduates Carlton Glover, blind, earns BA in New York. Vera Schurman dies after burns while aiding to save hidden stock, Cincinnati. Clergymen in New York push eugenics as health first in marriage on June 7. Paris hosts an international suffragette congress with topics limited. Eleven workers badly burned at Republic Iron and Steel in Youngstown. Edmonton city solicitor deems boxing legal, Calgary implications for Burns and Pelkey trial. August Kruger, cousin of Dom Paul Kruger, dies in Norristown aged 74.
Springfield June 7 By a 95 to 38 vote the house defeated the initiative and referendum reform for a second time this session. The measure is dropped from the governor’s program though a reconsideration motion was laid on the table, keeping the proposal technically alive for now. Kansas Town faces major fire damage as four buildings burn in Valley Center.
King Haakon left Christiania on a transatlantic steamer bound for Bergen aboard the Kristianiafjord of the Norwegian American line. The vessel sailed on its flat voyage to New York with the king aboard.
A twenty five member American Boy Scout troop organized by Captain Ernest Gallardo, national director, maps a cross country trek from New York to San Francisco. The journey aims to promote scouting ideals and endurance. The route and dates are being finalized by troop leaders and organizers.
The department of agriculture warned the nation that meat supplies are shrinking annually. In 1912 imports exceeded exports for the first time, and beef cattle numbers dropped from 61,566,000 in 1907 to 36,080,000 at the start of the current year. Western ranchers favor crops over cattle.
Washington June 5 Richard L Metcalfe editor of the Commoner Lincoln Neb was selected by President Wilson to serve as civil governor of the Panama Canal Zone.
Big Four passenger train No. 4 ditched at North Urbana while traveling 80 mph. The locomotive and two coaches left the rails, with one person reported injured.
A disturbance erupted Wednesday in Budapest when the Hungarian premier announced his cabinet resignation, prompting police to eject unruly protesters. The report mentions an unrelated claim of unwritten law and a murder case tied to Mount Healthy, with names such as Kanselman and Robert Huber appearing in garbled fragments.
The Marine Firemen's Union declared a strike by its members employed by United Fruit Company after wage reductions from 92.60 to 95 dollars monthly. The action followed a Thursday union vote amid labor tensions in June.
The article describes an ancient draft sketch from Rameses I era showing boxing baseball horse racing and craps shooting. It jokes about contemporary sports terms like safe on second and a megaphone man announcing batters while noting no new ideas under the sun and speculates on who introduced baseball to Egypt.
In a Newark newsroom tale, Mrs Houston, a 5 year old's mother, proposed rubber tips on pencils while in a stationery store. She recounted the idea to clerks and firm officials, noting lead pencils with rubbers existed elsewhere before the factory refused to test it.
A brief clash centers on the Youngstown scene with Obie The Wore facing a contention over skirts. Details remain sketchy but the confrontation highlights fashion and identity in local culture.
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