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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1913
Page
1
A collage of quips and comments on fashion, crime, science, politics, and daily life. Notes range from Cubist gowns and raincoats to a New York speed limit and a dentist’s whirling device, with playful asides on gossip, theater, and weather.
A billboard artist in Boston stopped watching the Sox versus Senators to paint a sign on the center-field fence. Observers say the man has potential for great things.
West Virginia senators heard Capt. Charles R. Morgan and Maj. James I. Pratt describe martial law in coal regions. They testified that they arrested and tried offenders without civil court processes, claiming a state of insurrection justified extreme measures.
Six men and two young women died in unrelated wrecks reported near Riverton and Nashville. In Riverton, four men died when a westbound train struck a stalled car on a track. The victims were P. J. Carroll E. Iverson J. H. Gauer and George Bartel. In Tennessee a car struck by a Northwestern train three miles east of Lena and Rebecca Dudley were killed and their chauffeur injured.
Mrs Theodore Roosevelt sails from New York for Cherbourg and then Porto Maurizio Italy to visit sister Misa Carow who is seriously ill. Colonel Roosevelt with Quentin and Archie plans a Western trip starting July 9 for an outdoor journey.
The Hon Mulholland eldest son of Lord and Lady Dunleath married Wednesday to Lady John Byng youngest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Stafford in the Guards chapel London.
Upper Sandusky Ohio June 13 five thousand pioneers gather to commemorate the burning at the stake of Colonel William Crawford George Washingtons friend by Indians 141 years ago
The Supreme Court rules Porter Charlton must be returned to Italy to face trial for a 1910 Lake Como murder, ruling the 1868 treaty remains valid but voidable. It also upholds the postal and newspaper transparency provisions of the 1912 act, and upholds Michigan's corporate ad valorem tax in the Citizens cases.
The U S Supreme Court ruled unanimously that states can fix reasonable interstate rail rates until Congress regulates them, in the Minnesota freight and passenger rate cases. The decision favored state power on interstate commerce and confiscatory features, except for Minneapolis and St. Louis.
The United States filed a civil action in Buffalo under Attorney General McReynolds seeking dissolution of the Eastman Kodak Company. The government accuses Kodak of monopolizing the photographic supplies trade in violation of the Sherman law and asks for receivership if needed.
Rich ard Heron of Hadas swallowed poison after begging a policeman to kill him and attacked the officer with a knife at a Memphis drug store. He was rushed to a hospital and was dying.
The giant liner Imperator departed Hamburg on June 13 for New York with 3,200 passengers aboard. Rough North Sea conditions from recent storm winds slowed the crossing and posed a challenge to the maiden voyage.
Five dead and many injured after a rear end collision at Stamford station when the second Boston express rammed the first section. Engineers blamed for failed air brakes. Names of the dead and several seriously injured listed from New York, Springfield and Hartford connections.
Washington reports that over 1.4 million documents sent via congressional franking to publicize beet sugar interests were likely subsidized by the government. Truman G. Palmer testifies the 14 thousand dollars mostly flowed from Lodge and others, with Democrats in the mix, as the lobby inquiry seeks full statistics.
American forces seized the trenches of Moros under the sultan of Jolo at Bagsag after a fierce battle on Thursday. Six U S soldiers were killed and 12 wounded. Killed were two privates of company M Eighth Infantry, three scouts from the Fifty first company, and one scout from the Twenty-ninth company. Lieutenant Edwin H Barker was wounded in the leg.
George Laurs of Chicago, 25, met a terrible death when caught on a shafting in the basement of a Rockford furniture company, his body torn into shreds Thursday.
New York reports Mrs. Catherine Soper Pence of Georgetown Kentucky filed suit for separation against former Congress man Lafayette Pence of Colorado. The case was begun here on Wednesday with Pence defending the action.
Wedded after 46 years, H. T. Pipkin of Stegter Oklahoma married Miss Elia Voelus, longtime childhood sweetheart. The couple rekindled their romance at a Confederate reunion in Chattanooga.
Mahmoud Shefket Pasha the Turkish grand vizier and war minister was shot and killed in the streets of Constantinople. His aide Lieut Abraham Bey also died. Prince Said Halim was appointed grand vizier ad interim as other ministers kept their portfolios.
Deaths mix with crime and politics in a June dispatch from multiple cities. Dominick Jardina and his wife kill themselves and their three year old in a gas-filled room. Barkley Flemming confesses to murdering his mother and brother in Coryville. K Dana Durand becomes director of a research bureau at Minnesota Agricultural College. The Spanish cabinet resigns and both Cortes branches suspend. Prince Alerie Georges Karageorgevitch marries an American bride in Paris.
Laveta Colorado June 13 John B Ruessell forty five night captain at the state penitentiary Canon City was shot through the heart and killed in a daylight duel at Laveta by Conway Baldwin an escaped convict and box car robber Ruessell fired twice wounding Baldwin in the abdomen before dying Grover Geisinger shot and killed by town marshal John OConnor in Bergholy Jefferson county after a fight in a saloon
The piece critiques New York society's exclusive Knickerbocker set. It portrays them as self contained, dismissive of outsiders, and disdainful of American authors, yet desired for invitations to their shabby downtown homes and social cachet. It notes the difficulty of being presented to them versus European courts.
The Philadelphia Inquirer cautions against overwork and rapid work, linking moral faults to premature aging. It warns that petty impatience and frequent temper outbursts harm health, and suggests cultivating a calm, relaxed facial expression rather than tense muscular contortions.
Montaigne argues that clothing is a human custom rather than a necessity, noting that animals and nature provide natural protection in varying climates. He contends that if clothing were essential, nature would have thickened areas like our fingers and feet to endure weather just as she fortifies certain body parts.
A witty old judge presides as a weeping woman awaits a bail decision. Her loud cries fill the courtroom while Lawyer Finnigan enters, inquiring what's wrong with the prisoner. The judge replies, noting she seems to be waiting to be bailed out.
A Washington attorney who had recently opened for practice faced a quiet desk and few clients. A friend noticed a cheap alarm clock on the desk and quipped about oversleeping unmornings, prompting the lawyer to reply with a cryptic, incomplete remark about keeping time.
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