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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1912
Page
2
A major labor dispute in Perth Amboy intensifies with continued strikes. Workers report growing hardship as negotiations stall, signaling potential further disruptions to local services and businesses. Union leaders urge concessions while officials call for calm and swift talks. The situation remains tense with no immediate resolution.
In Perth Amboy New Jersey a mob of about two thousand attacked the American Smelting and Refining Company plant threatening arson. Police and detectives repulsed the rioters with rifle fire injuring two firemen as mobs set fire to buildings and a trolley car. Gov Wilson was urged to prepare militia if rioting worsened.
In Boston on June 14 a South Boston surface car with about one hundred passengers derailed after striking a log that lay near the Broadway extension bridge. The log diverted the car into a small power house at the bridge center, narrowly averting a sixty foot plunge to the railroad tracks below.
Lewis H. Morgan vice president of a wholesale dry goods firm was killed and H P Weller copy reader of the Binghamton Press seriously hurt when an automobile carrying five people struck an iron bridge in Binghamton New York on June 14.
Judge John M. Killetts in the United States district court announced fines totaling 62000 dollars against the Hocking Valley Railroad Co and the Sunday Creek Coal Co for rebating.
Miss Margaret Cling, a nurse in Cleveland, underwent an appendicitis operation two years ago. A sponge and a piece of gauze had been sewn into her side by the surgeon and were removed this week.
The senate will vote on unseating Senator Lorimer of Illinois on Saturday July 6 after a conference of pro and anti Lorimer factions. Plans are being made for presenting Gov. Marshall’s name for the presidential nomination by Senator Shively. A separate report notes a verdict in a kidnapping case where Hannah Ryer and family were found.
The article notes Taft leads with 40 more votes toward suffrage while Roosevelt trails with 1, and F. R.’s supporters split against the opposition across several ballots. The chief executive holds 141 votes to Roosevelt’s 1 on this tally.
President Gomez assures U S that Cuba revolt will end in ten days as Rear Admiral Osterhaus reports. Beaupre is persona non grata in Havana. In Oriente province battles near Daiquiri Baracos and El Cobre leave rebels defeated with casualties and seized rifles.
Eight people including Joseph B. Moore his wife and four children plus Lena and Ina Spillinger were killed in their Villisca home. An ax was found in an upstairs room. no struggle indicated. John Vangilder of Omaha, estranged husband of Moore’s sister, is suspected and reportedly seen in town.
The Stanley committee will file its report with the house of representatives accusing J. Pierpont Morgan of opposing the Sherman act and the independent steel business. It claims Morgan and associates profited about 636 million dollars in the organization of United States Steel.
A Wright Biplane company pilot A. T. Welch of Brunswick Georgia and Lieut. L W Hazelhurst of the Seventeenth Infantry were killed when their biplane fell from about 100 feet during an ascent in Washington on Tuesday.
Reno June 14 Gov Tasker L Oddie named George Wingfield to the United States Senate of Nevada to fill the vacancy left by the late Senator George W Nixon and to serve until a successor is elected by the legislature.
Kalmai volcano eruption blanketed Kodiak and Woody Island with a foot of ash for 48 hours starting Thursday afternoon. No lives lost, but many settlements suffered. The revenue cutter Manning sheltered about 500 residents including men women and children as the eruption began.
Water from Hymelia crevasse threatens Des Allemands and La Fouche as relief trains evacuate refugees and distribute supplies. Four feet of water covers much of La Fouche with rising levels and ongoing aid to the area. Separately, a June blaze in Ortonville and Lapeer Michigan destroys a dozen buildings causing about 125000 dollars in damage.
President Taft sent a special message to Congress requesting a 100000 appropriation to be used by the revenue cutter service to care for volcano victims near Kodiak Alaska. The message underscores relief needs as the death toll and injuries rise.
Forty Taft delegates were seated in forty contests by the Republican national committee. No Roosevelt delegates were seated in Arizona California Louisiana Michigan or Mississippi amid mixed voting. Roosevelt announced support for woman suffrage and a platform endorsing it for the Chicago convention.
Representative Robert C. Wickliffe of Louisiana was killed when struck by a Southern Railway train in Potomac Park while on a fishing trip. His wife Mrs. Wickliffe fainted on learning the news in the House gallery as members adjourned to observe a memorial. Memorial services will be held later in the session.
Washington reports include the death of Rear Admiral Benjamin Peffer Lamberton at 68 after a lingering illness. Senate action covers a Lorimer case vote set for July 6, pending session status. A riot at San Quentin leads to one convict killed and four wounded as guards quell the mutiny in the dining room. Also noted is Gen. Leonard Wood’s retirement move blocked by a three vote margin. Cherbourg recounts France losing a fourth submarine after a collision near the Cherbourg peninsula with Saint Louis.
Louis E. Seaman former Elgin National bank cashier was arrested in Los Angeles on embezzlement and misapplication charges relating to more than 100000 dollars found in the bank’s affairs. The losses were allegedly covered by bank directors.
The Senate voted 86 to 23 to abolish the commerce court, rejecting funding in the judicial appropriation bill after the House had struck out the court. Frederic Passy, the French economist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, died in Paris at age 90.
In Juarez on June 14 a clash in the heart of the Mormon colony at El Valle near Colonia Dublan left 175 Mexican federals and rebels dead. In Sheridan Wyoming a Wyoming cloudburst sent a wall of water down Clear Creek canyon smashing Buffalo, with several drownings.
Pierpont Morgan has purchased John Bunyan's Fox's Book of Martyrs for the Bedford Library from Rev. F. Farrar. The sale marks a notable addition to the library's rare volumes in London.
The clipping mix shows garbled lines about self pity and rope and rafters with a mention of Cole's Carbelisalve for itching from Black River Wisconsin. A caller asks a busy author about writing in dialect, and the writer notes broken letters on his typewriter.
A Detroit Free Press snippet recalls a woman seeking a fashionable home by an architect. She demands a modern style with a living room that stays warm and a kitchen too small to cook in, prompting discussion of design ideas.
Two travelers in sun warmed California are caught in a downpour. One laughs at meter rates on water, the other laments paying ten dollars daily for climate. The exchange ends with a proverb about differing needs.
In Oklahoma the Midland Valley rail line is mentioned for sluggish trains as a Tulsa youth pleads for a daughter’s hand. Parents refuse citing her youth, while the boastful father argues she will be old enough after a short Pawhuska visit. Kansas City Star.
An elder baptizing converts at a revival meets resistance from a sharp eyed man who warns that a single dip won’t help the fostered convert and suggests anchoring him in deep water overnight. The exchange is recounted from Life.
Eugene Smith of the New York bar argues in Case and Comment that penal codes are unsound and clash with modern state crime relations. He cites wide disparities: perjury penalties vary from ten years in Florida to one year in Maine. larceny ten years in Delaware. arson twice burglary in Pennsylvania but burglary twice arson in Connecticut. counterfeiting twice perjury in Ohio but perjury twice counterfeiting in Rhode Island.
A Los Angeles physician with forty years of experience extols Grape-Nuts and Postum as digestible brain and nerve foods suitable for all, citing personal usage and frequent patient benefits. He endorses replacing coffee with these products and notes their reliability during mental work and travel.
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