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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1901
Page
6
Short dispatches report numerous casualties from ongoing conflicts with scattered crimes and fires. Political and religious updates surface amid rapid telegraph news, highlighting public interest events and social tensions of the period.
The wooden Northfield, in service 38 years for Staten Island Ferry, capsized and sank after colliding with the steel Mauch Chunk near Whitehall slip. Captain Daniel Gully of the tug Mutual reports 25 to 30 passengers jumped into the East River and many perished. he fears over 100 deaths among Northfield’s riders, with no bodies recovered yet.
Lord Kitchener cabled from Pretoria about a Boer surprise attack 20 miles south of Middleburg at Steenkoolsspruit. 250 Victorian mounted rifles from General Beaston’s column were overwhelmed, with 2 officers and 16 men killed, 4 officers and 38 lainen wounded, 28 seriously. Many were taken prisoner. two pompoms fell to the Boers. The Australian contingent’s first reverse is blamed on poor picketing.
Five men named Arnold Augustus Andrew Avis Richard Sanders Wim Hudson and Samuel Baldwin were executed at the county jail yard in Sylvania Georgia. The four who dropped were described as breaking their weeks long confinement, while the fifth died by strangulation. They sang on the way to the scaffold, spoke briefly, and received spiritual comfort. They drank lemonade provided by the sheriff and expressed gratitude to him for his kindness. All admitted guilt.
Ex–Congressman 8 K Peters of Kansas receives White House summons to Washington for pension commissioner post succeeding H Clay Evans. McKinley had considered ex–Congressmen Blue and Peters, Peters' call settles the appointment in his favor.
Chicago coal mine owners plan a nationwide consolidation with a $300,000,000 capital, following already formed consolidations in Pennsylvania Ohio and Kentucky. Illinois Indiana mines would be joined by financiers behind the deal to form a national trust.
A Pere Marquette passenger train struck a double carriage at the Hamilton avenue crossing in Oak Park suburb, Flint. Four well known residents were killed instantly: Major George W. Buckingham of Flint, Miss Abbie Buckingham of Flint, Mrs. Thomas Applegate of Adrian, and Mrs. Wm. Stumphrey of Adrian.
A Tacoma report says younger Hidah Indians near Ketchikan have declared war on whites after Deputy Marshal Jones wounded their chief Kitcoon during an attempt to arrest him for cutting timber on government land.
An explosion in a cartridge in a Les Mouline suburb kills fifteen and injures many, predominantly women. Sixty-six girls are reported poisoned at a social dinner in St. Clinton Iowa with many unconscious. A stranger named Own Door is alleged to be involved, with four miles south of Mouze noted.
A group of marooned men from Navassa Island has arrived in New York. A Jersey City woman reports her husband, Joseph Corfer, is a woman who has run away. Fire destroyed the spindle mill in Spindleville Massachusetts at a loss approaching $50,000. Plymouth Magnesia plant also burned with $45,000 loss and $15,000 insurance. West Point entrance exams show 22 of 59 candidates passing. Port Royal mine disaster entombed 17 miners after explosions. John Wanamaker bids $2.5 million for a Philadelphia streetcar franchise. War Department imposes strict hazing prohibitions at West Point. Connecticut Chief Justice Andrews resigns for health reasons, effective Oct. 1. Harvard freshman H. S. Bigelow killed in Cambridge incident. Headless woman body found near Chelmsford Mass. Lead search unsuccessful. Philadelphia express attempted wreck near Christiana but failed. Henry Dingledy dies on Buffalo line. dream warning linked to brother’s death.
The period recounts fires bank suicides murders and accidents across Ohio Kansas Illinois Arizona Minnesota and California. Notable incidents include a Canton shop destroyed by tools a bank suicide in Dexter and a ship arrival in San Francisco. Multiple desertions, lynchings, and conspiracies surface alongside political and rail incidents.
A report finds that the accusation of not providing seed grain to plant crops is in fact a complaint rather than a proven failure.
The Georgia Supreme Court ruled the State Treasurer cannot use the public property fund to pay Georgia teachers or other aims beyond servicing the state's bonded debt. Several violent incidents follow with fatalities and injuries across Kentucky Tennessee and Virginia including a contentious oath vote.
Foreign authorities target profane cabmen in Paris as Algeria unrest worries officials. Glasgow University to grant LL D to Andrew Carnegie. Viper torpedo boat engines pass three weeks trial. Maria Padilla imprisoned in Madrid after eloping with a priest. English vessel tonnage through the Suez shows decline. Three thieves drown in the River Are while fleeing. Austria seeks tariff war after US-Spain tensions. Sir Walter Besant dies at Hampstead home after brief illness. Eddie Guerin, Chicago bank sneak, arrested in Paris. Pinkerton confirms identity. robbed American Express Paris office.
A new Fulton submarine battleship was launched at the Nixon shipyard. Ecuador has placed large US contracts for railway material. Mexico detains twenty antiquities cases from Prof. M N Saville. McKinley says he will not seek a third term. Cuban constitutional convention rejects Platt amendment by vote. Athens to Piraeus trolley cars to be built in US style. A Chicago contractor, Robert Fulford, kills his mother in law Mrs Jennie McCord then commits suicide on the McCord farm near Landon Ontario.
The week brought rain to the spring wheat areas easing drought in Missouri Valley sections, while damaging frosts hit Washington to the upper Mississippi. Across the Plains and East, crops show varied progress with Hessian fly impacting winter wheat and apples dropping. California reports a fine harvest, and overall fruit outlook remains mixed yet cautiously optimistic. Local reports cite improvements in Illinois Indiana Wisconsin Iowa South Dakota Nebraska and Missouri with crops responding to rains though some areas face replanting and pest challenges.
The French minister of war orders a report on bicycle corps for military drills by Gen. de Lacroix to test their value in grand maneuvers. The Connecticut Board of Health calls for town hospitals to isolate contagious disease patients, citing typhoid data. Col. James G. Miner, former Confederate Navy assistant secretary, dies at Milford Ohio at age 82.
The Cuban constitutional convention voted 16 to 11 to add the Platt amendment to Cuba’s constitution. It limits treaties with foreign powers, allows US intervention to preserve peace and sanitation, and preserves US naval stations and Isle of Pines. Washington welcomed the decision and urged a rapid troop withdrawal if a stable government is formed, with independence possible by autumn.
A Philadelphia era report mocks Philippine apples as perishables while detailing Puerto Rico’s farms. It notes a 953000 population with 40,000 district farms, 71 percent owner cultivation, high illiteracy around 84 percent, and Gov Allen urging Anglo-Saxon vigor to improve the island.
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