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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1900
Page
13
Digest of weekly world events and domestic affairs drawn from wireless reports. Highlights include foreign policy updates and notable home happenings across regions, offering a compact snapshot of global activities.
Heavy rains across Cuba spread yellow fever to areas long free of it. U S troops largely spared except Santa Clara and Quemados where two new cases appear among Gen. Lee staff: Major Kean and Capt. Hepburn. Hepburn serious, Kean mild. Mrs. Edmunds recovering. Havana reports only three cases so far.
A Southern Railway passenger train on the Macon branch struck a washout one and a half miles north of McDonough Ga. The wreck burned and destroyed the train except the Pullman sleeper. Every occupant of the train perished except the Pullman car occupants. Thirty five people died in the disaster.
Lierr Mertel editor of Deutsche Tages Zeitung declared in Ebernburg that the next war would be naval and against England. He claimed government assurance prompted agrarian votes for the naval bill.
B H Roberts of Utah was found guilty in Salt Lake City on an agreed statement that he had secretly married Dr Margaret Curtis Shipp Roberts and lived with her at times while his legal wife resided in Centerville. The jury deliberated for fifteen minutes.
The Michigan Telephone Company completed a cable link between St. Ignace and Mackinac Island with two way voice communication for the first time. Company officials joined a celebration at the Grand Hotel as publicity from the event spread to cities east and west.
Executive officers of all lines serving Kansas City announce that no free transportation will be issued to or from Kansas City for the Democratic national convention on July 4. The decision is final and no exceptions will be granted. Railways argue liberal concessions have already been made.
A westbound Big Four passenger train No. 37 left the track three miles west of Covington Indiana when a day coach and a sleeper overturned. Four people including H. H. Gould and wife of Peoria and Charles S. Miller of Indianapolis were injured. Tracks weakened by heavy rains.
Seattle dispatch reports Captain Heckman of the steamship Queen Justin to Alaska says the October earthquake destroyed the sea end of the Muir glacier. The Queen sailed five miles through fragments and icebergs but found no trace of the former formation.
During a severe thunderstorm at Gill ingham Wisconsin lightning struck the United Brethren Church during a service. Lewis Peckham was instantly killed and Julian Hart and S Foley were rendered unconscious. The congregation was shocked and the building was destroyed.
A major blaze swept eight buildings in central Pittsburgh inflicting about 250000 dollars in damage. The fire damaged multiple office tenants and disrupted blocks of downtown commerce.
William Sherman a farm hand perished in a blaze that gutted the Riley home near Cadiz in Henry County Indiana. Firefighters fought the flames but Sherman did not survive and authorities investigated the cause of the deadly house fire.
Postal inspectors claim strong evidence implicates Estes G. Rathbone, the suspended director of posts, with probable arrest anticipated within days.
A northbound passenger excursion train on the Chicago and Northwestern collided with a freight at Depere Wisconsin. Eight persons died, one is missing, and fifty three were injured in the crash.
Philadelphia reports the Republican national convention unanimously endorsing William McKinley for president and Theodore Roosevelt as vice president. The hall hailed the selections with passionate demonstrations as delegates, officials, and visiting crowds filled the Exposition building.
Philadelphia showed its finest aspect with extensive bunting and decorations. Chestnut and Broad streets glittered with color from sidewalks to rooftops and electric lights outdid Chicago 1896 and St. Louis 1896 in spectacle.
The 1900 convention opens as suffragists press for a favorable declaration. Delegates, led by Wolcott, hear reports on credentials and permanent organization. McKinley is nominated amid enthusiasm. Roosevelt accepts the VP nomination. The session adjourns sine die after 2 15.
The Rhode Island delegation prepared an unusual gavel for the convention’s permanent chairman Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts. Traditionally gavels bear historic or noble material and this instance followed a different, surprising choice.
Cameras recorded the entire convention from every angle as Temporary Chairman Wolcott spoke. The vigilant press captured the invocation by the chaplain and the delegates in the hall galleries with three cameras active each hour.
Just before the convention began the band played the Star Spangled Banner. Gov. Roosevelt rose first, hat removed and head uncovered, as ten thousand attendees followed in a mass stand and cheered when the anthem ended.
The Michigan delegate, W. H. C. Mitchell, age 75, attends the Philadelphia convention image as Com Paul Kruger of the Transvaal. He has visited Philadelphia only once before in 1856 for an American party convention.
The Jasper County Oil and Gas Company reports a six inch flowing well near Medaryville with 75 barrels per day of high grade lubricating oil. A separate line notes ten wells total, one yielding 100 barrels in sixteen hours, and oil valued at 7.50 a barrel.
State notes report an Evansville family with six sets of twins. Others include drownings, arrests, accidents, census quirks, and local civic actions across Indiana towns from Bloomington to Terre Haute.
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