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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1902
Page
6
Telegram from Wanatah Ind reports Nelson Reynolds and family from Laporte County drowned in a Tennessee flood. A daughter survived. The group was crossing a bridge swept away by the river, members of the Reynolds family were visiting Tennessee and were en route home.
Manila reports 1,580 cholera cases with 1,236 deaths among soldiers and 7,639 cases with 5,440 deaths in the provinces. Health authorities enforce stricter regulations as the epidemic spreads.
Seattle dispatch says Nome City arrived reporting the Portland swept into the Arctic ocean with 110 passengers aboard. The Thetis revenue cutter has pursued the vessel after she disappeared from sight. Prominent Nome district operators were among Portland’s passengers.
The Association for the Preservation of the Adirondacks has been incorporated. It comprises owners of large private estates, parks and preserves in the Adirondack region. Directors include J. Pierpont Morgan, Wm. Whitney, Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Wm. Rockefeller, Whitelaw Reid, and Henry Phipps.
Test results from Alexandria Indiana show the glass-blowing machines produce uneven tempered glass and blown faults. Wastage during cutting and flattening indicates the equipment will not advance glass production until material improvements are made.
Johann Most, convicted for printing an incendiary article in his New York newspaper, was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. The piece appeared at the time of McKinley’s shooting and the Court of Appeals upheld the lower court’s judgment.
Annie Reno aged 10 was fatally burned near the Robinson hotel in Braddock when her clothing caught fire from a rubbish blaze. Four bystanders rushing to help were seriously burned.
The court holds that when two men fight and one is prosecuted for assault and battery the defendant need not prove self-defense while the state must prove the assault was unprovoked.
London Daily Express dispatch from Rome reports Queen Dowager of Spain has asked the pope to propose an eligible bride for King Alphonso. It is said the pope recommends an Austrian or a Bavarian princess as a suitable match.
Dispatch from Shanghai reports the Kai Chi cruiser wrecked in the Yang Tse river after a sudden accident. The ship sank in about thirty seconds with fifteen officers and men fatally hurt or drowned. only two escaped. Related incident results include deaths of two Black individuals and the death of Israel Radetski, a Hebrew peddler, in Baltimore area jail yard context.
Fire at Royer Wheel Works in Aurora Ohio partially destroyed the shop causing $75000 in losses. Over 300 workers were temporarily left unemployed.
Pedro Feleiz, leader of the ladrones who killed a sergeant two corporals and four privates of the Fifth Cavalry at Binangonan Rizal in May, was recaptured. He remains wounded from the soldiers attack.
Three men drown after a boat capsizes in Lake Michigan near Milwaukee Wisconsin while fishing. A 12 year old boy in the party is rescued by clinging to the boat. Local authorities investigate the accident outcome details remain limited.
Helen Gould donates a seven story 100 by 75 foot building for the Brooklyn Naval Branch of the YMCA. The $465000 structure, fully funded by Miss Gould, is nearing completion and touted as the finest of its kind worldwide.
Miss Gould has erected a stone brick iron memorial YMCA house with a roof garden for summer meetings. The Women's Auxiliary will furnish over 200 sleeping rooms at $50 each and create a restaurant bowling alley gymnasium barber shop auditorium reading rooms and lounges to make the place bright and cheerful.
Under President John Mitchell the United Mine Workers issue a call for a special national convention in Indianapolis on July 17. The meeting will decide if soft coal miners will strike to aid Pennsylvania's anthracite miners, with Illinois Indiana and Ohio likely to be pivotal. Delegates total about 1,000 from locals with voting strength 1,700 to 1,800. a bare majority can order a strike.
The article outlines railway mileage growth from 7.15 billion to 302.6 billion miles, denials to grain transit extensions, Michigan Central timetable changes for faster passenger service, new railroad charters in Charleston West Virginia, Cincinnati Southern terminal plans at Chattanooga with a twelve acre yard, and proposed fast trains by Burlington and St Paul to counter Rock Island's time cuts between Chicago and Omaha. It notes Southern Pacific passenger rate cuts in Oregon, a giant tandem compound locomotive built at Topeka, and export grain and flour rate reductions on Chicago to New York routes altering rail and lake routes pricing.
The Lake Shore and New York Central lines demonstrated near twenty hour passenger service between New York and Chicago with trains arriving three to four minutes early. The Twenty Century Limited maintained about 49 miles per hour across 980 miles, surpassing foreign rivals in speed but not in distance. An accident near New Carlisle briefly paused the run, but crews recovered and finished two minutes ahead at Grand Central.
William Rush Merriam, director of the census, who has broken records in finalizing the twelfth census, was named to the post of director in April 1899. A former governor of Minnesota, he is praised for his broad career as banker, businessman, agriculturist, legislator, educator, and statesman. A native of New York, he is 53 and moved to St. Paul as a youth.
Longstanding debate on draining Florida’s Everglades could unlock nearly one million acres for wealth and development. The discussion centers on feasibility and economic potential spanning decades of analysis and planning.
A report analyzes long distance railway speeds showing the Empire State Express New York to Buffalo averaging 53 miles per hour on 440 miles. It notes that Chicago to New York twenty hour trains run 45 to 40 mph, while Europe highlights the Sud Express Paris Bayonne at 56 mph and East Coast Express London Edinburgh at 50.77 mph and West Coast Express London Glasgow at 50.18 mph.
James R. Keene, famed American financier, drew Wall Street envy after a confidential dinner chat with King Edward at Lady Lister-Kaye's home. A noted wit and talker, Keene was English born but identified as American, tracing his father's London merchant roots before emigrating to the United States.
The piece notes 227 sects in Great Britain and Ireland and cites church growth in Britain. It mentions Miss Elle Dunmore organizing the Loyal Temperance Legion in Guanajuato Mexico, Chicago church work facing difficulties, 2000 naval members in the Navy Temperance League pledging total abstinence, Roosevelt's Bible address distributed by the American Bible Society, and YMCA railroad department building activity with railroads funding two thirds.
Over twenty years surveys map a vast Florida basin rich in muck soil, swamps and canals. Promoters plan to reclaim nearly a million acres to create a garden spot with sugar cane rice and vegetables, adding about 4 000 square miles of arable land. Early reclamation shows profitable crops without heavy fertilization.
Judge Advocate Crowder reports British agents spent 17.9 million dollars to ship 98 687 horses and 75 108 mules from New Orleans to South Africa. Separate costs covered freight forage and labor. Also noted are a Salt Lake City homicide suicide, a Britain navy shipbuilding push, and Cuban president Palma sons studying in New York.
The Senate adopted the Spooner substitute by 42 to 34 directing the President to secure Panama rights if a good title exists, otherwise to pursue the Nicaragua route. Debate highlighted engineer testimony and cost fears as Congress awaits House action and potential conference talks. A treaty with Colombia would later be required if Panama is chosen.
Ten injured in Paterson New Jersey strike riots. mobs led by anarchists attacked mills and police after a dyers helpers meeting captured by agitators. Police faced stones then gunfire. Mayor Hinchcliffe assumed control and urged aggressive action as unrest spread.
Whitmer's lumber yards in Keyser West Virginia burned causing sixty thousand dollars in losses with thirty five thousand insured. J F Kurth of Missouri drowned while fishing in the Platte River near Crosby Kansas. Rush Bell shot dead at Lufkin Texas. Andy Nelson surrendered on murder charge. Tom Dilly shot and killed Steve Chipman and wounded a Mexican herder near Sunnyside eight miles north. Miss Jean Langtry’s daughter to wed Ian Z Malcolm MP. Burlington Railroad surveying teams recalled with no new extensions. Locomotive Engineers demand three battleships built by navy yards. James Ewing killed N B West sixteen miles southeast of Miami Oklahoma near Grand River.
A long Senate session saw the London dock charges bill pass without division after days of debate. Proctor’s conference motion on the army appropriation faced stiff opposition and was withdrawn. The House approved memorial plans for Lincoln, a war memorial for prison ship martyrs, and a Fredericksburg monument coalescing with pension expansion bills for veterans and related royal acts.
Washington notes report end of Spanish war revenue taxes on July 1, the beer tax restored at one dollar per barrel and tea tax lasting to January 1. Frye ship subsidy bill advances from merchant marine committee. Taft plan to buy friars lands may win Vatican acceptance. Corliss Pacific cable bill dies 116 to 77 over revenue shortfall. Navy uses miners strike to recruit seamen and coal region officers deploy. Venezuela claims blockade on Orinoco and possible warship move to guard American interests.
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