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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1905
Page
2
Reports from Lodz and St Petersburg describe massive casualties in the Lodz riots. Estimates vary with around twenty killed outright and others dying from wounds, plus hundreds injured and transported to hospitals, amid uncertainty over total figures.
In a collision near Liashmeo Park the steamers City of Home bound up and Linden bound down sank. Two cooks on the Linden, Hardy and Wise, perished. The City of Rome and Linden ports are Sandusky with coal laden hulls. All other crew saved. Initial Linden voyage. Water depth twenty five feet amid wreckage.
Copenhagen dispatch reports widespread dissatisfaction in Stockholm and Sweden over King Oscar's measures to sever Norway. The Riksdag bill seeks authority to negotiate a peaceful break, while ministers face strong condemnation. Rumors say the government may resign and King Oscar could abdicate in favor of Crown Prince Gustavus.
A safe in John Tranter’s Fontanet saloon near Brazil Indiana was blown open with dynamite and robbed of $150. The cash register was demolished and its contents stolen. The blast shattered the frame. residents heard the explosion but feared to investigate due to lack of police protection.
The German government bought a fine embassy site in Washington opposite the new French Embassy on C street in the northwest, overlooking Sheridan Circle. A splendid stone building in the Frederick the Great style will be erected there.
An electric car ran over torpedoes placed on the track by boys at Danebury Conn. The explosions alarmed passengers and Mrs Mary Davis aged around 70 jumped from the car fracturing her skull. She died minutes later.
Jesse Mitchell, 24, was arrested in Frankfort and brought to Marion Indiana charged with the murder of Ervin Dye on November 24, 1940. The arrest was made under instructions from Sheriff Mills who declines to disclose the evidence against the prisoner.
A dynamite cane exploded in Detroit injuring five people including 10 year old Andrew Paulszyenki whose left leg was mangled and Walter Jocisowski who will lose an eye. Three others sustained minor injuries.
A major blaze in the Palace department store in the Nashville shopping district caused damage estimated between $500,000 and $650,000. Firefighters discovered flames in the building causing extensive retail district disruption.
A safe in the Standard Oil Company office at Elkhart Indiana was blown open but only the outer door was disturbed and nothing of value was taken. No injuries were reported and police were investigating the incident.
A Boston and Northern street railway car carrying forty five passengers derailed at Peabody Mass, jumping the track at a curve and crashing into a trolley pole. Five women were injured, one seriously, in the accident.
In Mexico City special reporting, twenty-three deaths occur in Durango within thirty days from scorpion stings. The state offers a one-cent bounty per dead scorpion, but few insects are located.
A severe storm in New York and surrounding areas left two men dead from lightning and eight seriously injured. Numerous buildings were damaged or destroyed, two schools struck, utilities disrupted, and panic widespread from Long Island to Brooklyn and parts of New Jersey. A Harlem dynamite cartridge explosion added to the chaos.
Warrants paid and reflected in a Chickasaw mint theft case link a fugitive banker and other high figures. Investigators pursue a planned seizure amid reports of forged warrants worth possibly six figures. The grand jury begins an inquiry into the fraudulent dealings connected to the Chickasaw mint embezzlement.
Central Ohio fields flood from heavy rains and corn suffering severe damage while wheat lies down in many areas. In Spencerville the wind toppled fifty or more oil rigs and wrecked several houses and barns amid the storm.
A civil suit in the July term of James town District Court involves Mrs. Mary Bander suing Jan Learsen for $2,000 over a kiss at a church before a wedding crowd. Separately, a petition seeks a receiver for Peopie’s Nome Purchasing Company of Adubach, Inc. in Atlanta, as the U S orders mail to the firm held for fraud concerns.
Higher officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad move to bar detective stories and bloodthirsty dime novels from trains and stations to curb crime breeding sensational fiction.
A new British Columbia company plans to tow a log raft across the Pacific to Shanghai in summer. The raft carries 10,000,000 feet of spars and piling and forms a branch of a San Francisco based firm.
Burglars entered the home of Mrs James Snow a Muskegon widow ransacked the house and found 15 cents They missed a stocking containing more than 2000 in bank notes in a trunk at the scene.
A mixed row of items reports Lizzie Ashbacker’s hardship after desertion and return to Beaver, a Vatican encyclical urging Catholics to engage in public life with secular liberty, Nebraska’s biennial election law struck down by the Supreme Court, and the Chicago Board of Trade firm Wylfe Manson & Co. collapsing after late trades.
A notice posted in the pits calls for settlement of all deals and announces Ulric Wing has been appointed receiver by the Federal Circuit Court. The firm faces a potential failure considered the heaviest in several years.
Reports say Eddie Guerin once known as the Chicago safe blower is dead per police records though sightings place him in New York after an earlier life sentence for robbing American Express and exile to Cayenne. Friends claim funds aided an escape. authorities say the convict died and was buried, yet further sightings emerge.
C El Shaiszx, Pasadena drug store manager, and his wife were found dead at a Glen Dale California ranch house. A bullet in his forehead and another in her breast indicate a violent confrontation with a revolver used. Signs of a struggle and possible motive unclear as investigators search for quarrel details.
Discontent in Schutrenkhau district of Frivan provokes Armenian uprisings. Insurgents sack four villages, clash with Osavkianoraschev forces, while locals repel attacks killing about ten insurgents. Cossacks defend Shoulomadina as insurgent gains surge to around 4000.
Noted Indianapolis politician Ls J Sheerin, a delegate to the independent telephone men convention in Chicago, collapsed in the convention hall and died within moments after a stroke while responding to City Prosecutor Taylor’s welcome.
A Denver society called the Sons of the G A R aims to perpetuate the Grand Army of the Republic name. It reports about one hundred charter members and requires entrants to be direct descendants of Civil War veterans.
The Chicago Typothetae issues a printed declaration to the Chicago Typographical Union stating business cannot be run with profit while paying the current wage scale and granting eight hours of work.
President Newmen of the New York Central declares the 18 hour schedule of the Twentieth Century Limited abandoned, restoring a 20 hour Chicago to New York pace after the Mentor wreck. The disaster cause is denied. Patrick Melody, linked to the 1867 Fenian rescue in Manchester, allegedly tried to drown himself in Madison Square fountain.
Andrew Jackson Barr of Bloomington and his stenographer Miss Elizabeth Herbert of Polo were struck by an Alton passenger train while crossing tracks near Bloomington. Both occupants died in the collision.
City official Frank W Solon assistant superintendent of street and alley closings in the cage was found guilty of abuse of official influence and ordered discharged and removed by the civil service commission Minister Bowen Dismissed sister Bowen has been dismissed and Assistant Secretary Loom exonerated by the President in Venezuela dispute. Declares Conflict Inevitable Gen Kitchener says war between England and Russia for possession of India is inevitable with British government preparing for the struggle.
In Eddy street San Francisco Thomas Lobi barricades fourth floor room at United States Hotel firing on street and corridors for over two hours. He wounds several pedestrians and a policeman before killing himself with a rifle shot as police and crowds exchange fire.
Two women and a 10 year old boy fought five large snakes at the Smith Chapel school house near Logan Ohio after Willie Stone found the reptiles. The creatures hid in a water bucket and the trio battled them for about an hour using sticks, killing all five snakes. The largest measured several feet long.
Fifteen large furniture plants merge into a new concern with a $3,000,000 capital. Principal members include Cincinnati Chair Company Frankfort Chair Company Ikay Liver Lumber Kentucky Varnish Connecticut Chair Company Western Chair Company J S Ford & Johnson Company Western Cane Seating Michigan City and a Chicago chair works. John S Ford of Chicago named president.
Premier Rouvier informed Prince Radolin that France is inclined to join the proposed conference on Morocco if Germany and France reach a mutually satisfactory agreement on the points to be considered by the conferees.
A head on collision on the I Hartford division of the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad at Newington Junction Conn killed the engineer and fireman of one engine and a brakeman. Another crew member is missing.
Officials contend a planned sabotage caused the Mentor Ohio disaster that killed nineteen. The open switch, found by Conductor Campbell after the crash, led to the twelve hundred mile trip with the flyer and prompted abandonment of the eighteen hour schedule between New York and Chicago.
Sweden's council of state seeks authority from the riksdag to negotiate with Norway for a peaceful dissolution of the union after losing hope of preserving a united country.
Rolla Hoel of the Kansas Natural Gas Company was asphyxiated at the regulator house two miles west of Independence. His companion Wilcoxen, who entered the house with him, was rescued alive.
Russian troops fired on a procession of about 50 000 Polish workers in Lodz denouncing despotism. Eighteen were killed and 100 wounded in the volleyed protest, marking a deadly clash during the display of red flags.
Russian forces yielded to the Japanese drive as Oyama seized Kansong in Korea and additional locations in Manchuria. It is believed Linovitch will retire rather than offer battle.
The wholesale grocery house of Brinkmeyer Kuhn & Co in Indianapolis was almost entirely destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at 50000 dollars with the origin unknown.
King Oscar of Sweden protests Norway’s charges of injustice in a solemn cession of the riksdag. He advises against a union that must be purchased with coercion.
The Vermont governor has issued a reprieve for Mrs. Rogers until December 8. She was originally scheduled to be hanged on June 23.
The government proposes relocating to Bengnat about five hours by rail from Manila, at 5000 feet, for a healthful climate. Officials would move offices, build hotels and residences, and establish a sanitatrium and infirmaries. several have already begun homes, with mission boards adding institutions.
Telegraphic briefs report three men killed and one seriously wounded in a Palmetto Louisiana feud fight. In Nebraska reports Hessian fly damage surge. J P Y Quimby once captain of the Nate baseball team in Cuba, reportedly went insane and killed himself after restraint near Colima.
Mrs Roosevelt acquires a 15 acre tract on Springfield farm in Albemarle County Virginia near New York owner W O Wilmer. A rock chimney and porch are added turning the dwelling into a retreat with lower floor opened into one large room for rest.
Seventeen year locusts swarm across fields and forests biting into wheat and trees. Ground perforated by emergence and larvae drop their skins as farmers spray kerosene mixtures. Sparrows and other birds join the defense by feasting on the insects while orchards endure heavy damage.
Japan rejects an armistice with Russia until peace plenipotentiaries meet and verify credentials. Russia shows no armistice intention. Japan seeks a good faith peace guarantee. Gen Linovitch’s forces bolster Russia while Marshal Qyama commands a superior Japanese force. Britain offers no pressure. Germany and France urge peace.
Sociologists note 100,000 respectable English speaking families in New York City face potential destitution as cheap European labor crowds them from jobs. The welfare of these prideful citizens may require relief from some source or they could become a city burden.
Captain Tf. Bentley Mott the retiring American military attache in Paris was awarded the Legion of Honor by France. Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton of Philadelphia recovered a $60,000 pearl neck lace she had lost, reportedly picked up in the street. Horace R. Basler editor of the Sheridan Journal died after a Panhandle train fall in Pittsburgh, shortly after the accident.
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