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Batesville
Ind
DR. McCallum
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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1906
Page
6
Storm Devastates Society Islands Killing Thousands
The Mariposa reports a February tornado in Tahiti and Tuamotu causing about 1,000,000 in damage on each island group and an estimated ten thousand deaths. Papeete flooded wrecking seventy five houses including the American consulate and French government building. In Finland hundreds of Finns afloat on Baltic ice face probable perish.
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San Francisco
Tahita
Society Islands
Tahiti
Tuamotu Islands
Papeate
Helsingfors
Finland
Gulf of Finland
Baltic Sea
Fredericksham
Prairie Fire Sweeps Panhandle Lands Near Portales
A Roswell special reports more than 1,000,000 acres of western Panhandle pasture burned in a prairie fire moving east and south for two days. Losses exceed $1,000,000 with feed robbed from about a dozen ranches. J P White of Yellow House ranch and L F Douthit, a major stock raiser, provide figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roswell
N. Mex
Panhandle
Portales
J.P. White
Yellow House Ranch
L. F. Douthit
Southwest
Rock Slide Destroys Tavernola Cliff Town In Italy
A rock collapse on Lake Iseo near Tavernola, Brescia province, collapsed 200 feet of cliff and houses, killing one fisherman. The roar warned the 1,000 residents to flee in time. The lake apparently eroded the cliff base.
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Tavernola
Lake Iseo
Brescia
Italy
Explosion at Kasbaugh & Co. Powder Magazine
A powder magazine near Safe Harbor, Pennsylvania belonging to A. 5. Kasbaugh and Co. railroad contractors exploded destroying nearby buildings. The blast shook Lancaster twelve miles away as houses quivered. The cause is unknown and the dismembered body of James Sweeney, watchman, was found away from the scene.
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A. 5
Kasbaugh & Co
Safe Harbor
Lancaster
James Sweeney
Fire at Park Gate hotel traps guests as fire escapes used
Unknown origin basement blaze at the Park Gate hotel in Chicago caused a panic. Stairways were closed, fire escapes served as the exits until firefighters arrived and ladders were set to the windows. All guests escaped unharmed.
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Park Gate
Chicago
Expelled vagrants seize Salvation Army hotel in Chattanooga
Several tramps driven from the four story Salvation Army hotel in Chattanooga Tennessee gained entry again and planted nitro glycerine in the store. The blast endangered the building but no major injuries were reported. Charles Kinney was later arrested in connection with the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salvation Army
Chattanooga
Tenn
Charles Kinney
Buffalo physician kills wife then dies in suicide
Henry N. Whitbeck a Buffalo physician and dentist shot and killed his wife with a hammer and then committed suicide. The couple, both about 45, had a long troubled history with the wife an invalid for years and Whitbeck recently treated at a sanitarium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry N. Whitbeck
Buffalo
N. Y
Whitbeck
Fire Devastates Yacloban City in Leyte Island
A blaze razed Yacloban the capital of Leyte island in the Philippines destroying warehouses and many structures. Estimated financial loss stands at 60000 dollars and the city’s hemp district suffered extensive damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippine
Yacloban
Leyte
Pod
Runaway Train Wrecks Two Engines in West Virginia
A Chesapeake and Ohio runaway train with two engines and thirty two coal cars traveled three miles to Thurmond West Virginia crashing into twenty empties. Thirteen loaded coal cars were wrecked engines demolished and engineer M A Perkins was killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Thurmond
W. Va
M. A. Perkins
Country Home of Kurston Ballard Jr Burns in Kentucky
The palatial Glen View estate of Kurston Ballard Jr. near Louisville was destroyed by fire. The home valued at $60,000 was insured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kurston Ballard, Jr
Glen View
Louisville
Joss
Bandits Blow Grant Park Postoffice Safe
Bandits used nitro glycerin to blow open the Grant Park postoffice safe and steal nearly 500 dollars in cash and stamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant Park
Farmer’s Wife Gored to Death by Bull in Barn Stich
Mrs. Rudolph Funk, wife of a farmer eight miles north of Logansport Indiana, was killed when a bull gore attacked her in the barn where she was doing chores. The animal had been tied in the stall prior to the incident.
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Rudolph Funk
Logansport
Ind
Boy 18 Held for Murder in Andrews Killing
Joseph Knight an 18 year old is jailed in Huntington Indiana charged with killing Kenneth Willets aged 14 at Andrews A quarrel between the youths ended with a knife wound to the brain Willets death is recorded in the incident for the police case and court action continues
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Joseph Knight
Huntington
Ind
Kenneth Willets
Andrews
Willets
Fierce Race Riot in Springfield Ohio Suppressed by Militia
A white mob attacked Springfield Ohio's Negro quarter known as the Jungles, prompting state troops to quell the riot after midnight. Eighty militiamen and police, aided by units from Dayton and Xenia, forced the mob back with rifle butts. six Negro houses and a saloon were destroyed while several other establishments were damaged. No lives were lost.
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Springfield
Dayton
Xenia
Columbia — Street
Water Street
Foster Street
Jungies
Columbia Street
Volcano activity at Mont Pelee feared anew in Martinique
Barbados dispatch reports Mont Pelee on Martinique again showing activity with a tall smoke plume visible miles away and flames at night. Five Fort de France hospitalised from falling rocks while St Pierre's 1902 destruction is recalled as a modern disaster. Georgetown and nearby plantations faced damage from Soufriere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbados
Mont Pelee
Martinique
Fort de Ifrance
St. Pierre
Mont L['elee
St. Vincent
Georgetown
Will Drown a Town in Colorado Dam Plan
A Colorado town Jyons with 800 residents faces flooding after a proposed dam. A 2000 foot long crest 250 feet high would flood four years hence, submerging the valley town and its stone church and homes. A $5 million company plans to dam the St. Vrain river, reshaping the basin watershed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
Jyons
Denver
St. Vrain
Death of Miss J Loughborough in Rome
Miss J Loughborough a 24 year old San Francisco resident died while abroad in Rome. The item notes her death as a standalone fatality reported in the foreign section.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Loughborough
San Francisco
Cal
Rome
Arizona
Herman Oelrichs
Fort Mason
Foochow
Changpu
World News Summary From Britain Russia and China
The report covers costs of war in yen for Japan and Russia, British defense warnings by Field Marshal Roberts, Venezuela’s note to Paris on cable company aid, and British Liberal victory margins. It notes German-U.S. trade talks, French- Berlin policing ideas, and unrest in Morocco and China with Stopgap measures, Russia’s constitutional reforms, mutinies in Vladivostok, and potential famine.
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Russia
Lord Roberts
India
Europe
Paris
London
Castro
Rouvier
House of Commons
S. PB. Littl
Hankow
Ireland
James Bryce
Gladstone
United States
Reichstag
von Lpurlow
Germany
America
Italy
Belgium
Roumania
Servia
Switzerland
Austria-Hungary
Pekin
State Department
Washington
Foochow
Changpu
Roosevelt
Philippines
War Department
Manila
Council of the Empire
Baltic
Vladivostok
Gorgas Reports January Health Stats for Isthmus
Chief Sanitary Officer Gorgas reports January figures: 22 000 on the roll and a daily average of 503 sick. There were 74 deaths, including 26 from pneumonia, with no quarantinable diseases on the isthmus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gorgas
Cand Commission
Industrial Invasion of Canada Lands Sold to New England Settlers
At Winnipeg land agents have sold 20 000 acres in the Canadian Northwest to New England settlers with 15 000 more expected from New York and Ohio this spring. The influx helps explain many farms for sale in the Eastern States while Dr William S Brooks director of Smith Observatory Geneva New York reports his new comet moving toward the southwest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Canadian Northwest
New England
New York
Ohio
William S. Brooks
Smith Observatory
Geneva
Meridan Tornado Kills 21 Whites and 100 Negroes In Doomed City
A destructive tornado struck Meridian Mississippi at 6 30 P M Friday killing 21 white residents and over 100 Black residents. The storm damaged wholesale stores hotels depots and tenement districts and left Meridian without power with trains delayed and telegraph wires down.
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Meridian
Miss
Mobile & Ohio Railroad
Front Street
Armour
Western Union Telegraph Company
Postal Telegraph Company
Atlanta
Birmingham
Memphis
Ohio Attorney General Probes Bridge Company Profits
Ohio Attorney General Ellis reports preliminary inquiry into the American Bridge Company and affiliates in the state. He estimates the group has diverted over 800000 annually from residents since 1902 via secret bidding pools that overstate profits. Prosecutions are anticipated. lawmakers are urged to remove self incrimination barriers to witness testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellis
Ohio
American Bridge Company
Olio
Marconi Awarded Priority in Wireless Telegraphy Case
The United States Circuit Court at New York ruled in favor of William Marconi as the originator of wireless telegraphy. Judges held Marconi was first to describe and to transmit definite intelligent signals via Hertzian waves against the De Forest company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New York
William Marconi
de Torest Company
Marconi
King Edward Sends Birthday Cordial to Kaiser
Notes of Current Events report King Edward writes a friendly birthday letter to the Kaiser and Berlin welcomes the revival of cordial relations with Britain. Prof. R S Williams of the New York Botanical Garden notes Vila Pinos are lazy workers. Ex Premier Balfour advocates a tariff on corn and foreign goods, aligning with Chamberlain but angering free trade unions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King Edward
Berlin
Britain
R. S. Williams
Philippines
New York Botanical Garden
Balfour
Phil
Chamberlain
Walsh Arrested in Embezzlement and Perjury Case
John R. Walsh, former president of the defunct Chicago National Bank, was arrested by federal authorities on charges of misapplying $3,000,000, perjury, and embezzlement. Bond set at $50,000. potential prison term up to five years. Walsh called the arrest persecution and argued he is innocent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago National Bank
John R. Walsh
Vfriday
Ile
United States
Walsh
John M. Smyth
William Best
Foote
Chicago
Chicago official resigns in socialist letter
Joseph Medill Patterson, Chicago Public Works Commissioner and the youngest city official, resigns to Mayor Dunne in a striking note declaring himself a Socialist. He argues money governs society and exposes the corrupting power of wealth over law and destinies of the less wealthy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Medill Patterson
Chicago
Dunne
Mr. Patterson
Department of Public Works
Patterson
Railroads Expand as Standards and Ownership Shift
A survey shows New York New Haven and Stamford favor rate cuts to two cents a mile on President Mellen’s recommendation. Wisconsin Central hints Standard Oil controls key property as railways extend to Superior and Duluth. By 1904 railroad capitalization rose to 13.2 billion, with profits boosted by higher freight rates. box cars for automobiles ordered at Altoona. Pennsylvania tests gas electric motor car for standard track use.
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New York
New Haven
Stamtford
Mellen
Wisconsin Central Railroad
Standard Oil
Superior
Duluth
United States
Grand Valley
Colorado
Western Slope
Denver and
Rio Grands
Pennsylvania Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress Debates Indian Affairs and Rail Legislation
Senate and House proceedings focus on five civilized tribes in Indian Territory and the Hepburn railroad rate bill. Key actions include statehood debate, district funding, and army appropriation measures with several bills advanced and others laid aside. The foraker graves bill passes, while tribal government extensions and canal company actions shape the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Tillman
Aldrich
Culberson
Clapp
Indian Territory
Alton
District of Columbia
Lake Erie and
Ohio River Ship Canal Company
Stopkins
Five Civilized Tribes of Indians
Kkensington and Eastern Railroad Company
Calumet River
Inlinois
Corbin
MacArthur
Dalzell
Lake Erie and Ohio Ship Canal Company
State Department
van Duzer
Nevada
Senator Foraker
Indiana
Five Civilized Tribes
House
Appropriations
San Francisco
Meade
Army Division
People's United States Bank of St. Louis
Dolliver
Atlantic
Pacific
Powder Trust
Foraker
North
Five Civilized Tribes of
Congress
Interstate Commerce Committee Seeks Rail Ownership Probe
The Interstate Commerce Committee orders an investigation into alleged railway ownership of oil and coal companies. President Roosevelt vows to veto any rate bill lacking his approval. A White House conference with merchants and officials leads to a refusal for open hearings in contested valuations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interstate Commerce Committee of
House
Roosevelt
Senate
White House
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ribune
Safeblowers
Rob Postoffice
Chargre
Pelee
Canada
Union
Queen and Crescent
I. BK. Bennett
Claud Williams
Frank Woodruff
Meyer Neville Company
Bennett
Meyer & Neville Hardware Company
Tom Lyle & Co
Josh Moore
New Orleans & Northwestern Railroad
Mobile & Ohio
Southern
Grand Avenue
Ohio’s Bridge Trust
Walsh IS Arrested
Yate
Sonene Reatard
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