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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1901
Page
6
Gusts blow in from distant shores bringing a miscellany of crimes accidents and fires. The Telegraph reports the latest world happenings with brief notes on notable incidents and ongoing concerns across regions and cities.
The funeral of ex president Benjamin Harrison drew about 15 000 mourners in a hollow square at Crown Hill cemetery Indianapolis. Family, President McKinley and other distinguished visitors attended services at the church and grave work was orderly and tasteful. A Mobile report adds a separate note of a camp burned by three negros in Baldwin county with sixty dead. In Paris Count Boni De Castellane and M De Rodays dueled at Parc Des Princes with De Rodays wounded in the thigh and De Castellane uninjured.
In a dead end collision at Clay Switch Kentucky between freight trains on the Illinois Central Railway three men were instantly killed and three fatally injured. A misunderstanding of orders is blamed for the wreck as trains ran together at full speed. Both trains wrecked and all aboard were killed or injured.
W S Marshall Hartley county cattleman reports prairie fires racing across Sherman and Dallas counties. The burned district covers at least forty miles square with grass损 destroyed valued in the thousands of dollars. British capture Boer laager at Kruperspost. Devonshire regiment gains a victory with one Boer killed and five wounded, thirty two prisoners, and grain seized. British as one killed and four wounded.
L F Henry perished from suffocation in a blaze at the Merchants' hotel on Pennsylvania avenue Washington. Several others were injured as fire damage remained slight. The blaze was traced to a defective electric light wire.
The Internal Revenue Bureau states all documentary and proprietary revenue stamps held by purchasers on and after July 1, 1901 will be redeemed under the May 1, 1900 act. A saloon keeper was fined for selling liquor to a husband who became so intoxicated he froze in the snow, with Mrs Dunn awarded $275 in Youngstown, Ohio.
A fire wrecked Trinity Hall, one of Harvard's top dormitories, causing about $20,000 in damage. The blaze followed multiple other incidents including gas explosion at a Greensburg glass plant and a deadly boiler explosion on a Lehigh Valley coal train near Mud Run.
A multi-item Western news summary reports arrests of six moonshiners and counterfeiters at Clifton Arizona. political nomination of Judge B E B Wells for Denver mayor. notable deaths including Benjamin Harrison. riots at Fort Harrison. a string of accidents and legal actions across states.
The report details multiple incidents including a deadly murder suicide in Conaldover Ohio where George Weaver killed his wife and died by self inflicted death, and a fatal shooting in Savannah Missouri involving Addie Richardson. It also notes a high profile murder case in Eldorado Kansas, a fatal boiler explosion in Chicago, and a list of other violent events and legal actions across Ohio Illinois Indiana Missouri and Iowa.
In Kentucky resolvable dispute Bakers and Howards of Clay County settle their long feud by mutual agreement. J N Falls Grocery of Memphis files for assignment with liabilities of 39000 and assets of 95000. A Clarksville West Virginia group departs for Porto Rico to grow tropical fruit for export. Edward Almy, electrical engineer missing from Macon Georgia, found murdered in the Ocmulgee River. J R B Danforth of Brunswick Georgia dies by his own hand at sea with no stated cause. A negro named Sherman Harris found dead by hanging near Spellman Road Georgia. MU Harris killed Sidney King in an altercation. Mary Bolton, Stockville Tennessee postmaster aide, arrested for mailing robbery. She confessed and surrendered plunder. John Henderson, a negro who killed Mrs Younger, burned at stake by mob of five thousand Corrsicana Texas. Coroner inquest commends mob for horror.
The will of a Budapest beggar leaves 500000 crowns for founding a university. His relatives contest the will alleging improper execution. In London the British naval budget stands at 30875500 pounds, including five Holland type submarines. Civil rule begins in Tayabag province southern Luzon with Col Gardener acting governor. Terrifying red sand dust from Africa brings bloody rain to Sicily and Southern Italy. Earl Roberts reportedly declined something unspecified.
The report notes the decoration of the Order of the Black Eagle by Emperor William, Olga of Russia betrothed to Prince Oldenburg, and Count de Castellane’s assault on Fernand de Rodays. It covers a Manila surrender, a Manlleu riot with fatalities, a costly British budget, and Manila trials exposing anti-American insurgents and the Mandoducats killings.
General Gomez opposes Cuban presidency. Wariness over Diaz’s rule grows as reports cite army officer verdicts that Diaz cannot recover. Other notes include Crozier declining academy post and Peary Club eyeing an Arctic expedition.
Chicago cattle and hogs move at 3.00 to 5.95 dollars. Indianapolis and Buffalo show prime to fair livestock ranges. Wheat prices vary by grade across St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Detroit. Corn and oats fetch 37 to 52 cents and 24 to 33 cents respectively. butter eggs and clover seed closer to 20 to 22 cents, 12c, and 6.50 to 6.70 dollars.
Prominent figures including Salvador Cisneros and Alice Roosevelt are profiled amid revolutions and diplomacy. Other items cover Irish politics, Pan American Exposition leadership, Gen Joe Wheeler, and a detailed Indiana State Board of Charities report on relief for the poor noting steep drops in aid from 1897 to 1900 and shifts to township funding.
In northern Blackford County two lakes known as Twin lakes are slowly shrinking from encroaching vegetation. Once twenty five and forty acres, they now lose area yearly with treacherous root mats and sudden ground subsidence near the edges. Wildlife declined as fish vanished, while a 1899 oil derrick vanished into the water.
The 1900 Indiana population stands at 2,516,462, up from 2,192,404 in 1890. Madison County leads with a 93.1 percent gain, while Indianapolis shows the largest numeric rise at 68,728 residents. Other cities report notable increases such as South Bend 65 percent, Evansville 16.3, Fort Wayne 27.5, and Terre Haute 21.4.
Rev Otho Redmond former Peru boy dies at Lewiston Idaho from peritonitis Mrs Samuel Curtis aged 88 pioneer dies near Percinsville George Burke of Yorktown killed by an electric car in Anderson Muncie line Burke paralyzed and fell on track D W Minshall Terre Haute gives 25000 to DePauw University for science lab Arthur Reed Ko komo nail works nearly drawn into machine Tornado at Princeton causes extensive damage to high schools businesses courthouse car shops residences and outbuildings with no fatalities reported
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