13 Nov 1912
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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1912
Page
1
In Detroit on November 8 a gasoline tank car explosion during a game of hide and seek left Joe Starzyk thirteen dead and Joe Tomasczewski fourteen gravely injured. Several other boys were burned as the tank car, recently emptied, blew open and flames swept the siding.
Orange Baker of Mansfield aged 65 was found dead in his buggy north of Crestline with a bullet wound. A 20 year old man named Lou Parsell is jailed for investigation after claiming to have accompanied Baker from a Galion livery stable. Police found nearly $100 in Baker’s pocket. Parsell says he traveled from Cleveland to Shelby then found the body.
In Toledo on November 6 a family of five including George F. Hasgen 24 an auto tester his wife 22 and children William 3 Dorothy 2 and Mary 6 months were found dead from coal gas asphyxiation in their night clothes. The eldest slept kneeling beside the bed while the infant lay in the mother's arms. A sister could not enter the home prompting police to force entry. Two stoves still burning led investigators to the gas tragedy.
At the Berlin Medical Society meeting Dr. Frederich F L Friedmann announced a practical cure for all forms of tuberculosis. He showed cured patients and said his method treated 682 cases with constant improvement and near complete cures. Prominent physicians testified to successes in their own practice.
In Buffalo Henry Moest fifty seven a Republican clerk collapsed at his voting booth and died of heart disease as voters queued at daybreak. In Seattle Conductor Leonard Hallett died after a freight wreck in the Stampe tunnel when gas overcome the crew on the Northern Pacific railway.
In Barnardsville North Carolina John E Hurst a well known farmer collapsed from a paralytic stroke caused by the excitement of a large election rally at a local schoolhouse He died almost instantly authorities said the crowd was abuzz with results and festivities surrounding the event
The Royal George, a mail steamer carrying 901 people, ran aground after a collision with the ORIP in the St. Lawrence River. Rescues were launched as passengers faced peril and authorities assessed the damage and evacuation options.
The Canadian Northern mail steamer Royal George with 907 aboard grounded on rocks in the St. Lawrence in heavy fog near Point St. Laurent Island of Orleans. Wrecking ships aided, all passengers and crew saved with four hundred landed at Quebec after the vessel ran at eighteen miles an hour en route from Avonmouth England.
Chronology of moves from Oct to Nov detailing Montenegro declaring war on Turkey and a sequence of battles across the region. Notable actions include Montenegrin advances, Bulgarian offensives near Adrianople, Serb captures at Pristina Novi Pazar Kumano va Us kup and Monastir, Greek torpedo action, and Turkish retreats with mediation requests rejected.
New York statesman and state senator "Big Tim" Sullivan likely cannot assume his elected congressional seat after a months long illness. He was in a New Jersey sanitarium, discharged recently, but remains seriously ill and unable to campaign or attend conventions. The ailment is described as similar to the brain disease that felled his nephew "Little Tim."
Sergio Osmena, speaker of the Philippine assembly, cablegrams to the president-elect in Princeton. The assembly and Philippine people congratulate him and express hope that U S recognition of Philippine independence will follow the pledge and reiterated petitions.
Mason City Iowa November eight brakeman William Ryan of Milwaukee was killed when run over by an engine at Sexton He was nineteen years old and had worked six weeks for the company
Cambridge Massachusetts November 8 Rev Henry S Nash head of the Cambridge Theological school and leading American NT scholar died at his home here Wednesday His death removes a foremost authority on the New Testament from American religious scholarship and Cambridge Theologians mourn the loss of a noted educator and author.
The president will appoint a commission of army officers led by Colonel Gorgas to visit Guayaquil Ecuador and teach sanitary reform. Guayaquil, long called the pest port of the Pacific, is viewed as a danger to the navy and the Panama Canal after the Maryland visit and the death of Commander Bertolette there this year.
Washington reports Ebenezer Hill blocked in his speakership bid as Connecticut votes yield a solid Democratic delegation to Congress. In Mount Vernon Indiana a post office safe was blown, robbers taking 3000 dollars in stamps and 90 dollars cash before escaping in a stolen car.
In New York on November 8 Justice Goff sentenced "Red Phil" Davidson to Sing Sing for at least thirty years for the murder of gang leader "Big Jack" Zelig after his confession.
Berlin reports Lieutenant Altrich ter and his engineer Meyer were killed when their biplane fell sixty feet near the city on Wednesday afternoon during a flight.
Dispatches report Monastir to Serbians as Bulgarian forces crush Turkish units retreating toward the Tchatalja forts near Constantinople. Bulgarian gains include Adrianople and Salonika terms, with high casualties and hundreds of deserters at Salonika amid multi-city dispatches from Sofia, Paris, Berlin, Athens, Vienna.
John T. L. Wilson, owner of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, died in a Washington hotel of angina pectoris after an hour long illness. He was buried in Crawford Indiana, his birthplace. A former U S senator, he served two terms in the House and part of a third before resigning to join the Senate to fill the unexpired term of John B. Allen. He was the brother of Henry Lane Wilson, the ambassador to Mexico.
Women joined the street car violence in Jacksonville on November 7 as a mob of more than a dozen attacked a car with bricks and bottles. They fled before militiamen arrived. The railway company offered higher wages and recognition of the local carmen's union but refused to recognize the amalgamated association. Fifteen men were arrested for mob violence and only one fined.
Lightweight champion Ad Wolgast and challenger Joe Mandot battled to a likely draw before a huge New Orleans crowd in a ten round bout praised by local writers as one of the best. Referee Ed Smith stayed undecided as gate receipts topped $20,000.
Sixty passengers in a Joliet and Southern Interurban car narrowly escaped death when a Belt Line freight train collided with a trolley at a crossing east of Joliet on Monday. Several people were injured in the crash amid the busy transit junction.
Daniel F. McNamara was sentenced to 30 days in the state house of corrections for keeping his shop open on Sunday. He was arrested as a result of the Sunday closing law enforcement action in Detroit Michigan on November 6.
Miss Barbara Gladys, eighteen, a nurse for Rev. Wm J. Williamson, confessed at the Windermere hotel to scattering paper and igniting the Berlin hotel fire. Three people died and over twenty were injured as flames destroyed the hostelry, with $200,000 in property loss and $100,000 in guests jewels.
Emmet Morgan confessed to police that he murdered his wife after she cut his neck with a razor. He surrendered voluntarily and recounted the fatal attack in a St Paul, Minnesota incident dated November 5. The case follows a violent domestic claim and police notes.
Indiana novelist and playwright Booth Tarkington married here to Susana K Robinson a wealthy widow and daughter of Daniel Kiefer. The ceremony at the First Presbyterian Church was performed by Rev Charles Campbell with only close friends in attendance.
French dancer Madame Adeline Genee landed on the Kronprinz Wilhelm in New York with 250 pairs of shoes. She said she never travels light and uses many pairs weekly, sometimes changing three or four times nightly.
Berlin dispatch reports the German gun boat Panther ordered to Liberia to protect German interests after a native uprising endangered the ship. The move signals Berlin's concern over the situation and its impact on German stakes in the region.
Salida Colorado reports W J Burrows a hotel clerk escaped from a mine pit where he was imprisoned for a day among snakes and rats. He fell into the pit Tuesday while walking in the surrounding mountains.
An Austrian military airman died Tuesday after his aircraft collapsed a wing while circling the army aerodrome at Goerz Vienna. The crash occurred during a routine flight and the cause was attributed to the wing failure. The name of the fallen airman was not released.
Fragmentary ad style text references a remedy “GATARAH” by Cole’s Carbolleatre with price 25 and 50c and an unrelated mock dialogue about babies and a game called auction bridge versus bean porridge hot. The tone mimics a late era newspaper snippet and lacks coherent full facts.
A courthouse anecdote from the Columbus Evening Dispatch recalls a trial over a jailhouse killing. A witness describes the deceased as a “ignorance mous pusillanimous degen’ate,” reflecting a humorous yet harsh courtroom remark.
A professor recounts proposing after years of wooing and acceptance only to dissolve the engagement due to absent mindedness. He explains calling again days later and asking to marry, prompting their friend to ask how it happened.
An Ohio woman credits stopping coffee with resolving dyspepsia heart trouble and sleep issues. She quit after 30 years, started Postum, and reports belching and stomach burning ceased, improved sleep, and a rosy complexion. Family notes praise her change, and she urges following directions for making Postum.
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