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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1900
Page
6
A compact weekly digest reviewing notable crimes fires accidents and world events from the North South East and West. It highlights notable people places and incidents in a concise roundup style.
Explosion of seven thousand five hundred pounds of dynamite in the Spruce Mine powder magazine near Eveleth Minnesota blew up damaging the mine warehouse and laboratory and shattering every window in Eveleth. The city suffered about 30000 dollars in losses and at least 200 people were injured. The blast was felt twelve miles away in Bhwabik and the cause remains unknown.
The New York Evening Post reports President J Rogers Maxwell of Jersey Central and another coal railway chief affirmed no further concessions. If the miners reject the 10 percent offer, the strike will be pursued. The decision followed a joint meeting at Lehigh Valley offices in New York.
Eddie McBride aged 10 died in Trenton New Jersey from burns after companions tied him to a stake and set his clothing alight with gasoline. He ran screaming until neighbors subdued the flames and he died at home.
The Foreign Office notes Sir Alfred Milner says refugees will start returning to the Transvaal on October 15 at about 1,000 per week. It will take roughly three months to repatriate those waiting in South Africa.
The National Convention of Factory Inspectors met in Indianapolis and elected John Williams of New York as president. The next convention will be in Buffalo or nearby. Resolutions condemned the child labor system and urged regulatory recommendations.
A boiler explosion at Winkfield's gun near Waelder Texas killed three children of Stephen Wilson. One Winkfield child and Elvira Cunningham were badly scalded. Henry McMacken suffered a double fracture arm. Several others had minor injuries.
A major fire struck the Vickers Maxim cartridge factory in London destroying a large stock of shells ready for shipment. The explosions caused great consternation but there were no fatalities reported.
Eleven firemen were injured when their own house burned down in Walt ham Massachusetts. They were forced to jump twenty feet from windows to escape the flames. The loss was about 40000 dollars.
A man brought from Govan on the Clyde to Glasgow died at the city hospital from bubonic plague. The report notes his arrival and the fatal outcome amid public health concerns in Glasgow.
The American reply to Germany's modified proposal has arrived in Berlin and is deemed very satisfactory. Official circles announce that all differences between Germany and the United States have been removed. The English reply mirrors the American response.
The revenue cutter Viking with Governor General Wood aboard grounded on a key about sixty miles from Batibeno. A steamer has gone to the Viking's aid and all aboard are safe.
Two men attempted a Burlington route hold-up three miles south of Council Bluffs. Express Messenger Charles Baxter killed one robber after dynamite was used to open the express car and Baxter escaped the car after exchanging fire. The other robber fled. train returned to Council Bluffs.
Private Leon Mayhue of Company I Eleventh Cavalry reports witnessing a white man in black trousers shoot General H W Lawton from a church tower at San Mateo on December 19. He says insurgents were under General Del Pinar and that the deserter entered the tower with other evidence pointing to the same killer.
An insane man at St Pauls Cathedral Pittsburg claimed to be St Peter and seized a brass crucifix on the main altar steps. Three men fought to remove him as he refused to dress and prayed clutching the cross until police and sexton overpowered him.
A passenger train on the Chariton and Vindianola branch of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad near Laconia Iowa left the track after a rail is believed to have turned the train. The engine baggage car and coach were derailed with one death and multiple injuries reported.
Bank papers valued at thousands of dollars were taken from inside an automobile carriage where Elbridge T. Gerry left them while transacting business at the Second National Bank in New York. The documents were later recovered in a saloon back room.
Henry J. Follingsworth, formerly a Chicago Third National Bank teller, aided police quelling a disturbance among the obras in Vera Cruz when laborer Carmona attacked him with a machete. Follingsworth shot and killed Carmona in self defense.
Three burglars blast a bank safe in Elk Port Iowa securing 1000 dollars in cash and papers. They fire on pursuing citizens as a posse and sheriff chase them toward the Mississippi bottoms. Another item notes railroad official Nills Himaelft Warner M Newbold of Birmingham died by suicide at home after losing his wife months earlier.
In Lexington Kentucky Benjamin editor of the Lexington Standard and attorney for Tallow Dick Combs, accused as an accessory in Goebel’s killing, was shot in the back by Mike Moynahan while fleeing after a registration quarrel. In St Louis Augustus Lane, four months earlier, shot Albert Wilson in the back, surrendered and confessed, later a former Transit Co employee.
The first telegram from Skaguay to Seattle arrived recently, signaling a new era in Alaska trade with the outside world. Transit time was seven hours. John Shes, laborer, at St. Louis hospital, is diagnosed with a heart three times normal size. In Carnegie Pennsylvania, Ferdinand Brobst, a glass worker, killed his wife then shot himself, following temporary insanity.
President Thompson of Ohio State University argues in a talk that college graduates dominate high offices. He cites Supreme Court members, cabinet officers, congressmen, presidents, and leaders as mostly college educated, asserting college helps early ascent and guards against poverty.
A prisoner at Alcatraz reportedly escaped by concealing in a wooden box labeled handle with care. The box arrived in San Francisco on the government boat McDowell and was addressed to the general hospital. The box was broken open and found empty at the wharf, and a ten year term prisoner is missing after the mystery of the shipment.
An international crisis looms as a Canadian pack train supplying American mines is seized by U S customs over a $1000 duty. Canada argues the boundary is two miles south, keeping the goods in Canada and fueling bitter local sentiment and possible trouble.
Large sum to back daughter Dorothy Peper who will act as Jane Oakes. Debut set with Louis James and Kathryn Widder in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Also notes about a farmer who witnessed a marriage scam in Carver County and a forged check incident for 450 dollars.
An explosion attempt aimed at the Tampa Electric Company dam six miles from the city failed to do damage as an unexploded dynamite charge was found the next morning. The project cost $300,000 and was destroyed by unknown persons two years earlier. Also reported is the burning of the Canadian steamer Dominion while moored near the Sulphur Springs canal below Sandwich Ontario. The vessel, empty of cargo, had sailed from the Sea about two weeks prior with pulpwood.
Workmen altering the First National Dunk building in Duluth struck an iron ore deposit under the boiler room. The ore assayed 66 percent metallic iron, signaling a rich find at the city’s important business corner.
Retired banker and broker Robert McCurdy Lord was found dead in a Mount Vernon home. Indications point to death by self-inflicted action. A separate report describes a $10,500 gold dust theft via floor sawing at Alaska Commercial Company's warehouse. Also notes tinplate plant operations and Melbourne becoming capital of a confederated Australia.
A large fire engulfed the four story J. E. Dayton & Co. shoe factory in Williamsport Pennsylvania causing extensive damage. The blaze destroyed the factory stock and raw materials impacting Royal Braid Company and L. E. Whitman & Co. with total losses around 300000 dollars. Several firemen were injured by falling debris.
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco quashed indictments against ten men arrested at Coeur d Alene during last year’s mining strike for interfering with the mails. The defendants did not know the train carried U S mail. Imprisoned at San Quentin they will be released.
Chicago investors purchase all stock and franchises of Youngstown Lighting Co for 500000. The buyers also acquire the Youngstown Sharon Electric Railway rights and plan immediate construction. A Beaver Falls native, Isadore Hudson of the American Bell Company, dies at Beverly Farms station. Burglars loot a Chicago residence of about 1000. Marion Christy, 15, of Greenville Pa, swims across Lake Onneaut to audience of a thousand.
Wallace Townsend known as Floyd the Negro was burned at the stake in Eclectic Alabama after he attacked Mrs Locnnie Harrington, her husband set fire to the fuel destroying Townsend’s body.
W. W. Wolcott of Boston expired in an Indianapolis hospital from apo plexy after a train incident. He carried about 500000 in government bonds and 2000 in cash. The Croker family story follows with Terbert Croker, son of Richard Croker, starting as a shop helper at Ellizabethport shipyard and N. J. Young Croker seeking to learn shipbuilding from the bottom.
Provincial Mineralogist Robertson returns from Porcupine with news of rich gold finds in the district and predicts a rush. Fifty five claims were staked on Bear and Clear creeks in a single day.
Rainstorms in southern France devastate late crops and severely damage the wine harvest. In Kentucky, the Bowling Green post office is robbed of four to five thousand dollars in cash and stamps.
In Wallace Idaho, Matt Marley manager is found fatally harmed with an iron rod. Felix Marchand, Premier of Quebec, is reported deceased in the same incident.
Chicago to New York and other hubs show cattle hogs sheep and grain bids. Wheat No 2 red No 2 mixed corn oats rye and butter egg and potato quotes vary by city with values listed for Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York.
Germany shifts policy toward Chinese crisis by dropping demand for surrender of attackers and seeking consensus on punishments. The United States endorses the change as Franco-Russian and German plans align. Proposals include punishing officials, arms embargo, indemnity, and guarantees to ensure future stability.
The article notes a growing number of Indians becoming U.S. citizens and eligible to vote as tribal ties are dissolved. It cites 32,000 taxed Indians with suffrage ten years ago, with expansion anticipated from allotment policies and tribal dissolution, especially among the five civilized tribes in Indian Territory.
Attorney and valet of Millionaire Rice, Albert T. Patrick and Charles P. Jones, were arrested on forgery charges after handwriting experts said Rice assignment deeds and related papers were forged. Patrick, NY legal adviser to the late W. M. Rice, claimed adminship following the millionaire's death.
The General Land Office posts total cash receipts of 4 379 758 dollars, up 1 309 624 from the prior year. Land disposed reaches 18 453 887 acres, an increase of 400 560 acres, with broader stimulus across industries cited by the commissioner.
Dr. George Ernest Morrison, Longdon Times correspondent in Pekin, routs Great Britain's policy in dispatches. Born in Geelong in 1802 he travelled Australia on foot, survived a spear wound in New Guinea, studied at Edinburgh where he earned medical degrees, and later reported from Bangkok to Yunnan and Manchuria. He endured siege injuries in Pekin and was first to report Chinese treachery.
Miss Ward recalls the Pekin route before railways and the slow, winding river journey. Mrs. Haworth advocates raw diets amid cooking trends. Samuel Gompers discusses miners’ hardship and AFL aid. Gov. Sayers estimates Galveston storm losses at 12,000 lives and $20 million property. Lieut. Hobson credits Spanish self-sabotage in Manila Bay. Ralston Baldwin notes vast Trinidad asphalt vs Fort Duchesne deposits and future fortunes.
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