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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1900
Page
8
A. F. McKay of Springfield Ohio sues Wattsburgh Cincinnati Climato St Louis railway for 50000 damages. He presented an interchangeable mileage ticket on a Panhandle train without an exchange slip. conductor refused it. McKay was arrested and bound over to the Coshocton grand jury but not indicted. The case will test legality of restrictions on interchangeable mileage tickets.
An open switch at Eighty fifth street South Chicago, believed to have been purposely misplaced, caused the death of two men, seriously injured three others, and wrecked the engine and forward cars of the New York and Duston express on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern line. The engine was demolished and two mail and two express cars piled up, but five passenger coaches behind the baggage cars stayed on the track and their occupants were not hurt.
Yellow fever reports reach 113 since October in Havana. Major Peterson chief commissary, Frank Hayes Havana Trust Co general manager, and Natalie Brown stenographer are ill. The Trust Co office closes for disinfection.
Thomas Jacklin a Green school house teacher in Shelbyville Indiana was experimenting with a home made oxygen apparatus when it exploded. A plug was blown through Roscoe Lee's leg and embedded in the wall. Glass and iron particles hit Jacklin and pupils Amos and Billingsley with Amos possibly losing sight.
A fatal grade crossing crash at Robinson's crossing five miles west of Newcastle Pennsylvania killed three people instantly and left a fourth fatally injured. A double seated rig carrying four occupants was struck by a coast bound flyer of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie line, destroying the occupants.
Sneak thieves used a ruse to enter Lewis Seward’s jewelry store in Tiffin Ohio. Two strangers talked with the proprietor while another unlocked the display case and removed a tray holding twenty eight diamond rings valued at five thousand dollars before fleeing.
The President names Judge Gray of Delaware to represent the United States with ex-President Harrison on the Hague permanent arbitration tribunal. Gray, a former Delaware senator and Democrat, serves as a United States Judge for the third judicial district and was a member of the Paris peace commission.
Venezuela government annuls the Orinoco Company concession accusing nonexecution of the contract. The Faribault Minnesota headquarters firm with a capitalization of 30 million dollars held a 10 million acre grant in the Orinoco district granted in 1898.
An engine on the Chicago and Alton railroad exploded near Curryville Missouri. Porter John Mason was decapitated by flying steel and six others were injured but not fatally. In a separate dispatch, China's customs bank remits 300000 taels to the imperial treasury and plans further transfers.
A horse owned by Irwin Daily of Nevada Ohio has a well defined smallpox infection contracted at Crestline. The report notes the case locally and identifies Crestline as the source of the outbreak.
Major-General Wesley Merritt and Mrs Merritt arrived in New York after a prolonged European tour. In Indiana a sand digger operator, James A Cane, was killed when caught in river machinery near Six Mile Island below Jeffersonville. His wife found his mangled body and stopped the engine. He lived aboard the sand digger with wife and child.
All the car builders at the American Car and Foundry plant in Huntington West Virginia struck for a raise of one dollar per day.
The United States has over 50,000 tons of coal for warships stored worldwide with additions planned. Manila holds 24,000 tons, Guam 2,856 tons, Honolulu 10,018 tons, Pago Pago 2,500 tons, San Juan 3,426 tons, and coal is also at Annapolis Boston League Island New London Norfolk Port Royal Key West Mare Island and Puget Sound.
Telegraphic reports from Tampico describe the Panuco and Tames rivers swelling to historic highs. Floodwaters overflowed banks near Chila station and across the region, destroying hundreds of homes and inundating crops in San Luis Potosi and adjacent valleys. Many drownings feared or confirmed as rivers breach channels and sweep away farms.
Navy Department says no bounty money distributed to officers and crews who destroyed Cervera's fleet at Santiago. Claims against the court of claims have allowed payments but individual amounts and funding must be decided. Congress must appropriate funds, delaying payments for several months.
Two men entered the McCool Junction bank and used dynamite to blow the safe but fled when frightened. A passing posse mistook two farmers for the robbers and fired, wounding them severely but not fatally. The robbers escaped into the country.
Seventeen picnickers returning home in a wagon were seriously hurt after their wagon collided with a suburban rapid transit trolley car at Pittsburg. A child passenger named John Schmidt sustained serious injuries. The crash was blamed on the wagon driver losing control on a slippery rail.
Judge George Johnson of Media Indiana presided over the May term trial of five councilmen and three agents for brick firms convicted of conspiring to defraud the Shamokin borough in street improvement contracts. He handed down an opinion refusing to grant a new trial to the defendants.
A blaze started at Hibben Mill and Co damaged their plant while the Tauster Brothers icehouse in South Chicago burned. The South Chicago City Railway Company power house also suffered damage, with total losses exceeding 40 000 dollars.
Special commissioners from Nicaragua and Honduras have completed the boundary work after a long dispute. The settlement is described as satisfactory to both governments and the border issue is resolved amicably.
Striking miners attempting to close a colliery at Oneida Pennsylvania clash with coal and iron police. One miner is dead and several are severely injured. In a separate incident, comedian William J. McCaully of Philadelphia was shot and killed at a Huntington restaurant without provocation.
Admiral Hichborn releases a navy construction status showing the Maine at 86 percent and Ohio at 30 percent completion. Missouri 15 percent, Linois 86 percent, six new cruisers in early stages. Monitors Arkansas Florida Wyoming and No 8 about half finished. Sixteen torpedo boats near completion. Plunger 85 percent, Adder Moccasin Poise and Shark at 6 percent. Tike and Grampus not yet started. A body found in the Erie Canal.
Excitement sweeps Tonawanda over discovery of a dismembered old man’s body in the Erie Canal. Authorities doubt it is William Reifelman of Buffalo, as the coroner notes the remains show two weeks in water. A separate item reports an uncle’s will leaves $40,000 to a 21 year old dock worker in Cornwall.
Minneapolis journalist Starry& Knapper, back from Hudson bay, suspects Andree polar expedition members were killed two years ago. Eskimo reports say natives killed men who rode a sky-boat. Sleuths reconnect Willie Tescott as chief Yak Indian in Alaska per Nome confession.
Five thousand pilgrims gathered at St. Nikander Monastery in Fork hoff district Mussia for a festival. A night floor collapse killed four men and thirty six women, crushing many in the crowd.
Census office in Washington reports forty to fifty arrests nationwide for refusing to answer enumerators. The act included a fine up to 100 dollars. Although many were arrested, only a few were fined, as most chose to answer when facing court trial.
Washington ruling requires married women to resign from city delivery jobs in Indianapolis. Postmaster McGinnis received the directive after Mrs Anna Daily, former Irvington postmistress, sought to stay in a clerkship until January 1 following her marriage.
Nelson Fernstrom, while hunting near St. Stephen, Minnesota, shot and killed Mrs. Stromer when he mistook her for a wolf. The woman was searching for cattle and climbed a straw to scan the area as night fell, leading to the fatal misidentification.
The north half of the Colville reservation in Washington was opened to white settlement with hundreds on the ground before the hour. John Falls filed the first entry in the Spokane land office at noon. few contests and no bloodshed were reported. In Arizona a train robbing band member George Owints confessed in court detailing the plan. six accomplices are expected to be convicted on his testimony.
A former anarchist Robert A. Guil d ally now Christian says Victor Emmanuel III of Italy will die within the year. He advocates a stable government and expresses doom for the monarch.
The report lists regional price ranges for cattle hogs and sheep, along with grain and dairy, from Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo and New York. It covers wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and related goods with varied No 2 and quality designations.
Chicago police hold Dr August Unger F Wayland Brown and Frank Smiley on 15000 bail each amid a murder and insurance fraud probe. Detectives allege Miss Marie Defenbach died after being poisoned as conspirators sought 12000 in life policy payouts from New York Life Canadian Order of Foresters and Knights and Ladies of Tower with Smiley named as beneficiary.
In a dramatic Georgetown Kentucky courtroom scene Arthur Goebel testified he spoke with Youtsey about his brother’s murder the day of the arrest Youtsey denied the claim vocally accusing witnesses of lying His wife pleaded and the judge warned fines as the defendant’s condition halted proceedings until the next day
A crowded roundup of assorted snippets including Hobson's remarks on the Spain incident and its nationwide reception, talk of Parliament salaries with Yerkes referenced, and musings on monarchy in China. Also notes on coal tonnage, advertising methods, stage pairings, and world supremacy fantasies with a tongue in cheek tone.
State Superintendent Frank T. Jones reports rural school attendance collapse leading to consolidation as pupils are bused to other sites. Agriculture Board seeks 154 acres from fair grounds and $120,000 in bonds. A new oil well near Muncie yields about 100 barrels daily on Liberty Gas and Oil Company land.
Oscar C. Marsh attempted suicide at Flora by cutting his throat with a razor and fatally worsened the wound by pressing his thumb into the jugular vein. He escaped the stitches by lifting his head and heels, leading to his death.
Plumbers strike at Marion. mayor orders gambling houses closed. Big oil well struck near Geneva. Schools closed at St John. Diptheria reports. Soldiers' monument to be erected at Lewis. Peru raised 536.80 for Texas storm sufferers. Russian thistle appears in South Bend. Dick O'Brien killed by a train. Terre Haute normal opens with 400 students. Gas may be scarcer this winter. Safe in Marietta postoffice blown open and robbed of 25 dollars and stamps. Wiatt Ridgeway missing. Kempton Odd Fellows to build a new hall. Martinsville notes Col Burton dead. Indiana coal operators raise price 13 cents. Dorothy Peterson dies of lockjaw from vaccination. Harvey Childs a New Albany soldier killed in Cuba. Miss Jessie Stein loses mind after forgery arrest. Factories prep for coal use amid gas shortages. Uncle Sam’s 44582.50 check received for Spanish-American war costs. Anna Murphy divorces husband over children placed in orphan’s home. George Whittlesey parachute accident near Lafayette. Mrs Montel dies in Silver Creek from clothes catching fire. Stamp sales blamed on green goods circulars. John Canter arrested at brother’s grave for murder. Stephen Canter killed by accidental discharge. Joseph Poker dies from falling rock in coal mine. Pittsburg capitalists buy Van Buren oil holdings. Steele family poisoned by tea. Night watchman Quirk and burglar exchange shots. Edward Doran, Michigan City prison official, dead.
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