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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1900
Page
6
A Lake Erie and Western switch engine struck an electric car at Thirteenth street, Indianapolis. Twenty one passengers rode the car. fifteen were injured, two possibly fatally. The impact tore the car apart, turned it, and pinned occupants beneath wreckage.
Dispatches report President Kruger of the Transvaal secretly boarded the Gelderland to leave via Marseilles, Paris, and Belgium. Paris dispatches deny French landing ban. England reportedly shows no hindrance, hoping to avoid responsibility. Kruger boarded the Gelderland fearing local boer hostility over his departure.
The twelve jurors convict Henry E. Youtsey once governor Tailor's stenographer of being a principal in the Goebel shooting in front of the executive building at Frankfort Kentucky on January 30. Life imprisonment is fixed as punishment.
Berlin report from Nassauritz near Dresden recalls Dittrich once in a cataleptic state after a railway incident. His wife fatally shot him and hanged herself. In Henderson Kentucky a dox dog mauled a 5 year old girl, tearing the face and flesh. bystanders intervened and doctors fear for her recovery.
Three masked men dynamited the Farmers Bank in Nevada Missouri. Constable Maron was shot dead after sounding an alarm. Sheriff Ewing led a posse with bloodhounds in pursuit as robbers fled with about $3000.
An Indian rider warns two hundred natives are starving at Humberton Meadows, 150 miles north of Agassiz. Fifty Indian families are dying, and relief supplies may arrive too late to save many lives.
William Jones an iron worker fell four stories from the Wells Block in Youngstown Ohio and escaped serious injuries. He refused ambulance transport and walked home.
A trailer detached from a motor on a North Shore electric train in Chicago crashed into the forward car which was at a standstill, injuring fourteen passengers. Police and railway officials investigated the mishap and pathways were blocked as rescuers attended the scene.
Millery Dodson, a Black man involved when conductor William Jordan was attacked at Baton Rouge Junction Louisiana, died in a related incident after being taken from jail by a mob of white men.
Investors propose a double track electric railway linking Detroit and Bay City Michigan. Sleeping cars would operate, with full rolling stock comparable to any steam railroad. Through freight cars would run at night on the line.
Transport Sherman arrives in San Francisco carrying 5600 sick and invalided soldiers from Manila. Nine men died during the voyage, highlighting harsh wartime medical and evacuation conditions for Philippine forces.
Attorneys from Cincinnati announce a nationwide plot centered in Chicago and Detroit to torch selected houses after securing tenant occupancy. They claim evidence is ready for a sensational trial, with insurers facing heavy losses and Cincinnati agencies watching closely.
Assayer Handy from Pittsburg declares Missouri will become a leading gold producing state. Analysis of ore from Oregon County shows quartz assays ranging from $150 to $500 per ton. Capitalists from New York to St Louis have sent reps to inspect the fields and gauge the potential.
The twelfth census enumeration is finished with 538000 enumerators and 27 supervisors. Costs run about 4.2 million dollars for enumeration and 250000 for factory work. Washington census staff now tabulates results. eight volumes of 1004 pages will report the findings. six weeks earlier release is expected. Ten killed over one girl near the Dolores mine.
An explosion of rubber cement at Witchell Sons in Detroit killed one worker and injured eight, including four girls. The blaze forced many to jump from upper floors. the building was gutted and likely a total loss.
Henry Corbett mayor of Pearson Georgia tried to kill himself by firing two shots. his wife wrested the pistol after a fierce struggle. Also reports a woman fights with a hatpin, a family explosion in Sells Arkansas, and a mysterious oil thrower injuring a coat in St Louis.
Burglars entered Fond du Lac post office and stole stamps money and registered letters using a spreader to lift the vault dial and dynamite the second door. Florida orange crop forecast cites 31,000,000 boxes from Manatee Hillsboro and De Soto counties with potential extras.
Chicago cattle and hogs quoted from 3.00 to 5.75 and 5.00 to 5.02 respectively. Wheat No. 2 red 40c to 41c, corn No. 2 mixed 41c to 42c, oats 20c to 22c, rye 49c to 53c, butter creamery 19c to 21c, eggs 18c. Prices reported for Indianapolis, St Louis, Cincinnati, Detroit, Toledo, Milwaukee, Buffalo, and New York markets with varied ranges for cattle hogs sheep and grains.
Andrew Tofte of Tofte Minnesota survived 36 hours at sea in a rowboat after a northwest gale drove his craft eastward. The tug Dowling attempted rescue, turning back four miles from shore as waves mounted. Tofte returned coatless and cold, carried home unconscious after drifting 35 miles with no food or shelter.
Peter Armor of Sandstone Minnesota attacked his wife in a lodging house in Minneapolis, slicing her throat while she held their two babies. He then wounded himself, cutting the jugular and losing consciousness. The wife survived. Armor died en route to Litchfield after heavy drinking. Rogers Works Sold to New York Syndicate and Paterson Investors.
A detachment of twenty four men from the Twenty fourth regiment repairing telegraph lines near San Jose Nueva Ecija province Luzon were attacked by about two hundred rebels and overpowered, scattering the troops.
A large department store burned to the ground in Sullivan Indiana. The Burton Brothers building housed the People's Theater and suffered an estimated loss of $100,000, partly insured. The blaze started in the basement from an overturned candle.
Pigs owned by R. J. Wallace of Columbia, Missouri dig up a chest of coins dated before 1775. The discoverers estimate the hoard to be worth several thousand dollars and believe it may have been buried by British forces during the American Revolution.
Four people rode in a double seated rig when it was struck by a Monongahela traction car five miles west of Newcastle Pennsylvania. Three persons were killed instantly and a fourth fatally injured in the grade crossing accident.
Louise Kuhn, 38, entered Grace Church New York dressed as a boy. Ejected by an usher she then performed a song and dance on the street before being arrested. Also a deadly blaze at 35 and 4514 Bfester Street leaves eight dead.
Mrs Charles Pfizer reported a jewel theft from her summer home in Bernardsville New Jersey. Her maid hid a casket containing a diamond necklace worth 20400 and two diamond rings plus sunbursts and other pieces valued at 20000. The butler David Richard allegedly replaced the jewels with nails.
John Schuck of Oil City Pennsylvania suffers a rare dementia after temple impact with a ladder six weeks earlier. He behaves in reverse, speaking and performing actions backward while remaining nonviolent, and he requests help with the ladder.
Alfred S. Kittson, the youngest son of Commodore Norman W Wittson, has been appointed inspector of billboards in the St Paul city building department at 60 dollars a month. Wittson once received 100000 on his 25th birthday but spent it all.
Former Guttenburg mayor Herman Walker and landowner Hamilton V. Meeks announce a syndicate of millionaires to build a huge shipyard on the island above Guttenburg. They say the plant will provide steady jobs for 100,000 men and become one of the nation's largest shipbuilding yards.
In Chicago an actress Zarah Card shot Joseph Pazen a theatrical agent. Pazen was wounded fatally or gravely after a quarrel over letters he wrote reflecting on Miss Card. The incident began with her note to him and ended with the fatal shot.
News reports a marine catastrophe as the Norwegian steamer Callanda collided and sank. Thirty three people perished, including nineteen foreigners and five Americans, with many others drowned. The Empress of Japan conveyed the details.
The Koelnische Zeitung reports Prince Hohenlohe has tendered his resignation as German imperial chancellor and that it has been accepted. Count von Bülow, the current foreign minister, is named as his successor.
The family of John Clark of New York hires counsel to claim the estimated 20 million dollar fortune of his brother Imlay Clark who died years ago in Australia. Henry Howard Stewart, a stenographer for Metropolitan Life in New York, was arrested in his office by Cleveland police on suspicion of child murder.
Mrs. Manning leaving a Paris hotel misplaced a diamond sun burst valued at 2500 dollars. In a strange coincidence, both Indy commissioners at the Paris exposition reported jewel losses.
Dispatches from Costa Rica report almost total destruction of Port Limon the republics principal port. The business district was wiped out with more than 2 000 000 dollars in property burned.
The Chinese emperor sends personal thanks to President McKinley for U.S. aid in restoring peace in China. Two stores burned at New Bloomfield, Missouri with Dr. C. M. Wright killed in the blaze. Loss about 8000 dollars, partly insured. Prince appointed regent due to King Oscar’s illness. America to host Olympian games in 1901 under the Amateur Athletic Union in Buffalo during the Pan American exposition.
A wide overview of the approaching elections notes governors chosen in numerous states, intense West Coast campaigns for House seats, and party leaders predicting big surprises. It lists key gubernatorial contenders, Senate implications, and the slate of presidential and third party candidates expected on November 6.
Reports from New York Coffeyville Genoa and Vancouver note a failed suicide attempt murder cases and a fatal carousal incident. Coal shortages close Hudson area brick yards while several small vessels sink near Vancouver. A Bavarian syndicate plans agricultural electricity a fire at Cleveland s sash and door factory and a burning glass company causes 37000 loss. Marie Corelli novel banned in Rome a French elopement seeks House of Good Shepherd commitment and steamers Rostoff and Georgie collide in the Aegean with Georgie sinking and crew saved.
The article reports several forecasts of a harsh winter. Andrew Jackson Devoe of New Jersey and others claim from astronomical data and tradition that a cold, snowy season will begin with a November cold wave around Nov 8. December to bring heavy storms and zero weather, with sleighing possible by mid month and a return of snow in January.
Grace Carr of Louisville, once a barefoot Indiana girl living in a Richmond cabin, will marry Lord Newborough of Wales in London in November. Her family faced poverty after her Civil War veteran father’s pension yielded limited income, and Grace later gained education and social prominence before meeting the English baronet during a desert tour abroad.
This year has continued the greatest season in the history of lake traffic. One hundred and fifty firms in this country manufacture school text books. Coal from West Virginia is now being used to get up steam on English ships of war. No case of yellow fever has been reported at Santiago, Cuba, since last December. Gen. Chaffee estimates that it would take a month to get the American troops out of China. There is a shortage of cabbage heads in Germany and they are being imported from Michigan. A married couple near Throoy, Pa., who were childless, have adopted fourteen children. New Zealand's Parliament will consider joining the new commonwealth of Australia. Exchange Telegraph Company incorporated in New Jersey. It will operate Board of Trade lines. Federal Judge Kohlsant awarded the Barber Asphalt Paying Company $18,400 in a suit against Chicago, Russell Landis, Rocklin, Cal., killed his wife and fatally wounded W. J. Clydesdale, who was with her. The recent storm damages at Velasco, Texas, are announced by the local committee to aggregate $400,000. Tom Christian killed Frank Perkins, a negro jockey, Lexington, Ky., because he refused to give him a match.
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