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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1902
Page
7
The August 1 1902 Webster City Tribune notes numerous local residents and guests visiting or passing through. C D Doolittle and family attend a funeral in Eagle Grove. Fonda北 Jones departs for a new Northern Telephone role. Several travelers visit Woolstock, Str a ford, Blairsburg, and other nearby towns while many plan outings to Prescott Yellowstone and Livingston Montana.
F L Randolph reports from Buenos Ayres under his brother's eye describing a city of 700000 with brick houses marble interiors and imported furniture. He notes English control of major industries high taxes licensing corruption and widespread bribery alongside a diverse population including Italians Spaniards and Brits.
Miss Lizzie Mickelson returns from Eagle Grove for a week home. Mrs A E Anderson visits Woolstock for several days. George Okey of Boone visits brother John, our crack center fielder. W J Biernatzki and William Wehlerheim tour Algona on business. Mrs Geo Joslyn of Stratford returns from visit with Mr and Mrs I W Hyatt. Mr and Mrs W G Bale and family depart for Iowa City for a month. Miss Kate Dundon journeys to Fonda for two weeks with Dr Dower and wife. Miss Florence Woolston of State Center visits Mrs C H Richeson and husband. Mrs Chas Pratt of Pittsfield MA and Mrs Chas Van Buren of Wilmington DE visit Lasher home. Mrs James Stuart and Grace visit Kamrar to see brother A A Furman family. O F Rudd and A H Whittemore, Fort Dodge team players, in town to scout Algona game yesterday. Close plays impress scouts who say they got four line.
Holt visits Williams this afternoon. J. W. Pearce and family depart for Cove Minnesota for a two to three week outing. Mr and Mrs Geo F Johnson travel to Spirit Lake for a week. Mr and Mrs F A Bishop leave for unspecified destination.
Invitations announce the wedding of Fred Webb and Genieve Cook at the Cook home on Fliat Street Wednesday August 6 1902 at 830 PM Webb a night switchman for Illinois Central and Cook a former teacher and clerk are notable locals.
A traveling American writer in Buenos Aires laments local prices for staples, praises U S cattle and farms, and describes daily life including a football game with cigarettes, poor Palermo park conditions, and a string of pie misadventures from an English household. He notes the taste of home and requests a newspaper from back home.
The rural mail system, now essential, outgrows current routes and staffing. Postal reports say it will soon pay, but carriers need higher compensation as routes average about twenty seven miles with rough roads and rising feed costs. The piece urges Congress to raise pay for rural carriers.
The Unisaga and North-Western Ray offer the only double track line from Chicago to the Missouri River with four daily Chicago Omaha trains, three to the Pacific coast, and two Chicago Denver trains with through Pullman service to Iowa Nebraska the Dakotas and the Black Hills. A booklet titled Only Double Track Road Chicago to Missouri River is available by mail.
Ellensburg reports a man claiming to be Tracy demanded food at a north-of-town cabin and showed a head wound blamed on a posse. A Wenatchee dispatch says Tracy later rode from the Cascades to a Columbia River ranch, forced new horses from McEldowney, and headed south with firearms.
Fred Falkinberg shot and killed his wife as she slept in West Argentine and then wounded himself. Police say the act was planned after a telegram to his father in Montezuma, Indiana, requesting the family move the bodies to their old home. The couple’s two daughters slept nearby.
Reports from Camden Arkansas describe the lynching of Lee Newton a negro by a mob of twenty five men in Columbia county Newton was found in the room of two young women daughters of a prominent family in the eastern part of the county about a month ago He escaped custody twice and was being taken to Magnolia when the mob abducted him The body was later cut down by Sheriff Warren of Columbia county
National League Boston 6 Chicago 0. New York 2 St Louis 3. Philadelphia 0 Cincinnati 1. Brooklyn 6 Pittsburgh 3. American League Cleveland 3 Boston 0. Detroit 9 Washington 1. St Louis 4 Philadelphia 4. American Association Kansas City 1 Columbus 13. Milwaukee 6 Toledo 2. Western League St Joseph 3 Kansas City 1. Milwaukee 2 Peoria 1. Colorado Springs 7 Omaha 4. Denver 5 6 Des Moines 1 8.
Norfolk Virginia August 1 convict William Treadwell who killed his wife refuses a new trial for himself and says he bought the pistol to end his own life. He wants no delay and seeks swift execution, showing no desire to live.
In Livingston on August 1 the Montana Coal and Coke company halted operations at Horr and Aldridge mines. About 600 workers walked out demanding higher wages and the discharge of all nonunion men. The company refused the wage increase and compliance with nonunion expulsions.
Berlin August 1 Emperor Willacy pardons Lieutenant Hildebrand who was sentenced to two years in prison at a fortress for killing Lieutenant Blaskowitz in a duel last November. The sentence drew considerable criticism for being too light.
In Varek Kansas on August 1 Orville Osborne nineteen fired on three robbers who demanded surrender at S B Osborne’s store. Osbourne’s shot wounded a robber in the thigh as the trio fled, with the wounded man aided by companions during escape.
Waverly Louisiana August 1 Mrs Belle Ahern thirty a widow shot herself through the heart at Arlington cemetery She was found on the grave of her dead husband saying the man she loved would not marry her local police report her act as a suicide driven by unrequited love.
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