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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1908
Page
2
D. L. Hunter Business Manager W. F. Hunter editor official paper of city and county. Twice weekly per year cost 1.50. The Daily Freeman Tribune by mail per year 4.00. Delivered in city per year 5.00.
The Freeman-Tribune lauds a Des Moines Republican conference for uniting the party behind a Senate nominee to succeed Allison. It endorses a special session to support the ticket, favors voting alignment with Cummins supporters, and suggests Maj. John F. E. Lacey as a potential standpat candidate. It notes undecided opposition and urges a clean, results driven campaign. A classified notice seeks a girl for general house work at 814 Division Street.
Des Moines reports record Iowa state fair attendance with 178,861 by yesterday noon and over 40,000 more today. Officials note receipts exceed last year and project total attendance will top 200,000 with about 30,000 in velvet funds and 25,000 in sinking funds.
In Benton Illinois this morning Charley Scarlett aged 6 pulled a gun from under a bed discharging it and fatally wounded his 8 year old sister who bled to death in eight minutes. Police reported the accident.
Arrangements completed for the import of 10 000 Mexican laborers to Texas and Oklahoma under a new arrangement by Juarez Gonzales of Monterey who will fund their transport. More than 3 000 Mexicans are already picking cotton and displacing Black workers in Texas.
Yakutsk papers reveal a shocking case of hunger driven cannibalism among Lamut nomads near the Korkodin river in extreme northwest Siberia. A man devoured his brother’s wife and four children, others later found their remains with no food on site, while the brother’s fate remains unknown.
A report from San Francisco details Marl ey Treyo, 21, at the Yerba Buena Island training ship Pensacola, bound with a rope noose to be swung from the deck for five minutes. Two ship mates, O 1 Guy and J Valerous, face court martial as Treyo may lose sight. The incident prompted potential punishment and safety reviews.
Doctors report the patient has lost sight in one eye and likely both after days of severe injury. The case remains critical as he lingers between life and death.
Notices posted at the W. D. Woods company steel mills state the entire plant will restart Monday. More than 1,000 skilled workers are affected by the return to production in Pittsburg Pennsylvania.
The agency of the Bank of Montreal today sent $500,000 in gold coin to Canada. This shipment increases the total gold sent to Canada in this movement to $7,750,000.
Little Rock Arkansas August 28 E B Easley superintendent of the Rock Island railroad issues a bulletin prohibiting cigarette smoking by all employes with discharge for violators within the system
A two year old son of Fred Underhill a grocer drowned in a ten gallon jar filled with eight inches of water in Macomb Illinois. The child fell into the jar head first.
J J Chaffee 25 associate editor of the Augusta Herald accidentally shot himself in the abdomen aboard a train at Stone Mountain Georgia He was brought ashore for treatment and believed fatally hurt according to reports
The Waverly canning factory has begun operations after a thorough overhaul. The company has contracted for 1500 acres of corn this year and expects to produce about 2,400,000 cans of corn.
In Richmond Indiana on August 28 Charles Zueblin of the University of Chicago urged teaching dancing in public schools. He argued it promotes fellowship among pupils and grace to the body and could help make the coming generation more sociable.
Peter Nelson a farmer near Correctionville Iowa survived a bolt of lightning that struck his horse and knocked him to the barn floor. A strong current of electricity left him weak but the heart stimulant and medicines to build up his blood supply are helping him recover.
In Tula Oklahoma on August 28 the feud between the Webb brothers and grocer J W Culpepper reached a deadly point. Dave Webb is dead and William Webb fatally wounded while Culpepper is seriously wounded after a store confrontation and a stabbing following gunfire.
Fifteen minutes before a Northwestern passenger train due from Correctionville to Sioux City two heavy timbers lay across the track two miles east. Section Foreman Tanghorn and his men found evidence of a pistol shot and a fleeing culprit seen entering a cornfield. The motive remains unknown and authorities plan further investigation.
At Haileyville Oklahoma the Hailey Ola coal mine No 1 suffered a fierce fire caused by a barrel of oil explosion. Between twenty five and thirty foreign miners are believed entombed in the lower parts of the shaft while some workers nearer the entrance escaped. The fire began about 8 30 this morning and has since been brought under control but rescuers cannot reach the trapped men for hours.
The Webster City Iowa city council orders owners of listed deserted lots to construct sidewalks along specified lot fronts by September 10 1908 using stone cement or brick not less than four feet eight inches wide. If unpaid the street commissioner will construct and assess costs to the lots.
In Chelsea Massachusetts a wall collapse yesterday caused eight deaths and about a dozen injuries. Early today no additional fatalities were recorded as victims remained in marine and naval hospitals with several in serious condition. Officials prepared for a full investigation of the accident.
Marcia Conner and Myrtle Hostetter bound over by federal commissioner to the grand jury in Creston for sending improper post cards. Cards allegedly addressed to Julia and Vivia Eyler. Separate and joint charges noted. Defendants released on bond.
Mrs. Charles Sires of Popejoy suffered serious burns to the abdomen and lower limbs after kerosene spilled from a can onto her dress when she ran to extinguish a kerosene fire. Her baby was rescued unharmed. she remains in serious condition with feared death.
Mrs C C Buck wife of a Hubbard businessman fell from a bluff into the Iowa River and was rescued by Lloyd Bowdish a local youth who plunged in after her. Bystanders tried with poles but Bowdish reached her as she sank a third time and pulled her to shore where she recovered with only shock remaining.
Clear Lake witnesses a rowboat bootlegger pouring beer into the lake near Tanglefoot Beach. Marshal Hyde arrived by launch and halted the action. Anderson was arrested as divers marked the site and plan to reclaim some of the liquor.
The document records the passage of city ordinances by Mayor J. W. Hyatt and City Clerk P. P. Banks in Webster City Jawa. The date shown is August 17 1908.
The Bayless Drug Co store advertises a wide selection of post cards in the city, inviting customers to browse their extensive assortment for greeting and collectible cards.
Des Moines reports Miss Filesie Hoshal opened a letter from Mrs. Mary Bayard to her son Ralph. Investigators seek its contents to clarify the Loudonville double tragedy. Exhumation confirms Miss Hester Porter could not have fired the fatal bullets.
In Mason City on August 27 a ten year old girl, daughter of Andrew Tweed who lived near Lake Mills, was fatally crushed when a load of hay rolled onto her chest. She died within minutes as bystanders rushed to help.
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