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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1902
Page
4
Des Moines reports indicate the 1901 drought and poor corn crop will shorten hog supplies in the Midwest. Feeders rush hogs to market to avoid high costs, leaving light stock and culls. Average weights fall, and buyers warn of a pork shortage next season with recovery not expected until 1903.
Homer M. Neff, 45, county surveyor and former county clerk, shot Miss Rose Falk in her hotel room and wounded rival Emmet Sullivan before killing himself. Neff fired five shots in the Commercial hotel room, then locked himself in his own room, reloading and ending with a self-inflicted temple shot. Sullivan, a member of a local farm machinery firm, is expected to recover. Neff had long courted Falk but faced rejected marriage. He and his brother operated the local electric light plant.
Oskaloosa January 6 Constable John Ruggenberg of Evans was shot in the groin while trying to arrest Roy Leighton at the Rock Island depot. He remains gravely injured as a white colored clash following a New Year wedding fight prompts arrests and a manhunt. Sheriff Crickett dispatches deputies and guards, with eight leaders held in safekeeping.
Governor Shaw of Iowa to take over the Treasury Department January 25 after a lengthy talks with Secretary Gage. Gage will assist Shaw and remain awhile. no immediate changes to top staff planned. Roosevelt hosts Shaw at White House luncheon. H A Taylor remains assistant secretary under Shaw.
Frank B Ferguson, a Chicago-born carpenter, killed Leonard Shelgren of Cherokee in a Sioux City boarding house after a quarrel over Shelgren's care of a three year old child. Ferguson, who fled the scene, later notified police. Shelgren died forty five minutes after the blows broke his nose and caused brain concussion. Ferguson had served two prison terms for robbery and was involved in an earlier prison uprising.
Burlington reports a well groomed woman swindled several residents with bogus checks last summer. She has been captured in Springfield Missouri on a similar charge and will be sent back once Missouri authorities finish proceedings.
In Peking on January 7 the imperial cortege returned to the Forbidden City in a lavish display bearing yellow chairs and banners. Foreign observers gathered atop the Chien gate as the procession, led by Gen Yun Shi Kai troops, entered the city marking a shift in royal deification and greater foreign access to the ceremony.
Washington January 8 Admiral Schley won a presidential hearing to entertain an appeal reversing Secretary Long's action and the court of inquiry majority. Rayner Teague will help prepare the appeal. Schley left confident with details discussed confidential. He plans new facts to bolster the case after Savannah trip.
Directors of the Panama Canal Company chaired by President Bo decide to sell the canal properties to the United States for 40 million dollars. The offer covers excavations canal railroad machinery and all items in the isthmian report and was submitted by M Bouerve to Admiral Walker and the state department.
Washington reports the formal handover of Cuba’s governing duties to the Cuban government will occur in Havana likely by May first. About 3,000 U.S. troops may return home, with a staged army reduction starting January 15 and a clear transfer of civil and military authority upon the Cuban president’s proclamation. The future American force presence hinges on security needs and Platt amendment developments.
In Columbus the Hanna faction controls the house while Foraker men will head the senate. Speaker fight dominates the house nominating process, with committees appointed by the speaker. Senate caucus was brief. house session stretched long. Also noting Cuba troop withdrawals and Rainbow deployment to Manila, with Brooklyn returning for discharge. The final line stresses orchardists should observe spraying.
The Senate adjourned after Sewell's death without business. In the House, a Schley tablet appropriation and immigration limits were proposed, along with anti anarchist and army canteen bills. Debates on the Nicaragua canal bill and Panama factor dominated earlier sessions, with discussions over property offers and potential purchases for the canal project.
A clash occurred between American sailors aboard the steamship Vicksburg and Russian troops at Niechang, China. Three fights left several Russians wounded. the Russian ambassador complained to the U S and Conger notified the State Department. Navy Secretary Long ordered Commander Berry to prevent further collisions. The Vicksburg is anchored in Murdock Bay and cannot be released until spring.
Secretary Long selects John A. Kearney of Cohoes New York as special laborer in the department of supplies and accounts at the New York navy yard replacing BE S Maclay who was removed for criticising Rear Admiral Schley. Appointment details omit departure.
From Willemstad Curacao June 6 reports say the armed revolutionary steamer Libertador formerly the Ban Righ has landed an expedition near Barcelona Venezuela. Caracas advices show the Venezuelan government has no news of the Libertador and their fleet lacks coal and engine power preventing sea pursuit.
Des Moines reports judge Kinne touring Clarinda Glenwood and Council Bluffs with smallpox quarantines in Clarinda. W L Eaton arrives to organize the Twenty ninth general assembly and push measures on railroad assessments. Governor Shaw collects 100 congratulatory letters for a treasury post, with plans to bind them. Colonel Olmsted criticizes National Guard encampments and calls for reforms including a permanent camp, an arsenal, and life tenure for officers. He also condemns suttlers Y M C A and women at camps as unnecessary nuisances.
Four section men were killed Saturday near Monmouth when a Burlington passenger train struck them as they toiled on a hand car. The workers James te Grath, foreman, Joseph Brown, Samuel Mettler, and Michael Anderson were on a sidetrack hidden by steam from a passing freight locomotive.
Chicago January 6 Rev Dr Hiram W Thomas former pastor of the People's Church announces by letter to Peter Van Viissingen treasurer of the American branch of the American Transvaal League his and his wife’s willingness to go to South Africa to assist noncombatants held in concentration camps.
The trials of cases arising from Cuban post office embezzlements began Saturday in Havana’s Audiencia court before five judges.
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