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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1903
Page
1
A jumbled weekly miscellany from the Weekly Tribune listing social snippets, satirical quips, and brief notes. It references Miss Littleboy’s engagement, fashion footnotes, wealth and fashion stereotypes, aviation and racing buzz, and various curiosities about public figures.
The Capitol Improvement Commission awards the contract for heating ventilation and electric lighting of the state house to L H Kurtz of Des Moines. Work starts soon and must be completed by December 1.
Robbers broke into the Rhodes post office using an iron bar to force the front door and stole stamps likely worth three to four hundred dollars along with cash. Postmaster J B Satterfield reports the loss as an invoice of new stamps went missing.
A gravel train wreck near Clermont smashed a baggage car and derailed mail and smoker cars amid cannonlike crashes. The Iowa state audit reports gains in deposits, with savings banks leading and state banks lagging. Deaths include George W. Walker from Buxton cyclone injuries and other local misfortunes. Insurance losses at Webster City exceed 100000, while petitions for multisaloons in Centerville face withdrawals. Western Iowa Interurban Railroad plans survey crews for a Des Moines to Omaha line, targeting skilled engineers.
Militia companies from Waterloo Independence and Maquoketa arrived in Dubuque under Major Allen to guard streetcar operations. Crowds greeted them, but no disturbances occurred. Governor Cummins sought a settlement as talks with Sheriff Steiner continued and a non union crew operated lines. Preliminary surveys begun for a Des Moines to Omaha electric line with routes via Dallas Center Audubon and Logan.
In St. Petersburg on June 1 a mob of Jews attacked Kroushevan, editor of the Kishineff anti Semitic Bessarabetz, stabbing him in the neck though not fatally. A former Kiev polytechnic student was captured as the assailant. In separate incidents two Waterloo youths beating their way south barely escaped a freight wreck near Vinton after a head on collision. Nearby, a doctor’s wife and neighbor quarreled with a tramp who sought aid, while Mrs Kingley dismisses culture as vanity.
In Clermont on June 20 more than 6000 residents gathered for the Twelfth Iowa regiment reunion and the unveiling of a Lincoln monument and a bronze statue of Col. D. B. Henderson gifted by Hon. William Larrabee. Senator Dolliver spoke, Col. Henderson addressed the crowd, and Upper Iowa University figures participated in a patriotic program. Participants included Col. Henderson, Col. Sweeney, Col. Reed, Major Reed, Major Terrill, and many Larrabee and Dolliver aides. The ceremony featured flags, tears at the base, and choirs performing.
Eleven people died and two injured when passenger train No. 2 on the Illinois Central collided head on with a freight train one mile west of Raymond. The wreck followed a misread orders issue by the freight crew, the passenger train carrying many travelers and sleepers unharmed aside from the wreckage.
Des Moines readers learn of a $10,000-plus financial loss tied to Geo T Sullivan grain brokerage, with concerns over client dues and local offices. The piece also covers potential shifts in federal judgeship seats, rumors around Judge Shiras’ retirement, candidate names including Senator Healy and F F Dawley, and a forthcoming Midland Chautauqua Assembly with lectures and music days in Des Moines July 20 14.
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