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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1908
Page
4
Condensed highlights cover battleship debates, naval funding, and Roosevelt veto threats. Also notes rail lawsuits, paper trust probe, disasters, tornadoes, murders, and political shifts as the nation reacts to a busy legislative and crisis-filled period.
A candle blaze near Ira Shidhelm’s corpse in Iowa City ignited lace curtains, nearly destroying the house. Watchers saved the body in time as flames spread, with no further injuries reported.
A batch of brief notices reports Louis A. Gourdain escaping from St. Elizabeths asylum. Jennie A. Call jailed for mail fraud against Wisconsin governor. William D. Haywood dismissed from the Western Federation of Miners. Taft planning a Panama visit in May. Rev. Russell J. Wilbur shifted between denominations and deposed. habeas corpus granted for Harry K. Thaw case. another Wilbur Catholic conversion. Ford Warner convicted of bribery and sentenced to two years.
Reports from southern districts describe at least 350 lives lost and 46 towns severely wrecked by tornado devastation. A French hamlet near Buckingham Ontario suffered heavy deaths as a landslide buried parts of Notre Dame De Salette.
President Theodore Roosevelt sends a special message urging Congress to curb injunction abuses in labor disputes, strengthen anti trust laws, and push for national incorporation. He defends limited use of injunctions, supports wage workers forming unions, and criticizes wealth concentrated power as a social danger.
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