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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1908
Page
2
An Iowa editorial condemns Senator Foraker over alleged ties to Standard Oil and a fifty thousand dollar deposit tied to a newspaper venture. It questions his fitness and urges resignation if charges prove true while contrasting with party loyalties and public trust.
The piece argues currency stability overrides railroad valuations and power, warning progressives in Iowa not to bolt the state ticket. It lists current tickets with five progressives and seven standpatters across roles like Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Attorney General, Supreme Court judges, State Superintendent, Reporter of Supreme Court, and Railroad Commissioner.
Tomorrow begins the Jewish year 5669 and two days of Rosh Hashona observance with penitence leading to Yom Kippur. The fast day requires abstaining from food and drink from sundown to sundown, with prayer and confession guiding self examination and personal responsibility.
F. W. Lovell of Cleveland Ohio, formerly of Humboldt Iowa, has developed a monster coaling machine capable of lifting 100 ton colliers sixty feet and dumping coal into ships holds. Built by McMyler Iron Works for Lehigh Navigation Philadelphia, the device costs about 250000 dollars and follows Lovell’s 1893 railway car dumper invention. Lovell is a State University graduate and son in law of Senator John D. Glass.
Ellsworth News reports Will and Jess Lakin were near Randall on Saturday when constable Johnson and the fish commissioner arrived. After a brief exchange they left, joking about a small nut crop. The piece humorously warns Randall residents about beaning the Skunk River and implies further trouble with officials.
Fred Harrison, once a Williams farm boy who raised onions near town in 1896, rose from Franklin Academy graduate to Highland Park College, then moved to Chicago. He joined Swarchild Sulzberger Packing Co about seven years ago, earning a good salary and rising quickly through the ranks.
Heavy rainfall in Cadillac Michigan today helped suppress forest fires that had burned for about two months. The blazes caused damage estimated at over 1 million dollars and were brought under control by the downpour.
Charge d affaires J Cornell Tarler of the American legation was attacked by a Cuban in a Havana restaurant last night in an unprovoked assault. Several Cubans took part and the assailant escaped.
Leadville Colorado September 24. Sherman L Morris alias Frank Sh ercliffe was sentenced to thirty years in the penitentiary for the 1893 murder of a local saloon keeper named Walsh. His attorney's motion for a new trial was denied and Morris was taken to prison this afternoon. He showed no emotion at the sentence.
Five thousand United States troops paraded the streets of St. Joseph, Missouri, today for the big military tournament. The two mile long column was led by Brig. Gen. Charles Morton commanding the Department of the Missouri and included infantry cavalry artillery engineering and signal corps units.
Bud Mortime, an aged planter near Winona Mississippi, was arrested by United States marshals on charges of mailing night rider notices to a cotton gin owner. Mortimer says he was forced to send the threats by armed men who threatened his life.
Hackensack New Jersey September 24 August Eberhardt on trial for the murder of his aunt Mrs Ottilie Eberhardt today changed his plea to guilty and was sentenced to thirty years imprisonment.
Twenty students at the state normal school in Cedar Falls Iowa were poisoned after eating pressed meat at a boarding house. Five were dangerously ill for five hours but all are expected to recover.
A report states Mr. Harrison has been advanced by his company to general inspector of the business in New York City at a salary of $5,000 per year. At twenty nine he has made a record beyond comparison and is the pride of his father Jas. Harrison and sister Miss Leona Harrison of this city.
New York Sept 24 Russell Peabody a leading attorney in the Thaw defense died in Babylon L I of pneumonia after a brief illness He was about 35 years old from a southern family He had been Thaws personal attorney since the Stanford White shooting and earlier partnered with Clifford W Average before dissolving their firm He owned a Tennessee stock farm and took an avid interest in horses
About thirty Yeomen members gathered at East Second Street to bid Mrs. Frank Rinderknech farewell as she prepares to move to Oklahoma. She received a gold Yeomen emblem pin, and Miss Madge Vander Zyl served a bountiful supper amid a jovial, well attended sendoff.
Mrs John Gilmore hosted an old fashioned wool picking at her home last Wednesday. After an hour of visiting a two course dinner was served by her daughter Miss Ethyle. Attendees included Mesdames Lucinda Adams Gill Perry BE A Silvers Harvey Gage Ella Allen Levi Cottington and others from Sioux City Iowa.
A foggy head on collision on the Southwestern Traction line between Philadelphia and Chester injuries about fifty workers from the Baltimore Locomotive Company. One car left Philadelphia with seventy-two men on board and wrecked as another car approached in the fog, several likely fatally.
At Havre de Grace Maryland a 600 foot section of the Baltimore and Ohio bridge over the Susquehanna collapsed this morning. A northbound freight train lost twelve coal cars into the river and a watchman William Wilson was injured perhaps fatally. The crash blocked the eastern channel and prevented workmen from rebuilding the span which had been rebuilt and double tracked earlier.
In Worcester Massachusetts last night a clash between Worcester Polytechnic Institute sophomores and freshmen left Emil Gran of West Wareham a sophomore student with a broken back and paralysis. He is in the city hospital in critical condition as doctors fight to save him.
Washington officials expect heavy rain in the Mississippi valley later this week to help quell forest fires in the northwest. The weather bureau predicts copious rainfall for three to four days, though a light shower already fell and is deemed insufficient to halt the fires.
Orville Wright continues to improve after the aeroplane accident at Fort Meyer. He slept through the night and showed better function due to rest, while Lieutenant Selfridge was killed in the same incident.
The A Grass bank at Goehmer eight miles from Seward was robbed by three men between midnight and 1 30 am. Only 290 in silver was taken. Sheriff John Gillam pursues with a posse. Three men were later arrested at Beaver Crossing on suspicion.
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