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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1908
Page
7
A letter from La Crosse Wisconsin dated April 8 1908 congratulates Nordstern on its 50th Anniversary Number. It praises editor Adolf Candrian and predecessor John Ulrich for shaping La Crosse journalism and civic life and wishes the paper lasting influence.
Viroqua Wisconsin reports new post office fixtures with front booths for the postmaster and money order dept and extended mail boxes. May 1 is street cleaning day with city teams to remove rubbish. fines up to 50 dollars for neglect. Local updates cover creditors meeting in La Crosse, illegal voting cases, social visits, church painting, Dutch Market fundraiser, hospital visits, and residents’ movements and illnesses.
Map shows burned Chelsea district with an estimated loss of 8 million dollars and 10 000 homeless. About 1000 buildings burned over 1 percent of a square mile. Key structures destroyed include City Hall armory post office public libraries hospitals banks schools churches and synagogues.
In Murray Kentucky a confessing member of alleged Calloway county night riders reveals plans to burn the town in a coordinated raid with Calloway and Trigg county bands. The attack was set for March 26 but postponed due to earlier excitement. Judge Wells bars release of names until arrests.
Herbert L. Heyl, 22, treasurer of the Franklin Institute, collapsed and died after being confronted with embezzlement accusations in Philadelphia.
A State street collision between a high speed fire truck from station No. 1 and a farmer A Stalneck buggy caused rear wheels to collapse. Mrs A Stalneck and her seven year old son aboard escaped injury as firefighters continued to a separate small fence fire and a chimney fire at N Cohen 903 Grove street with no damage reported.
Alvion Clark age 86 dies in Cylinder Iowa from age related causes. Body to arrive by train from Cylinder with widow Mrs. Clark and daughters Mrs. Green and Mrs. Odell. Funeral set for tomorrow morning with interment at Oak Grove cemetery.
Boats reported stolen from Spears boat livery were recovered downstream at Crosby slough. Mr. Spears suspects the theft aimed to claim the reward for their return.
The Modern Samaritans plan a regular meeting tonight at Wodman hall on the north side. A Carlson deputy imperial organizer from Duluth Minnesota will lead the session.
Gustave Brado of this city has taken out a license to marry Miss Louise Stahr of Dakota Minnesota.
Miss Lizzie Behring dies of typhoid fever at sister’s home in Chaseburg. Funeral set for Wednesday at 2 PM at the German Lutheran church with Rev. Thurow officiating. Interment in local cemetery. Gile Milbright returns home after appendectomy at St Frances hospital.
A aphoristic note reflects on courtship stating a man’s assurances carry far more weight before marriage than after. It emphasizes the social value of courting decorum and the enduring truth of pledged promises.
In Chicago on April 15 Joseph Sachsel a 49 year old brewer and his 19 year old nephew Arthur Freud drowned when their rowboat capsized in a lake during an early morning fishing trip. Mrs Sachsel watched from home telephoning the life saving station as the storm approached and then fainted.
St Paul Minn April 15 Anton Schafer chairman of the executive committee of the United Commercial Travelers accuses A J Pray president of the Taft club Columbus of stealing the UCT members list to send Taft literature. He says the names could be secured in no other way and sent a sharp letter to Pray.
A sailing vessel captain allows onions on board but refuses leaks or any water intrusion. The cautious approach centers on maintaining cargo quality and ship integrity during the voyage.
Mattoon Illinois mayor L L Lehman resigns after the town voted dry at Tuesday's election. Lehman, president of the First National Bank, says he cannot head city government due to the loss of nineteen thousand dollars yearly from nineteen saloons. The city, taxed to the limit, had planned to buy a waterworks system for eighteen thousand five hundred dollars and Lehman had supported the bond plan relying on the saloon revenue.
Citizens in the eastern district plan to use the district local option law to prevent saloons within their area by filing a petition before May first signed by a majority of the eligible voters. The move aims to keep disreputable establishments out of their residence district amid fears of nearby closures driving proprietresses and inmates inward.
Mark Twain after Bermuda return dismisses a fourteen foot channel from Chicago to the Gulf as impractical and fiscally impossible. He notes the Mississippi valley’s真 cozy soil and warns that even a thousand dredges could not keep the channel clear.
L O Leberman of the Bronx was found in Milwaukee. He had feared Mrs Isaac Leberman of the Bronx had been murdered while he was in La Crosse yesterday. a wire later confirmed the dead woman was not a relative.
A special committee meeting will be held tomorrow evening at the city hall. The committee on sewers will meet at 7 30 and the committee on finance ordinance auditorium and railroads will convene at 8 to prepare work for the council meeting Friday evening.
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