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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1908
Page
7
Waukesha Wisconsin April 13 Mayor Mitchell W Glenn in inaugural address defends police duties saying officers are not hired to spy on saloons and saloonkeepers will be treated as law abiding citizens unless proven otherwise. If they break the law they will be prosecuted.
A married woman who wishes to be single again becomes the first to seek No 2 after she becomes a widow.
Walter Applebee aged 22 and a father was killed in an axe assault near Armstrong Creek Lenona Wisconsin with Fred Nepther 18 alleged assailant. Applebee survived about a day with the axe in his skull as two men helped pull the blade free. Nepther was captured in Crandon and is in custody.
Mosinee Wisconsin April 23 Forest fires on the west and southwest edges of the village renewed in force with men from the community and aid from Wausau battling to save homes and a Lutheran church. A wind shift and rain are needed to assure safer conditions as volunteers patrol the spread of flames.
Johns Hopkins surgeons found the judge's heart reversed from normal position his kidneys linked by a horseshoe shaped ligament and the liver inverted with the gall bladder atop during autopsy on Judge John E. McKeighon of St. Louis who lived to 66. The rare transposition baffled physicians as to how he survived.
Kaukauna Wisconsin April 23 Passengers of No 6 train Ashland division of the North Western road were shaken when the train struck a car loaded with cinders pushed onto the main track The car was crushed and the engine temporarily out of commission The wreck happened within 300 feet of the depot so the train was not under full headway.
The Madison common council elected O. S. Norsman as city clerk John Prien as president and John A. Aylward as city attorney Mayor Schubert announced a 7500 gift from T E Brittingham for a 1909 public bathhouse at Brittingham park with the city funding 5000 to the Park and Pleasure Drive association to erect a boathouse in the same park Edmond Rossmeiss appears in Appleton.
The article touts Rengo as a fat reducer and health enhancer using a tropical fruit mix that supposedly normalizes digestion and body weight. It warns against starvation and anti fats, claiming they harm the system and can cause kidney and stomach diseases. It promotes trial mail offers and lists Detroit as the supplier plus local Chicago area mentions.
Dispatches from Lisbon report police are screening revolutionaries anarchists and republican leaders as a precaution before King Manuel opens the Cortes next Wednesday. Advisors urge the king not to appear. anti-government demonstrations may follow.
Residents of five laundries appeared today as a city probe into a laundry trust got underway. Officials prepared to hear testimony on operating practices and prices amid concerns over competition and service quality.
The report cites grand jury activity surrounding an alleged laundry trust. Owners reportedly formed an association and enforce by laws with fines from nineteen to one hundred fifty dollars. An agreement to fix prices is also claimed.
Washington April 23 Secretary Garfield issued an amendment to the oil and gas regulations for the five civilized tribes. The change raises the minimum royalty on oil from 10 percent to 12 percent, granting higher income to the tribes.
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