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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1908
Page
8
Three members of the Hume family from Eau Claire, Mr and Mrs R J Hume and their infant, were drowned on Lake Ne bagomon Wisconsin while camping. Two bodies recovered. husband remains missing. They crossed Sunday to the opposite shore and vanished as they returned. a boat floated indicating tragedy.
John G. Lund a wealthy Northwest land dealer shot himself in his Minneapolis office around 1 pm yesterday dying instantly. Friends say he faced heavy worries over the year and his wife Mrs Lund died in June 1907 from ptomaine poisoning. The office staff were unaware of his intent until the tragedy.
A man about thirty years old named Pelshop, unmarried, was killed instantly when a bolt struck him as he tied his team to a fence post after operating a machine. The accident occurred near a wire fence where he had just finished cutting and hitching his team.
Grand Forks North Dakota August 6 a petition for a restraining order against Mayor John D Taylor and City Auditor W H Alexander to stop entering a contract with P McDonald of Duluth to pave 48000 square yards of city streets with creosoted blocks alleges illegal award and bid omissions McDonnell failed to state price per yard for 15000 and 30000 square yards.
Aulis Patteway, a colored janitor, released on 209 bond for larceny of clothing from the Guarantee Clothing store, was rearrested for robbing Merchants' National Bank of 400. He faces charges after allegedly stealing bags of money from the vault while staff tended to other matters. He could not meet the 2000 bond.
William O Bienness assistant engineer on the Keokuk and Hamilton bridge entered the engine room and walked into the river and drowned. The bridge was left open after a passing boat.
Mrs. Hume and her three year old baby were recovered from the lake by drag lines after a steel duck boat tipped over during the crossing. Mr. Hume, 27, remains missing as investigators seek the cause.
John Jelley of Lakeville Minnesota, 79, died suddenly on a St. Paul Eastbound train in Aberdeen just before departure. Heart disease caused death after boarding with his daughter Mrs. Margaret Hatfield. He had visited his son in Scotland South Dakota and his body was sent to Lakeville for burial.
A large negro abducted eight year old Vera Ditto from her yard in Muscatine Iowa. A posse of 150 men and police pursued him to Mad Creek bottoms where the child was rescued. He was captured after a running fight and jailed with heavy guard to avert lynching.
Minneapolis land trader and former legislator Mr. Lund, age about 40 and a native of Rushford, Minn., was found dead in his Canby and later Minneapolis offices from a self-inflicted gunshot. He had told associates the wound from an operation pained him but spoke of no death plan.
In Watertown South Dakota on August 6 1900 or 19th century, a boy named Willie Welsh dies after eating green gooseberries found on a bush. The lad suffered illness overnight and died despite a doctor’s intervention.
Henry Pelshop of Rushmore Minnesota was instantly killed by a lightning bolt while operating a binder in his harvest field this morning. A brief shower spurred the fatal event as he worked, leaving his death recorded in the local farming community.
Fragmentary note indicates workers cleaned engines following completion of tasks. No dates or places are provided but implies post-work maintenance.
In northwest Iowa a disease thought to be cholera is killing many hogs around Corning with death in about four days after onset. In Iowa Falls Miss Helen Morton and Miss Hollister, guest of Mrs. Burdick of Des Moines, and Mrs. Burdick's niece, suffered injuries in a runaway accident with internal injury to the niece.
Oakville Indiana resident R. A. Gray reports a decade of kidney disease left him unable to move parts of his body until Foley's Kidney Cure was recommended. The testimonial claims the remedy was a God send after failing with other doctors.
Ray Thompson and Joe Bailey lead a display of western range horses famed for their temperament and feats. The Buffalo Bill show features realistic Indian battles and the Congress of Roughriders with Col. William Cody at the forefront.
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