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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1905
Page
5
A Juneau county resident asks the Wisconsin game warden for exemption from game laws to kill a panther said to roam the northwest corner of the county. He describes encounters, lists weapons, and asks to become a deputy warden. The warden notes the request falls outside the statute and is unlikely to be granted.
The twenty fourth annual Wisconsin Funeral Directors and Embalmers association meeting drew about 300 attendees in Oshkosh Wisconsin with a social program including a banquet at the Yacht clubhouse. The convention runs through Thursday with officers led by President George W White and officers W F Saecker T D Phillips Charles F Trues dell and S F Peacock.
Green Bay Wisconsin August nine warrants out for Chas Daul of Brown County for abducting his own wife. Warrants also issued for his two sisters and others connected to the case as authorities pursue custody and charges.
The defendants are charged with forcibly removing Mrs Daul from a Greenleaf hotel where she was seriously ill. Daul says his wife’s relatives blocked her departure and he enlisted relatives after being ejected from the hotel.
Prairie du Chien Wisconsin on August 9 game wardens Stones Lewis and Stuart captured 400 feet of tramme nets and arrested two Iowa fishermen opposite the city. Sixteen persons were required to take licenses for seiing and trout line fishing.
Montevideo Minnesota reports a deadly blaze that gutted the interior of a two story building yesterday. Firefighters fought the blaze as two children perished in the smoke engulfed structure with other occupants evacuated.
A wagon and machine shop, run by families including Mrs Anna Botten and George Reviere, caught fire. A 10 year old daughter of Mrs Botten and a 6 year old daughter of Mr Reviere were suffocated by smoke. Mrs Botten escaped by leaping from a second story window with her infant.
Berlin reports Count Henry Palas von Plauen son of Prince Henry XXVII of Reuss died in a railway collision that killed twenty. The accident between Spremberg and Goerlitz, Prussia, drew sharp blame of the railway for single track usage and withholding details pending investigation by two commissioners.
MENOMONIE Wis Aug 9 Four men and a team went over a precipice near the city yesterday morning Three escaped injuries Elmer Decker was thrown over the edge and plunged fifty feet to the bottom of a clay pit He is seriously if not fatally hurt
Paris Illinois August 9 the Illinois marriage law prevented two Indiana men from marrying here. Harry Koontz twenty of Terre Haute was refused a license for Arlie Reese, a nonresident minor without parental consent. Alvin Cline an insurance agent faced ineligibility due to a presumed divorce, with a two year post decree waiting period flagged.
Washington reports Mrs. Lydia Rantz of Danville Pennsylvania will be introduced to President Roosevelt during his Wilkes Barre visit. She claims 112 descendants and holds a large family tally including six children thirty five grandchildren sixty four great grandchildren and seven great great grandchildren. Her son John is a great grandfather at sixty and granddaughter Mary Lloyd is a grandmother at forty. Wertman a grandchild has eighteen children including twins and triplets.
Detroit Aug 9 Barney Oldfield escaped with a badly lacerated scalp and a bruised right arm after his car and Dan Vargis collided on the first mile of a five mile open event. Both machines left the track. Vargis was uninjured. Oldfield's condition described as not necessarily dangerous at Harper hospital.
Pekin Aug 9 The Associated Press notes no basis for the US circulation that Wu Ting Lang ex minister at Washington is responsible for the anti US boycott. The agitation against US goods and ships grows as China and nations seek peace conference representation. notes to Japan Russia France and the US caused Japanese annoyance, with unofficial regrets over misreading China's friendly attitude.
New York Aug 9 Ten secret service agents travel in steerage on arriving steamers amid the arrest of Captain Romaldo de Paravich of an Austrian line ship carrying 660 steerage passengers without proper accommodations. The agents board at quarantine, eat, sleep, and share the passengers’ quarters under orders of port collector Nevada N. Stranaben while inspections continue alongside regular port checks.
Madison Wisconsin August 9 Nels Holman of Deerfield resigns from the county board of supervisors saying the office bars use of railroad mileage he collects as owner of a weekly country newspaper A. C. Brierson elected to replace him Odlin J. Oyen left for a job interview seeking $8 31 in pay and ads note the era of want ads.
La Crosse Wisconsin August 1905 notice to S A D Puter Berkeley California that a contract dated September 9 1904 leaves a due balance of 1710 dollars. If unpaid by October 6 1905 the signer will forfeit all rights to certificates 11974 to 11985 inclusive 12480 12490 and 12504 and they become the property of the undersigned.
Train departs La Crosse 8 15 a m for connections to Marshland and Winona with arrivals in Merrillan at 12 15 p m and later links to Omaha road and Wisconsin Central. Westbound service leaves Green Bay 7 00 a m passing Amherst Junction Stevens Point Merrillan Marshland and La Crosse arriving 4 40 p m. A Merrillan to Winona daily train runs except Sunday 7 40 a m to 11 20 a m and Winona 5 00 p m to Merrillan 5 30 p m.
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