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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1908
Page
6
Account of the National Corn Exposition from December 9 to 19 promises low rates and early sale dates. Over $50,400 in prizes, three blocks of buildings, daily experiments, lectures, moving pictures and exhibitions, music. Don’t miss this exposition with a purpose on December 1 2 and 3 plus National Apple Show routes and stop overs.
Vienna reports say Emperor William and Franz Josef are burned in effigy across many Austrian towns. German nationalists clash with Czechs and Italians in cities like Prague and Trieste, while police and troops struggle to restore order amid deaths and revolts. A Turkish boycott sparks a looming commercial panic with numerous business failures and mass layoffs.
Hoarse coughs and stuffy colds that may develop into pneumonia are reportedly cured by Fo Leys Honey and Tar. The remedy soothes inflamed membranes heals the lungs and expels the cold from the system, per QO T Erhart.
The plant will be finished by December fifteenth and produce 16,000 horsepower when power is turned on. Power is transmitted through flashboards across the canal to penstocks and transformers at sub stations in Winona and the North side power house. Holmen is the junction point. Duluth and Sheboygan get power from long distance lines, transitioning from steam pumping to motor driven centrifugal pumps for efficiency.
Reported death toll climbs to eight as flood waters surge in Caney near Bartlesville and Verdigris in Tulsa area threaten more buildings. War Department engineer says no authority to cut levee, delaying dyke opening while banks are reinforced and a new court house site is discussed.
A worker named Matt was struck by a swinging timber while guarding Mississippi protection work. He toppled from a pier onto a river barge, was unconscious briefly, revived, and was later taken home for rest.
A popular home remedy for coughs uses granulated sugar syrup, Pinex and water to make a pint of cough syrup. Mix sugar syrup with water, add Pinex, and take a teaspoon every one to three hours. Claims include relief for colds, whooping cough, chest pains, and tuberculosis indications.
Washington dispatch reports Chairman Payne may seek authority to compel hostile witnesses to testify before the Ways and Means Committee on tariff hearings. The move targets Van Cleve of St Louis and Mills of Wisconsin amid charges the hearings are lax. Meanwhile importers and manufacturers, led by F W Cheney, announce unity on silk tariffs favoring specific duties over ad valorem and seeking a broader agreed tariff schedule.
Gen Antoine Simon closes in on Port au Prince as rebel forces near the capital. Foreign residents rush to safety as the anticipated night battle looms with armed factions and dwindling government support. Six foreign warships mass near the harbor while ships from France and Italy arrive to bolster a threatened defense.
Harry Rogers and his wife, wanted in La Crosse for stealing about 500 dollars worth of silk from the Park store on March 21, were arrested in Waterloo Iowa. A girl accomplice used a stocking tool kit. the gang registered under aliases Henry Roach and Nellie Roach in Stoddard. They are also wanted in Winona for a Choate store silk theft. Police suspect an organized northwest gang. Most Park silk had been recovered at the express office. Sheriff Burns and Chief Weber headed to Waterloo to return the couple for La Crosse trial.
Government attorneys grill Archbold over Standard Oil of New Jersey and New York formations in 1882, stock recalls, capitalization, and liquidating trustees. Kellogg presses him on contracts, loans, and remembered names while hinting at wider probe into the Rockefeller era.
A Chicago discussion noted foreigners cutting prices in half, arguing American mills need greater protection to operate. Julius Kaysey of New York urged keeping the present 60 percent tariff on silk gloves. He cited the silk glove industry employing 7,000 and capital of 6 million dollars in the United States.
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