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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1909
Page
10
Milwaukee council committee reviewed Alderman Wesley's resolution demanding an inquiry into the disappearance and murder of Hattie Zinda on November 12. Testimony found no substantiation of delay claims. the proposal was not recommended and likely to be placed on file.
Milwaukee observers tally thirty three deaths and thirty six injuries from deer hunting since September 1, with many victims hurt before the season opened. Officials say the toll, while high, is lighter than 1907 and underscores risks of the annual hunt.
Christian Miller of Eau Claire will appeal for a pardon before Governor Davidson on December 7. Miller has served ten years of a life sentence for the murder of Willard Taylor in Eau Claire eleven years ago, with his case now under renewed consideration.
In a case arising from a quarrel over plants, Judge James O Neil promised Miller’s wife a pardon at the end of ten years. Miller’s sentence stands as the promise remains unfulfilled and his wife has since died.
Judge Brindley bound over O L Ellis to circuit court after noon on charges by Frankie La Salle of stealing furniture from apartments on lower Pearl street. Ellis says he received the furniture and took it in broad daylight. The theft involved only $20. W F Lahm was arrested with Ellis and discharged.
Park Commissioner J M Hixon announced Mood Street park and West Avenue playfield will be flooded as soon as cold weather allows shelters for skaters will be erected.
The Minnesota Society of Chicago holds its second annual banquet at the Grand Pacific hotel on Thursday evening with Governor A. O. Eberhart as guest of honor. Attending will be the Mayor of St Paul and Congressman Winfield S Hammond, with a program by prominent Minnesotans and the Irish Choral Society.
In South Dakota four men tied to the Norden bank explosion that yielded over 2300 dollars have been detained. Frank Mitchell known as the Arkansas Kid is the last to be jailed in Codington county. An Interstate Detective association agent, Charles B Brown, made the pickup near Huron. The remaining three suspects are held by Sioux City police awaiting extradition papers.
William Beilby of Dowagiac offers two thousand dollars for the return of his father Robert Beilby dead or alive. He has been missing for a fortnight after joining a hunting party near Sidney, about forty miles away, with searching parties active for ten days.
Three children of John Janska die after ptomaine poisoning in Gladstone Delta County as news from Marquette reports a fatal poisoning incident. The article notes the deaths occurred on December 1 and identifies the location as Gladstone.
Officials say ce wed dried beef and sausage consumed by the deceased led to three fatalities within five hours. Investigators are tracing the food source and handling practices as the public health alert expands.
In Grundy Virginia a jury found Ho Little guilty of a brutal murder spree that killed George Meadows his wife and three children and Aunt Betty. The killer struck Meadows with a Winché while asleep then fatally wounded the others and set the bodies ablaze. He was ordered to die in the electric chair on January 7 in Richmond Virginia.
London reports speak of a looming crisis as the British cabinet prepares for tonight’s budget dissolution vote in the house of Lords. A special guard around the chamber is planned to deter a hostile crowd and public unrest during parliamentary action. Financial uncertainty wide across England heightens expert concern over the outcome.
A Japanese steamer Kisagata Maru was wrecked and sunk with all on board after a storm off Shimonoseki. Twenty five crew saved by fishing vessels. others reported washed ashore.
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