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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1908
Page
7
Plans completed in Chicago for a new Polish American college to educate youths of Polish extraction or birth. The center will house about 2000 pupils and cost an estimated 500000 dollars, establishing the largest infraction teaching facility in the United States.
Vancouver reports a Hindu insurgent plot to overthrow British rule in India with leaders seeking punishment for a betrayer. Investigators find meetings across California and on the Pacific coast linking ringleaders, while British agents hunt Gueru Nanak, a Columbia student named to rule India if Britain falls.
Rowena circle of the Brotherhood of American Yeomen met Tuesday afternoon in Covenhall for business followed by seven tables of progressive cinch. Prizes went to Mesdames Stangle and Welch, with Fuclyse and Flanagan taking second. Refreshments were served at 4 30. A fourth card party is planned for Tuesday afternoon Dec 8 in Corenhall and the next Yeomen meeting is Thursday evening Dec 10 with officers to be elected.
J F Trottman of Milwaukee, who lost the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor to John Strange, filed a statement listing campaign expenditures of 3110. The report details spending in the Madison Wisconsin race, dated December.
An old advertisement extols Papes Diapepsia and Triangule Diapepsin as a quick cure for indigestion and related stomach woes. It promises relief within five minutes, claims healthful digestion, and urges readers to keep a supply for family use while noting the product costs 50 cents per case and tastes like candy.
Mrs Isa bella Wardwell, widow of a famous army officer, died in Los Angeles county hospital and will be buried in Potter's field. Her husband Gen Wardwell kidnapped her from the county hospital last summer and fled to a hut in the Arizona mountains. he died soon after and she returned to the city.
Mrs McRaney of Prentiss Mississippi says she was bedridden three months with kidney and bladder trouble. After two doctors failed to help she began Foley's Kidney Remedy. After two bottles she felt like a new person and urges suffering women to try it. O T Erhart
Kobe Japan December 3 reports the Japanese passenger ship Sincei Maru foundered off Weihei Wei. Details are scarce but it is believed that all passengers and crew perished or were not saved.
A major Masonic event in La Crosse will confer the Royal Arch degree next Saturday at 7 30 PM at the Masonic temple. About 150 Masons from across Wisconsin are expected, with David Harlowe of Milwaukee directing. Attendees include W W Perry, Dr W D Thomas, and Robert E Lang. A banquet will follow the call to order and Sunday at 7 30 PM Perry will preach at the Presbyterian church.
Mrs. Keith Donaldson, famed southern heiress and New York society figure, hires counsel to seek absolute divorce from Keith Donaldson. The couple, married in 1906 after a Philadelphia family alliance, have separated for months with estrangement evident at Cedarhurst and clubs. She cites statutory grounds and alleged neglect and cruelty, and custody of their two year old daughter.
Private messages from Port Arthur report Mrs Mary Gates mother of John W Gates not expected to live through the day. Gates has been at her bedside for ten days at Port Arthur Texas.
In a childless home at Christmas a group creates clever table favors for adults. Ladies receive green satin cardboard needlebooks shaped like holly leaves with red berries. Men’s inner leaves use oiled paper with stamps inside. Berries are wool balls. A festive, colorful note amid white and gold.
In Chicago on December 3, Mary Smith, a patient at the Dunning insane hospital, escaped within two hours of a special committee leaving. She lacks outdoor clothing and is believed exposed to severe cold. Authorities probe reports that she may have been aided in her escape.
Dr John B Taylor former champion quarter mile runner at University of Pennsylvania died at his home from typhoid pneumonia He was a veterinary graduate last spring and the first colored man chosen to carry the American flag at Olympic championships He ran the 400 metre and the relay event
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