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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1914
Page
1
Fresh French troops are sent to Joffre and new recruits to the French army as the British Second Army starts an offensive on the Belgian front. German concentrations are believed triggered by the onset of hostile advance.
Allied forces in southwest Belgium and northern France renew the push as fresh French troops and Kitchener’s army reinforce. German reinforcements, few in number but growing, face floods along the Yser and near Dixmude, with heavy shelling reported from Ostend to Ypres.
The trial of thirty six indicted Master plumbers across six mid western states, set for December 5 in Des Moines, is postponed until February by Federal Judge Pollock of Kansas. The delay follows attorney L C Boyle's involvement in the Northwestern Lumberman case in Minneapolis and concerns about holiday duration.
Fair tonight and Friday with little temperature change for Wisconsin Minnesota and Iowa. Temperature cooler in the lake region and upper Mississippi Valley while western areas rise. general cloudiness east of the plains with rain southern stations. Calgary Kamloops snow and Gulf of Mexico low pressure noted.
In Przemyśl on October 6 a three hour combat inside Fort 415 left 140 Russians dead and 120 Austrians slain as Russians crested the walls in darkness. An officer fired 49 rounds from a narrow cleft, aided by his servant who added 19 more. Reinforcements finally arrived and Austrians claimed victory. Forty Austrian medal ceremonies followed.
General Christian De Wet, South African rebel leader, is prisoner with fifty two followers after an automobile pursuit under Colonel Conrad Brites. They surrendered without a fight near Waterbury after a rapid retreat on November 21 and subsequent surround. The group faces court martial and likely execution.
In Mexico City Villa and Zapata prepare to unite against Carranza with Gutierrez as provisional leader. An escort of 259,000 Zapatistas and Villistas greeted the arrivals as the Gutierrez administration forms its cabinet. Officials say movement against Carranza could begin early next week.
Plans board 70 aims to settle labor tensions in Colorado amid strike actions. Authorities contend with workforce demands and potential disruptions to industries. Federal mediation processes are mentioned as a path to resolution.
Denver reports governor-elect George A. Carlson outlined a plan to settle the current Colorado strike and to manage future industrial issues, presented to the United States industrial relations commission today.
Five Belgians were killed and six wounded when inmates revolted at the Zeist internment camp in Utrecht province. Dutch guards fired on the detainees during the disturbance, according to Amsterdam dispatches.
Colorado failed to fund and staff its model mining laws leading to higher mine death rates from 1911 to 1913 than the U.S. average. State Coal Mine Inspector James Dalrymple attributes the excess deaths to lack of money and personnel.
Governor designate Carlson outlined a plan to create a three member labor commission with an advisory nonpartisan board to oversee safety sanitation workmen's compensation mediation and compulsory arbitration. The plan aims to co operate with the people and assign a big feature of Carlson's forthcoming term. Osgood and Ammons testified that Colorado operators will not recognize the United Mine Workers and argued operators had no firearms during the strike.
James Blake of Philadelphia is under arrest at central police station charged with passing worthless checks on local residents. A Burlington hotel cashed a $20 check signed by Jacob H. Spang.
Senator Robert M. La Follette arrived by early train and met with Morris and Hartwell along with James Thompson in La Crosse before heading to Spring Valley Minnesota for a lecture. He refused to discuss Philipp versus The Tribune and offered few answers to reporters.
Military forces halt around a central position as commanders attempt a reformation. Failure to envelop Von Hindenberg at Lodz leaves Slavs in a serious strategic posture and prompts reassessment of frontline plans.
Russian forces reform center in Poland after failed lodz enveloping move. Grand Duke Nicholas fronts a solid line and prepares a vigorous attack while Rennenkampf is relieved. Czar Nicholas visits front as German reinforcements arrive and Austrian troops retreat under worsening winter conditions.
Galesville Wisconsin reports a youth employed as an egg packer left his name on an egg and later received a mocking card from a La Crosse restaurant girl saying if you are as bad as your eggs you have my sympathy.
Lord Kitchener, commander in chief of British forces, told Irvin Cobb in a Saturday Evening Post interview that the European war will require at least three years to end with Germany defeated on land and sea. He added the western campaign in France and Belgium is failing, and that an army abandoning invasion and resorting to trench fighting is wasting itself.
Vienna reports Austrians seized Belgrade yesterday as Servian troops withdrew earlier. Fighting around Belgrade continued from the war’s start with bombardment by Austrian monitors and strong fortifications guarding the Danube frontier near Semlin.
John J. Durland 67 a Wisconsin legislator in 1904 5 and longtime city leader died at his home 1616 George Street after a stroke suffered September 1. Native of New York he lived in La Crosse since 1887 and leaves widow two children James Durland of Glenwood Minnesota and Mrs Sadie Goodrich of Chicago and a brother Joseph of Chester New York Funeral arrangements not yet completed.
The Reichstag passes a war credit exceeding a billion amid Socialist anger over leader's refusal to back the government. L'Eschnect opposes the loan as government factions rally around the measure.
Berlin reports the Reichstag passed a billion and a quarter dollar war credit despite Liebknecht's lone opposition. Socialists move to expel him as plans emerge for a new anti war party. Bethmann Hollweg blames England, signaling rapid loan fundraising. Front reports favorable from east and west as rail links in Polish territories are restored.
The Hague dispatch reports Berlin buzzing with word that an enemy aircraft bombed the Krupp factory complex at Essen yesterday. Damage described as to a cannon shed though details on the bomber’s nationality are unclear. Essen lies 19 miles northeast of Dusseldorf and 35 miles from the Dutch frontier. The flight from Allied zones in northern France or Belgium would cover about 175 miles.
John J. Blaine, former independent candidate for governor, filed a campaign spending statement showing total expenditures of 4937.02 dollars. His committee reported 4269.53 dollars in the same filing dated December 3 in Madison Wisconsin.
Shreveport dispatch reports three African Americans were hanged by mobs in Sylvester following the murder of Postmaster Charles M. Hicks. Two others were rescued from the mob and two more were brought in for custody as the case unfolded.
A Tribune lost ad led Perle Davis, owner of the Jefferson hotel, to recover his Irish setter Red. Red had joined a pack during a Minnesota hunt and wandered to a Caledonia farmer’s home before being spotted by the farmer who read The Tribune.
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