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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1910
Page
6
In Salida Colorado on December 6 J H Haber and J J Donnelly were hurled down a mountain by a snow slide. Buried under 25 feet of snow they survived though their horses died and wagon was wrecked. The slide, tied to unseasonably warm November weather, is described as the earliest on record.
Washington December 6. Chief Justice Shepard rules eight year old Asabel Wall with minor Negro ancestry lacks right to Brookland public school admission. Court sets racial status for District of Columbia children, holding any admixture deems a child colored.
The statement argues that investment funds generate far greater impact than wagering on horse racing, noting investments move capital more aggressively and influence markets more heavily than gambling bets.
Charles Rick of Stoddard Wisconsin won the contract to drill six test wells at 72 percent cents per foot. Prof Charles Slichter of Madison will oversee the project and analyze water samples after drilling to determine supply adequacy for the city.
The Deacon a five act comedy will be reproduced by a home talent cast at the La Crosse theater Thursday night. Proceeds go to charity for Christmas clothing or dinners. The cast, rebuilt after a successful first showing, aims to surpass the initial performance.
The Working Girls' Bible Class opens with first session at City Mission at 6 15 Friday evening. Supt. Dewey predicts a bright future with many girls expected to attend. Lunch is offered free and the mission seeks donated Bibles or testaments for use in the program.
The death of Simon Buzynski occurred Sunday at his home 545 Adams street after a brief illness of pneumonia. He is survived by a widow and five children Marie Helen Anna Hedwig Florence a father Michael and two brothers Michael Jr of Waterloo Iona and John of this city. The funeral will be held at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning from the Church of the Holy Cross with Rev Fr Chizan officiating. Interment will be in the Cathole cemetery.
The F. R. A. plans a large crowd dancing party at Linker's Hall on Wednesday evening the third in the series and the last before the holidays. Andre Theatre Orchestra will perform a special program and street cars are engaged to handle attendance.
Manager McWilliams of the Bijou presents a musical tonight with Miss Rickard and Mr Light performing The Starboard Watch as a duet. The pair drew a packed house last night and are popular in La Crosse.
Thompson F Piper a former city resident died in Bedford Pennsylvania at age 81. Surviving are his wife two daughters Dr Mary P Houck of Wautoma Wisconsin and Mrs Margaret Cromwell of Albany Oregon and son William R Piper of Bedford. He was Civil War veteran and blind for many years from war wounds.
Lincoln school was broken into last night and several small sums of money taken totaling about four dollars.
Attorneys for indicted beef packers ask United States district court to stay prosecutions on the indictments citing a parallel equity suit before Judge Grosscup seeking dissolution of the National Packing Company. The petition aims to resolve the overlapping charges before individual trials, a strategy seen as delaying tactic and a chance to obtain a ruling outside the district court.
President Taft struggles to fill the supreme court with senate progressives demanding acceptable nominees. They oppose most names discussed except potentially Justice Hughes as chief justice. Alexander P. Humphrey of Louisville is the latest Democrat under serious consideration.
At the La Crosse poultry show 119 North Third street opens tomorrow with Silver Spangled Hamburgs owned by J E Kircheis of this city winning at Madison Square Garden and praised as the best flock in the country. Mayor Burt Williams of Ashland Wisconsin displays White Crested Black Polish that have won at major fairs.
Parochial pupils will be accommodated in public school cooking and sewing classes where space allows with a plan to hire an additional instructor after February. Public students must study fire prevention monthly, fire drills may return, and Miss Ray thanks the board for its help after Mr. G H Ray’s death. Fuel committee to let wood contracts to the lowest bidder.
The Laymen's League of St Pauls Universalist Church elected W A Pryor as president S Miller as vice president G R Longbrake as secretary and T H Hermann as treasurer at a meeting hosted by E L Spicer. A year long lecture series will begin Sundays in January with speakers including L B Fisher Bert Hall and Rev A R Tilings hast local speakers J J Esch and E D Long. An officers and teachers meeting is set for tonight at Dr H B Laflins home.
The health department reports Mr. and Mrs. Anamas Haugen of La Crosse traveled aboard the Royal George to Quebec with a steerage passenger ill with cholera. They will be isolated and observed to prevent a potential outbreak in Wisconsin. Local records lack their listed addresses.
Believing his wife of 18 to be dead after beating her into unconsciousness Welby Duberry, a Black man, drowned himself in the Illinois River today. The 18 year old wife hovered between life and death, with jealousy cited as the motive.
At 6 o'clock tonight the domestic science class and the eighth grade led by Miss Binzel will serve a dinner. President William Doerflinger will call the meeting to order after the meal, with Secretary Utermoen having sold many tickets for what is expected to be a record attendance.
President Taft’s congressional message matches Theodore Roosevelt’s record for length, with nearly 40,000 words. Roosevelt’s Jan 21 1908 message and Taft’s current address are noted as equally verbose.
Mary Baker G. Eddy will be buried at Mount Auburn cemetery Thursday after a simple funeral attended by close aides and family. Officials say there will be no floral tributes or public attendance and the Christian Science church will resume its daily activities. A tentative guest list includes Henry M. Baker, George M. Glover, Mary Glover, Adam M. Dickey, Calvin A. Frye, Laura Sargent, Wm. Rathvon, Rev. Covington Tomlinson, W. D. Baldwin, Stephen A. Chase, John Dittmore, Alfred Farlow, Fred Dickson, W. M. Johnson, and others from New Hampshire and beyond.
Deputy S N Way arrived from the north en route to Madison to attend federal court and conferred with Deputy James M Quinn. He reports sixty eight saloons closed in the Indian led territory with seven saloons having goods smashed for defying orders. Four thousand gallons of whiskey and several thousand gallons of beer destroyed and twenty four carloads of liquor returned to the twin cities.
M'Caleb will publish an open letter from R C answering a letter by Rev Oscar Smith. The response arrived too late for today and will appear in tomorrow’s issue.
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