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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1914
Page
1
City council last night refused to take a stand on toll removal and sent the vote proposition back to committee. A resolution requested the rate commission to order more heat, raising questions about the Moon Schedule and potential timetable implications.
The council re elected four school board members including Lien Luening Murray and Holley to themselves. It passed an ordinance prohibiting autos from passing streetcars discharging passengers and sought better heat from the Wisconsin Minnesota Light and Power Co. The bridge dispute was referred to a five member committee named by the mayor, with tied votes and political maneuvering delaying a referendum. Street islands were accepted for intersections and illuminated, while the city moves to abolish the moon schedule and keep all night street lighting.
Professor Henry Noble Sherwood surveys General Friedrich von Bernhardi's Germany and the Next War, noting its advocacy of war as biological Christian and moral necessity. He cites Bryce's critique and traces the book's influence, commentary, and translation amid wartime public opinion.
London report states England will defer to France on Pope Benedicts proposal for a Christmas truce. Joffre as allied commander influences decision. military conditions at Christmas time will determine adoption. Russia reportedly rejects. Germany showed conditional approval affecting potential dual truces.
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Carl S. Vrooman told farmer friends in Bloomington that food producing states are about five hundred million dollars richer this year than in the past five years. He spoke during a visit home and urged farmers not to worry, noting improving conditions for agriculture.
Allies hold the west bank of the User Canal as Teutons in Paris launch a desperate effort to regain ground previously lost. Military positions and countermeasures shape tense, ongoing operations reported from the front.
French report from Armieres Paris describes German evacuation west of the Yser canal and renewed attacks along the Yser front. Allied gains include Meuse heights and Aisne mortars destroyed, with British advances in Flanders and continued trench violence. Paris officials return after disruption, with Millerand and Poincare in cabinet meetings.
Wireless from Montevideo reports 300 beds for wounded Germans from the Gneisenau and Leipzig, rescued by British ships, to be landed at Montevideo. Germans claim Sturdee started the engagement in Argentine waters three miles from shore. Admiration silence follows as Dresden sinking rumors spread and British fleet strength disputed.
The official statement reports repulse attacks in Flanders and Poland as German defense remains firm. Allied offensives were checked and no ground was gained in the contested areas.
Berlin reports repulse of French attacks in Flanders near Langemarck and near Louvain and Perthes. It claims French forces suffered heavy losses, with 200 killed and 340 prisoners, while German artillery hindered French movement at Ypres. The statement also notes Russian setbacks on the eastern front and 359 prisoners taken.
Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke American minister to the Netherlands sails from New York on the Nieuw Amsterdam carrying numerous boxes of clothing for Belgian refugees in Holland.
International war updates note France and German movements on the Yser front near Ypres with French pressure and artillery success. Russia claims Austro German forces retreated south of Krakow while Warsaw front actions and redistributions are anticipated. Britain withholds confirmation on reports of a victorious South American squadron and German Dresden sinking remains unconfirmed. Germany cites gains in Poland with Russian positions east of Lodz and Kiel’s Gottorp barracks reported burned.
The libel suit by Emanuel Philipp governor-elect seeking $50 000 damages against the Tribune was continued at the plaintiff’s request into the January term of the circuit court. A discovery hearing set for December 14 was postponed to December 23 by stipulation. George H. Gordon, Philipp’s attorney, cited the governor-elect’s busy schedule drafting his legislative message. The Milwaukee hearing will be before Court Commissioner McElroy.
Washington dispatch reports the House Rules Committee approved eight hours of debate on the Hobson national prohibition amendment and six hours on the Mendell woman suffrage amendment to be voted December 22. Republicans aided by Foster of Illinois passed the suffrage rule with Campbell Lenroot and Kelly voting yes. Chairman Henry Cantrill and Pou voted no. Goldfogle did not vote. Debate on the Hobson measure will run to completion, potentially with a night session.
John J. Caulum, 69, an employee of the La Crosse Plow Works, fell the length of the old Zeisler brewery elevator shaft at 10 this morning and died at La Crosse hospital after surgery. He lived in Onalaska, formerly a Hamilton farmer, and leaves seven children, widow, and is reported native of Norway. Funeral plans not set.
Berlin reports Kaiser Wilhelm is convalescing at the Bellevue palace in Tiergarten. Surgeon General von Niedner says the royal patient has improved, with fever gone, and will return to the front within a week or ten days after resting indoors.
Paris reports the council of ministers formally convoked the chamber of deputies war session to convene on December 22. The move signals heightened wartime measures and legislative proceedings amid ongoing conflict.
J J Hendricks district attorney testifies before the federal industrial relations committee that in twenty three years there has been no recovery for damages against a coal company in the Third Judicial district of Colorado in accidents and deaths in mines. He said the predecessor of the current district judge allowed no suit to go to a jury in six years and expected to resume testimony today.
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