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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1907
Page
10
Henry Clarke, believed to have come from Milwaukee a week earlier, killed himself by taking morphine at the Mankato house in Minneapolis. A railroad employee, he told a clerk he had three children and appeared in good spirits before retiring. An empty morphine bottle was found in his room.
Sixteen tuberculosis patients at the Wisconsin State Sanatorium in Wales endure winter nights in open shacks perched on a hill above the town. They take advantage of a state program offering cure, braving freezing air as they sleep outdoors to pursue treatment.
Blasts show patients housed in open shacks with blankets for warmth and air exposure. They sleep outdoors from 1 a.m. to 7 a.m. as part of the cure, with indoor stays limited to meals. Superintendent Dr Paull says the colony at the sanatorium prefers this life, and two more buildings will add space for 60 to 70 patients by year’s start.
WAUPACA WIS Dec 17 County Clerk C Hambleton of Sheridan a well known county official for five years was found dead in a road near his farm about 5 PM yesterday. He had gone to drive home his herd of cattle about a quarter mile from the house and was found battered when the cattle arrived without him.
The death is attributed to a vicious bull in the cattle herd. The victim, Hambleton, was six years old and had resided in the county for thirty years. He was born in New York and once served as a steward for the Union Steam Boat Company of Buffalo.
Stoughton Wisconsin December 17 Special Tobacco growers are busy bundling the crop so the county meeting of the tobacco department of the farmers trust scheduled for tomorrow is postponed until the new year. Rock county meeting goes on today at Janesville. State secretary S D Kump says Kentucky speakers will attend the Dane county gathering and preliminary pooling plans will be discussed as few purchases are being made by manufacturers.
Appleton Wis Dec 17 Spe- terse report notes a vote on a measure labeled M O to be conducted today. Details scarce but indication of local civic action and scheduled polling in the city. The brief item reflects a timely municipal decision prompting resident participation.
Appleton voters decide whether to buy the Appleton Water Works Co plant at a price set by the railway commission under condemnation. The council had compelled an interim franchise, and the commission will also set lower street and commercial lighting rates for the street railway. A Dollar Gas battle is anticipated.
The rivers in this section are at their lowest in years and water power generation is reduced. Farmers report wells running low affecting livestock troughs and farm operations. Read Tribune want ads.
Madison dispatch reports University of Wisconsin faculty likely will reject extending football to seven games. Athletic council planned. Dr C F Hutchins to vote, but faculty action could nullify. Regents discussed coaching hires and authority to spend state funds for intercollegiate athletics amid inquiries from Attorney General Gilbert. Coroner to hold inquest into double suicide at Plankinton house, two men named Schmitt and Stanton chose death by razor and revolver. letters reveal pact to die together and burial requests.
Statewide news brief reports Superior port receiving over 1.6 million tons of coal surpassing Milwaukee for the year, making Superior the top coal distributor. Other items note scab prevention in Wausau schools, Kenosha burns death, arrests, hospital gifts, rail extensions, skeleton unearthed in Oconomowoc, a Milwaukee road engine explosion near Monroe, Lincoln County development, and various local incidents in Sheboygan Ashland Beloit Bayfield and Omaha.
Directors at yesterday’s meeting nearly approved the plans for the new building. Final approval rests with the building committee, which will meet later this week. Trustees arranged for the usual second quarterly collections toward the project, and collectors will be sent to those with unpaid subscriptions.
A weary husband returns home after a church elders meeting and endures a sharp domestic scene. His spouse teases him with a finnan haddie and a hinted sting about expenses, while he feigns breakfast duties to cover the hour.
An old advertisement notes public speakers are frequently interrupted by coughing. It claims Foley's Honey and Tar cures coughs and colds and prevents pneumonia and consumption. Genuine product held in a yellow package and marketed by O. T. Erhart.
Town Topics reports a policy change in childcare coverage with no nurse available for children. Instead a referee has been hired to oversee care decisions. The report notes the new approach as an official adjustment in local service provision.
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