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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1908
Page
6
A late night blaze gutted the grocery building owned by Otto Kramer after a prior December fire under similar mysterious conditions. Insurance covered about $1,000 in loss. stock insured for $800, building insured for $600. The fire, during a heavy snowstorm, started center store and destroyed the structure, with questions lingering over origin.
In a restraining war of testimonies the Hains murder case heads toward a grand jury probe. Witnesses describe the yacht club scene with Thornton Hains, Mrs Annis and others and detail a shooting near the Bayside yacht club dock amid legal maneuvering and magistrate rulings.
La Crosse Plow Co announces New Style Spring Sleighs with a big line of sleighs priced lower than ever. Consumers urged to visit showrooms to view models and take advantage of limited time offers.
In Milwaukee a car driven by A J Solliday plunged into the Milwaukee River from an open draw during heavy snow. O Z Bartlett and Albert Kuntz drowned. Solliday survived with a head wound. Snow and storm reduced visibility, making the open draw hard to detect. The vehicle may have sunk with Kuntz trapped beneath it. efforts planned to raise the car and recover bodies.
Be sure to clean snow and ice ridges off your sidewalks. If you don’t the Board of Public Works will.
Inspector Zandt presents state railroad concerns at Main and Twenty third streets, noting land titles in question today and stating he will report to Madison.
Robert Klimmer a Chicago tailor was arrested by Officers Mc Grath and Wendling on a charge of deserting his wife. Klimmer said his wife would only live in Chicago, so he left two months ago for La Crosse where he had been working until his arrest. He is likely to be returned to Chicago.
Chicago December 17 reports say the Corn Products Refining company is under federal scrutiny for alleged peonage at its 10 million dollar glucose plant at Argo Illinois. A dozen workers who escaped the stockade were present to be summoned as evidence. Officials seek to prove the company a Standard Oil subsidiary and that more than 2000 men are held in slavery behind barbed wire and armed guards.
Chicago Cubs manager Captain Frank Chance accused the New York Giants of plotting to slug Cubs players in the decisive pennant race game. Chance said McGraw’s team had twelve prize fighters ready to cripple Cubs before the game began, a charge reported from Los Angeles on December 17.
La Crosse Plow Company expands offerings with Pleasure Sleighs of all styles highlighting local manufacturing and seasonal demand for winter transport.
English stockholders in the Pillsbury Washburn Flour Mills Company Limited press the receivers to punish officials linked to secret ledger accounts and secret liabilities said to total 1,800,000 dollars in Minneapolis.
Coroner's jury finds J Walter Wilson murdered Henry J Boas his friend and business associate who died after ingesting stomach powders mailed to him The jury concluded the letter containing the powder was mailed by Wilson.
Union City Tennessee December 17 Rice A Pierce head attorney for the alleged night riders on trial for Captain Rankin's murder warns that a guilty verdict could spark outbreaks his counsel told prisoners' friends such outbreaks would be suicidal to their cause Rumors before witness examinations promise disclosures rivaling the Molly Maguires era
Intelligence reported the death of Charles Halstead Sr. on December 15 in Oakland Oregon. The remains will be brought to La Crosse for burial and further particulars will be published later.
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