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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1911
Page
6
Chicago police say they have unraveled a complex blackmail plot involving three Armenians and an American chemist. A typewriter repairman used a detective ruse to link letters demanding $10,000 to the crime, with the alleged mastermind tying the letters to a joke on investigators.
Indianapolis set to delay broad indictments as federal grand jury probes the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. Ortie McManigal, star state witness, will testify after Christmas adjournment. Indictments expected against a majority of the executive committee and local business agents where explosions occurred.
La Crosse school children sold Christmas seals raising about 290 dollars for the local anti tuberculosis fund as part of a campaign that has brought in roughly 1050 dollars this year. Donations for a nurse total 400 dollars and 650 dollars come from seal sales with parochial schools joining this week. Half of seal funds go to the state fund and the other half remains in La Crosse for the local nurse program.
A high speed wreck on the Kansas City Western Electric line near John’s Switch ten miles west of here leaves two dead and two fatally hurt with about a score more injured. Both cars were reportedly rounding the curve at excessive speed before a head on collision.
New York reports a quiet marriage at Reigate England between Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and Mrs. Smith Holling McKim formerly Margaret Emerson of Baltimore. The piece notes a tangle of Emerson and Vanderbilt divorces and mentions Dr. McKim’s Reno suit and a historic 1899 suicide linked to Vanderbilt.
Rev. Charles E. Freeman addressed a La Crosse YMCA men’s meeting on The Heroism of Paul the Thirteenth Apostle. The Galesville, Wisconsin native spoke with wide learning, engaging humor, and clear denunciation of greed, leaving listeners impressed by his breadth and power as a speaker.
An alleged conspiracy by the steel trust and railroads to crush independent Connellsville coke producers in favor of West Virginia coke ovens owned by railroad and steel subsidiaries was examined by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Discriminatory freight rates have restricted east markets, affecting Connellsville independents and Appalachian mineral transport in a major interstate case.
Louis Goldberg 47 of 216 North Eighth street died at his home Saturday evening after a brief illness of one week. Born in Germany he came to America and settled in La Crosse sixteen years ago where he ran a loan office at 225 Pearl street. Survived by a widow and two sons Abraham and William, he was a member of Modern Woodmen of America. Funeral from the residence at 10 tomorrow morning with Rev. Dr. Dinert of Minneapolis officiating. Interment in Jewish cemetery.
In Chicago a tentative panel of twelve jurors was accepted for the criminal conspiracy trial of ten leading packing house magnates. Special Attorney Sheean struck a potential juror over bias, and another panel of seventy five was summoned as the process continued. A candy store owner named Mrs Woody was absent despite a prior threat of equal treatment.
An eleven pound boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. William J. Fries on Saturday.
Washington dispatch reports Representative Humphrey of Washington opened hearings for a joint House Senate committee inquiry into a so called foreign shipping trust. He said over 90 percent of sea commerce is by foreign pools and conferences that fix passenger and freight rates with deferred rebates practiced by South American and Pacific lines.
About fifty to one hundred Modern Woodmen of America members from La Crosse depart at 8:30 PM from Linker hall for Bangor with a Sparta delegation to oversee a class of about fifty initiates. They travel on Milwaukee lines, return on the morning train arriving at 3:15 AM, and enjoy hospitality in Bangor after the ceremony.
Henry Stuckenschmidt left for Germany on Saturday but word reached friends that the Mauretania went aground off England. He will depart from Hoboken, New Jersey on another steamer tomorrow.
Miss Clara Tisdale of Columbian College in New York City is home for the holidays. Robi Ray, a Dartmouth student, arrived home today to spend Christmas.
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