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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1916
Page
2
La Crosse awoke to a deep cold wave as the temperature fell to 12 below zero, three degrees warmer than government forecasts. The cold spell was set to persist into Thursday with clear skies. Railway delays abroad reflected by heavy Christmas traffic and Jack Frost’s toll. In St Paul the day brought the coldest December reading in 15 years at 73 below zero at 9 a.m. with a 17 mph wind.
Washington reports the United States has rejected Carranza’s supplemental suggestions. Officials say the protocol remains as first sent, with possible minor wording changes. United States hope Carranza will sign soon to resolve the disputes between his government and the United States.
Luther Burbank the plant wizard will wed his private secretary Miss Elizabeth Waters in San Francisco on Thursday afternoon. Waters from Hastings Michigan has worked for two years with the famed botanist, who is 65 and previously married.
London Dec 20 Increase of all railway fares in Great Britain by fifty percent will take effect January 1. The move was announced by the board of trade in the House of Commons on Wednesday morning.
Jolivette, county clerk and guardian of state marriage laws, says a Minnesota resident recently divorced may wed in Wisconsin under its law. He received an unsigned Eyota letter asking for guidance and invites the writer to La Crosse for a license, warning Minnesota return would render the marriage illegal.
Fire losses across Wisconsin in November 1916 totaled 239 incidents with $322 190 in losses. October losses stood at $492 045, $169 855 higher than November. November 1915 losses were $385 745. State Fire Marshal M J Cleary reported the figures.
Henry Hoag nine year old son of Mr and Mrs W Hoag was seriously injured when he fell from a wagon in New London. Several ribs were broken and there are fears of internal injuries.
Forty thousand national guardsmen in El Paso district faced a severe sand storm Tuesday night. Wind reached sixty miles an hour driving sand in blinding clouds, blowing away tents and forcing occupants to shelter in YMCA huts. Guardsmen in Ohio and Pennsylvania camps with no floors suffered most.
London dispatch describes the British War Office Cupid's Bureau in Whitehall. It handles letters from wartime sweethearts seeking word about "Tommy" and his status, tracing him to regiments, hospitals, or casualty lists, as multiple girls request updates daily. The piece notes varied stories of Irish and Cockney correspondents and ongoing matchmaking amid war.
New York reports Mrs. F. Sheehy Skeffington has arrived in the city after escaping English guards and crossing the Atlantic in disguise. She says she came to describe Ireland's conditions that she says led to her husband’s death, comparing them to German actions in Belgium.
Beloit Wis Dec 26 John Kingberg sole survivor of six men who swept over the Beloit dam when it broke in 181 is dead following a stroke of paralysis.
John Costley remarks on a remarkable chase when his fox hound pursued three foxes on Grandad bluff. Ludwig Breidel, who borrowed the hound, captured all three foxes and an extra rabbit, noting the bluffs yield top fox hunting and disappearing rabbits.
Berlin via Sayville December 20 The newspaper Hamburger Fremdenblatt reports that French General Berthelot commanding allied troops in Romania has asked for recall. It states a majority of British officers with the Romanian general staff have begun returning to England. Russian General Alexeeff met the Romanian king and was tasked with reporting to the Czar.
In Brussels, Wisconsin, a Tuesday night blaze of unknown origin wiped out the Chandler company flour and feed mill and a two story saw mill. Damages were estimated between $25,000 and $30,000. Large quantities of goods including 300 barrels of flour and 1,000 bushels of wheat were destroyed.
Advertisement notes that colds cause headache and a laxative product Bromo Quinine removes the cause. It highlights a single product with the signature of E. W. Grove on the box and lists a price of 25 cents.
Tulsa reports the Bank of Skiatook was robbed Tuesday night and more than $20 000 vanished. Bandits escaped as Governor Williams urged strong action to curb crime in northeastern Oklahoma and officials discussed capital punishment for bank robbery.
One man was killed and two others injured in an explosion at the Edgewater Mine of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Railway company in Birmingham. Seventy three men escaped uninjured.
London report from the Wiltshire War Agricultural committee says city girls trained to farm are wholly disappointing. The group closed Shaw training school after finding the participants lacked practical farming aptitude despite relative interest in rural life. Country bred girls are praised as better farmers.
Parcel post in New York reports record Christmas demand with western shipments arriving heavy. The parcels post division struggles under an avalanche of western business as officials note unprecedented volume.
Ashland Wis Dec 20 George F Perkins who pled guilty to rifling the cash register at the Commercial hotel and stealing $25 was sentenced by Judge Risford to serve one year in Waupun.
Sheriff elect John A. Weber will take office for a two year term on January 1. It is believed Sheriff George J. Ritter will be named undersheriff. Weber, who defeated George McDonald of West Salem for sheriff, previously served as Ritter’s under sheriff during the prior term.
Trooper W. E. Sing of Queensland, Anzac veteran, reports bagging 201 Turks while sniping in World War I. He says he sleeps soundly, seeing his actions as saving comrades and preventing future attacks. Sing learned to shoot while hunting kangaroos and plans to continue sniping.
Halifax reports two bodies washed ashore and wreckage from the American schooner William Mason, a 465 ton three masted vessel built in Wilmington in 1872. Captain Patterson and six crewmen are believed lost after leaving Perth Amboy on December 6 bound for Yarmouth. Bodies named Benjamin G. Mathews of Missouri and James Apt of Bear River, N S, identified among the remains.
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