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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1912
Page
6
William Tscharner postmaster says unaddressed gifts and missing return cards risk loss for many Christmas presents mailed in La Crosse. Dozens of parcels without owners may be held weeks before forwarding to Washington. clerks work overtime and carriers receive assistants to handle the surge.
Under Attorney General Wickersham direction the case was exhaustively reviewed. The grand jury was not discharged by Judge Hough but recessed until January, leaving it available for further investigations if needed.
Dr. R. H. Herbert of Poplar Grove Illinois has purchased the offices of Dr. I. H. Cohen and will begin practice in this city within a few days.
Allegheny commissioners ordered an investigation into Cupid's Combine a group of trainmen cab drivers and ministers who arrange elopements in Cumberland Maryland near Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The scheme allegedly steers couples to ministers after drivers and trainmen coordinate the marriage with a three way fee split. Cumberland averages about fifteen eloping couples daily.
United States District Attorney Garland announced that cases against Barre Wool Combing company of South Barre Massachusetts for violating the contract labor law were dropped by order of Attorney General Wickersham and Secretary Nagel. A Vernon Willey and Arthur Saville were charged under criminal law and the company will plead guilty in a civil suit with a $20,000 fine.
Four walkers from New York state make a stop in Upper Red Hook as Gen. Rosalie Jones and three companions push toward Albany. Village suffragists host an evening reception after a long travel day from Rhinebeck despite cold weather and hard roads.
New York police graft probe yields indictments against Sol Wolf liquor dealer Emanuel Maas beer bottler and officer John J. Skelly. Mrs Mary Goode alleged the bribe scheme tied to her disorderly house. Maizie Green testified she saw a $25 payment to Wolf. Wolf admitted receiving $25 claiming bond-related payment.
The Morgan testimony to the money trust investigating committee in Washington last week said there is no money trust and none can exist. This assertion has sparked widespread speculation in New York about what constitutes a money trust.
Engineers Alvord and Burdick report that laying the pipe through the swamp for the new water plant can be done by day labor at 20000 dollars. They fault the $59000 lowest bid as too high, citing quicksand and hazards. An expert ground inspection backs the day labor recommendation.
An explosion at the viceroy’s jeweled howdah wounds the viceroy and kills a sunshade attendant as Delhi ends Calcutta's capital era. Lady Hardinge survives shock. a Calcutta plotter is suspected amid wholesale arrests. A $4500 reward announced.
Coroner A. E. Wallers held Pennsylvania railroad officials responsible for the December 3 Dresden wreck that killed eleven. He found trains ran on too close a schedule and the Cleveland, Akron & Columbus locomotive was defective.
Jewelry valued at several hundred dollars was taken from W. B. Thien’s store in Milwaukee. The thief cut a hole in a plate glass window, and the theft was discovered when the shop opened for business today.
Slight quakes were felt in Calabria and Sicily this afternoon but little damage was expected. Residents, recalling the Messina disaster, were frightened when the tremors began.
In Appleton, Wis. on December 23 a will was found on Victor G. Thirot of Manitowoc, who died of heart failure. The testament calls for burial in a simple coffin, a dray in place of a hearse, and burial with a photograph of Thirot's deceased daughter and her grave.
The Supreme Court adjourned for Christmas after a half hour session today without taking any action on the railroad rate cases.
Frank J. Heller former secretary of the Skarb Polski Mutual Loan and Building Society in Milwaukee was discharged from custody by Municipal Judge Balden after a seven year embezzlement case. The last jury trial in March ended in a hung jury.
Wireless report says revenue cutter Seminole floated the Clyde liner Carib off the South Carolina coast since Saturday night with little damage to the vessel.
Al bert E. Tierney of Watertown New York leaped 200 feet into an abandoned quarry in Despair Missouri while attempting to beat his way to Los Angeles to meet his wife for Christmas. He died from the fall.
Advertisements tout CascaRoyal Pills as corrective laxatives, claiming one pill nightly for a week or two cures constipation. The ads trumpet quick relief and improved health, priced 10 or 25 cents, with a second claim for a Pleasurable Physic medicine offering similar benefits.
Notice states a special term of the County Court of La Crosse County Wisconsin will be held December 10 1912 at 10 oclock A M to hear Cornelius Johnson executor of Peder Hansons will for final account settlement allowance and assignment of residue to rightful heirs. Dated November 4 1912. By order of the Court John Brindley County Judge Morris Hartwell Attorneys for Estate.
Governor Harmon ordered Fleming Guy returned from Lafayette Indiana to Cincinnati Ohio for abandonment of eight or nine children. Guy had been acquitted in Lafayette Saturday of shooting a policeman.
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