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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1916
Page
1
Brotherhoods select seven key men to supervise the city union depot reopening. President F. P. Hixon of the Chamber of Commerce leads the committee with the O K Bureau backing the move.
Berlin reports French third line trenches pierced around Dead Man's Hill with 222 prisoners taken. French and German forces clash near Dobrudja and Transylvanian fronts as Rumanian troops withdraw under pressure. Local union station effort by La Crosse businessmen advances with Hixon leading committee.
Reported standstill awaits court action as benefits sought by workers are postponed. Union leaders insist the hold up harms families and urges swift judicial resolution to restore promised coverage.
Hamilton and John P. Linton lodges consider new Castle Halls for the north and south sides as they plan ambitious building projects. A Friday banquet and Libbey lecture will reveal plans and a class of six will receive page rank.
Police in Fernwood Idaho sought relatives of Allan Owen a 31 year old from La Crosse to claim his body after he was killed there on Thursday. Authorities awaiting word from La Crosse and could not state the cause of death. Several Owen families in South La Crosse were contacted but knew nothing of Allan Owen.
Six bandits dynamited Hagerman Bank vault eighteen miles west of Denison early Friday and escaped with $6000 in an automobile. A hastily organized posse exchanged gunfire with the robbers as they fled, with no injuries reported.
Three hundred people mostly Chinese laborers die in the Sankaku Maru wreck off Chefoo. Survivors say Chinese pirates boarded the grounded ship, looted passengers and stores, and assaulted those aboard. Rescue attempts were impeded by mountainous seas. two foreign survivors were rescued at Darien, neither American.
After two hours of debate the county board voted twenty five to nine to establish a county sanatorium for tuberculosis treatment at an estimated cost of 50000 including a site. Plans and sites will be reviewed by the sanatorium investigating committee before an appropriation is voted.
La Crosse bankers report a mysterious loss of pennies nickels dimes and quarters. They say at least 190000 in small change has entered the city, with little of it returning to banks. The streetcar line denies a siphoning claim and notes receipts are deposited locally.
One hundred twenty six women and children, survivors of the Russian American steamship Kurst sunk by a mine November 29, were brought to New York by the Red Star liner Lapland. A woman passenger and two sailors died while abandoning ship.
Regulations under the national defense act allow conscription to maintain reserve battalions. Able bodied men 18 to 45 are liable for guard service in war time without new Congress. If reserves and voluntaries fall short, the president may draft unorganized militia to keep units at strength.
London reports Major General Maurice says in the last ten days British forces have taken over a good slice of the line previously held by the French. Weather and fogs delayed major actions. big operations unlikely before March. new guns are being sent out weekly amid Austria-Hungary economic strain.
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