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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1908
Page
9
Washington reports a revival of rumors that U S Japan friction may arise from immigration talks and naval policy. The president has not confirmed any rupture while pressuring for a stronger Pacific Fleet and seeking bipartisan support for his four battleship plan.
At the La Crosse County Medical Society gathering Dr Henry Roome spoke on tuberculosis in cattle and showed a hog gland specimen from Langdon and Boyd packing house. He noted no noninvasive method to detect infection in frogs and sparked questions among members. A Humane Society committee discussed a tuberculosis sanatorium but no firm steps were taken.
Caledonia Minn Feb 7 Special The final hearing in the case of James Colleran charged with criminal assault on Margaret Neukirchen of Brownsville was before Justice Flynn. Colleran was bound over to the grand jury to answer the charge of taking improper liberties with a 4 year old girl. He is held in the county jail at Caledonia awaiting the grand jury hearing Feb 25.
Arthur Larivere, nineteen, was hauling ice with a team when they were struck by a passenger train three miles below Prairie du Chien. He tried to back the animals off the tracks but could not avert the collision, killing him and both horses instantly.
A new plan for reorganizing the National Bank of Commerce of Kansas City has been submitted to Comptroller Ridgley by Receiver Cutts. It is expected the comptroller will announce an opinion on the plan upon his return from Springfield, Illinois, where the plan was presented.
The supreme court ordered the release of Louis Glass, famed telephone magnate, on a $20,000 bond due to failing health. Glass was sentenced to five years for bribing city supervisors.
Three people are dead and about a score injured in a wreck near Kittanning Pennsylvania on the Buffalo and Allegheny Valley railroad early today.
Sergeant John M. Bradley was unanimously elected first lieutenant of Company B Wisconsin National Guards to succeed Philip J. Wendling who resigns after twelve years with the unit. Wendling, a La Crosse Plow shipping clerk, has led the company for five years. John Simkey declined the lieutenant role due to pressing business. The election occurred at the Company B Armory on South Sixth Street with nearly all members in attendance.
Jacob Clough a 42 year old brick mason from New York died at St. Francis hospital after a month long illness with tuberculosis. He lived at Union hotel South Third street and is survived by two New York sisters. Funeral Tuesday at 2 pm from Frank Tillman South Fourth street with Rev Cunningham of West Avenue Methodist church officiating. Interment Oak Grove cemetery. Bricklayers union of the city will attend in a body.
Mrs Charles W Morse wife of the fleeing New York banker spoke for the first time since his disappearance. She said Lawyer Boardman was correct in stating he was a passenger on the Campania and that she accompanied him to the pier. She added he would be back on the Campania's return voyage and that his son was mistaken in claiming he is still in the country.
Mr and Mrs I M Reynolds of 522 South Fourth welcome an eight pound baby boy born this morning at their home. The family names the newborn with gratitude as relatives share the happy news.
The Marchande case reached the jury at 3 PM and, in six minutes, a guilty verdict was filed against the fortune grafter. Defense argued for discharge citing insufficient evidence, but the court overruled and the jury returned a verdict of guilty.
Madison banker L S Hanks was reappointed by Gov Davidson to a three year term on the university regent board. He has already served nine years in that capacity.
Jackson Kentucky February 7 Judge James Hargis, a central figure in Breathitt county feuds, was shot to death in his general store by his son Beech Hargis. The youth, about 20, fired five shots, four hitting the father. The assailant went mad and shouted as bystanders restrained him until jailed. Disputes over the son’s drinking had been noted. no clear motive established.
St Petersburg February 7 The assassination of Portugal's king and crown prince threatens the czarina's health and sanity. Confined by neur asthenia she fears for her husband and children's safety as doctors urge removal to treatment abroad.
Cambridge reports that a November 1907 Cosmopolitan facsimile shows Roosevelt as an assemblyman stating he was a Harvard lightweight champion. Harvard records and class members dispute the claim, citing an 1879 Harvard Advocate sparring record where Roosevelt won a bout against Coolidge and was later outmatched by Hanks in the championship context.
R L Kenyon, a well known up holsterer, sustained serious injuries in a fall on a slippery pavement last evening and is now confined to bed.
Ex prime minister of Portugal, Franco, arrived in Paris and gave his first interview since the assassination. He expresses confidence in Portugal, says royalists will rally to the throne, and declares he will stay abroad to avoid politics. He denies the queen accused him of moral responsibility for the murders.
Washington February 7 authority stated Hitchcock has accepted the job as eastern and southern manager for the Taft campaign. He will resign his government post in a few days, to be succeeded by Charles P. Granfield of Lincoln Missouri, current chief clerk in the first assistant postmaster general's division.
Illinois Supreme Court defies tradition by issuing a writ of certiorari in a criminal habeas corpus case for the first time. The writ, sought by Attorney General Stead, directs Circuit Judge Willard M. McEwen to produce all records in Ralph Lipsey's habeas corpus case seeking release from prison, arising from the Cook case.
The state normal board decided to advertise soon for bids to construct the La Crosse normal school and a Milwaukee building, with bids opening March 10. A president for the La Crosse school will be chosen after extended consideration of current applicants and new ones. The board aims to select an educator of proven qualifications. The meeting was uneventful.
La Crosse contractors welcome a bid opportunity on the normal school project with a two to three week figureing period and about 100 dollars per contractor in potential costs. The board of regents plans to extend the bid opening time to aid local firms and sub contractors. If awarded, the project would boost local work and materials supplied by area firms.
Washington Feb 7 The postmaster general announced an order dating Feb 1 that allows legitimate daily papers to be mailed between the United States and Canada at the regular fourth class rate of one cent per pound. The measure follows a bilateral agreement and cancels the April 1907 rate.
Washington reports say an unusually early adjournment between mid April and early May is under discussion. Leaders aim to finish appropriation bills with few major acts while elections loom and White House pressure faces GOP resistance on federal control, tariffs, and labor issues.
Coldest 4, warmest 22 with 4 mile winds and trace precipitation. Yesterday highs reached twenty below at Winnipeg and 68 at Phoenix. Forecasts: Wisconsin partly cloudy with possible snow flurries tonight or Saturday as temperatures slowly rise. Minnesota light snow tonight and Saturday, warmer northwest. Iowa partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with gradual warming. Storm from the lake region moves to the lower St Lawrence valley, high pressure covers the east of the Rockies to central states, low pressure on the Pacific slope. Fair weather favored with light snow flurries in this section tonight and Saturday and rising temperatures.
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