Taft Elected President in Simple Senate House Ceremony
Taft and Sherman were formally elected at a joint session with 321 votes for Taft and 162 for Bryan. The event featured orderly counting, a brief celebration, and early questions from reactionaries about Taft’s future policy directions and stance on civil service and conservation.
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Tomah Civic Fight Over Superior Avenue Paving
Tomah Wisconsin faces a bitter public policy clash over paving Superior avenue a 109 foot wide street. Three factions dispute whether to pave straight pave or create a parkway with Goodyear estate donation offers of 300 to 400 dollars per block depending on plan. Mayor and aldermen divided while a canvass seeks voter input as a broader Roosevelt conservation probe and antitrust issues loom.
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Superior Avenue
Lamont Rowand
Goodyear
Rowland
Denver
Detroit
Mr. Rowlands
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W. H. Licht
Tomah Grain Company
McMullen
Licht
McConnell presents bills on ballots and registrar pay
Madison Wis Feb 10 Assemblyman John E McConnell of La Crosse introduced three bills including rotation of party ballot names to determine primary order and county supervisory power to set the probate registrar salary. Other measures seek campaign spending limits and various reforms.
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Madison
Wis
John E. McConnell
la Crosse
la Crosse County
McConnell
Secretary of State
Assembly
Mortenson
Hull
Estabrook
Jones
Ingram
Coolidge
John Costley
Costley
Knox Barred by Law From the Taft Cabinet
Washington feb 10 Realizing a constitutional question over Senator Knox eligibility for cabinet appointment, colleagues conclude the provision should be inserted into the legislative appropriation bill or another measure fixing the secretary of state salary at eight thousand dollars as the action proceeds.
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Knox
Taft
Washington, D. C
Fed
Bell defense shifts to self defense in Dury killing
In Denver on February 10, C Burdete Bell plans to testify that he killed Cincinnati actor C C Dury in a Leon rooming house on December 28 in self defense after Dury abducted Bell's child wife and infant. Bell abandons the unwritten law plea.
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C. Burdette Bill
C. C
Dury
Cincinnati
Leon Rooming
Bell
Girl Operator Rescues Burglary Suspect at Station
Mary McCarthy an operator for the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railroad at Sturges Missouri ten miles north of Chillicothe held a daring line up of a burglar she had captured. He was forced to sit in the corner of the depot with hands in the air for two hours as dawn broke. The theft was discovered when she opened the depot for business. Continued on Page Six.
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Chillicothe
Mary McCarthy
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Sturges
Here
Japanese school bill faces stiff odds in assembly
Sacramento reports the assembly shows little chance of reconsidering the bill to segregate Japanese school children after it passed last week. Senator Perkins signals a political shift by sending a message to Assemblyman Griffiths seeking cooperation with Governor Gillette.
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Sacramento
Cal
Assembly
Perkins
Roosevelt
Austrian suspect detained in St Paul linked to Dayton murders
Frank Smada, 30, an Austrian, is under arrest in St Paul as a suspect in the Dayton Ohio murders of Elizabeth Fulhart and Mary Forschner. He admits coming from Dayton and had clippings and photos of the victims. he is held awaiting Dayton information.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Frank Smada
Elizabeth Fulhart
Mary Forschner
Dayton
Ohio
Smada
St. Paul
Trial marriage affinity is dead in New Jersey suburb home
William Milne a 15 000 a year race salesman of New York city died at his home in Ha worth New Jersey after a week with pneumonia His wife cared for him amid the scandal stirred by Mrs Jane Parks Caldwell of Eminence Kentucky who publicly named him as her affinity Milne died quietly with his family at his side
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New York
W William Milne
Jane Parks Caldwell
Jersey
Haworth
Stephenson trails by five votes in ninth Wisconsin ballot
Madison reports the ninth joint ballot shows Stephenson still five votes short of the 65 needed. He has 60 as lawmakers expect adjournment tomorrow. A committee to probe the recent primary campaign is named, but adjournment delays the inquiry to next week. Retains Spooner to handle the contest is noted amid other party maneuvering.
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Wis
Stephenson
Senate
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Morris
Husting
Bancroft
Assembly
Edmonds
Milwaukee
Ike
Spooner
John C. Spooner
United States Senate
Blaine
Senate Journal
Lincoln City Woman Dies En Route To Funeral
Mrs Mae Chester of Lincoln City Indiana died last evening at 12 45 oclock of diabetes at her brother in laws home 1125 Vine street She had come to La Crosse with other relatives for her father H Clark s funeral and fell gravely ill on the train Arrangements call for a Saturday 9 am service at St James Church with Rev A Murphy and Dwyer undertaking the interment will be in the Catholic cemetery
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Lincoln City
Charles Robinson
Vine Street
St. James Church
Rev
A. Murphy
Dwyer
Catholic Cemetery
Judge Denies Deposition Commission for Roosevelt Testimony
Supreme Court Judge Thomas denied a motion by Borough President Coler to appoint a commission to depose President Roosevelt. The judge called the proceeding indecorous in the suit for $100,000 damages brought by Coler against the Brooklyn Hagie.
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New York
Supreme Court
Thomas
Coler
Roosevelt
Brooklyn Hagie
President to Control Panama Canal Construction
The house passed a bill granting the president complete control over the construction of the Panama Canal and the governance of the canal zone by a 203 to 0 vote.
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Washington, D. C
House Today
Panama Canal
Canal Zone
Men of War to Be Biggest in World
Proclamation or report today discusses a large military program. A propriation bill faces direct issue with the president. The piece highlights the scale and political clash surrounding the military expansion.
Navy Bill Proposes Two 26000-Ton Battleships and Commission
The naval appropriation bill reported to the Senate by Senator Hale would fund two 26 000 ton battleships as the largest warships in any navy. The bill increases navy appropriations by 1 058 427 52 to a total of 136 825 199 05 for the next fiscal year and creates a commission of nine members to study naval system reforms. Additional funds would fortify Mare Island and Puget Sound yards, consolidate machine shops, and add a vice admiral on the retired list for Rear Admiral Evans. A plan to acquire part of the James town exposition land for a naval training site is also examined. Three submarines are included in the bill.
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Senate
Hale
House
Senator
Marine»Corps
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Senate Committee
Marine Corps
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Newberry
Pacific
Navy Yard
California
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Channel
Puget Sound Navy Yard
Robley D. Evans
Secretary of the Navy
Jamestown Exposition
Weather Forecast for Wisconsin Cold and Warm Spells
Forecasters expect the coldest reading at La Crosse around 8 above and a high near 28 above. Winds will be about 10 miles per hour at 7 am with 1.48 inches of precipitation in the last 24 hours. Today in Wisconsin the north will see partly cloudy skies with snow flurries and near Lake Superior a Thursday with no major temperature change and high northwest winds.
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la Crosse
Wisconsin
Lake Superior
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