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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1916
Page
1
Andrew K. Thompson announces his annual report revealing a vast real estate business. City and country warranty deeds total a substantial sum during the period, with deeds near a million and a half and recorded transactions totaling over forty million dollars.
The 1910 annual report to Register of Deeds A. E. Thompson notes more instruments filed than the previous year. Total recorded value reaches about 4 803 836 with deeds and mortgages overall rising while the city sees a large share in municipal transactions and stamps valued around 3 000.
Kaiser Wilhelm sent a New Year message to the German army navy and colonials praising their loyalty and bravery after a year of fighting. He saluted fallen comrades and pledged to continue the war effort with God’s protection for the Fatherland and Germany’s greatness.
The search for the fate of the English ship Persia continues after it was sent to the bottom by a submarine. Officials fear heavy loss of life while the consular agent M Neely travels toward Aden as a state department official emphasizes concern and caution over the incident.
News reports a submarine attack near Persia rekindling tensions over maritime rights just after a tentative settlement with Austria. The incident raises questions about naval conduct and regional security dynamics.
Skinner reports the sinking occurred on Thursday with only four boats escaping. The submarine is blamed for the loss, according to the London update.
Washington reports United States Consul to Aden Robert M McNeely was aboard the British liner Persia sunk in the Mediterranean. Officials seek confirmation of his fate as tensions rise over submarine warfare affecting Americans abroad. The Persia, sister to Ancona in scale, went down near Crete with many lives lost while most passengers were saved.
W J Peacock of the Baptist announces Gertrude Mossler, famed Wisconsin reader, will appear with the Light Bearers in A Day in India at the Congregational church Seventh and Main, 7:39 p.m. The program, postponed due to Baptist church repairs, features Miss Mossler and organist F Rostron.
Federal authorities investigated a theory that war plotters caused the million dollar fire that destroyed the Cleveland Linseed plant, a subsidiary of the American Linseed company, in South Chicago yesterday with probable loss of six lives.
Colonel John Barleycorn, a Colorado pioneer, died today after an illness dating from the time the voting majority approved a prohibition amendment to the state constitution.
King Constantine will undergo surgery by a German specialist for a minor health issue. The operation is described as routine with medical teams prepared at the palace. No further complications are indicated and the royal schedule remains uninterrupted.
Reports from Czernowitz describe furious hand to hand fighting on the Bessarabian front. Russian bombardment along a three mile front drops Austrian posts, with twenty seven Austrian repulses since midnight Monday. Russian aeroplanes raid concentration camps as the Monge submarine sinks in the Adriatic.
Fifteen people are reported dead and many injured when a box car carrying dynamite and hand grenades for the Carranzista army exploded in Monterey late yesterday. Authorities believe a jar during switching caused the blast.
In Copenhagen on New Year’s Eve the Ford peace party delegates were kept under guard by police to prevent attacks by revelers. They were restricted during a royal banquet at the Royal Shooting club and escorted to their hotels after the event. Governor Hanna of North Dakota, ill in a Stockholm hospital, is reported to be improving. Rev. Charles F. Aked remained in Stockholm, near a nervous breakdown, as many delegates suffer colds.
Private Berlin dispatches report the kaiser's health remains poor with several virulent boils. Attempts to obtain an official statement from Berlin have failed.
Madison Wis Jan 1 The Wisconsin railroad commission on Friday ordered the Mauston Electric Service company of Mauston to physically connect its exchange at Mauston with that of the Farmers Inter-County Mutual Telephone company of the village of Lyndon Juneau county.
Fond du Lac Wisconsin officers report illness among carriers so Assistant Postmaster Ty A Watson assists in daily mail delivery. city readers note reduced staffing.
The autopsy on Lulu Ranger a 20 year old Westley girl who died after an operation for maternity was conducted by Drs A Gunderson Herman Wolfe and R D Jamieson at La Crosse hospital. Organs were removed for analysis to determine if poisoning or drug intervention caused her death. No immediate action anticipated as results await coroner's office statement.
George Selund deputy register of deeds again earns the title marrying La Crosse's first couple of 1916. William W. Dawson a steam fitter and Carrie V. Hoard an employee of the National Gauge and Register company wed in Selund's courthouse office at 10 AM. He previously married La Crosse's first couple in 1915.
The Wisconsin attorney general advised Fond du Lac County District Attorney Louis J. Fellenz that the county board cannot lawfully appropriate more than 2.50 dollars annually for repairing and improving the Fond du Lac County Fair Association grounds.
A group of Zionists arrives in Chicago for a convention proposing a homeland where Jews participate in world power deliberations as a nation among nations.
C L Hedges of Winona Minn is set to become assistant superintendent of the La Crosse street car system for a year and a half tenure. He visited La Crosse yesterday to confer with Superintendent Peter Valier before taking the post next week.
The Tribune presents a sixteen page year end edition summarizing 1915 with general news local events local sports a La Crosse county marriages births banks and municipal record plus world events and the war in 1915 readers urged to keep the edition as a reference world almanac
Three men died in a blaze that destroyed the Farmers' Inn boarding house in Traverse City Michigan yesterday. The victims were proprietor Jacob H Kinter and guests Benjamin Powers and John Chone.
G H Ferris aged 82 former city assessor assemblyman and state oil inspector died in Chicago and funeral services were held in Fond du Lac Wisconsin today with burial to follow.
Leonard Bender has been appointed agent for the Milwaukee Road in Grand Rapids Wisconsin. He takes over duties for ticket sales and service in the city as of January 1.
Mrs. Joseph Gutman of 912 King Street fractured her left wrist Friday after slipping on icy pavement near Fifth and Jay Streets. The fracture was treated at La Crosse hospital where she recovered overnight and was released to her home. She is over 70 but doctors expect a rapid mend.
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