27 Jan 1915
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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1915
Page
1
A dispute over football dates has sparked a long running quarrel between Normal High and its athletics department. Reports say bad feeling stems from multiple incidents leading to ongoing tension and severed relations.
Emperor William marks his fifty-sixth birthday by granting general amnesty to hundreds of military offenders since the war began. The Kaiser also annuls legal actions against those dodging the call to arms and remits fines, in a field headquarters decree telegraphed for publication.
The La Crosse county board committee on the poor and insane investigated visiting housekeepers and concluded no family would benefit. Judge Leonard Kleeber and Herman Pammel opposed. E W Guenther supported. They found twenty four pendent families listed by Poor Commissioner Sol Burdick but deemed none in need.
Enos K. Davis of Lake Geneva filed in Racine circuit court against Charles E. Lange, conductor on the M A K Interurban, seeking 10000 damages alleging Lange carried on a flirtation with Davis’s wife during rides between Racine and Kenosha. Davis recently obtained a divorce from his wife on grounds of infidelity with Lange named as co respondent.
Amsterdam January 27 reports Lieut Col Von Hayderbreck commanding German forces in southwest Africa died of wounds from a recent engagement according to Berlin dispatches received this afternoon.
Mayor Sorensen and Alderman Torrance back plans to make La Crosse the gateway city for midland shipping. A mass meeting is set for February 5 with Captains Campbell and Wilkinson speaking on forming two large towing companies to cut river freight rates. The push envisions La Crosse as inland rail and river freight depot linking Milwaukee Madison Sparta and eastern towns with Iowa Minnesota and the Dakotas.
La Crosse commercial groups urge the Interstate Commerce Commission to lower freight rates to Minnesota destinations. Sixty members claim current charges since 1907 overstate Minnesota-bound shipments from La Crosse, demanding reductions per 100 pounds across multiple cities including Red Wing Lake City and Minneapolis.
Secretary William C. Redfield in Galveston accuses steamship companies of breaking contracts with impunity and harshly condemns their conduct. He says such practices merit prison time, likening them to railroad wrongdoing and calling for accountability.
Official statements report a new Russian push in East Prussia north of Insterburg, with outposts within 55 miles of Konigsberg. Russians follow a northern railway route, facing stubborn German resistance as Austrians extend activity in the Carpathians near the Dukla Pass.
A dramatic tribute article honors the Kaiser with a bold charge narrative. The piece emphasizes leadership, wartime unity, and national resolve as the central themes.
Paris reports heavy German night attacks across French and English trenches from the coast toward Rheims. In Craonne French forces held a trench line while German troops suffered heavy losses. German forces at St Mihiel on the Meuse were cut off after French artillery destroyed their pontoon bridges.
R C Roth a Palo Alto tailor claims a forty day fast to purge impurities and cure indigestion. He started at 145 pounds and now weighs 100, planning about a week more. He remains cheerful and says he feels better than ever.
In New York on January 27 Rockefeller Jr faced a Socialist dominated audience at Tweed Hall during the federal industrial relations commission probe of labor unrest. Chairman Frank P Walsh warned the room to restore order as Rockefeller expressed sympathy with the commission’s aim to find a remedy for industrial unrest and hoped for success.
Walter Alexander of Milwaukee, a master mechanic for the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railroad, was appointed by Governor Philipp to fill the state railroad commission vacancy caused by David Harlow’s retirement. His confirmation comes up Thursday afternoon. Alexander, born in Scotland in 1872, rose through university posts to professor roles before joining CMStP as district master mechanic at West Milwaukee. He has limited political activity, with Republican affiliation.
State aid of 5000 dollars to La Crosse Exposition is challenged by Treasurer Wing. Officials fear citizens may be asked to subscribe funds to continue usual attractions at the exposition.
A Wisconsin bill to repeal state aid sections endangers the La Crosse interstate fair. If enacted, La Crosse residents must raise 5000 dollars or scrap the exposition. Treasurer E M Wing warns the move would be a death knell without local contributions.
The West Bromwich observatory logged a strong earthquake shock today around 3 10 a m London time likely originating in Turkey or Greece. The seismograph showed it was less severe than the recent Italian quake, with echoes reported in London.
Weather summary reports a high pressure area bringing severe cold across the northwest and widespread fair, increasingly milder conditions by Thursday. Temperatures fell to 40 below zero at Williston and 42 below at Quippelle with freezing readings in northern Texas Oklahoma and Arkansas.
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