Supreme Court Of This State Defends Its Rulings
A La Crosse Tribune letter argues an Oklahoma styled satire on courts misreads Wisconsin law. It cites Oborn v State and Koepp v National Enameling to rebut an editorial claim that Wisconsin courts err and deny justice. The writer urges fairness in judging the state supreme court’s approach to error and prejudice.
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la Crosse Tribune
la Crosse
Wisconsin
Oklahoma
Colliers
Saturday Evening Post
Wis
Justice Marshall
Koepp
National Enameling & Stamping Co
N. W
Supreme Court
Letter to Fort Ekern Delivered at Capitol Building
Devine delivered a letter to Fort Ekern at the Wisconsin capitol yesterday afternoon. Postmarked Milwaukee and mailed Jan 26 at 10 p m the letter's contents about suggested military maneuvers could not be learned at Fort Ekern. The message was addressed to Insurance Commissioner at Capitol Building Fort Ekern Madison Wisconsin.
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Fort Ekern
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Milwaukee
Capitol Building
Madison
Wis
Representative Jones Attacks Philippine Governance in House
Va representative blasts Governor-General Forbes as corrupt and lavish in spending. He cites Benguet road costs over 1 million dollars and a 4 500 dollar private secretary, accusing officials of redirecting 3 million relief funds to road building and creating twelve new bureaus for personal gain.
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Philippines
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Forbes
Benguet
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Garment Workers Threaten Chicago Strike Over Pay
Chicago garment workers union officials threaten a general tie up of the clothing trades unless wages improve. About 40 000 employees in wholesale clothiers associations affected. The move is unrelated to a proposed sympathy strike. In Rochester New York factories closed indefinitely as cutters join the fight for workers. Not a factory operating.
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Wholesale Clothiers’ Association
Rochester
N. Y
Kimmel Case Reignites As Ill Jail Inmate Claims Identity
In Bowling Green Missouri a jailed man charged with forging a small check claims to be George Kimmel the missing Niles Michigan banker. Sheriff Hawkins says the man is seriously ill and believed he would die when he confessed his true identity.
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Kimmel
Bowling Green
George Kimmel
Niles
Mich
Hawkins
Former convict confesses crime after prison release
William Bruce Sutherland a Scotland born man aged 45 confessed to the La Crosse knitting company office burglary. He said he served five years at Stillwater for a Minneapolis burglary and was released January 20 on parole but returned to prison for breaking parole. He claimed sole credit for the attempted safe break and acknowledged will plead guilty when arraigned before Judge E C Higbee. Patrolman Samuel Johnson traced the suspect via cobweb evidence on a window ledge and a dead fly fragment matching a fly on the window.
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Samuel Johnson
John Webber
la Crosse Knitting Company
Sutherland
Minnesota
Stillwater
Minneapolis
Ohio
St. Paul
la Crosse
Knitting Company
Scotland
America
Johnson
E. C. Higbee
Interstate weight rule on potato carloads suspended
The Interstate Commerce Commission suspended until May 31 the increase from 39,000 to 33,000 pounds for minimum carload weight on potatoes from Wisconsin Minnesota and Michigan to midwest points.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Util
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Michigan
Middle West
Milwaukee Masons to Funeral George Hays 80
George Hays 80 longtime box manufacturer and oldest Mason in Milwaukee died Monday night. Local Masonic lodges will oversee his funeral, announced today in Milwaukee Wisconsin.
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Milwaukee
Wis
George Hays
Hayes
Baltimore man attempts suicide in Minneapolis acid drinking
John Kowalski, 27, Baltimore, Maryland, robbed of months of savings, left a note in his room and drank sulfuric acid at the Model Hotel in Minneapolis early today. He is dying at city hospital.
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Minneapolis
Minn
John Kowalski
Baltimore
Model Hotel
City Hospital
Frightened to Death at Milwaukee Saloon
William Youngquist a 68 year old saloonkeeper at Kellys Hill near Milwaukee died reportedly of heart failure caused by extreme terror. Mrs. Youngquist said her husband collapsed after son in law Henry Koelpin and friend Charles Schowman threatened to shoot through the door when denied entry.
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Milwaukee
Wis
William Youngquist
Kelly's Hill
Youngquist
Sues Butcher Over Steak Trimmings in Evanston
Mrs. G. P. Jackson, Northwestern University professor’s wife, plans to arrest butcher P. J. Rapp to decide if trimming two pounds of bone and fat from a four and a half pound steak voids payment for the full cut. Two other butchers were briefly detained but discharged by Justice John F. Boyer.
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Chicago
Evanston
G. P. Jackson
Northwestern University
P. J. Rapp
Ekern Case Taken Under Advisement Court
The Ekern case was presented to the court and taken under advisement as prosecutors and defense attorneys await a ruling. Proceedings detailed arguments on charges and legal precedents relevant to the case in district court.
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Ekern
Butler argues McGovern Ekern case before judge
Madison Wisconsin January 28 Harry L Butler closed the arguments for the State in the McGovern Ekern controversy. He denied McGovern acted arbitrarily and said the governor was not required to hear Ekern. Butler claimed opposition to law enforcement came from Ekern for opposing Anderson who he said has prima facie right to the insurance commissioner seat. He cited Ekern as active for L L Johnson, alleging violation of the act removing the office from politics.
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Wis
Harry L. Butler
E. Ray Stevens
McGovern-Ekern
Butler
McGovern
Ekern
Anderson
Prima Faria
Commissioner of Insurance
L. L. Johnson
Governor McGovern Talks Tough on Ekern and Boxing
Milwaukee Wisconsin January 28 Governor McGovern for a brief stay avoids comment on his clash with Insurance Commissioner Herman L Ekern and also declines to discuss the local boxing scene.
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Milwaukee
Wis
McGovern
Herman L. Ekern
Federal Judge Issues Warrants for Three Oil Board Members
Federal Judge E R Meek mailed warrants for the arrest of Archbold fogler and Teagle charged with Sherman anti trust violations in Texas. He said Texas officers will pursue if needed. The defendants are John D Archbold H C Fogler Jr and W C Teagle.
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Dallas
Texas
E. R. Meek
New York
Archbold, Fogler
Teagle
United States District Court
John D. Archbold
H. C. Fogler, Jr
W. C. Teagle
Masons discuss ransom of McKinley gold tablet
Prominent Masons in New York weigh a plan to ransom a solid 14 carat gold tablet once owned by President McKinley. The tablet, now in a Broadway pawnbroker window, is valued at 1000 dollars and was pawned for 700 dollars by Dr. Hermanus F. Baer husband of McKinley’s niece.
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Hermanus F. B. Baer
Mount Vernon
McKinley
Mabel McKinley
Baer
Pennsylvania Farmers Oppose Aldrich Central Bank Plan
W T Creasy master of the Pennsylvania state grange representing 70 000 farmers told the Glass committee currency reform that farmers statewide resent the Aldrich central bank scheme.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
Aldrich Central
Glass Committee
W. T. Creasy
Pennsylvania State Grange
Many Buildings to Go Up Here in Summer 1913
La Crosse prepares for a record building season with plans for a St Rose convent addition a National Gauge and Register factory a doubled Rubber Mills capacity and a new St Wenceslaus church plus a water plant housing and bakery expansion. Rumors of a Fourth Street skyscraper and a Be ck property store are denied.
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St. Rose Convent
South Ninth Street
National Gauge and Register Company
la Crosse Rubber Mills
St. Wenceslaus
St.e Convent
Rubber Mills Factory
John Dengler
St. Andrews Street
Albert Funk
The
Rubber Mills Company
Park Bakery
South Fifth Street
Gas and Electric Company
Fourth
Pearl Streets
Abraham
Fourth Street
Hebberd Drug Store
Chicago
United Cigar Stores Company
Beck
Fourth and Main Streets
Niagara Falls Conserva tion Bill Sails To House Favor
Niagara Falls is set under War Department control pending a favorable House Foreign Affairs Committee report on a conservation bill. It prohibits diversions for power or other uses without ministerial permission and imposes penalties of 500 to 1000 dollars per day for violations.
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Washington
Niagara Falls
House Foreign Affair Committee
Wife Challenged Duel Ends in Husband's Death in Moscow
In Moscow on Sunday Mme Nadia Putokin killed her husband in a rapier duel after she formally challenged him. Both were fencing professors. their rooms attracted fashionable crowds. An army officer, stirred by jealousy, prompted the duel after he issued a challenge that Mme Putokin rejected, insisting she fight first.
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Mme
Nadia Putokin
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Putokin
Mme. Putokin
Judge Wesley Howard Attacks Judicial Reform Movement
Troy, N. Y. January 28 Justice Wesley O Howard of the New York Supreme Court denounces the Do Nothing bench policy and warns that public unrest could push recalls, constitutional revisions, or new courts to deliver swift rough justice close to the people. He cites cases from alleged bank wreckers to petty thieves as examples of perceived uneven justice. He cautions against revolutionary actions but says reform is needed as impatience grows.
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N. Y
Wesley O. Howard
Howard
Supreme Court
la Salle Institute
Brandt
Robin
Morse
Striking Steel and Wire Workers Expand Blockade in Pittsburgh Area
In Pittsburgh area, United States Steel and Wire workers vow to resist strikebreakers at the Rankin Braddock mills. Night shift joins Rankin strikers, Rankin declared in riot with bans on alcohol and street access. Burgess J. K. Milligan announces heightened security as 25 more deputies are sworn in.
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Rankin
Pttsburg
American Steel
Rankin and Braddock Mills
Burgess J. K. Milligan
Steam Schooner Samoa Lost Off Point Reyes
The steam schooner Samoa struck and went ashore on Point Reyes during a dense fog in San Francisco Bay. The Caspar Lumber Company reports the crew all safely landed, but the vessel is a total loss.
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Samoa
Point Reyes
Cal
Caspar Lumber Company
Chemist Announces Weed Based Paper Patents
Francis L. Stewart of Murraysville today announced a patented process for making paper from weeds both in the United States and abroad. He claims plant fibre paper could replace wood pulp and that newspapers might be printed on book paper at a lower cost than current coarse fibre production.
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Pittsburg
Francis L. Stewart
Murraysville
Young Turks refuse to surrender Adrianople and Aegean
The committee of union and progress votes to refuse ceding Adrianople and the Aegean islands to the Balkan allies. Enver Bey’s dictatorship is backed, signaling Turkey’s likely official reply. Kamal Pasha has been paralyzed on his right side. Allies approve note ending armistice and plan formal session. war expected mid February. Denmark braces for war scare with troop moves to Zealand.
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Young Turks
Adrianople
Aegean Islands
Balkan
Enxer Bey
Turkey
National Assembly
Sublime Porte
Kiamil Pasha
London
M. Novakovitch
Foreign Office
Foreign fire firms barred from Michigan operations
Seven foreign fire insurance companies are barred from further business in Michigan. Insurance Commissioner Palmer announced the action, citing a statute that prohibits any foreign country insurer from exposing itself to more than ten percent of its deposited U S capital on a single risk.
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Lansing
Mich
Michigan
Palmer
United States
Madison Nurse Compares Local Slums to Chicago Ghetto
Visiting nurse Miss Mary Saxton stated that while fewer in number, Madison families suffer squalor and shiftlessness comparable to Chicago ghettos. She cited conditions observed during her work among American born residents of Madison.
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Madison
Wis
Weather Forecast For La Crosse And Vicinity
Generally fair conditions persist for Wisconsin Minnesota and Iowa with rising temperatures tonight and Wednesday. Snow flurries observed in the upper Mississippi valley and lake regions, while a Saskatchewan low pressure area influences fair skies and warmer weather across the Northwest.
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