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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1909
Page
7
The meeting of the police department will be held this evening at 7 20 to select a new police captain. Chief Webber's offices will announce details to prospective applicants for the two departments and discuss the election of a nod to the late Police Captain remains station.
May Pacerman presents Reverie to be played as offertory by Harry A. Ross at Conegie church. Packerman endorses the piece as his fanfare composition. Ross previously performed it and it was well received. Miss Ville Haze Strauss will also sing during the morning service.
Blodas asks where to hear a frog pond. Stobbls replies suggesting the frog pond as the preferred spot.
New York police await the Alliance steamer with Helen Spencer aboard as a prisoner from Panama charged with running a white slave traffic between New York and the canal zone. Reportedly she attempted suicide. details unclear.
Rev. Wilbur E. Crafts of Washington told the London session that Americans fight intoxicants on patriotic grounds and to secure better wages for workers. The congress gathers leading temperance advocates and aims to launch a world movement toward prohibition.
Muskoka Clear Sky Land Maganetewan Smooth Flowing Water Kawartha Bright Water and Happy Lands Temagami Deep Water Wawa The Flying Goose are Indian words describing desirable summer spots. Special low round trip fares available via Grand Trunk Railway System with double track Chicago to Montreal and Niagara Falls. Mail for fares literature and timetables to W. S. Cookson A G P A 135 Adams Street Chicago.
Kalamazoo Michigan July 20 Mrs Julius C Burrows rests at home during the conference committee efforts to harmonize the Aldrich and Payne bills She has been a winter Washington resident for more than twenty five years and still spends summers with the senator here
Washington July 23 The question of a duty on ocean going yachts divides lawmakers and advocates of the luxury tax. Senate tariff bills propose 35 percent on yachts and pleasure boats, while others push for free entry or a tonnage tax of seven dollars. Six wealthy buyers recently imported yachts worth three million dollars. under Aldrich duty they would owe about one million, but a tonnage tax would yield roughly forty thousand annually.
Ongoing squabble with hired bricklayers leads contractor Wooley and foreman Schnell to take over bricklaying. Workers threaten quitting if orders differ. Also reported are the death of Frank D. Benjamin from cancer and a roundup of Tomah briefs including patrols, travel to Camp Douglas, and local visits and moves.
Heavy rain swells floods in Ashland Wisconsin with a Oconto River dam failure sending 38 million feet of Schroeder Lumber logs into Lake Superior. Odanah village faces widespread inundation while Stearns Lumber store and Northwestern line suffer flooding and rescue efforts deploy boats. John E. Farmer, linked to a DeKalb Illinois disappearance, is found in Milwaukee amid controversy.
Green Bay Wisconsin July 23 The state board of control completed an investigation and dismissed Guard Henry Franz from the reformatory. The board plans major changes in prison operations within the next year. A board member criticized lax guard control and urged systemwide reform. Superintendent Bowron was faulted for focusing on inmate discipline over guard conduct toward prisoners.
Fond du Lac was chosen by a large vote as the site of the next Municipal League convention. Superior and Madison extended invitations. Delegates attended United States Senator Gore of Oklahoma's lecture before traveling with Mar ineette and Menominee citizens aboard the steamer Maywood to Sturgeon Bay where a state park in Door county may be toured. Sessions will be held on the steamer.
In Eau Claire Wisconsin the State Federation of Labor convention defeated a socialist measure. Morning talks centered on constitutional changes and a proposed insertion of class struggle into section 12 of the preamble met strong opposition and was voted down.
A sudden squall struck Green Bay at 4 PM yesterday, breaking up the regatta organized by the Green Bay Yacht Club as entertainment for Chicago sailors finishing their second annual motorboat cruise from Chicago to Green Bay.
Adjournment to August 5 was taken in the Cataract assault case at the hearing yesterday. Eight defendants including Frank Young and Dr Ray Hoburn must post continuing bonds. DA Abel plans to seek Rochester victim testimony but cites enough evidence for trial. The group includes bartenders, a saloon keeper, a doctor and a veterinary surgeon. Also, President Sarles signed eighty Wisconsin medical licenses with four destined for unspecified recipients.
In Sparta area news two unusual potatoes owned by Chamberlain are sent to the Madison experimental station for study. A fire at Chas Guy’s Big Creek farm destroyed barns granary and chicken house with a $3000 loss. One calf perished, livestock saved after bucket brigades. Farm implements hay and a house were saved. insurance estimated at $1200.
The Tribune will publish Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart as a weekly serial starting Monday July 26. Exclusive rights are held by the paper and readers will receive the cream of the year’s fiction with the first installment on the editorial page.
A public examination of applicants for police positions in La Crosse Wisconsin will be held at the City Building on Friday July 23 1909 at 7 30 p m By order of the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners L C Colman Secretary La Crosse Wis July 17 1909.
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