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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1906
Page
8
Incomplete OCR sports brief shows AAS and Freeporters results with won lost records and standings. Teams Pet preénort Oshkosh and others appear with percentages like .652 and .523, but many words are garbled, leaving unclear dates or full team names.
Results yesterday list La Crosse 6 Oshkosh 1 Wausau 13 Freeport 1 Eau Claire 5 Green Bay 2. Games today feature La Crosse at Oshkosh Freeport at Wausau Eau Claire at Green Bay.
La Crosse defeated Oshkosh 6 to 1 as disputes over umpiring and gate receipts spilled into the stands. Oshkosh protests center on Pattison and Sunday receipts while La Crosse withstood late protests. Also Wausau 14 Freeport 4 and Eau Claire 5 Green Bay 2 highlight the day’s Wisconsin league results.
July 24 report cites Rev. Dr. Jacob Nieto and Mrs. Joan Pettee accusing Fillmore Street dealers of receiving uncrated clothing from broken Red Cross consignments. The source warns clerics to report to Dr. Devine or the grand jury. Separately, a teamster says additional liquor cases disappeared from relief stores and was sold to a major San Francisco firm.
Maj. Gen. Greely orders Lieut. Col. Wisser to trace every bottle sent for relief that passed through army stations. A grand jury will pursue the mystery and any alleged trafficking in liquors meant for relief, with Foreman Brannin vowing to uncover the fate of the whisky.
Washington July 24 announcement from the Carnegie Institute says improved navigation instruments and corrected magnetic variation charts will cut the New York to Europe voyage by one day and San Francisco to the Orient by two to three days. The Galilea survey ship aids magnetic studies and steel construction effects to provide absolute steering during fogs and rain, enabling a full journey time reduction of about a day to Europe.
Lady Curzon was buried at Kedleston yesterday with a memorial at Westminster St. Margaret's. Reid attended alongside White the American ambassador, who was in Rome at the time.
Seaboard Airline officials report two white men and eighteen Black passengers killed in a wreck near Charlotte on July 24. The crash involved two trains and multiple fatalities among riders.
Washington July 24 The frigate once famed in American naval history will be restored with a naval appropriation of 100000 dollars. The work will be managed by the bureau of construction and repair with expert help to recreate her original appearance using authenticated plans and possibly dummy guns to capture the historic atmosphere. Additional funds are anticipated to complete the rehabilitation.
Patrick Prosna of 115 North Paulina Street was fatally shot while trying to prevent a quarrel at a saloon near Austin avenue and North Paulina street. Alleged assailant William Degnam of 541 Austin avenue and his brother John were arrested by West Chicago avenue police.
William Degnam clashed with a stranger during a dispute in the ssalion. Degnam, angered by the stranger's aid, attacked again after assistance arrived. Prosna was shot in the right shoulder and above the right eye during the incident.
Grand Trunk Lehigh Valley double track route Chicago to New York via Niagara Falls and Grand Trunk Central Vermont Boston and Maine route Chicago to Boston with the Grand Trunk Railway System to Montreal and Portland double track from Chicago to Montreal Fares descriptive literature mailed on application to Geo W Vaux A GP TTA 135 Adams St Chicago.
Fred R. Pike, a conductor on the Northwestern East End division, inherits a reported 1.5 million a year from his Italian uncle Count Castelfrance Alfonsina Lagoscure Bertette and plans to meet his three brothers in the East before traveling to Naples to claim the estate. The fortune, described as enormous, will be divided among the four nephews.
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