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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1906
Page
1
Attorney General L. M. Sturdevant decides there is an ice combine in La Crosse constituting a state offense. District Attorney Bosshard submitted questions and evidence of a price schedule and dealer participation. A full decision will be released tomorrow.
Early today Mayor Johnson led city workers and police to tear up Consolidated Street Railway tracks on Fulton street from Lorain to Franklin. He aims to clear way for municipal line tracks and vows to allow competing rails on the opposite side once municipal rails meet city specs. The company obtained an injunction at court opening, which the mayor ignored.
Two men aged 21 and 22 blown fifteen safes and robbed sixteen offices in the Brown building. They secured $800, escaped in a large automobile, were captured, jailed, and held to answer to the grand jury. The government will prosecute them for post office robberies.
The Cook county grand jury filed a 126 page indictment against Chicago labor leaders led by Cornelius Shea High McGee and Charles Cold charging conspiracy to ruin business and crimes including murders and assaults against firms like Marshall Field and Montgomery Ward. The document accuses the Teamsters unions of criminal acts while labor leaders denounce it as an attack to block a labor party.
Carl Schwab a Clay county Kansas farmer is in Preston Minnesota after a wife He advertised for a help meet and a Preston woman answered for her daughter The correspondence began in March and Schwab went to Preston ready to marry but this morning the family of the intended woman ordered him off the premises He demands either the girl or his expenses and vows to stay until satisfied The young woman is already married though not living with her husband and her mother is divorced from her father who lives nearby
Fair and warmer tonight with Thursday fair conditions. Temperatures range from a coolest 60 to a warmest 82 with light winds up to six miles per hour. The river continues to fall steadily with stage at 5.9 feet, down from 6.1 feet.
Bosshard told The Tribune he would not speak until he receives the AG's official opinion. The attorney general's ruling has not yet arrived, though seen as likely by mail. The district attorney said he would follow that advice when acting on it, as he sought the opinion for that purpose.
Mrs. Harry Thaw accompanied Hartridge visited Thaw in prison this morning. He is wrought up by reports that an insanity commission will be appointed and Thaw directs Hartridge to say no insanity commission will be appointed civil or criminal in the case.
Doctors Christianson Gunderson Morrison and Attorney O R Skaar attended the 25th anniversary of Dr J K Schreiner in Westby. About 300 friends surprised the veteran physician at his $15 000 home, where attendees enjoyed the event.
London reports the interparliamentary union conferences adopted a resolution urging The Hague conference to limit contraband to arms munitions and explosives. It also calls for sparing captured ships from destruction and preserving private property between belligerents while seeking methods to reduce wartime armament expenditures.
The funeral for Julius Schlutter, who drowned south of Gund's brewery, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 p m from his residence. Rev Benjamin Graf officiates with Mrs Theo Mannstadt in charge. Deceased leaves a mother and six brothers Dietrich F Fred Charles Gustave William and Edward, including Dietrich F a Garder Printing co proprietor.
Dr. J A L Bradfield has returned to his home in this city after several weeks of rest and is enjoying excellent health.
Chicago carpenters and other workers on the La Crosse theater project faced pressure to join a local union or risk a walkout. Gage and Wolhuter, aided by the contractor, settled the dispute amicably for now. Interior work on the theater and Ellis' club is slated to resume within two weeks.
In Milan on July 25 revolutionaries set fire to the Rempten castle, among Couland’s oldest estates. Rebels control nearby lands as two columns of troops push in from opposite fronts.
A dated motto asserts practical spending with a thrift creed urging prudent buying. The remark frames thrift as a guiding principle for everyday purchases and consumer choices.
Count Heyden Prince Looff and H Stakovitch refuse Viborg manifesto signers urge quiet acceptance of parliament dissolution and new elections. They warn against undermining the sovereigns power and call for self-control. Mass troop buildup in Moscow amid martial law. Finnish workers landings blocked. Riga reports nine thousand factory strikes. Warsaw police officer Salamattoff stabbed and killed.
A discussion contrasts random versus planned advertising and their costs. Emil Blume of Minneapolis, formerly of the North side, is noted as being in the city.
General Wood reports the defeat of two detachments of constabulary on the Isand Leyte with twelve and fifteen killed. He orders General Lee to rush regulars to aid the constabulary and quell the outbreak. Regulars killed 150 Pulajanes. one defender wounded.
Mrs Sage and friends escorted the body on a special car to Troy for interment with services conducted by Rev Dr Hageman. the transport departed New York on July 25.
A waterspout struck a village near Lyons France causing widespread destruction. At least thirty people are dead and officials warn losses will total millions as rescue teams search the rubble for survivors.
The Puert-Layman dispute moves to Sparta school as Humane Agent C H Berry seeks removal of Irene and Fred Layman to the Sparta school over alleged obscene language from the Layman home. The Laymans deny the charge and Judge Brindley adjourns the case for one week for trial. the neighbors live near Oak Grove cemetery.
William Fraser swimming instructor at the public baths saved a boy named Warner who nearly drowned while Fraser was giving a swimming lesson to a young woman. Mrs Warner and two children witnessed the incident as Fraser pulled the boy from the water and then assisted the woman. Desk Sergeant John Webber slipped on the wet surface while rushing to help.
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