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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1913
Page
4
Alicia grapples with her wish to end an engagement with a stingy fiancé and chooses to break it off. An elderly neighbor, Mrs. Billings, shares a tale about her late husband Pam calling her pansy and how love can see past flaws. The couple chooses self respect over a loveless union as Alicia tears up her break up letter.
A batch of brief items reports a fatality from red pop at a Chicago ball game, with Edward Fay gravely ill, plus other city notes. The round includes Rockefeller giving quarters to girls in Tarrytown, a long-serving English telegraph operator’s death, and a Vienna drunkard’s 102nd year.
In Michigan, Joseph Tovens, after fatally stabbing Alfred Scribner and killing Deputy Sheriff James Sutton, is believed to be hiding near a lumber camp. Posse searches continue through dense woods with citizens joining the hunt and expect a confrontation if found.
Seattle June 9 Aboard the US man steamer Dora Captain McMillan reports violent eruptions across the Aleutian archipelago and the Alaska Peninsula. Mount Pavlof McCushion and Shishaldin are especially active as the vessel reached Seward from Alaska and Dutch Harbor.
The Eagles Carnival week in La Crosse June 23 features Worthham and Allen United Shows the largest traveling carnival in the United States and Canada. The show includes a water carnival with twenty swimmers and divers led by Mabel Whittaker Esther Donahue Lillian Cooley and Chubby Whitney. The tank holds over thirty thousand gallons and is heated by a special boiler. There are one hundred sixty one wagons and thirty five train cars with three monster electric light plants and two heating plants for the water tank and dressing rooms.
Delafield Wis June 9 Alumni and friends from around the globe gathered for St John’s Military Academy commencement with 125 alumni and 75 visitors in attendance. H W Stockwell traveled from Calcutta India 11 000 miles to witness his sons graduate as 250 seniors paraded in full dress for chapel services marking the event’s renowned elaborate ceremony.
The Twentieth Century club held a closing banquet at the Dousman house with an eight o'clock dinner and a short program of speaking. Prizes in cards went to Mrs. W. B. Tartt and C. B. Case. The M E Ladies Aid will meet Friday at the Swingle farm. Numerous local residents and guests are noted, with visits, travel, and school plans listed.
Jacob Hahn a 62 year old north side grocer and former board of public works member was found dead in bed Sunday at 9 30 by his wife after returning from church Dr F Sutter attributed the death to heart weakness Hahn had stayed late at his Mill Street store and was in good health Survivors include his widow two daughters Mrs Charles Hickey and Sophia Hahn and four sons Henry John Jos Peter Hahn Funeral services set for 9 am Wednesday at St James Church with Rev Father John Gloecker officiating Burial in Catholic cemetery
Mrs Mary Winell aunt of Captain William Winell in No 4 fire department died at 826 Caledonia street after a long illness. She was 86 and had lived in North La Crosse since childhood. A daughter survives and funeral services are at 2 30 pm with Rev Finch A Clark, Oak Grove cemetery interment.
Oxford life grows livelier with the presence of the young prince of Wales and his followers of the Bullingdon set. Queen Mary reportedly ordered the prince to resign from the Bullingdon after he attended a Sunday night event with heavy drinking.
W. H. Ross, 56, committed suicide in Randolph after despondency over business. His body was found by his 14 year old son. Ross tied a strap to a barn rafter and ended his life.
North side residents and visitors are mentioned in a sequence of short notes. John Colwell returns to Dubuque from his visit with Samuel Knight at 2132 Wood Street. Several residents travel or visit relatives including Miss Minnie Knight in Houston and Margie Brubaker in Perry Indiana. A baby boy is born to Mr. and Mrs. M. Coughlin at 1411 Kane Street. The Trinity Lutheran Ladies’ Aid hosts a meeting and the Woman’s Relief Corps cancels due to a Me nasha convention.
Multiple towns report fatalities from Sunday car incidents. In Cleveland Freg Zarn 13 died after a bicycle collision with a car. In Niles several riders suffered severe injuries in a turning accident. In Chicago Walter Kidder 25, president of Elmburg Motor Sales, died when his car skidded near a bridge and overturned into shallow water.
Burlington New Jersey June 94 high powered auto ran down and harried Albert Tobin of Philadelphia son of a party of six boys on bicycles. The machine sped away and the driver’s identity was not learned.
On Broadway near 44th street an unidentified man was struck and killed. Televised reports say Leo Trewiecia was killed after being hit by a car driven by Frederick Frankfort who did not notice the approach of the auto.
H T Grace switchman at Burlington railroad is confined in a local hospital with an illness and may require an operation. M Goldstein of New York City visited on the north side for a few hours. Elmer Haug of West Salem returned home after visiting the north side. Albert Thompson travels from Viroqua for a short stay with friends and relatives on the north side.
Three freight cars of westbound Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul train derailed at Tunnel City last night around eight o'clock. The cars were placed back on the track with little delay and no damage to their contents occurred.
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