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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1911
Page
6
Health boards in ten or more cities warn of rat danger spreading disease germs and urge citizens to help exterm rats using Rat and Roach Paste. It promises guaranteed results against mice and cockroaches and notes prices 25c and 1.00, sold at druggists. Stearns' Electric Paste Company, Chicago, Ill.
Seamen in various ports halted work demanding better conditions and pay. Shipping slowed as crews refused to sail, tying up cargo and passenger vessels until agreements with maritime unions are reached.
Longshoremen consider joining committees with several major shipping firms to negotiate a settlement. The talks aim to resolve work actions and contract disputes affecting port operations and labor relations. Details on participants and deadlines remain pending.
Officials foresee success as seamen press for sanitation, higher wages, and union representation. They seek a conciliation board, minimum wage and manning scales, abolition of federation medical exams, partial round trip wage at port, union sign-on representation, fixed hours with overtime, and better forecastle housing and meals.
In Madison Wisconsin the state senate rejected the Owen bill that would require banks to set aside deposits to guarantee depositors. The Crowell depository bill for postal savings was also killed, prompting plans for a potential referendum on a bank guarantee.
Washington officials chorus dismay at the State Department over crude disclosures to the House committee. The missing $1,600 voucher in the Day portrait deal is labeled absurd. Secretary Knox was summoned to explain and the panel hints at a possible restoration of the voucher while saying accounting methods have been modernized.
Thirty five members were adopted in Mindoro camp No 824 Saturday night. They were secured by Vernon Delaney and Deputy Head Consul W F Wolfe and others from the city attended the adoption. Afterward the Royal Neighbors of oe gave a supper in Hansons hall. Deputy Vernon Delany has gone to Eastman Wis where he expects to secure a class of thirty members.
The Booster Annual, the high school paper’s graduation issue issued for the first time this year, went on sale yesterday and proved to be one of the best ever published here.
The announcement states Iowa ICO member Edgar E. Clark will marry Agnes Barnes of Selma Alabama a census office clerk. The ceremony is set for June 28 in Washington DC implying a high profile union between notable individuals.
Frustrated sailors complain that aboard, meals are rancid, vermin-infested, and barely fit for swine. Potatoes soggy, coffee scarce, while budgets favor captains who control the daily allotment for feeding the crew.
Friday night features the high school commencement exercises for seventy six graduates with six speakers limited to five minutes each. Miss Lena Weimar and Ruth Vance lead musical selections, the orchestra and a chorus perform, and diplomas are presented by President William Loening with Miss Martha Rollins directing. Junior Prom follows at Germania hall.
Bumpus Jones is ousted from management of the Outcasts after a fracas with Carl Bond at League Park. Bond, reappointed by directors, steps back as Jones takes over until the home series ends. Joyce arrives as new catcher from Springfield. Wais rest and lineup adjustments described as Donovan reports loom. Elliott and Force discuss salary-limit compliance with clubs and submitted affidavits for La Crosse Wausau Red Wing amid league talks.
Judge Peter B. Grosscup at the State university commencement in Iowa City argues the Sherman anti trust act is inadequate to curb industrial trusts and proposes a new approach. He recommends recognizing existing capital combinations and enacting laws to regulate dividends with federal inspection of company books.
Thomas B. Wooley of La Crosse won the $70,000 water system extension contract with a bid of 33,157. Four bids were received. second lowest was 33,349 by Thill Manning Whalen. Letting postponed until tomorrow afternoon. work to start after signing.
The Hydro plane La Crosse under construction at Winona arrived and installation of the engine will be finished in days. The boat is to be launched within a week with a six cylinder engine planned to produce about two hundred horsepower after testing a two cylinder prototype showed nearly sixty horsepower.
George Frazer a sixty nine year old wanderer pleaded guilty to vagrancy before Judge Brindley this morning and received a thirty day county jail sentence. Frazer said he has roamed La Crosse for twenty five years and never before arrested but the judge did not accept his plea for mercy.
A Wisconsin Progressive Republican League meeting endorses Robert M. La Follette for 1912. Officers elected include President A. W. Sanborn and Assemblyman Thomas Mahon with Governor McGovern promising a drive to secure delegates for the national convention. Messages from La Follette and leaders across states praise Wisconsin's reform record and pledge unity for national political freedom.
Tomorrow is the last day for saloon keepers to file applications for licenses to be issued July 1, according to an announcement by Clerk E. H. Hoffman This morning. The law requires applications to be filed at least fifteen days before grant. There is no deadline for pool and billiard applications, which may be filed any time before the first of next month.
Representative Baners and New Orleans Cotton Exchange members plan a Monday conference with New York brokers to push a plan for registering cotton in New York. They oppose registration only in New York, seeking simultaneous registration in New Orleans and other southern ports. Cotton men fear New York control of the market.
A Tribune investigation finds eggs reportedly dropped from a Hawley Commission Co. truck were wholesome and fresh. The humorous telephone message sparked a false story about spoiled eggs, but patrons know Hawley eggs meet expected quality.
Hydrophobia claimed two victims in Hammond Indiana on June 14. William Crissler a farmer from Jasper county died from the disease. A three year old child of James Schoffer a Hammond school teacher also perished.
A Wisconsin political meeting featured speeches by Lt. Gov. T Morris and lawmakers as supporters touted a strong progressive figure for the next presidential nomination. Senator Henry Krumrey led the event with Governor guarding the session while A W Sanborn became president of a new branch amid letters from national progressives including La Follette Hawthorne Clapp and others.
A historical note touts a remedy named Pena soccae as successful in easing discomfort for mothers and their infants. It is described as soothing, softening pain, and curing wind colic, claimed as the best remedy.
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