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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1905
Page
4
The Tribune critiques the defeat of an oil tank ordinance arguing it favored Standard Oil over an independent firm. It urges careful public safety inquiry and nondiscriminatory rules applying to both business districts and suburbs, favoring overhead or underground systems as best.
In humane solicitude for a cease fire between Russia and Japan the great powers display irony as each pretends to seek peace while pursuing their own interests and efforts.
Former supervisor of agencies at Equitable Insurance reveals George Tarbell's plan to become company president in a New York interview. The exposé swayed opinion toward Hyde, who had previously faced condemnation.
The St Paul News argues that England France Germany and the US mimic peace while expanding armaments. Leaders boast strength and plan battleships and colonies, showing a staged peace while ready to clash at a moment’s notice. The piece calls the spectacle a global farce.
The New York Herald reports Paul J. Dashiel selected as captain and manager of the American lawn tennis team bound for England to play for the Davis Cup. His role relieves players Holcombe Ward W. A. Larned W J Clothier Beals Wright of duties, allowing focus on matches and team welfare.
Boris Lunevski a centenarian hopeful of turning a hundred was revived after doctors found a flicker in his eyelash at his home 4 West One Hundred and Eightteent street Less than two hours of resuscitation followed and his family celebrated his revival claiming a near century life ahead.
In Los Angeles petitions will seek an ordinance granting a benevolent corporation a saloon monopoly modeled on Gothenburg. The plan cuts saloons from 200 to 75, replaces districts with coffee clubs, and limits profits to 6 percent. Revenue pledged at 186000 annually with profits above 210000 to public works.
Chicago hog receipts total 15 000 with remaining 6 400. Market strong with light pigs 5 20 to 5 45, rough 4 65 to 5 15, heavy 4 65 to 5 42. Cattle 1 500 up, sheep 6 000 steady. Omaha Kansas City hogs and cattle and sheep volumes listed. Wheat corn oats futures mixed with July to December spreads and pork lard ribs futures quotes across Minneapolis Duluth markets.
Lincoln June 16 The supreme court granted Frank Barker an insanity hearing after he was condemned to death for murdering his brother and sister in law near Red Cloud Nebraska The district court will pause the execution until the mind condition is determined Also Cleveland June 16 Grand jury indicts several plumbers alleged to be part of the plumbers trust violating the Valentine anti trust law.
Columbus police court charged Charles E Prentiss with insult over the telephone to Mrs. M. J. McDonald of North High street. He became angry during the call and used foul language. He received thirty days in jail plus a 20 dollar fine and costs.
In Sandusy on June 16, Miss Myrtle B. Goodsite a dressmaker won a breach of promise suit against Frank Link. The jury awarded $2000 after a five minute testimony and a thirty minute deliberation.
Sixty one infants from the New York Foundling Asylum crowded Union Station amid busy traffic in St Louis. A three year old named Joseph Brown died when he fell from a car window before arrival. Five babies crawled under trains but were saved. The infants proceed to Texas for distribution into adoptive homes.
Kalamazoo Michigan June 16. Richard and Johanna Van Bochove aged 80 and 75 years mark fifty seven years of marriage and eight of their eleven children still living. The couple, among Kalamazoo’s earliest Holland settlers, were married in New York after arriving from Holland aboard a ship.
Max Pipahn who assaulted and killed Miss Alma is the focus as a mob demands swift justice in Lincoln Nebraska. Details of the crime are scarce in the fragment but indicate public outrage and pursuit.
Goose was captured near Plattsmouth Nebraska last Saturday as a crowd forms and lynching fears rise. Deputy sheriffs and police, heavily armed, guard the Plattsmouth jail to deter violence.
Cincinnati memorial notes long illness and death of Jonathan D Hearne a leading local banker and prominent Methodist in the region at his Covington home after many years of service and illness.
In Derekigybaz Hungary a crowd clashed with strolling players after the troupe failed to perform as advertised. Three killed and sixty wounded as villagers attacked, a spectator had an ear bitten, and eighteen remain seriously injured before police restored order.
Athens report says former Prime Minister Delyannis died in poverty after being assassinated on June 13 by gambler Gherakaris. The chamber plans a pension for the immediate family.
Freeport Illinois reports the bodies of Mrs. Young twenty eight and Miss Meda Pyle sixteen found in the Pecatenica river after both declared intentions to end their lives and walked into the water.
In Lincoln on June 16 the Populist convention to nominate a candidate for Congress in Nebraska's First District was called to meet, but no delegates appeared. The Democrats held their district convention as planned.
The body of John C. Bensee of Shilo was found on the Big Four tracks east of Danville after being dead for several hours. Nearby, Lee Runyon was fatally struck by a Wabash freight train at Fairmount.
A Northwestern Line service adds a daily Salem to Sioux City train leaving 6 00 a m from Salem with Alton 10 00 a m and Sioux City 11 30 a m in transit. Return trains run from Sioux City at 4 00 p m and from Alton 5 25 p m arriving Salem 9 20 p m. The through service requires no changes at Alton enhancing Northwestern Line connectivity.
The Chicago and Northwestern railway publishes a valuable compendium tracing Northwest railway history from ceded lands to modern times. Over a hundred pages of historic material cover the roads forming The Northwestern Line, well printed in strong paper, postpaid for ten cents. W. B. Knis kern, P. T. M., Chicago.
In Macon Georgia on May 3 it is understood the engagement between Mrs Jah Dun lap Jordan of Macon and Luis Corea the Nicaraguan minister to the United States has been broken though no official announcement has been made.
Professor Frank J. Goodnow of Columbia University told a reporter that New York is not ready for wholesale municipalization of street railways. He cited limited experience with city ownership and the need to learn lessons before running utilities intelligently and profitably under city government.
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