Grand Jury Seeks Evidence in Teamsters Strike Conspiracy
Chicago June 17 United States Attorney Healy says the grand jury found important evidence linking the Montgomery Ward strike to a conspiracy by rival employers and strike leaders. Witness George Wahl testified labor chiefs threatened him over patronage of boycotted houses as indictments loom and Monday's jurors hear more on alleged bribes.
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Scripps-Mck
Chicago
Teamsters’ Joint Council
Teamsters
Shea
Joint Council
Federation of Labor
United States
Healy
E Dispatch
Montgomery Ward & Co
George Wahl
Fake
Defalcation Wipes Out First National Assets in Milwaukee
The Bigelow defalcation is said by the city tax commissioner to have wiped out the undivided profits of 600000 dollars the surplus of 500000 and two thirds of the capital stock at the First National Bank. Bank examiners order a two million dollar asset write down leaving about 535000 dollars.
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Scripps-McRae Dispatch
Milwaukee
Wis
Bigelow
First National
La Crosse to host four conventions this summer
La Crosse will host four conventions this summer. The Universalist church of Wisconsin meets June 26 with about 150 outside pastors and many lay delegates. July and August bring a state postmasters convention. September features the Upper Mississippi Improvement Association gathering, the last and greatest event of the season.
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la Crosse
Robert Calvert
Board of Trade
Universalist Church
Wisconsin
Postmasters
Upper Mississippi Improvement Association
Swedish riksdag may decide union dissolution Norway
A Copenhagen dispatch reports that if the Swedish riksdag approves dissolving the union with Norway King Oscar would appoint a prince of the Bernadotte house as Norway’s king.
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Scripps-MecRae
London
Copenhagen
Riksdag
Sweden
Norway
Oscar
House of Bernadotte
Nor
Republican leaders move to renominate new local officials
At a Philadelphia conference the sheriff coroner and city commissioners agreed to step aside to allow new candidates to be named. The meeting aimed to refresh the ticket and reshape the slate for upcoming elections.
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Scripps-McRae Dispatch
Philadelphia
Anniversary of Bunker Hill Celebration in Charlestown
Boston on June 17 observed the anniversary with a business suspension and a military display at Charlestown and nearby festivities. A small child of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Panke from North Fourth Street was lost yesterday and found hours later at Fourth and Main streets by a patrolman.
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Scripps-McRae Dispatch
Boston
Bunkerhill
Charlestown
Herman Panke
North Fourth Street
Fourth
Main Streets
Fire wipes out 40 buildings in Illinois
A blaze in Johnstone City damages forty buildings in the business district early today. The fire caused about $25,000 in losses with extensive property destruction.
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Scripps-MeRa- Dispatch
Johnstone City
Former La Crosse Boy Visits Home Soldier Robert N. Paul
Robert N. Paul corporal in troop B first U S cavalry returns from Fort Clark Texas to visit his mother in La Crosse. He has served one and a half years and expresses satisfaction with army life.
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LA Crosse
Robert N. Paul
First U. S. Cavalry
Fort Clark
Texas
Mr. Paul
Skeleton Unearthed At Close Garage Site
An ancient burial ground is suspected after workmen at Close's machine shop unearthed human bones and oddly shaped stones near the garage on lower Main Rai. Earlier excavations nearby also yielded a skeleton, prompting an investigation to confirm burial ground use.
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Close
Lower Main
Rai
Aaa
Dl Oeed
Yought-Bergers to Play at Arcadia
The Vought-Berger Baseball team from the north side leaves tonight for Arcadia to meet Arcadia in a match game predicted to be one of the best of the season. Batteries listed are La Crosse Fleece and Squires for Yought-Bergers, Arcadia Kiunholz and Green.
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Vought-Berger
North Side
Arcadia
la Crosse
Fleece
Squires
Kiunholz
Green
Local Actor Returns Home After Successful Season
Charles F. Marson of this city spends summer vacation at home after a successful season on the road with an eastern theatrical company. Reports say local cereals face great damage from rains unless weather improves soon.
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Charles F. Marson
Boy Hit by Wood Wagon. Five-Year-Old in Precarious Condition
Harold Singer, son of L. Singer of Singer Boat Livery, was run over by a wagon loaded with wood while going home from school. A second truck owned by Phalon, Thomas & Phalon, pulled the timber wagons. the boy climbed between them and was struck when the wagon jolted over a rock. He sustained a dislocated shoulder, a broken collar bone, and severe bruises, was treated at St Francis hospital, then sent home and is improving. doctors say he will live.
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Harold Singer
L. Singer
Singer Boat
Phalon, Tohmas & Phalon
St. Francis Hospital
Vaudeville Week Opens at Bijou with East Acts
Beginning Monday evening the Bijou theatre showcases vaudeville from the East. The Whitesides perform Nonsense with Genevieve as song, McNamee displays clay modeling, Tulsa the singer and illusion by H. V. and Bessie Lee in The Mysterious Mysteries. Also showing is the Kaiser's cup race start and several wedding day comedy reels.
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Bijou
Tulsa
May Buy Organ On Offer To Purchase Morning Chronicle
Parties from an Illinois town visit the Morning Chronicle plant in the city with apparent intent to buy from the current owner. It is unclear if the deal is a wash sale lease or real sale and negotiations may not close. The owner has long sought to unload the burden.
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Illinois
Morning Chronicle
The
Chronicle
Leader-Press
Armistice Arranged in Manchuria Reports Novoie Vremya
In St Petersburg June 17 the Novoie Vremya reports an armistice between armies in Manchuria has been arranged. In New York June 17 K Takashashi Japan's finance agent summoned to Tokio to discuss new loans to follow hostilities with potential four percent rate. The czar’s assembly plans were announced as British representations over sinking of neutral ships and the St Kilda incident with the Dneiper were noted in St Petersburg.
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Scripps-McRae
ST. Petersburg
the Novoe Vremya
Manchuria
New York
K. Takashashi
Japan
Tokio
Takashashi
Imperial Cabinet
America
England
Representative Assembly
Great Britain
St. Kilda
Dneiper
Severe Storm Disrupts Railways Roads and Crops
A powerful storm battered the district last night causing major railroad damage and washed out bridges and culverts. Trains to the city were delayed while the Milwaukee and winona areas suffered track washouts and bridge losses. Flooding along small streams damaged country roads and crops, with further flood risk anticipated on the Mississippi River.
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Milwaukee
Northwestern
Winona
Milwaukee Road
Minnesota City
Burlington
Mississippi
Grain firms sue Nebraska Grain Dealers over trust claim
The Worral Grain Company of Omaha filed suit in Blair Nebraska seeking 128000 damages alleging the Nebraska Grain Dealers association forms a trust Thirty nine grain firms are members of the association.
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Scripps-McRae
Blair, Neb
Worral Grain Company of
Omaha
Nebraska Grain Dealers’ Association
Banker Bigelow Exposed as Embezzler Faces Jail
Milwaukee figures recount a corridor conversation among Banker Bigelow and associates about stock crashes. Ten days later Bigelow filed a statement admitting defalcations amounting to millions, signaling imminent legal jeopardy.
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Bigelow
Fred Voegel
Fred Pfister
Milwaukee
C. J. Recht
Chicago
Stoddard
Pfister
Mr. Pfister
Miss Betsey Peterson and Sophia Thompson Visit City
The Misses Betsey Peterson and Sophia Thompson of Viroqua are guests of friends in this city for a few days.
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Betsey Peterson
Sophia Thompson
Viroqua
Paul J Miller Returns Home From La Crosse Visit
Paul J. Miller, who had been visiting La Crosse for several days, has returned to his Milwaukee home.
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Paul J. Miller
la Crosse
Milwaukee
Hottentots Capture Warmbad. German Officers Escape
The June 2 report of Hottentots taking Warmbad, the chief German military post in Southwest Africa, is confirmed. German officers in the town escaped.
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Cape Town
Hottentots
Warmbad
Africa
Miss Roth Buys Millinery Store in West Salem
Miss Tillie Roth of La Crosse has purchased the millinery and ladies furnishing goods business of Miss Laura Hendrickson in West Salem. The store will expand stock and improvements, add a dressmaking department, and continue at the present stand under Miss Roth’s management. The sale marks a notable enterprise in the town’s thriving trade.
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Tillie Roth
Roth Brothers
la Crosse
Laura Hendrickson
West Salem
Miss Roth
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