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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1905
Page
5
La Crosse lost four in a row to Freeport in the Wisconsin state league series ending today. Olson started and left after five innings, giving up seven hits and three walks with a single strikeout. La Crosse managed eight hits and scored two runs in the defeat.
Beloit defeated Green Bay 6 to 1 in Beloit Wisconsin with Batteries Bubser Johnson Stremmel and Connor contributing. An errorless game in Oshkosh saw Wausau win 0 to 0 against Oshkosh in the same June 20 action.
C Dangel of Baraboo fell into a well at the Carl Graner farm in Greenfield township and dropped ninety four feet. After a first rescue rope broke, a second rope lowered him another fifty feet before securing his safety. He celebrated by buying beer for onlookers.
A Sunday storm caused Root river flooding raising fears of bridge failure between Hokah and Brownsville and cut traffic between the two towns. Trains on the Milwaukee and Northwestern lines largely returned to schedule after washouts and landslides.
Police and detectives concealed details as they followed leads after a burglary at 144 South Fifteenth Street. The entry occurred June 5 with one thief inside and another outside, stealing silverware plate a watch and $10 cash valued at about $500. Chief Byrne confirmed a burglary occurred.
Sixteen enumerators led by City Clerk Joseph Sieger begin census work in the city with 16 ward assignments listed for counting residents. Rain and storm damage cut telegraph and railroad links, destroying structures but causing no reported human casualties.
The south eighty feet of the Trane property at Fifth and Jay streets was sold yesterday by James A. Trane to B. E. Edwards for 6500 dollars. The sale excludes the corner lot where the Trane Heating building stands.
Seven students will graduate from St. Marys Catholic church with diplomas at the Wednesday evening June 28 ceremony in the school hall. The graduates are Louis Euler Joseph Weisman Ida Woessner Elizabeth Mueller Alice Fries Antoinette Boeckmann and Victoria Semsch.
Fred Luedke, divorced from Anna Luedke, was arrested yesterday and jailed for failing to pay the court ordered $25 monthly alimony to his ex wife.
Damage from Sunday's storm at Prairie du Chien was heavy and enormous and has not yet been fully assessed.
A busy watch factory worker credits a diet change with Grape-Nuts to reversing a slow decline. He abandoned heavy meals and tea or coffee, adopted Grape-Nuts with cream, fruit, and whole wheat bread, and reports rapid relief, steadier nerves, sharper concentration, and healthier weight. The testimonial is attributed to Postum Co. of Battle Creek, Michigan.
Colby wiring services advertised with 605 Main address. Local events include a June convention launch on the Mississippi for Universalists and various society notices. Deserter Johnson to stand court martial at Fort Snelling. Miss Ruby Hemingway attends wedding events with Dr Fowler.
William M. Graham a well known attorney who moved from Superior Wisconsin to Grand Rapids Michigan shot himself early yesterday He had been suffering insomnia and nervous breakdown and was said to be temporarily deranged The notice notes his Sparta origin and a Wisconsin connection to West Superior and La Crosse legal circles
Neenah Wisconsin June 20 Workers uncovered the old National hotel office safe buried in the fire ruins. Opening it yielded negotiable notes totaling $1,000 that were not scorched. Former manager Geo Reid now of Minneapolis explains he believed books and papers were destroyed.
Senator Thomas Morris returned from Madison and said the offer of a $40,000 site for the new normal school is now in the hands of the board of regents and will be considered at its earliest opportunity.
Billed as a practical application of nature cure, the advertisement promises thorough cures for gall and kidney stones, bladder gravel, liver and spleen swellings, and stomach and bowel diseases. It credits F. Wild, professor of nature cure, at 1502 Market Street.
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