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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1905
Page
2
Dr Ramally of Melrose was brought to St Francis hospital in La Crosse yesterday. He suffers throat trouble and it is not known if an operation will be needed. His wife J Jones and Jas McClelland accompanied him and returned home yesterday.
The Wiscon sin Lighting and Power plant has a new Fairbanks Morris steel track scale with 80 ton registering capacity now fully installed. E R Brown, a scale fitter from St Paul, led the installation with several assistants.
The North Side band, organized earlier as the La Crosse band, is improving rapidly and now capable of rendering good music. It holds rehearsals at the Argus office corner and has eight members recently. Some members have played with the Onalaska band, and the group is expected to be creditable.
Excur sion tickets to the popular resort Clear Lake Iowa sold Saturdays with return limited to Monday. Apply to Chicago and Northwestern railway agents. Follow the crowds to the Bijou.
Short items note Mrs C Nagle at 625 Mill street offering confectionery and furnished rooms with or without board. Theodore Beutler, Rose street grocer, travels to Milwaukee as best man for Henry Knopf to wed there. Also listed are mill wood, coal company ads, Prairie du Sac guest visits, a house and store for sale to be moved, and Ca ledonia street residents visiting Stoddard.
William J. Bryan delivered an ad dress at the Chautauqua in Oklahoma City after a parade in his honor. The report notes a bank closure in Forestville due to a Fredonia National Bank failure and mentions transit improvements from new fast trains and a bankers’ meeting in Excelsior.
Salvation Army commander Miss Eva Booth arrived in Chicago from New York and spent the day in the Wellington hotel. She praised the western heart as warmer and easier to reach, noting potential in Chicago for work and a future building for assisting working women similar to the New York project cost at seventy thousand dollars.
In Bloomington Illinois the Boosters’ club meets Sundays at 9 30 am in a cigar store. Members vote for a church to attend morning service and then march as a group to the chosen edifice. Each member contributes one dollar to the collection. The club has fifty five members making the fund distribution a key item for the selected church.
Rev J G Rawlings is in custody amid fears of lynching after Alf Moore testifies he was paid $100 to recruit Moore as a killer for the Rawlings family feud. Moore implicates Rawlings and his three sons Jesse Milton and Leonard in the killings of the Carter children Willie and Inez and the wounding of Eunice, with the house set ablaze.
Rudolph Lehman's Recollections portrays Bulwer Lytton and Edward Bulwer Lytton as aristocratic figures. It details Bulwer's elegance and aging struggle and Lytton's dyed hair, snuff habit, and deafness hindering his ambitions.
Very low rates to Niagara Falls New York for Nobles of the Mystic Shrine tickets on June 17 18 and 19 with favorable return limits apply to agents Chicago and Northwestern Ry.
In New York City a $2.5 million contest hinges on whether Wallace Andrews and his wife died April 7, 1899 in a house fire. If the wife survived, the institute can receive only $1.25 million under 1860 law. if not, the full $2.5 million goes to the Andrews Institute for Girls. The will is probated and the dispute centers on survivorship and the charity portion.
St. Petersburg reports Russia has no objection to August 1 as the date for the plenipotentiaries meeting per Japan’s suggestion. Dispatches note no official armistice exchanges, doubts about hostilities suspension, and hints of preliminary talks between Linevitch and Oyama without confirmation. The front news suggests the Japanese advance has begun.
In Logan Ohio on June 21 two women and a 10 year old boy faced five blacksnakes found by Willie Stone at the Smith Chapel school house. The largest snake measured 8 feet 4 inches. The trio locked the door and after almost an hour of fighting with clubs they killed all five serpents.
Philadelphia Stock Exchange warns members against negotiating certificates bearing the name Benjamin H. Gaskill or Gaskill & Co. A raised 100 share Philadelphia Traction certificate, once worth about 10 000 dollars, sparked a scandal involving hundreds of thousands and possibly nearly a million dollars in spurious trades. E C Miller & Co. uncovered the irregularity after transferring a customer account. The Gas Kill estate administrators are investigating and promise a statement.
In Cologne on June 21 a large crowd gathered when police ordered eviction for unpaid rent at Chlodwig's flats. Stones flew from windows and rioters clogged the street for six hours, with about twenty injured including two severely.
The Chicago and Northwestern railway issues a valuable omnibus of Northwest railway history from the Indians ceding the last territory east of the Mississippi to the present day. Over one hundred pages cover the roads forming The Northwestern Line, well printed in strong paper covers, postpaid for ten cents. W. B. Knisern, P. T. M., Chicago.
The La Crosse Tribune positions itself as the city’s champion, asserting it alone serves the interests of residents and seeks to reflect their concerns.
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