24 Jun 1911
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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1911
Page
1
The Tribune invites the lady to guess the identity of a prominent La Crosse citizen for a cash prize. The piece includes a church figure profile and several humorous local vignettes about wartime pranks, a controversial hospital story, and a newlywed couple eloping by train, all set in a strong local voice.
In Milwaukee the second Saengerbund concert drew nearly 4000 voices and a 126 member orchestra under a master hand. Mme Bernice De Mali performed from Ambrose Thomas and Lakme. A monster parade and picnic at Pabst Park await tomorrow with 30,000 band members.
Winnipeg June 24 Tayne Daly once served as a Canadian minister and had a brilliant career as a statesman and lawyer. He died today suddenly of heart failure.
Chester Morey of Denver testified before the Hardwick committee that H. O. Havemeyer supplied vast funds for Colorado beet sugar factories. He described a $360,000,000 capitalization for the Great Western Sugar company formed in 1905 with substantial Havemeyer and American Sugar Refining ownership. Morey credited Havemeyer with enabling the factories and said he consulted Havemeyer after 1902.
Reports from Constantinople on June 24 describe a violent cholera outbreak among Turkish troops in Yemen. The government vows to speed relief by rushing reinforcements to Gheesan to avert further disaster.
The Minneapolis executive board voted to drop Red Wing and Wausau from the Minny League, creating a six club circuit. Wausau agreed to exit upon a $300 forfeit. Remaining teams adjust schedules and rosters as new signings reshape the league.
A warrant was sworn out by Arthur Bell of 827 South Seventh street against George Creps proprietor of the Palm Leaf saloon at 114 North Third street charging him with assault and battery after Bell says Creps and his bartender attacked him unprovoked.
Rear Admiral Charles S. Norton, member of the investi gating commission on the Sampson Schley inquiry after the Spanish American War, died at his Westfield home today aged 75.
Louis and Mary Bon were arrested in Los Angeles and held in connection with the H. T. Reid jewelry store robbery in which diamonds valued at about $20,000 were stolen.
A Modera tion era report notes a pastor publicly endorsing beer drinking sparking community debate about church stance and temperance norms. The piece profiles local reactions and explores the implications for religious leadership and social conduct.
The German Lutheran synod of Wisconsin in session at Appleton hears Rev Kensier oppose prohibition and praise beer as no more harmful than bread. Delegates, including 400 from the convention, plan an afternoon river excursion aboard the La Crosse and will select next year’s convention site.
The Senate committee on territories with a 6 to 3 vote reports favorably on a joint resolution to admit New Mexico and Arizona. The plan keeps their admission contingent on local votes to amend the New Mexico constitution and to modify Arizona recall judge provisions, but allows admission regardless of those outcomes.
Racine Wisconsin hosts the first outdoor field and track meet of the Amateur Athletic Federation of Wisconsin at Lewis field. About 300 athletes arrive from Milwaukee Kenosha Ripon Beloit and Janesville for the two day event with teams from several southern Wisconsin cities.
Local police praised yesterday as the most orderly circus day on record. The chief said no usual gang members appeared, only one reported robbery, and detectives noted unusually calm crowds at Milwaukee Station with no sign of unruliness or drinking.
About fifty farmers from Houston and Winona counties met in La Crescent to organize subscription campaigns for the $10,000 La Crosse bridge fund. Committees in Brownsville Hoakah Union Mound Prairie La Crescent New Hartford and Dresbach will collect money, with $4,000 already raised and plans to reach the target by September. The group urged road work under county supervision and seeks state aid for roads feeding the bridge site, potentially totaling $40,000 in coming years.
At a Trades and Labor Council session last evening plans formed for the nineteenth annual Wisconsin Federation of Labor convention to be held July 19 at Knights of Pythias hall in this city. Mayor Dengler and other officials were invited to address the gathering. events include sessions, an automobile excursion, a banquet at Hotel Deering, and a public meeting on Friday. J J Wagner was elected delegate with a committee on arrangements named.
The Week Financial New York reports increases in excess lawful reserve by 18.65 million, loans by 44.59 million, specie by 11.93 million, legal tenders by 1.97 million, net deposits by 41.69 million, and circulation by 0.51 million. Total loans reach 1.959 billion with bank surplus at 86.98 million versus prior years.
The U S Circuit Court at St Louis ruled Union Pacific owns Southern Pacific in an antitrust suit about merging rail lines. The decision, announced before the market opened, sparked a sharp stock rise with Union Pacific and Southern Pacific up about three points in the opening hour and more gains across many shares.
Fourteen lumbermen association secretaries indicted by a federal grand jury on criminal conspiracy charges. They will be arraigned and allowed to surrender in their districts with bonds, and then appear before Judge Landis in Chicago for trial scheduled in November.
Washington June 24 officials in the department of agriculture report a crackdown on swindlers selling grain to farmers claimed to come from ancient tombs and of superior quality. Officials say wheat seed loses vitality after ten years and cannot be used as seed.
Five persons injured and one possibly fatally after a Longans Port car of the Indiana Union Traction company derailed last night in Kokomo. Officials opened an inquiry to determine the cause.
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals holds that the Harriman rail pool did not constitute a conspiracy and did not monopolize traffic, ending a long litigation battle.
The United States circuit court of appeals in St Louis upheld Edward H Harriman s billion dollar merger of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads with allied properties. The government s suit to dissolve the merger was dismissed with only Judge Hook dissenting that the merger was an illegal restraint of trade.
Weather outlook shows unsettled conditions with likely showers tonight or Sunday across Wisconsin Minnesota and Iowa. Cooler stretches in eastern Wisconsin and the plains meet a warm trend with rain lingering near Lake Superior and over the plains regions as high pressure sits over the Atlantic and Pacific slopes.
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