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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1906
Page
7
A money to loan offer lists diamonds and watches as collateral. The ad specifies Stevens at 510 Main Street as the contact point for the loan.
A detailed listing of prices for hardwood and hay products, grains, flour, milled feeds, pork, vegetables, and fruits. Entries include per cord, per ton, per bushel, per dozen, and per pound figures with ranges such as hardwood five dollars per cord and California navels four to five dollars, cucumbers eighty cents per bushel, and pork six to six fifty a pound.
Colonist low one way second class rates to San Francisco Los Angeles Portland Tacoma Seattle Boise City Spokane Walla Walla Ogden Salt Lake City Butte and other points via the Chicago Union Pacific North-Western Line February 15 to April 7 1906 inclusive. Attractive side strips at very low rates. Daily and personally conducted excursions in Pullman Tourist sleeping cars only 7.00 for double berth from Chicago through to the Pacific Coast without change of cars. Choice of routes. Excellent train service. Dining cars meals a la carte. For tickets and full information apply to agents Chicago & North-Western Ry.
The first U S citizen deported from England under the new immigration act arrived on the Consuelo. David J. Allen of Brooklyn was sent back for lacking the required $10, deemed necessary to avoid becoming a public charge under the law that mirrors U S standards.
Representative and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth have returned to Washington from Cuba after their wedding. They traveled in a private car attached to a Southern railway train and were met by Longworth's private secretary. They proceeded to their home on Eighteen Street as Longworth resumes duties at the Capitol.
Delegates at Algeciras reached partial agreement on a Moroccan bank project. The State Bank of Morocco is to be chartered for forty years with a capital of 8 million dollars in gold, divided among powers participating in the conference. Each power may subscribe its share directly or via a bank and will appoint a director and provide staff.
The steamship Mariposa reports a February tornado in the Society Islands causing about 1 million dollars in damage at Tahiti and likely similar losses in Tuamotu. Papeete suffered flooding and seventy five houses were destroyed including the American consulate and French buildings. Potential loss of life feared.
Christiania reports that several steamers were sent from Trondhjem to Giaesl and Ingerna islands to aid the fishing fleet. Returns indicate many ships afloat keel up and extensive wreckage. The fleet includes 1200 to 1400 sailors split across multiple boats.
Judge Benjamin F. Graves former Michigan supreme court chief justice died in Detroit at age 68. He served on the court from 1868 to 1875 and was the last survivor of the famed quartet including Cooley Campbell Christiancy whose decisions were widely cited in courts and law schools nationwide.
Roswell reports a two day prairie fire burning east and south across western Panhandle pasture lands near Portales. Widespread damage exceeds one million dollars with a head fifteen miles wide under a stiff wind. estimates from J P White of Yellow House ranch and L F Douthit, leading Southwest stock raiser, confirm the heavy loss.
Paris March 5 The government refuses to pardon Eliott F. Shepard grandson of W H Vanderbilt. His sentence is postponed to March 12 after renewed efforts to secure clemency. A separate incident saw Shepard run down and kill a French girl with his automobile.
Santa Fe reporters say Blas Otero and Salomon Aragon both confessed to killing and robbing Marcelino Carrenzo whose body was found in a mine hole near Jicarilla. The pair, aged 18, admitted securing about $600 in the crime.
Washington March 5 William Boyd Allison senior senator from Iowa and the oldest member in service marked his seventy ninth birthday He appeared well and youthful receiving congratulations from colleagues in congress and friends in Iowa and across the nation
In Helena Montana on March 5 Daniel B Jacobs withdrew his not guilty plea and pleaded guilty to sending lottery tickets by express from Butte to eastern cities. He was fined $500 by Judge William H Hunt. The defendant Henry L Haupt of Spokane will stand trial.
In a collision with the Virginia the largest steamer on the Ohio river capsized a rowboat at Mingo. Four men were aboard including Joseph Zerbe Belmont Brewing agent Gregory Maul broker Gerbhart Springer bricklayer. George Vischnich saloon keeper will die.
In Punxsutawney Pennsylvania on March 5 Mrs William Thomas a young matron from Eleanora near there killed herself by swallowing caustic potash. When a doctor arrived she threatened to kill him if he would not let her go home.
Rev. W. H. Strickland pastor of Spruce Street Northern Methodist Episcopal church in Nashville was run down and killed by a street car.
Bloomington Illinois March 5 William Leduc the farmer who shot and killed Chenoa mayor Charles Nickel and depositor Hugh Jones entered a guilty plea to murder and was sentenced to life in prison. The case had been slated for March 19 and the plea was unexpected.
In Indianapolis on March 5 former Mayor Holtzman condemned the Taggart administration at a Democratic county central committee reorganization. He lauded William J. Bryan as the man who has given the Republican party its Roosevelt and its La Follette.
Allegan Michigan March 5 suit filed against Henry A Dibble cashier of the Co Operative Grange store for misappropriating 20000 dollars. Judge Padgham issues injunction restraining disposal of Dibble s property.
Washington on March 5 reports that no more witnesses will be examined by the Senate committee on inter ocean canals until the canal type is chosen and further information is received to prepare a bill governing the zone and guiding Isthmian waterway construction.
Fire consumed the general office building of the Seaboard Air Line railway in Portsmouth, Virginia, leaving only the walls standing. No injuries are reported, and the cause is under investigation as firefighters battle remaining hotspots.
Monetary loss estimated at about 25000 while valuable road records and official papers were destroyed in the incident.
Washington March 5. William Loeb IIII infant son of the secretary to the president and Mrs Loeb was christened at the residence of Rt. Rev Henry Y Satterlee bishop of Washington. The president and Mrs Roosevelt acted as sponsors for the child.
Lester Grissom of near Bedford Indiana is in critical condition from a rare blood disorder. He bleeds from all parts of his body especially the mouth and gums with blood oozing through the flesh despite doctors attempts to control the flow.
Vandalia Newfoundland March 5 Rev Montgomery May pastor of the Presbyterian church at Vandalia was stricken with paralysis just after finishing a revival at Morrisonville. He lies in a precarious condition.
Damage from a March 5 rain torrent floods hundreds of acres between Rockport and Chrisney, Indiana. Water spans the Southern railroad corridor a mile wide with numerous washouts reported.
The inter-island transport Ingalls ran aground on Rapora reef off Luzon’s southern coast. It will probably be a total wreck. A battalion of the Twentieth Infantry aboard was en route to Manila to transfer to the Sheridan for the United States. No lives were lost.
Columbius March 5 Attorney General Ellis says an officer cannot arrest anyone seen spitting in cars or on sidewalks or anyone reported by another without a warrant. The opinion limits arrest authority to cases with lawful process and dismisses snap warrants for minor public offenses.
In St Louis on March 5 Judge Triber fined four carpenters district council members and their organizers for contempt of court. The aggregate fines with costs total $1,600 with individual penalties of $300 each.
The Duke of Connaught, during a tour of inspection in British South Africa, witnessed a war dance by 12,000 natives. The arming of such a crowd is described as unparalleled in peacetime.
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