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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1909
Page
1
Unclear text hints at Paynter proposing measures to protect producers from taxes. The fragment references untaxed sums and potential savings for agricultural or production interests, with insufficient details on scope or beneficiaries.
Senator Paynter of Kentucky denounces the American Tobacco Company as a merciless monopoly crushing rivals and pricing producers out of the market. He urges a law to empower the 1.5 million tobacco growers to sell to dealers and direct to consumers, without taxes, and to restore fair rewards to laborers and tenants.
The obituary notes the death of Rev W D Thomas with services expected to be held locally. Details on church affiliation and burial plans are not provided in the readable text.
Ministers and friends joined in a solemn Masonic service for Rev W D Thomas at the First Presbyterian Church. Grand State Secretary W W Perry led the rite, with a full program including readings by Rev D C Jones and Rev A Lincoln Shute, followed by interment at Oak Grove cemetery.
At Bonita Texas a passenger train derailed at the site of a freight wreck. The engineer was killed and the fireman severely hurt. Two flagmen watching the freight wreck were killed. Twenty passengers injured. one fatally hurt. Big gang clearing debris. wounded sent to St Joseph.
Sir Martin led the Welter Plate handicap at Newmarket, defeating eight rivals in his first English appearance. The strong victory cut his Derby odds to five to one as of today.
Albany dispatch reports fifteen persons killed in a quarry blast at the Callanan Roads Improvement Co. south of Bethlehem. Prepped for a 5000 pound dynamite blast, charges were wired for simultaneous detonation when a premature blast triggered others. The dead include John Callanan, general manager, Chas Callanan, Roy H. McMillan, John Mendricks on, Wm. Barnum, and John McGown.
Wilbur and Orville Wright face a hero’s welcome in New York with hundreds of letters and telegrams at Park Avenue hotel as they tour the city. They plan to return to Dayton tonight amid a festive homecoming, with a 30 member committee plus hundreds of friends awaiting them at Hawthorne Avenue.
Street car workers file a formal complaint over conditions and management policies. Union representatives allege unsafe practices and inadequate pay, asking for negotiations and a swift ruling. The dispute centers on operating hours, safety standards, and wage classifications.
Heads of car system and street railway employes met at the superintendent's office to review complaints. The group discussed being “called on the carpet,” early reporting times, and to hand in receipts, with officials signaling likely favorable adjustments in a day or two and no strike expected.
The douma appropriated 840,000 rubles for army improvements. Simultaneously news from the Kiev district reports severe famine across the province, highlighting the wartime strain on resources and civilians.
At least twenty five men died when a heavily loaded ferry sank in the Ohio River near McKees Rocks. A total of 56 were aboard. eight escaped, six rescued by John Dear in a small boat, and two swam to safety. Police boats recovered bodies as divers search the river bottom.
The Redpath-Vawter Chautauqua schedule reveals thirty five attractions from June 28 to July 4 in La Crosse. Key speakers include Geo R Laird Harvey Lutz and Champ Clark with events each afternoon and evening concerts by the Steele Entertainers Royal Hungarian orchestra and Chalmers Concert company.
Joh an Salvator titled long lost grand duke of Tuscany and cousin of the Austrian emperor, feared imprisonment and fled after agents visited Painesville. He left with $14.40 pay, boarded toward Cleveland, and explained liberty drives his wanderings amid claims to an immense estate and opposition from local authorities.
In Mariposa California authorities uncovered four skeletons in a well on Geo McCoy's farm suggesting a second death farm rivaling the Gunness case. A tunnel from the basement to the well was found and sealed. District Attorney Adair named Sam Wilson as a possible victim from 1877, though no body was ever located. McCoy died on the farm two years prior and was viewed as eccentric but harmless.
Wisconsin sees showers and thunderstorms tonight and Thursday with warmer conditions in the east and cooler in the west. Minnesota and Iowa forecast showers with cooler western areas, and a Thursday clearing in parts. The La Crosse area records 58 as coolest and 68 as warmest with 10 mph winds and trace precipitation. The river will continue to rise. stage of water not specified.
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