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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1913
Page
8
In Sparta Wisconsin on May 19 the third victim Mrs Alice Wilson died from three bullets fired by her father William Hogue in a spree that also killed his wife and wounded her husband Guy Wilson before Hogue killed himself. Guy Wilson was expected to recover.
About four hundred Norwegians gathered for the ninety ninth anniversary of Norwegian independence with readings of Norse sagas. Professor Gisle Bothne of the University of Minnesota spoke on Norway and its history. Norden band and Norman ma Saengerkor played Norse airs as attendees pledged funds for a US Norse centennial effort and a lunch followed the program.
The Chautauqua promised for La Crosse in July under Associated Charities has been cancelled due to insufficient subscriptions to cover expenses. Miss Winnifred Salisbury announced the cancellation today. The board meets tomorrow at 7 in the city hall to discuss funding and paying Miss Lee, who has served as assistant secretary for six months without pay.
Plans are under way for Frank Gotch to meet Stanislaus Zbyszko for the world championship in Madison Square Garden New York City in June. George Barton Daily News sports editor reports talks are in progress.
Congressman John J. Esch provides memorial tablets cast from Maine wreck metal to Sparta Baraboo Neillsville and La Crosse for libraries or soldiers monuments. Two more requests have been filed for Black River Falls and Viroqua. The 123 by 18 inch 15 pound plaques depict a female figure before a marine scene and the sinking of the Maine.
John Paulus a 50 year old pool hall owner followed his divorced wife home after a shopping trip and shot her twice in the left hip and arm. Believing her dead he then killed himself with a revolver. The woman was hospitalized but expected to recover.
Charles M. Schwab, chairman of Bethlehem Steel, testifies at the government suit hearing. He traces his steel career beginning in 1880 and details his roles and 1903 resignation from U S Steel. He recalls two failed attempts to sell U S Steel to Standard Oil, involving Carnegie, Frick, Rogers, and a $320 million option.
Wisconsin fishermen gain the right to begin fishing May 30 under a new law that moved the season opening from June 1 for game fish to the earlier date to use the holiday for sport.
L F Easton sold three lots in Hillview Place Addition to Gottfried Marquardt for 800 dollars. Deed recorded by Register of Deeds Andrew Thompson.
Chicago May 1. The hunt for the fourth fugitive in the 1912 Bank of Montreal vault heist at New Westminster B C resumed after the arrest of three Chicago saloon keepers charged with passing stolen Canadian bank notes. Michael Flannigan, the alleged go between and distributing agent, is held on five thousand dollars bond. William J Lawler and Charles O Leary remain jailed without bond. Lawler and O Leary admit Flannigan supplied the money though they claim they did not know its source.
Sparta Wisconsin May 19 police seek Frank Slabach after he abandoned his family following a weekend spree. He worked in a LaCrosse sand house and boarded with Mrs. Kerrigan, left a board bill and wages nearly $30, returned, apologized, then disappeared after reappearing. Local officers widen inquiries across the northwest for his whereabouts. The Royal Theater in Sparta plans enlargements adding vaudeville acts while keeping pictures. James W. Snedden returns from British Columbia and St Paul. his wife’s cigar company bankruptcy shadows his home life. his mortgaged car is up for sale.
Ernest Bey of 1435 Redfield street tried to drown himself in the Mississippi river after the deaths of his wife Mary on tuberculosis and his son Robert from illness within a month. A fishing party of boys stopped him, and he was placed in his brother’s custody after the incident. Frank Kreutz and John Tikal prevented the act near Swift creek by Gund's brewery.
A southbound St Louis and San Antonio passenger train collided head on with a freight near Austin, Texas. Fireman J. H. Reitz of San Antonio died. Injured include engineer Ed Hammond, Will Monahan conductor, and Captain J. H. Rogers marshal among others. fifteen passengers were bruised. Injured were taken to a local hospital.
Paymaster John S Hoggin told the senate territories committee that 250000 tons of coal are burned annually on the Pacific coast all shipped from Norfolk and Baltimore. He warned that in war the government would need almost all colliers paralyzing private industry. David Boyd noted tests show Alaska coal satisfactory and the cruiser Maryland conducting full experiments.
A Wednesday storm toppled stone coping from the church southeast cornice, sending debris to the ground. The unoccupied building, long linked with former pastor Reverend Pugh and local church shifts, may be sold after the Baptist association's dissolution. Citizens eye remodeling into a theater or potential city hall.
Joe Konkle was fined $12.50 by Judge Edward Cronon in municipal court after pleading guilty to a disorderly conduct charge.
In Detroit 700 delegates representing ten billion dollars in capital and about seven million workers gathered as the National Manufacturers Association opened with a full debate on Wilson administration policy including tariff topics, despite prior bans on such discussion.
Charles Brodick of 409 Oakland avenue was arrested on embezzlement charges from a Milwaukee laundry where he served as collector. Police expect to take him for a hearing after alleging he misappropriated about $20.
In London reports, Chrissobel Pankhurst and fellow militants in Paris are likely to leave the French capital to avoid extradition. They have lived in Paris since last May while publishing Suffragette, with others exiled in France amid British government pressure. France would warn them to depart if harboring conspirators against the United Kingdom.
Horace Gree ley Burt longtime railroad leader and former Union Pacific president from 1898 to 1904 died at Oak Park hospital after an operation. He had recently advised Chicago on smoke abatement and spent a year in Asia with the trans Siberian railroad project. Born Terre Haute Indiana in 1849.
Attorneys for Republican candidate Lewis Rinaker demand a grand jury probe amid sensational charges of ballot fraud and tampering raised during the recount in progress. They allege 5 000 votes disappeared, straight ballots penciled for Hoyne altered, and 100 voting machines with broken seals, claiming fraudulent votes could sway outcomes in a tightly divided city.
Aggie School announces a road improvement project named Fey to benefit county highways. The plan emphasizes betterment of local transportation and improved drainage and surface quality.
Frank E Balmer of the school announced a state alfalfa inspection tour and a good roads special will travel Thursday across the county. The auto train will map routes to reach many fields, noting rough spots for repair and documenting both poor and thriving alfalfa stands. Upon return, visitors will see an experimental alfalfa crop grown under scientific conditions with explanations from the Alaska School staff.
In Newark on May 19, Jacob Dum Seeley Davenport is charged with sending threatening letters to President elect Wilson. United States attorney John B. Vreeland presides. The letters allegedly ordered Seeley to leave 50 000 in gold in a cabin in the mountains. The letters were not sent to the president elect but circulated through Tumulty. The defendants are illiterate and of limited means.
Federal officer A. E. Dydell of the United States Indian Service seeks a Miss Steele in Perkins South Dakota for a case against her father. She has not been heard from in a year. last known near Caledonia Minnesota.
Report notes H. H. Cunnen and Hoyne deny knowledge of fraud by associates and suggest rumors of autoists circulating on election day threaten Hoyne’s safety in the city during the recount period.
New York four police inspectors convict ed last week on conspiracy were assigned prison work on Blackwell's Island. Sweeney becomes baker Hussey makes mattresses Martha broom manufacturer Thompson shoemaker.
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