Strike Enlarges as Lumber Firms Hit by Walkout
Chicago May 23 Teamsters employed by eighteen lumber firms struck this morning, swelling the total on strike to about eight hundred. A mayoral conference sought a way to resolve the dispute over drivers who violated contracts while the express companies refused concessions. A second meeting was planned as police and deputies prepare to reinforce the lumber district with two hundred extra deputies sworn in.
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Scripps-McRae Dispatch
Chicago
Express
Dunne
Levy Mayer
Barry
O'Neil
Barrett
Report claims Rojestvensky death under Saigon dispatch
Paris May 23 A circulating report says the admiralty has information from Saigon that Admiral Rojestvensky is dead.
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Paris
Admiralty
Saigon
Rojestvensky
Front dispatch reports illness of General Kaulbars
A front dispatch says General Kaulbars, commander of the second Manchurian army, is ill and will return to Russia. It also notes Admiral Parenger is named to head the fourth Baltic fleet, ordered to sail east on June 14.
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ST. Petersburg
Kaulbars
Russia
Parenger
Standard Oil denies La Crosse office plans
W W Holcomb of the Standard Oil company says no option has been taken on the Beck property at Fourth and Main nor any plan to build an office building there or on any Main street site. He condemns rumors as groundless and imagination of certain progressive citizens. The rumor stems from legal professionals familiar with the case and concerns a proposed Standard Oil office in La Crosse.
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Standard Oil Company
Beck
Fourth
Main _ streets
Main Streets
W. W. Holcomb
Standard Oil
la Crosse
Cabeztla pleads guilty in embezzlement case judge sentences ten years
Scripps-McRae Dispatch reports in San Francisco that Edward Smith, San Francisco’s tax collector, pleaded guilty to embezzling $15,000 and was sentenced to ten years in prison.
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Scripps-McRae Dispatch
San Francisco
Edward Smith
John Riley Gets 20 Days Vagrancy Sentence
A judge orders John Riley, a vagrant, to twenty days in jail for vagrancy after a review of the case. The action was recorded in the court docket and notes the defendant’s status as transient.
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John Riley
Eastoto
Judge Day
Polish Society Excursion Plans Summer Visit to Winona
The Winona Polish society will host an excursion to La Crosse this summer, now planned for June 4. Local Polish groups will organize entertainment and a large city picnic is expected at a well known picnic garden.
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Winona
la Croses
Illinois Sportsmen hold first day of diamond badge shoot
Lincoln, May 23. Two hundred marksmen attend the Illinois Sportsmen's association first day of shooting for the $1,000 diamond badge. The event continues Thursday while Richard Ray and Russel James plan to travel to Portland, Oregon for the Lewis and Clark Exposition opening. They will be guests of Willis E. Brindley of Lincoln, connected with the Lewis and Clark Press Bureau.
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Scripps-Mckae Dispatch
Lincoln
Ill
Illinois Sportsmen’s Association
Richard Ray
Russel James
Portland
Ore
Willis E. Brindley
Lewis & Clark Press
Merchants Trust Seized by Bank Examiners in New York
Examiner Judson assumed control of Merchants Trust Company at 10 o clock this morning amid news that the bank would likely weather the crisis. Samuel Untermeyer, state bank official, said the trouble should be temporary and the firm could pull through.
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NEW Vv
Scripps-McRae Dispatch
New York
State Bank
Samuel Untermeyer
Trust Company
Johnson Attack with Fork Leaves Wife in Shock
Oscar L Johnson 20 a painter on upper Pine street attacked his wife with a label fork after returning home at six. She fled to a neighbor, he pursued and threatened to kill her, then turned the fork on himself injuring little. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to ninety days in jail. The wife suffered shock. injuries from the fork were minor.
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Oscar L. Johnson
Upper Pine Street
Johnson
Himsel
Brindley
Kron Prinz Wilhelm reports Sunbeam near Sandy Hook
A wireless from the Kron Prinz Wilhelm 817 miles east of Sandy Hook places Lord Brassey’s yacht Sunbeam at sea yesterday. The message notes the Atlantic position four hours earlier and 90 miles east of the prior report. A La Crosse Stone Cutters signed note claims local work not meeting specs. They allege the stone is not cut and that only Chicago "scabs" did some work. The council allegedly required local cutters and officials fail to meet mandates.
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Scripps-McRae
New York
Lord Brassey
Sunbeam
Sandy Hook
Supposed Priest Robbery At Green Bay Church
In Green Bay on May 23 a man dressed as a priest prayed at St Peter and Paul's church then fled. Silverware used in the mass and other church property were missing afterward. Also noted is a rejected Minneapolis planing mill job order and only two men supplied. A cook position at the Sparta state school remains unfilled.
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Green Bay
Wis
St. Peter and Paul's Church
Minneapolis
Free Employment Bureau
Sparta
Two Men Suffer Fatal Suffocation in Flour City Hotel Fire
Minneapolis May 23 Frank Elliott and another man died when a fire partially consumed the Flour City hotel this morning. The identities of the second victim were not immediately known.
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Minneapolis
Frank Elliott
Flour City
Assassin Mystery Deepens as Inquest Resumes
May 23 report states the assassin of Hon. Daniel S. Terry remains at large but is likely to be identified soon. The coroner's inquest reopened this morning with the public excluded and a circumstantial link to a prominent Savannah businessman gaining traction.
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Scripps-McRae
Savannah
Daniel S.terry
Railroad Fire Costs $125,000 in Muskegon
Muskegon Michigan May 23 Fire at midnight destroyed the Pere Marquette round house and machine shop and several engines. Loss estimated at 125000 dollars.
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Scripps-McRae
Muskegon, Mich
Pere Marquette Round House
New Gasoline Tricycle Demonstrated in La Crosse
One of the new gasoline motor railway tricycles was shown in La Crosse yesterday. J. F. Stein of Chicago arrived with the machine for a Northwest ern tour inspection. The tricycle runs on an automobile principle and is said to reach about fifty miles per hour.
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la Crosse
J. F. Stein
Chicago
Northwestern
Actor goes to jail after Beaver Dam arrest
WaukeshaWis May 23 F W Orr alias John Reynolds actor who recently played here was arrested at Beaver Dam on a charge of enticing Ida Thornton daughter of Henry Thornton from her home Orr was brought to this city and locked up in the county jail The class memorial at the university commencement at Madison this summer will be read by Jesse E Higbee of this city The exercises will begin June 17th.
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Waukesha
Wis
F. W. Orr
John Reynolds
Beaver Dam
Ida Thornton
Henry Thornton
Orr
Madison
Jesse E. Higbee
Former post office official convicted of conspiracy
August W. Machen once head of free delivery in the post office department pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the government. Linked with George E. Lorenz of Toledo and William C. Crawford of Washington, Machen was sentenced to two years in Moundsville penitentiary to start after his current sentence.
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Scripps-McRae Dispatch
Washington
W. Machen
Post Office Department
Geo. E. Lorenz
Toledo
Wm. C. Crawford
Machen
Moundsville
Travelers to Oshkosh Grand Council Trip Details
La Crosse Council of United Commercial Travelers plans a two hundred member turnout for the Grand Council in Oshkosh on June 8 9 and 16. The group departs at noon, stays through the convention, and aims to secure the 1906 convention for La Crosse via a fundraising ball and musicale.
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Dana
la Crosse
United Commercial Travelers
The
Order
Oshkosh
Travelers
Appleton
Milwaukee
City Coal Contracts Let by Public Works Board
The board of public works opened bids for the coming year. La Crosse Coal Company awarded 1 500 tons to the city pumping station at 4.29 per ton. Whitebreast Coal Company to deliver 160 tons to engine houses and city hall at 5.30 per ton. Cargill Coal Company awarded 160 tons for fire stations at 3.35 per ton.
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Board of Public Works
la Crosse Coal Company
Whitebreast Coal Company
Cargill Coal Company
Marriage License Issued to Charles E Randall and Linda Schafer
A marriage license was issued today by the county clerk to Charles E Randall and Miss Linda Schafer, both residents of the city.
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Charles E. Randall
Linda Schafer
Madison Assembly Advances Mortgage Tax Bill to 45-36 Margin
The Wisconsin assembly moved the mortgage taxation bill 45 to 36, requiring lenders to pay or shift tax to mortgagor. if evaded, mortgage becomes null and void and unusable in recovery suits. Governor La Follette sent four messages on various bills as the Senate calendar held 14 items, with 9 over, 2 killed, and 3 advanced.
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Special Tribune Dispatch
Madison
Wis
Assembly
la Follette
Milwaukee District Court
Milwaukee
Senate
Printers in La Crosse adopt eight hour day pact
Papers and job offices in La Crosse sign agreements under a general movement to limit work to eight hours per day with pay for extra time. The accord, supported by newspapers and job houses, aims to prevent labor strife during the transition.
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la Crossé
Fire Destroys Mules at St Louis Stock Yards
Four hundred mules burned to death in East St Louis at the National Stock Yards early today. Loss estimated at $100,000. Stables owned by Crouch and Sparks Brothers consumed by blaze.
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Scripps-McRae Dispatch
ST. Louis
National Stock Yards
East St. Louis
Crouch & Sparks Brothers
Livermore Author Mary A Livermore Dies in Melrose
Mary A Livermore, famed author and lecturer, died at her Melrose home at 8 this morning after a period of bronchitis. The notable Massachusetts figure had long been active in public discourse and reform causes.
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Scripps-McRae Dispatch
Melrose
Mass
Mary A. Livermore
Dollar Difference in Rent Threatened Tragedy
In a dispute over a $1 rent difference between S. D. Buxton of South Eighth Street and constable Gus Slaughter, Slaughter drew a revolver and threatened violence. Buxton denies backing rent arrears and says he told Slaughter to vacate and to have papers served properly.
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S. D. Buxton
South Eighth Street
Gus Slaughter
Stair
Slaughter
Buxton
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