24 Sep 1913
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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1913
Page
1
A large crowd filled the grandstand and exhibition grounds on opening day. The flying exhibition promises spectacular stunts by aviator Charles F. Niles today as part of the fair activities.
The fair attracted a record crowd with many prize competitors. In the opening heat two drivers, A H Steadman and Austin Flynn, were thrown after colliding as the field neared the wire. Flynn suffered a broken leg while Dick S. finished the heat after a wide dash. Shomboy won the heat with Aplomb and King Alton following. King Alton newly entered. Time 2 21 on a heavy track after rain.
La Crosse day opened the week of the La Crosse Interstate fair with about 6000 attendees. Despite a chilly, cloudy day, the grounds filled after noon as the grand stand neared a sellout. Attractions outnumbered prior years with new shows and a busy motor drome drawing crowds all day. Secretary Van Auken greeted visitors as events ran on time and vendors amplified the fair’s festive noise. A Dalvis acrobatic free exhibition complemented aero plane flights and races on the platform before the grand stand.
Yesterday's temperatures ranged high 61 and low 59 with .04 inches precipitation. Forecasts for La Crosse region call for unsettled weather with showers tonight or Thursday and a colder trend. Wisconsin and Minnesota expect showers and colder conditions with brisk winds, while Iowa faces unsettled skies and shifting winds. Central U.S. high pressure and a low pressure area from the upper Mississippi valley to California shape ongoing unsettled conditions with rain in parts of Kansas, Wisconsin, and eastern Minnesota.
Albany Sept 24 William Sulzer the impeached New York governor faces trial as the senate impeachment court rules to hear full testimony. Judge Cullen reserves decision on motions to strike pre oath charges with a 49 to 7 vote approving proceeding. Sulzer’s answer denies all allegations except admitting receipt of campaign contributions.
The Wisconsin railroad commission grants a one month delay in enforcing improvements at E. C. Swarthout’s West Salem lighting plant. Swarthout, ordered six months ago to modernize, asked for the postponement and aims to comply. West Salem residents say the plant is primitive and powered by water. The order requires a new dam dynamos switch board and new poles.
Three servants escaped death by minutes when the Blodgett mansion of lumberman and Republican committeeman John W. Blodgett burned in Grand Rapids Michigan. The blaze caused an estimated fifty thousand dollars in losses.
The Eastern Body of the Reformed Church votes to accept a local offer of site and cash for a new school. The decision follows discussions at a synod meeting, outlining terms and anticipated community impact.
The Eastern Synod voted to relocate the church seminary, the Mission House, from Sheboygan to La Crosse. Local supporters must still gain Central Synod approval this week before any prospect of moving to this city. A $30,000 fund and a site are sought, with tonight’s meeting to appoint canvassing subcommittees and resume fundraising despite fair week distractions.
Chicago dispatch reports the American Packers association rejects government subsidies or paternalism to boost cattle raising. A $50 million loan plan was dropped, and beef supply relief ideas like stocking western ranges with steers were dismissed. James Craig of Detroit was to be elected president. Washington outlines a meat-boost plan featuring municipal abattoirs, small-farmer stock raising, cooperative livestock groups in New England and the South, and boys' livestock clubs. Congress backs the Smith-Lever extension to aid small farmers in cattle production.
Aviator Roland Garros completed a 600 mile journey from St. Raphael near Nice to Bizerte Tunis in seven hours and 53 minutes. A wireless dispatch reported the arrival at 1 45 p m yesterday afternoon.
Plano Illinois observed National Farmers Congress day with the town's harvester factories closing and employees granted a holiday.
The La Crosse fair track hosts four days of racing with 2:22 pacing and 2:13 trot events. Rob Roy driven by J C Haley set a 2:09 pace potential fastest on the grounds, while Meto Exall Mabel Riser and Cory Kilbert race through heats. Weather kept clouds low but track conditions yielded faster times than expected.
The Oregon Industrial Welfare commission declares every adult woman clerk in mercantile establishments must earn at least 9.25 dollars a week after November 23, with apprentices exempted. It bans shifts longer than eight hours and twenty minutes daily or more than fifty hours weekly, and limits work after 6 p m except on Christmas season Saturdays.
Prof. W. R. Hemmenway former principal of La Crosse High School died suddenly in St. Paul at age 63 after 23 years guiding the La Crosse public schools. He studied at Bowdoin and began teaching in 1877 rising to principal in 1885, with many La Crosse business leaders among his former pupils. He is survived by a brother, Ralph Hemmenway.
Grace Cooke a young society woman and automobile racer is said to have evaded divorce papers. Officials attempted service as she leaped into a car then onto her yacht and fled at high speed. A pursuing cutter failed to catch her.
In Des Moines Iowa two newspaper workers Richard Tillotson aged 40 and Howard Whitten aged 28 died when the blind horse pulling their wagon fell off a forty foot embankment onto Rock Island tracks just before dawn Both men were married and employed as stereotypers at a local newspaper
Police tie a series of hotel hold ups to Joseph Ellis of Richmond as the Shalansky murder case unfolds. Victims were Jewish second-hand clothing dealers, and evidence includes a Louisville watch pawned here. A Danville girl, Audra Baker, 16, shot herself after claiming marriage to Ellis. Detectives probe her claimed identity and Roy Anderson alias.
A secret conference in Belfast with 600 unionists, led by the Marquis of Londonderry and Sir Edward Carson, approved a constitutional provisional government for Ulster to resist Irish home rule if the bill becomes law. It states the government will repudiating and resisting the Dublin parliament and take over Ulster’s government in trust for the British nation.
Danville Illinois residents faced a citywide scare as a mad dog roamed the business district biting seventeen people and numerous horses and dogs before vanishing. Police and armed citizens conducted an extensive search for the animal as it remained at large.
The Great American hen is blamed for rising living costs in New York as hens reportedly strike. Nearby eggs were quoted at 65 cents a dozen, a season high, reflecting market tightness in this period.
Police in Manitowoc Wisconsin announce the holding of a suspect believed connected to a triple murder and robbery at J. M. Thompson’s jewelry store in Grand Rapids Michigan on Saturday. Thompson and two clerks were shot during the heist.
A quick action by a father near a machine at Gays Mills saved a young child from injury. Neighbors hailed the prompt rescue as the boy avoided harm despite a risky moment by the equipment. Authorities reminded guardians to monitor machinery and keep children away from work areas.
Ruby Nelson three, daughter of Joan Nelson of Gays Mills, was nearly amputated when a mower struck her right leg while playing near her home. Father lifted the machine and found her, then rushed her to Prairie du Chien hospital where doctors joined arteries and vessels to save the leg as she slept under anesthesia.
Madison Wis Sept 24 The railroad commission dismissed G F Andrews complaint seeking a De Soto depot move The panel ordered improved train service between Madison and Kilbourn The St Paul road was instructed to stop the Olympian at Kilbourn in the morning or restore the morning train between New Lisbon and Portage
Russell Landale, attorney for Mrs Catherine Ketham Blake, confirms she was served with a $1,000,000 alienation suit against Dr Joseph A Blake, prominent surgeon, as Clarence Mackay’s Europe departure dominates society chatter.
A coroner's inquest in Edna Kansas will sit to determine how Mrs C B Littleton, wife of a former Methodist minister who is missing, died. An inquest held after her death on June 29 ruled she killed herself by hanging.
Fair visitors Miss Mary Fuller and Alfred J. Kies both of Marion Michigan wed at Judge Leonard Kleeber’s home 109 North Sixth street. They will stay for the fair this week and return to Marion to reside. Miss Fuller a telephone girl and Kies a rural mail carrier.
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