Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1902 — Page 2

THE JOURNAL. LESLIE CLARE, Ed. and Pub. MSNSSELAER, - INDIANA.

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Pug Ryan, said to have been the leader of a gang of desperadoes who killed two of a posse of officers several years ago, has been arrested at Cripple Creek, Col. He escaped from the Leadville jail recently with several other prisoners. He will be tried for murder. Edward Chapman, a farmer, was knocked from a trestle and instantly killed by a Northwestern train near Oskaloosa, lowa. , At Chillicothe, Mo., Harve Gibbons was shot and fatally wounded by his brother-in-law, John Galvin, the result of an old grudge. William T. Moore, a furniture dealer of Lowry City, Mo., was shot and fatally wounded by Thomas .1. Prosies, the result of a quarrel. Maggie Humphrey, a member of the “hay rack party” of high school pupils, who was injured in the runaway accident near Denver, is dead. At Lawrence, Kan., Mary Coop, a white woman, was killed by Charles Anderson, a negro restaurant employe. There were no witnesses to the crime. During a game of baseball at Bunker Hill, Pa., Pasquale Mohn and Antonio Parunni quarreled over a decision of the umpire, Parunni fatally shooting Mohn. Antonio Zambrana, the Costa Rican minister to Central America, is at present on a visit to President Zelaya of Nicaragua. A special horse train on the Big Four railroad was wrecked west of Bellefontaine, Ohio., killing Brakeman James Borden and severely injuring Engineer Daniel Kunkel and Fireman George Boyen. Emperor William has announced his intention to meet Queen Wilhelmina at Nieder Wesel, on the Rhine, when she is on her way to Castle Schaumberg in the valley of the Lahn, where she will pass the period A telegram from Postmaster General Payne to Secretary John M. True of the Wisconsin board of agriculture announces positively that President Roosevelt will spend Wednesday, Sept. 24, in Milwaukee, of her convalescence. Margaret Taylor, who was kidnaped from Cincinnati, 0., over four years ago, arrived in that city accompanied by her parents and her brother Edward, 3 years old. A special court assembled at Sligo, Ireland, under the crimes act, to try Patrick A. McHugh, M. P„ among a number of Irish leaguers, on the charge of conspiracy and intimidation In connection with the complaint of a tenant of a farm from which a leaguer had been evicted. Mr. McHugh did not appear and a bench warrant was irsued for his arrest. The rules of the St. Paul health department requiring the vaccination of children who attend the public schools were declared legal by the Minnesota supreme court. Fire destroyed the saw and planing mills of J. S. Bailey & Co. at McDonald, Ga., with 2,000,000 feet of lumber and seven freight cars. The loss is $150,000, with little insurance. C. J. Clay, a prominent planter of Lonoke county, Ark., was killed by a falling tree at his home. Almost complete returns from every eounty in Oregon give Chamberlain, Democrat, for governor 341 plurality. At the closing session of the sixth annual conference of the League of Wisconsin Municipalities Mayor Burt Williams of Ashland was chosen president. The Supreme Lodge of Mystic Workers of the World, in convention at Rockford, 111., adopted the reserve fund plan. Judge F. W. Holls of New York, who was formerly secretary to the American delegation to the peace conference at The Hague, will be received by Emperor William. Louis D’Auvignac, a brother of Mme. Humbert, who is concerned in the famous Humbert-Crawford lawsuit at Paris, has been arrested at Tunis. He hau been managing the Humbert property near Zaghwan, Tunis. Signor Riva, a professor of the University of Rome, and Count Gino Prinetti, a cousin of the Italian minister of foreign affairs, were killed in a landslide while ascending Mount Grig na, near Lake Lecco, Switzerland. Sir William James Richmond Cotton, Chamberlain of the City of London since 1892, is dead. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1875. Albert Weisenborn of Grand Rapids, Wis., committed suicide by shooting himself through the head while his wife was sitting on his lap. Furniture manufacturers at Grand Rapids decided by a vote of 10 to 6 that they would not go into the proposed furniture combine. John W. Baldwin, a leading politician, was arrested at Sedalia. Mo., charged with the murder of his brother-in-law, Samuel L. Lipscomb. Henry Besch, former register of St. JLouis, Was indicted, charged with accepting a bribe while in office. A warrant was issued for his arrest. The annual convention of the Travelers' Protective Association is in session at Portland. Ore. ■Hgw&jf&g, On }■ -‘-V ; rtr’JwW

The annual convention of the Western Federation of Miners at Denver adjourned, without date. Edward Boyce refused to serve as president and Charles Moyer of Lead, S. D., was elected. The family of Mr. Luvison, who were supposed to have been lost in a tornado near Sacramento, Neb., were found at a neighbor’s house. Mrs. Pennington and her daughter, who were injured seriously, are reported improving. The strike of the plumbers of Washington, which has been in force nine weeks, has ended. By the terms of the settlement there are to be two helpers to every three plumbers, and apprentices are to be counted as journeymen. Denver contractors refuse to take back any of the striking builders unless they agree to dissolve the building trades council. The men say they will not do this, and the situation now partakes of the nature of a lockout. Two full naphtha reservoirs and twenty-four boring shafts have been destroyed by fire at Romany,‘Russia. Plentiful rains in portions of South Australia and New South Wales have relieved the drouth and the outlook is now more hopeful. King Victor Emmanuel has presented Signor Giolitti, the Italian minister of the interior, with a life size portrait of himself in token of his esteem. Joseph Calvin, chief of police of David City, Neb., committed suicide by shooting himself. He was despondent because of failing health. Senor De Ojeda, the former Spanish minister to Morocco, has been gazetted minister to Washington in succession to the Duke de Arcos, who has been appointed minister to Belgium. B. J. De Cologan, former Spanish minister at Pekin, succeeds Senor De Ojeda at Tangiers. Dr. T. H. Storey, who disappeared from Duluth several weeks ago, has written to his wife from San Francisco that his mind has been a blank since leaving Duluth, and that he does not know how he reached California. At Austin, Texas, in a fit of jealousy, J. W. Waxier, a carpenter, cut his 15-year-old wife’s throat and then took his own life in the same manner. In Grant county, Ark., the 1-year-old child of J. E. Evans rolled from a bed. Its head was caught between the bed and a chair and the child was strangled to death. Charles Lewis, a member Qf a once prominent family in Buchanan county, Mo., was given a term of four years in the penitentiary for forging a check on the German-American Bank at St. Joseph, Mo. At the Wilburton coal mines, I. T., the 5-year-old child of Mrs. Nealy Warden was bitten by mine rats. It died soon after from loss of blood. Mrs. Bailey Bartlett, an original Daughter of the Revolution, is dead from pneumonia at Orange, N. J. Mrs. Sophia Gilman, aged 92, probably the oldest member of the Presbyterian church In southern Indiana, died at Evansville. Thepresident has nominated William B. Orear of Georgia, a contract surgeon in the United States army, to be assistant surgeon of volunteers with the rank of captain. Joseph Barth of Boonville and Robert Anderson of Blackwater, Mo., were killed and Engineer Mercer seriously hurt in a Missouri Pacific wreck at Nelson, Mo. Georgia Democratic primaries resulted in the nomination of J. M. Terrell for governor. A. S. Clay was renominated for United States senator for the four-year term. The dry kiln and carpenter shop of the factory of the Gould Manufacturing Company at Oshkosh, Wis., burned, causing $25,000 loss, on which there is $12,000 insurance. Two Illinois Central freight trains collided head-on between Galena and Portage, 111. Fireman Herbert Hart of Chicago was fatally scalded. William Simmons of Grayville, 111., while operating an edger in a sawmill was struck in the head by a piece of timber thrown back by the saw and fatally injured. The board of supervisors of La Crosse county, Wisconsin, voted to build a new courthouse which will cost when completed $135,000. An Issuance of bonds for that amount was provided. John F. Libbey, a farmer of Vinland, Wis., was fatally injured while building a fence. He was holding a stake while his son was driving it into the ground. The heavy maul slipped from the handle and struck Mr. Libbey on the forehead. A stranger aged about 45 years committed suicide by hanging while confined in the calaboose at Ludlow 111. Mrs. Belle Smith and her two small children were burned to death in their home at Hardin, Mo. Triple murder is suspected. The Rev. Henry Latham, master of Trinity Cambridge, is dead. He was born in 1821. Fire at Chetek, a summer resort near Chippewa Falls, Wis., caused a loss of $30,000. Colonel George R. Peck delivered the oration at the dedication of the new public library at Galesburg, 111. The library cost SBO,OOO, of which $50,*OO was given by Andrew Carnegie. A. J. Russell, speaker of the Mississippi house of representatives, who delivered the annual oration at the University of Mississippi Tuesday, was found dead in his room at Memphis. Death was caused by heart failure. Colombian revolutionists mined the town of Bocas ard blew up the government troops, who recaptured It. Colon and Panama are the only towns now controlled by the government. Street railway employes at Sheboygan, Wis., struck for higher wages and 1 all lines are tied up.

WEEK’S DOINGS IN CONGRESS

Business Transacted by the House and Senate in the National Capital. SENATORS DISCUSS THE CANAL Mr. Morgan Contends for the Nicaragua Route, White Mr. Hanna Holds That the Panama Course Is the Shorter and Better. Tuesday, June 3. The Senate passed the Philippine bill and took up the canal bill. The House resolution thanking Secretary of State Hay for his McKinley memorial address was agreed to. The executive session before adjournment was brief. In the House consideration of the anti-anarchy bill was begun. The House committee reported a substitute for the Senate measure. Mr. Ray (N. Y.), chairman of the judiciary committee, who was in charge of the bill, argued that the Senate bill was unconstitutional. Mr. Latham (Texas), supported the feature of the bill to exclude anarchists, but opposed that making it a particular offense to kill the President or anyone in the line of the Presidential succession. He argued that every man was equal before the law, and that existing laws were ample to punish the killing or attempted killing of the President. The conference report upon the rivers and harbors bill was agreed to. Wednesday, June 4. In the senate the bill authorizing the promotion and retirement of tlae present senior major general of the army, Major General John R. Brooke, was passed, as was a bill providing that the Postmaster General may extend free delivery to cities of 5,000 inhabitants or $5,000 gross income, instead of 10,000 inhabitants, as at present. A joint resolution empowering the state of Minnesota to file selections of indemnity school lands in Minnesota otherwise undisposed of, after the survey thereof in the field and prior to the approval and filing of the plat of survey thereof, was approved. Senator Morgan occupied the rest of the day with a speech on the canal bill. After a brief executive session the Senate adjourned. The debate on the anti-anarchy bill continued all day in the House. It was without sensational features, being confined almost entirely to the legal and constitutional phases of the question. Mr. Jenkins (Wis.) and Mr. Parker (N. J.) contended that the bill did not go far enough; that the killing of the President should be made punishable by death without any limitation whatever. Mr. Powers (Mass.) and Mr. Nevin (Ohio), the other two speakers, supported the measure as it came from the committee. The resolution calling upon the Secretary of War for a detailed statement of the expenditures made under the direction of General Wood during k's administration as governor general of Cuba was laid upon the table by a vote of 110 to 78. Thursday, June 5. The senate passed the military appropriation bill, providing for extensive improvements at West Point, and devoted the rest of the day to debate upon the canal bill. The customary executive session preceded adjournment. In the house the general debate on the anti-anarchy bill was ended except for two speeches. Mr. Littlefield (Me.) will make the closing argument in support of the measure. The debate was devoted to legal arguments, the speakers being Messrs. Sibley (Pa.), DeArmond (Mo.), Williams (Miss.), Wooten (Tex.), McDermott (N. J.), Loud (Cal.), Crumpacker (Ind.), Maddox (Ga.), Ball (Tex.) and Clark (Mo.). In closing his speech Mr. Sibley said: “In the strength of our purpose and endowed with the courage of our convictions, we will send to anarchy and all her brood the message that Garfield once delivered, when, upon the death of Lincoln, this nation was plunged in panic and despair, ‘God reigns, and the government at Washington still lives.’ ” Friday, June 6. In the senate the day was mainly occupied by debate upon the canal bill, a bill to pay $1,042 to Frank C Darling of Minnesota for damages done by the Sioux Indians, and a large number of private pension bills were passed. General debate on the anti-anarchy bill was closed in the house. The incident of the day was a speech by Mr. Richardson, an Alabama Democrat, condemning the President in severe terms for the references in his Memorial day oration at Arlington to the epithets applied to Lincoln and Grant during the civil war and for his illusions to lynchings. He declared the

Kills Wife and Mother.

Philadelphia special: Oscar Webb, colored, during a family quarrel, shot and killed his wife and her mother in Germantown, a suburb of this city. He then turned the revolver on himself and indicted a fatal wound.

/ Sale of Shorthorns. \Rolfe, lowa, dispatch: N. A. Lind sold fifty-three head of shorthorn cattle for over $40,000. Red Crest, a bull, topped the sale at $3,880, being sold to Beigler & Son of Hartwick, lowa.

President's remarks vloiated the proprieties of the occasion. Mr. Littlefield made a legal argument of an hour and a half in closing the debate on the bllL The section of the Senate bill providing a bodyguard for the President was stricken from the Senate bill as a precaution in case the House substitute failed. An effort was made to strike from the first section of the substitute the words limiting the crime of killing the President to the President in his official capacity, but the motion was lost, 63 to 89. Only one section had been disposed of when the house adjourned. By a vote of 100 to 72, cast on strict party lines, the resolution requesting information as to salary or other conpensation paid to General Wood during the occupation of Cuba was laid on uie table. Saturday, June 7. At the conclusion of routine bnsiness. Mr. Depew (N. Y.) addressed the senate in advocacy of the bill appropriating $10,000,000 for the purchase of 2,000,000 acres of land for a national forest reserve in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. Mr. Depew said the project was favored by President Roosevelt and by the secretary of agriculture, and federal action was justified fully by public necessity. No action was taken. The senate then began the consideration of the measure commonly known as the London dock charges bill. Mr. Nelson (Rep., Minn.), in support of the bill, said the charges made at the London docks against American flour, principally, were a discrimination against the United States. “God deliver us from trusts,” dramatically exclaimed Mr. Nelson, in response to a question by Mr. Macumber as to what effect a steamship trust would have on freight rates. The bill was then laid aside. Bills were passed as follows: To ratify act No. 65 of the Twenty-first Arkansas legislature, declaring the Osage river to be not a navigable stream above the point where the line between the counties of Benton and St. Clair, Missouri, crosses the river. At 2 o’clock consideration of the isthmian canal project was resumed. Mr. Mitchell (Ore.) addressed the senate in continuation of his speech, begun Thursday, in support of the Nicaragua route. After a brief executive session the senate at 4:42 adjourned. In the house, Mr. Cannon, chairman of the committee on appropriations, asked unanimous consent to consider a resolution to authorize the conferees on the sundry civil appropriation bill to insert in that bill the necessary appropriations authorized by the omnibus public building bill. He explained that about $6,000,000 should be appropriated in the sundry civil bill on account of the omnibus act which was signed Friday. There was no objection and the resolution was adopted. The anti-anarchy bill took up the rest of the day.

REPORTS ON MICHIGAN FARMS.

Total Value of Products Increases 75 Per Cent in Ten Years. Washington dispatch: The census bureau has issued a bulletin on the agriculture of Michigan showing that the farms of that state on June 1, 1900, numbered 203,261 and were valued at $582,517,710, of which amount 27 per cent pepresents the value of the buildings and 73 per cent the value of the land and improvements other than buildings. The value of farm implements and machinery was $28,795,380 and live stock $79,042,644, making the total value of farm property $690,355,734. The total value of farm products for 1899 was $146,547,681, of which 37 per cent represents the value of animal products and 63 percent the crops, including forest products. The total value of farm products exceeds that for 1889 by 75 per cent.

WISCONSIN SUNDAY SCHOOLS

State Association Elects Officers and Adjourns to Meet at Oshkosh. Portage, Wis., dispatch: The annual convention of the State Sunday School association adjourned to meet next year in Oshkosh. The officers elected were: President, S. B. Harding, Waukesha; vice-president, Prof. C. W. Treat, Appleton; secretary, Miss Anne Kurtz, Milwaukee; treasurer, Mr. Cappen, Milwaukee; superintendent primary work, Mrs. C. B. Jaeger, Portage; superintendent home department, Rev. W. A. McKillip, Waukesha; superintendent evangelistic department. Rev. J. T. Chynoweth, Sheboygan; international vice-president, T. M. Hammond, Milwaukee.

Illinois War Claims.

Washington special: The comptroller of the treasury has reopened the claim of the state of Illinois for interest paid and discounts on account of bonds issued by the state for raising funds for arming, equipping, etc., troops for the service of the United States during the civil war and for expenses incurred in negotiating the sale of the bonds. The comptroller reverses the former decision made in 1889 and finds that there is due the state $774,650, which will be certified to congress for an appropriation.

Struck by Lightning.

Appollonia, Wis., dispatch: George Link, aged about 40 years, who had been employed by the Arpin Hard Wood Lumber company of this town as a chain carrier for surveyors, was struck by lightning and killed.

Yale Professor Gets Offer.

New Haven, Conn., dispatch: Prof. Herbert Gregory of Yale, recently of Grinnell college, lowa, has been offered the head professorship of geology la Boston Institute of Technology.

MINERS RESORT TO THE BOYCOTT

Dealers Decline to Wait on Customers Who Are Not Union Men. OPERATORS ARE SATISFIED Issue a Statement In Which They Say the Pumps Are Manned and the Mines Are Being Kept Clear of Water. % The boycott is now the weapon the striking mine workers are using with much effect.. The edict seems to have gone forth that there shall be no violence, but that the boycott lines shall be rigidly drawn, not only around those who work in defiance of the strike but about all their relations. It is now next to impossible for these unfortunates to make any purchases. The wise men refuse to serve them. Wilkesbarre and its surrounding country seems to be the storm center of this form of warfare. The tradesmen apparently are overawed and lend themselves to the work of trying to starve out those who persist in working. In some instances this form of tyranny is having harsh results. A man employed by the Delaware and Hudson company refused to obey the strike order and continues at work. His brother, a cripple, is a school teacher and has been informed by the school committee that he must give up his school unless his brother quits work. Two other brothers and a sister have been discharged from places where they were employed. A committee waited on the school board of Plains and demanded the discharge of Miss McCae, who has an uncle who is working as an engineer in pumping out one of the mines. All Belong to Jnions. Everybody who works here, Including clerks, is a member of some kind of a union. This makes the boycott weapon a powerful one and it will be used from now on for all it is worth. Mr. Mitchell said he had received some reports from the strike in the Virginias, but not enough on which to make a statement. The following statement of the situation was authorized by the operators: “At the end of the first four weeks of the strike our position is very satisfactory. While we have no miners or other coal producers at work we have enough engineers, firemen, and pump runners to keep our mines from being damaged and are not only confident of keeping them, but are adding to the force as we need them. The position of the companies is perfectly secure, not a single one has granted any of the demands made by mine workers or steam makers, and not one intends to do so.” There is no doubt that Mr. Mitchell is making a strong effort to induce the strikers to keep the peace, for he fully grasps the fact that a single serious disturbance would bring out the state troops.

DEATH ON EXCURSION TRAIN

One Man Killed, Three Fatally Hurt and Forty Seriously Wounded. One man was killed, three probably fatally injured and over forty others more or less seriously hurt by the wreck at Black river of a Detroit and Mackinaw excursion train carrying over 500 people. The train, which was under the auspices of the German Aid society of Alpena, Mich., was made up of an engine and twelve coaches. The killed: August Grosinski. Seriously injured: John McCarthy, Ernst Legatski, Jacob Mondorff, Otto Knowsky, Louis Peppier, George Boyne, Carl Beyer, P. J. Goldsmith, Ernest Des Jardins, Joseph Swallow, Thomas Connors, Christian Wolff, Jerry Sherrette, John Beck, J. C. Roison, Sylvester Klebba, Charles McDonald, Mrs. Charles McDonald. At Black River the tender jumped the track, and when Engineer Hopper set the air brakes the sudden stop threw the first three coaches into the ditch. The first car was cut in two, and it was in this coach that Grosinski met his death. The escape from death of others was miraculous. Grosinski’s little son occupied the same seat with him, but was uninjured.

Fire Destroys Table Works.

Keyser, W. Va., special: The table works in tfcis town, owned by Robert F. Whitmer of Philadelphia, burned, with a large stock. The loss is $75,000; insurance, $25,000. One hundred and fifty men are thrown out of work.

Crowd Chases Safe Blowers.

Harrisburg, Pa., special: An unsuccessful attempt was made to rob the i.ational bank at Duncannon. The robbers blew open the safe, but were frightened away by a crowd that chased them out of town.

To Mail Philippine Speeches.

Washington dispatch: The Democratic congressional committee will send out a million copies of Senator Hoar’s Philippine speech and a half million copies of a speech on the same subject by Senator Dubois.

Die in Volcanic Eruption.

La Paz, Bolivia, cable: Two villages have been destroyed and sev-enty-five persons killed by the eniption of a volcano in the territory of the Chico. The serious eruption of the volcano continues.

ARRAIGN JUDGES IN PIKE COUNTY

Citizens Resent Acquittal of Men Indicted on Murder Charges. JURIST DEFENDS THE BENCH Upholds His Colleague Who Presided at the Trials—Lawyer Accused of Spiriting Away Witnesses, Causing. Miscarriage of Justice. In the courtroom at Pittsfield, 111., where four recent murder trials have resulted unsatisfactorily to thepeople the farmers of Pike county and the residents of its small townsbrought their Judges up for an accounting. From all sections of thecounty, from the bottom lands of the* Illinois to those of the Mississippi, angry men gathered in Pittsfield and rebelled against the judiciary. At one time the peculiar scene was--presented of a circuit court judgepleading his own case and defending the actions of a colleague on thebench before the people who elected him. The men, who sat shirtsleeved throughout the afternoon in the hot courtroom threw caution aside on numerous occasions. Judges were accused of receiving money. To such influence was ascribed the acquittal of men accused of murder. Attorneys: were charged with spiriting away witnesses whose testimony it was alleged would have condemned their clients. Then to guarantee a satisfactory administration of justice in the future the Pike County Law and Order league was organized, with C. G. Winn of Griggsville president. A member is to be appointed from every township in the county. Neighbors Apply Boycott. While the people are taking thesesteps because of their belief that justice has not been done in their courts, the man whose acquittal so stirred public sentiment is living a free man, but an outcast, in Griggsville. He is Frank Newman, son of the wealthiest farmer in his township, a man reputed to be worth a quarter of a million dollars, owning some of the best land in the state. He is shunned by all his neighbors. He has no associates. The people avoid him, and the only recognition he receives is to receive repeated warnings and requests to leave the county. What will be the result of the matter is problematical. It is a miracle If there has not been enough litigation in the way of libel suits started by the proceedings to keep the Pike county courts busy for two years. Several stenographers kept a record of the statements made during the indignation meeting, and as the accused are all lawyers or judges it is the prediction of many that there will be “something doing.” Then in Griggsville the temper of the people is uncertain and their leaders are trying to suppress a tendency toward whitecapping. Appeal to lynch law was mentioned frequently during the session, but always in deprecation.

CURTAILS I. N. G. ENCAMPMENT

Militia Feld Duty This Year Will Be Cut to Three Days. Springfield, 111., special: An order was issued by Adjt. Gen. Smith of the Illinois National Guard which decreases the duration of the annual encampment. There now exists a deficit of SBO,OOO in the National Guard funds owing to the heavy expense of last year’s encampment and it was deemed prudent not to enlarge upon this, considering a decreased appropriation from the legislature. Under the new order the first brigade, the first cavalry and the artillery battalion will be ordered to the Logan rifle range at Chicago for three days’ target practice, tne date to be designated by Brigadier General Moulton. The second and third brigades will go into camp at Camp Lincoln, this city, July 12 to 17 and July 19 to 24, respectively. The company of engineers and the detachments of signal corps will not go into camp this year and the cruise of the naval militia on Lake Michigan will be reduced from six to four days by the new order.

“Buck” Wheeler Hanged.

Michigan City, Ind., special: Willis B. (Buck) Wheeler was hanged at the state prison here for the murder of Elias Burns. An effort was made to save Wheeler*s life on the plea of insanity, but it failed.

Illinois Boy Is Captain.

Cambridge, Mass., dispatch: M. T. Lightner of Highland Park, 111., was elected captain of the Harvard track team for next year. He has been a sprinter on the team for three years.

Justice Fuller on Vacation.

Washington special: The chief justice and Miss Fannie Fuller left to spend the summer at Lake Sorrento, Maine. Mrs. Fuller and Mary Fuller have been located there for several weeks.

Invite President to La Crosse.

La Crosse, Wis., special: The business organizations of La Crosse have united in extending an invitation to President Roosevelt and his cabinet to visit this city Sept. 25.