Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-26
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Edward S. Stokes, who shot Jim Fisk
in the Grand hotel in 1871, is seriously
II at the home of his sister, Mrs. Mark
McNutt and is not expected to live long.
His ailmenr is Bright's disease.
Plans have been filed with the build
/ ing department for new twelve-story
brick fireproof hotel. to be built on the
south side of Forty-ninth street, just east
of Seventh avenue. for Halahan &
Ahearn. The building is to cost $780,
1000.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Burton Harrison
are receiving congratulations on the birth
of a daughter. Miss HARRISON was BON
at the new residence of Mr. and Mrs
Harrison. on upper Fifth avenue, adj
joining that of Ogden Mills The new
ARRIVAL Is the granddaughter of Mrs Bur
ton Harrison. She will be the heiress of
several millions.
Miss Edna Mays success in London
has been so great that Charles Frohman
has decided, with George Edwardes. to
keep her there considerably more than
another year instead of bringing her back
to America during the early part of next
season, as had been arranged. Miss May,
at the conclusion of her year in London
viii make a tour of the principal provin-
cial cities of England.
The announcement from London of the
| bctrOthal of William Gillette and Maudc
Fealey has created quite Il stir in the
atrIcai circles. The wedding date has
been set for the early part of December
1t is said that Gillette and his prospect
i've bride, who has been leading woman
| IN his company for two years. will spend
| a three weeks honeymoon on the CONT
nent previous to their return to America.
Mrs. Helen G. Hoey, the widow of
James +: Hoey, the "Old Hoss" of "a
Of her mother, Mrs. II. NJ. French, 207
West One Hundred and Twenty-third
street. She was born thirty-seven years
ago at Lee, Mass, and she and her twin
sister, Minnie, We're still young when
ff-@sey entered vaudeville in a production
of cinderella with Lentz's circus in
this city. Later the French sisters at
tracted good deal of attention by a
song and dance sketch, in which they
hrst appeared at the old Theater
Comlque, They were engaged by
Charles Evans and Hoey to act as the
leading soubrettes in "a Parlor Match"
In 1882 Evans married Minnie French.
| and IN 1888 Hoey married the other sis
ter. Mrs. Evans died three years ago,
and after her death her sister began
| - O~NAAAN ~ hNaiths
Charles C. Delmonico. IN his will did
not leave anything to his wife. The will
was hled for probate in the surrogate's
office. Mr.. Delmonico died at Col
orado Springs, Col, on September 20
last. His will is dated March 10. 1885
In it he gives all his interest in the res
taurant business of Delmonico's to his
| aunt. Rosa Delmonico. His other per-
| sonal property he divides between his sis
ter, Josephine G.. DemOnico, and his
brother, Lorenzo c. Delmonico Mr. Del
monico, to, the. surprise of his friends
VINO thought him a confirmed bachelor
was married just wear ago this month
| Ills wife was Miss Jeanne Edwards of
Brooklyn. She is wealthy in her own
right, and the fact that he" husband did
not execute new will after their mar
rlage will. 1t is said, have no effect on the
| disposition of his estate. If child had
been born to them the old will would have
been void and she would have come in for
her dover interest, but as it is she is not
entitled to any portion of the estate. Ev-
erything has been amicably arranged and
| there Will be no contest of the will.
Looking fat and rosy and greatly bene-
fitted by his sea voyage John Nicholas
| Brown, Jr, the richest baby in the world
who arrived on the Teutonic, left for
Newport in special ca- There he will
Spcbu inc NlulcTt NOT because or any
prediction of his for the old fishing
town, but because his mother and his
physicians have decided that the bracing
| air off the Rhode Island coast is Just the
thing for a growing baby just 10 months
old. This richest baby in the world has
his vast fortune in his own name. 1t
| cannot be taken from him. When he
reaches the age of discretion it will be alb
solutely his own to dispose of &c he
wishes. John Nicholas Brown, Jr.. i.her-
tied S6.00O,000 from his father, who ued
last year. Two weeks later Harold
Brown, his uncle. died, and left him 81
100000 more This will doubtless aggre-
gate $50. 100000 by the time he is of age
All he has TO do to come into possession
is to live and breathe. And because of
all these facts it happens that Master
John Nicholas Brown, Jr., had with him
on his ocean voyage and his European
trip his mother, his aunt. two trained
nurses. a skilled physician and a valet
who understands the intricacies of n
baby'S wardrobe. 1t required eleven
trunks for the wardrobe of the multi-mil-
lionaire infant and his encourage and he
| carried with him a specially designed
! crib the finest the Teutonic's officers
ever saw.
Where Uncle Sam is Backward
Has the United States lost it's leader
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