Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-02-14

fTaAh -hofdauht, the Well known actor
and manager, is in a sanitarium at Siam
ford, Conn, suffering from serious nerv-
Gus disorder. Mr. Mordaunt has been in
for six months, but 1t was only two weeks
ago that his malady became acute His
wife was in her home in California.
where she had been called on business.
and the actors condition became serions
during her absence. She hurriedlv re-
turned TO New York and agreed with the
physicians that sanitarium was place
in which her husband would have the
best chance for recovery.
Because she thought the leading role
in Haddon Chambers English society
play, written for her, was a mans. Miss
Ada Rehan has decided not to appear in
the play in New York. The part select
one, but Miss Rehan though otherwise.
Consequently new play viii be selected.
Marshall Field of Chicago is reported
as a purchaser of the Horace 2. Whitney
house at 2S7 Fifth avenue The pur-
chase would give Mr.. Field the entire
block front between Thirtieth and Thir-
ty-irst streets. except the adjoining mum
Der, 80 Mr.. Fields brokers refused to
admit that he was the buyer though he
has paid fancy prices for several parcels
in the block, and the price paid was high.
MI Field says that his purchases are
purely for investment.
The appraisal of the estate of the LATE
Augustin DAILY shows that. after the pay
ment of his debts and liabilities. there is
a deficiency of $2S,460 The gross per
sonal estate is valued at $780,, 9S6 The
total liabilities are $3G1 ,446. OF this
amount Mr. Days debts in the United
States aggregate S226.G5S. and his debts
in England S93,029. The commissions
on the sale of Mr.. Daly's hooks etc
amount to S22,9 SS.
Mr.. Dana, so called for his striking
resemblance to the well-knOwn editor
the patriarch of Shanley's uptown res au-
rant. is dead. He was as familiar to
those who linger on upper Broadway as
the yellow trolley cars. When he died
his room was searched, and there a
strong box bulged with wealth-United
States per cents. railroad bonds, mort
cages on city real estate and wads of
gold certificates tied up i'll $1,000 pack
ages. In all it amounted to $4,000
all saved in tips during his forty years
service in Shanley's restaurant.
1t is believed that Louis Foster
brother of Clarence Foster, who met n
tragic death by drowning with Sarah
Lawrence in Tiana bay last summer, has
al
alone oystering in the bay opposite his
home at Good Ground, l.. l., he was
caught in a gale. and his boat loaded
with oysters, was swamped. One of his
oars and gloves washed ashore today.
Louis. like his brother. was an eXperr
swimmer, and the incident strengthens
the theory that the latter may have
been drowned, and not murdered, in the
tragedy here last June.
BY an order granted by Judge Leven-
tritt in the supreme court the Will of y.
II. Stewart has again been opened for
contest. The old documents are to be
submitted for the examination of lawyers
and handwriting experts, retained in an
effort to prove that the accepted will
should be thrown out and a new line of
heirs admitted to a share in the estate.
Seven witnesses were brought from Ire
land October 10 to prove the pedigree of
heirs who base their claims as descend
ants of a third cousin of Mr.. Stewart.
Father Aloysius, a parish priest, is to es
tablish the records of birth and to iden-
tify the claimants. The claim is for one
siXtieth of the estate, which is probably
worth from a quarter to half million
dollars. and is directed against the prop
erty at Tenth street and Broadway,
which is estimated to be worth So, 500,
600.
The Earl Of Rosslyn who is i'll from
congestion of the left lung, will recover
and have another try at the bank of
Monte Carlo. That is, just as soon as he
has settled the dispute with his brother
as to which of the two famous "ROsslyn'
systems really is the best. This will be
right good news to the Prince of Monaco
and the citizens of the little principaity
in the Mediterranean. ROsslyn lost ST.
900 advanced by an English syndicate
that had faith in the infallibiity of his
system. but he says there was not enough
money to give his system fair trial. It
now remains to be seen how much Ameri-
can money he can lose i'll organizing his
American syndicate.
President McKinley'S memory is to be
honored in Brooklyn by the placing Of
stained glass window in the Twelfth
Street Reformed Church.
pattison Weaver, a retired minstrel,
20 years OF age, who made his first pub
lie appearance in 1853, died at the Ac-
tors Fund Home, Staten Island.
"Spy Oak" said to be the largest tree
in New York state, standing on the Pei
ham road, Winchester, has been con-
deInned as unsafe and will probably soon
be cut down, it having become hollow
and IN danger of falling. 1t is SAID many
spies and deserters were hanged from its
branches in Revolutionary times.
Franklin L. Roberge, a veterinary sur
geOn, is suing the estate of Robert Bon
ner. the horsem3n, for 500 900. Roberge
claims that he attended Bonners horses
for twenty-three years without payment
the horseman having promised to give
him 100000 orleave him that amount
in his will,
More of the residences along the line
OF the Park avenue subway are beginning
10 show signs of slipping into the sub
way Park avenue has been prolific of
accidents of many kinds The building
department has established a bureau on
that street with an adequate force to
meet emergencies. The residence Of
Banker Charles I. Barney had to be
Shored up and others in the same vicinity
are being propped up.
There are book agents in New York
who make from 5000 to $1,000 a year