Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-03-14


| Former Sheriff Peter Bowe is dead al
/ his residence here from pneumonia. In
| MS scYenty-hFSt year. He was elected
sheriff IN 1879 on the Irving Hail ticket
The 'Amen Corner Club on April Il
! viii give a dinner at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel To all the great political leaders.
I,rominent men vi all professions will
also be invited.
Manager T. NJ. Hilliard Of the Wal
dorf-AStoria says the report that George
G. BoldJ, proprietor Of the hotel is in
tcreSted in building Il 100000 hotel
III Chicago is not true.
About $50 employees Of TiTany's glass
and decorating company are on STRIKE
because their daily supply Of hccr has
| been cut off hy the firm. The mcu say
the water is unfit to dgiak.
George Il. Sheldon. member of the
| New York stock exchange since 1850. hes
sold his seat for $S2uQ0 to II. y. Henri
son OF FL. ~ Harrison & TO. This is a
new high record, the highest price hereto
| fore being $SI.0O0.
The former home of the Knickerbockcr
| Athletic Club at the southeast corner of
| Madison avenue and Forty-ffth street
| has been sold for $685. 600. 1t is under
stool the new owners will convert it into
| an apartment house or hotel.
James j. Hill sailed on the Celtic for
| England. lie will also visit the
continent, the trip being for rest and
| recreation. Sir Thomas J. Shaughnessy,
| president of the Canadian Pacific rail
road, also is passenger on the Celtic.
| rvr,,c+ooa . parporI ('0loro
| recently that a gift of $1.000,U00 had
| been made to the college by a person
| whose name President Butler and Treas
| urer PlimptOn suppressed. The money
| is to be used for the purchase of land adj
joining the college.
Several Atlantic liners reached port
| bearing evidences of an unusually rough
| crossing. The big Wilhelm der Crosse
| and the Oceanic came into quarantine
with stories of high winds and tremen-
! dous seas. Both were compelled to go
under reduced speed for five days.
According to the report of President
Lederlee Of the health board, based on
figures compiled by his inspectors. the
population of New York is >, 732 SOB. di-
yided as follows: Manhattan, 1886;
Brooklyn, 1921 ,597; the Bronx. 26S,341:
| Queens, 1872 ,6S1, and Richmond, 72,60S.
While hunting wild flowers in a Gene
terry near Mamaroneck, Nellie Tyler,
T-year-old school girl, discovered in some
underbrush a mail bag filed with valu-
able registered packages and letters COLI
tanning checks for hundreds of dollars.
which was stolen from the local railroad
station four months ago.
The fifth afternoon sale of the Ada
Rehan collection of art curiOS brought
SS11S, making the sum total to date
$32,213 An agent of the Chicago Mu-
scum of Art was the successful bidder
for a bust of Ado Rolan as Katherine.
the work of ], F. Hartley. He paid
S425 for the bust, which cost Mr.. DAILY
$1,000
Rev William G, Murphy of New York
has been chosen by the authorities in
Rome as vice rector of the American Col
lege there. Father Murphy was born in
New York in 1864 and was graduated
from St. Francis Naviers' College in
1884. At Rome he pursued his studies
at the institution of which he is now vice
rector.
Miss Helen A. Taylor chief inspector
of the women immigration boarding of
ficers. slipped and fell while jumping
from the rail deck of the steamship
Erica and dislocated her left ankle. The
accident TO Miss Taylor recalls the crit
cism against appointing women as in
spectors. on the ground that they could
not board vessels without much personal
risk.
News comes from Brussels of the death
of Mrs. Charles J. Murphy, wife of
Corn Bread" Murphy. which took place
February 3. Mrs. Murphy was Miss
Catherine Tone, lineal descendant Of
the Irish patriot, Theobald Wolfe Tone
She was deeply interested in her hus
bands propaganda of Indian corn in Eu-
rope and accompanied him on his jour
neys.
The retail cigar war reached an ad-
vanced stage when Morton d Co. Of II
Beaver street announced they would give
cigars away. Last week Aeker. Merral
x Condit and the United Cigar Stores
vanas Now Morten & Co. have pub
lished this announcement: Were in il,
too. We will give away cigars to all Gus
toners on our books 10 date
The directors Of the Winifred Master
son Burke Relief Corporation. formed
by John NJ Burke. vino last July set
aside property TO the value Of S4.hm.otl
TO be held in trust for the relief Of
worthy persons who are willing but tenn
polarily unable to support themselves.
held a meeting at Mr.. Burke's office and
elected Lyman J. Gage vice president to
succeed the late Abram :. Hewitt.
Manager Maurice Campbell announces
that the rumored deal by which Miss
Henrietta Crosman was to appear under
the Belasco management next season is
off and that he had definitely arranged
with Harrison Grey Fiske for Miss Cros
man to open her New York engagement
ut the Manhattan 1heater next year:
This will he in an elaborate revival 0f
CAS- Yon Like It." on September !.
Tyrone Power is tn b. starred by
Charles Frohman in stephen Phillips