Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-17

| and arrested him at the point of a re-
volver. After disarming the man the
policeman was compelled to turn his re.
| yolver upon an immense crowd of eXcit-
| ed men who wanted to lynch the prison
| or. The shooting was the result of a
| dispute between negroes over a crap
| game, and Dean Evans. the victim, was
shot in the heart by Butler, with whom
he had grappled when the latter tried to
| escape.
There are weird anS wonderful spots
| in the lower quarters of New York
where the student of foreign m;fnners
| may satisfy his longing for the bizarre
| and sensational. If the summer wants
a real sensation. let him take his party
to the Battery, walk up through Wash
! ingtOn street, thence across Broadway
| to State on up through the winding
thoroughfares to Roosevelt, across Chat
ham square TO Mott. around into Pell
| and DOyerS. finishing there for the first
evenings snort. He will have traversed
no less than nine distinct and separate
| countries and rubbed elbows with as
| many nations. and wherever bright
| window discloses n place of refreshment
the party is sure to be treated with some
| thing unique, generally clean and far re-
moved from things metropolitan.
Surgeon Brice of the Germanic holds
| the record for ocean trips. He has made
S04 trips across the Atlantic and hopes to
make it 900 before lie dies. He is now
| IS years old, and his ambition is to
achieve the 9O0th trip and then die and
| be buried at sea. Il can't understand the
feeling people have against burial 1T
sea-" said the old surgeon. For me that
Is the only burial | desire. A weight at
my feet, then overheard into the sea,
down among the fshes-that is good
enough for me. May my last voyage be
the one on which | die / don't want my
old body to rest on shore. I'm afraid I'm
an old sea dog, and l want the sea to be
my last resting place"
Theresa Vaughn, the once popular
comic opera singer, died in the insane
| asylum mt Worcester, Mass where she
| had been a patient since April II, 1901
| She was member of the OFT family of
actors and was committed to the asylum
upon the application of her mother. Mrs
Mary Ott The attendants of the asy-
| lum spoke of her case as one of the most
| pitiable they had ever observed. She
became so violent ut times that she tore
| all her garments into shreds. Her insan-
ity was attributed to melancholia. super
! induced by the death of her husband,
| L.
Vaughn made a great hit in New YOrA
| ms Winnie, the newsgirl, in Excelsior,
| Jr.' She also sang the principal female
part in Rice's Extravaganza 1892.
The passage of the American line
steamship Westernland. which has
| reached New York from Liverpool. was
marked. says dispatch from Phiadel-
phia. by one day of wild excitement.
| hn oh T,Y ri,
age was John Greening. On September
| 25 he suddenly flung down his shovel,
| after complaining of the heat. and, leav-
ing the stokehole, rushed up to the main
deck. Here he drew n knife and began
to run amuck among the terrified steer
| age passengers, calling out that he want
| ed rum and would kill anyone who re-
fused to let him have it. A petty officer
calling to n couple of sailors 10 help.
started to catch the infatuated maniac.
| but Greening was too quick. and, fingng
| his knife back ut the bewildered onloolS-
ers, took a flying leap over the taffrail
into the sea. The body was not re-
| covered.
According to the annual report of
| President Butler of Columbia university,
| gifts amounting to 1,I2t 500 actually
have been received during the last year.
| while other gifts have been promised
| Among the latter is the Pulitzer gift for
the school of journalism, concerning
which DIR. Butler says: with the estab-
| liShment of a school of journalism of
! university grade. new academic field is
| entered upon. While in a sense this
| undertaking is experimental. yet it is the
| judgment of tie university and that of a
| large and influential portion of the newc-
| paper press that il will be abundantly
successful. Ii journalism is calling for
| which no previous training is desirable
| or necessary, then ii must be held TO be
| An exception to all other professions
| trades and occupations. The university
| cannot guarantee To produce good news
| paper men, any more than il can guaran-
| tee to produce good engineers or good
| teachers: but il can and will train stu
| dents TO become such if they have the
root of the matter in them p"
The outlook for the winters gaety is
particularly bright. If Mrs Astor does
| not make any change in her custom she
| will give her New Years ball on thn
| night of January I. as she invariI hly Sc
| lccts the first Monday in January for this
| function and has standing promise
! from Elisha Dyer, Jr., TO lead all her
| cOtil3ons. William &. Whitney will give
! a coming out ball for his niece. the sec
ond Miss Barney, and his fine ballroom is
| likely to he the scene of many festivities.
| Mrs. Vanderbilt who has the most superb
| private ballroom in town. has promised
| TO give parties in il for some of her Young
! have their dehutante daughter Miss
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