Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-04-04
object of arriving at Newport in June
lie will spend the summer there

object of arriving at Newport in June.
lie will spend the summer there
Alfred q. Vanderbilt is to become
citizen of the state of Rhode Island. Civ
ing up his residence in New York. For
some time there have been reports to this
effect. but it IS now known for n certain
ty, as Mr.. Vanderbilt has filed with the
clerk of the court his declaration. in
which he sets forth that he desires to be-
come Il citizen of Rhode Island, with
residence in Portsmouth. where his Oak
land farm is. 1t is understood that Regi-
maid c. Vanderbilt is to follow his broth
er's step and also become a citizen Of the
state.
y new fad in billiards is having an ex-
perimental tryout in one of the uptown
halls. The game is called electric bill
lizards" and it is played on Il table in tbs
center of which is placed plate of cleo
trifed material. The balls are of com
pressed pitch and the current is a short
rod with cork tip. prepared chemically.
The balls are subject TO the influence of
the electrified plate in the center of the
table, and owing to this fact it is difficult
to make carromS. It is said to be purely
n game of skill, and it is likely to be
come popular among champion billiard
players who are thin sting for new diff
culties to conquer; but the amateur. who
has been longing for the Introduction of
a game with thirty-twO balls is not likely
to take kindly to it.
The executors of the estate of Edward
T. Hunt of Brooklyn have begun an ac-
ton to recover to the estate sos 600
which Mr.. Hunt had deposited with a life
Insurance company 10 buy an annual in
come to himself from the company of
S17.154. Five months after the trans
action Hunt, who was "a years old, died.
Ex-President Grover Cleyeland will
preside at the meeting for which the
Armstrong Association is arranging. ac-
cordlng to an announcement. to be held
in Madison Square concert hall on April
IA for the discussion Of the methods and
needs of the work of Booker T. Wash
Booker + washington OWN Win make aS1'I the
principal address and Mr.. Cleveland
probably will be presented to the meet
ing by Mayor Low.
1t has become known that William
George Tiffany of New York. Paris and
Arkansas has secured a divorce from his
wife, formerly Mrs. Fernando Yznaca
nee Smith of Mobile, Ala. This divorce
was secured in Walnut Ridge. Ark. on
the ground of Lesertion. There were no
other charges and the best of feeling is
said still to exist between Mr. and Mrs.
Tiffany. When the Arkansas judge was
told Mrs Tiffany could not be- induced TO
leave Paris to live in Arkansas he grant
ed the decree without asking more evil
dence. This was week ago Mrs. Tiff
fanny is about 30 years old. Her sister
Alya formerly was Mrs William X. Van
derbllt and after getting divorce in
Paris became Mrs. Q. II. p. Belmont.
Mr. Tiffany is first cousin of Perry Tiff
fanny. Perry Belmont, August Belmont
and O. IL. +. Belmont, who married Tiff
fany'S sister-in-law Mrs Tiffany cot q
divorce from the late Fernando Yznaea
III 1887 in California on the ground of
incompatibility.
Workmen are tearing down the rear
wall of the Savoy Theater. which must
be moved back several feet Ia secure the
necessary depth for one of the scenes in
The Tanning of Helena BAH room.
In effecting an entrance into an aI
legged pooroom in the basement Of six
story business building on West Third
street, two detectives were forced TO chop
a hole through the floor in the rear room
Of saloon and drop into the room below.
where other detectives were holding the
men inside at bay with their reynlverS !
William DAILY. said to he the proprietor.
and dozen others were arrested The
rand was sensational one. According
TO the story told by the police the place
was cunningly fortified ana guarded.
IN elaborate system of signals had to
he given by several sentries before n
would-he bcttor could gain entrance to
the room. Pocket telephones electric
buttons "buzzers," secret slides and
maze" figure in the story. When the
visitor finally satisfied the sentries that
he was all right he was passed along to |
a room. the door of which was immedi |
ately holted. There were five of these
rooms leading directly into the alleged |
pOolrOom. and in some Of the Enclosures
there We're three or four doors built 10
hewildcr an invading party. Detectives |
disguised as truck drivers had frequently
visited the place where they claim to |
have placed bets on the races at Ben
nings