Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-07-11

ton, and his half-5rother. Theodore Gil
i man. are given the remainder of the pre-
ferred stock, amounting to $I,250.000.
An engine company with IFS horses
apparatus, bedding. hay and mascot doc
/ have been thrown bodily out Of ire FIRE
| house on Coney Island, because the city
Of New York refused 10 pay rent A
deputy fire commissioner of Brooklyn
| protested against the eviction on thp
ground of public policy, but City Mar
shall Glover. armed with a dispossess
| warrant, organized posse of forty and
cleaned out the house.
The society Of the Cincinnati. which
has had for some time a Standing offer
of gold medal for the composer pro-
| ducing acceptable music for America.
| which for years has been sung to the
same air as the nationa! anthem Of
| Great Britain, has awarded the prize 10
| Prof. Arthur Johnstonc Of this city. it
| X announced.
The aggregate capitalization Of new
| corporations with a capital of 81 100 00C
| each or more chartered in the leading
eastern states in June was the smallest
for any month in the current year. Total
capitalization of such companies last
| month was S135.G9j, 900. This is less
than half the total for May. The total
for the corresponding six months IN 1900
was S1.5S4 100000. In the total for
June the state of Maine heads the list
at SAT, 100000. Another feature of the
current list is the small number of cor.
porati0ns with large capitalization. The
highest FOR the month is only $10.90O.-
900 and only three companies have n
capitalization of that amount.
When the Nag was raised on Ellis IS,
land at sunrise on June 80, the federal
jurisdiction over the island passed from
the treasury department to that of the
new department of commerce and Labor.
with Secretary Cortelyou at its head
At a directors meeting of the Anal,
gamated Copper company. Henry FL Rog-
ers has been reelected president anfl
William g. Rockefeller treasurer.
Lizzie Youngold, 4 years old. while
playing on the roof of u hve-story tene-
nent, let her doll fall over the edgee The
child made a wild plunge for the play
thing and lost her balance. Two stories
below a network of clothes lines began
She struck them and was tossed down
ward back and forth toward the stone
pavement. A woman was passing ana
the Child landed on her head breaking
home and the doctors could find only 0
few bruises. La half an hour Lizzie
was back at play.
At conference between representa-
tiveS of clothing trades unions with an
aggregate membership of 10000 and of
the Clothing Manufacturers association,
an agreement has been reached by which
the wages paid under Il former agree
hp nNtauIaH IN,
threatened friction over the wage ques-
ton.
Prince John of Servia, grandson of
karageOrgeyitch and cousin of the pres
ent King. Peter l., has been furrier in
New York city for forty years. He and
his family are about TO send personal
letters of congratulation to Peter Kara
georgeytch on his election to the throne.
This prince of Servia. who is leading a
business life here, with no desire to as
Sert his royal title, is John Merkowitzch
of POO East Eighty-second street.
During the fiscal year ended June 30
6O4.9 24 aliens arrived at this port
through Ellis island. as against 4T9. 79l
for the fiscal year ending June 80 last,
an increase of 12J. 1873. The first six
months of this calendar year, ending to-
night. show an increase of 0U,T29 over
the same period of 1902. =
An annoying feature of the cut rate
cigar war in New York is the coupon
system. When a customer purchases u
cigar and attempts to sneak out without
taking a coupon the clerk calls him back
and almost forces it upon him. If he is
stubborn enough 10 decline a seSond time
he reaches the door only to find some ur-
chin lying in wait for him with the
stereotyped remark: Gimme a coupon,
mister Smokers OF the old school have
taken to the practice of buying all their
cigars at hotel stands where they are
not annoyed with the cut rate or the
coupon.
William \. Brady writes from Lon
don that he has engaged an English ac-
treSs. Ruth DOrney, to support Wilton
I.ackaye in Tint Pit" Miss Dorney viii
have the part of Isabel Gretry. Miss
Florence Smythe. formerly leading wom-
an with Otis skinner will be the Page
Dearborn. These and le;ring woman
to be obtained in England will be the
only engagements Alr. Brady will make
before his return from EurOne in Au0uSf