Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-06-27

made its first public appearance on the
avenue, and attracted no end of atten-
ton.
Miss Sallie Stembler. an actress. dine1
at hotel at Asbury Park. y. j.. in com
pany with her niece. Miss Kenney. a
well-known cathedral singer of Balti-
more, and several friends. A. Mr.. Gil
lett Yentured the suggestion that the
earning capacity of an actress was linn
4ted to the stage.
Not so.' said Miss Stembler. With
conviction i can make good wages off
the stage"
I'm wager $50 that you can't said
I'm take it, and III nrove nv state
ment tomorrow. If I earn days wages
| tomorrow you have lost your wager.
Next day the actress appeared on the
streets of Asbury Park with a rubber
company's sign on her back. She walked
through the principal avenues. accompa-
MED by Miss Kenney and man with a
| bell
Scores of men rushed TO the rubber
store, evidently thinking that young
| women We're marched ont at intervals
MISS Stembler received 50 from the rub
| Der company and won the wager
The trustees of the free public library
Of Jersey City nave received am interest
ing collection of Mexican minerals which
were presented to the city by President
i'aZ Trey will be placed on exhibition
in the library museum.
On the steamer Germanic. which sailed
for Liverpool will be Bishop J. G. Hart
zell, Methodist Episcopal bishop of Afri-
ca, who. upon arriving in Africa will
commence tour of 10000 miles. cover
ing every mission station of his church on
the Continent
Mrs. Monmouth Il. Wilson of Chicago
has bought the country place OF the latp
George ID. Arthur at Scarborough on rhe
hudson. The property consists of about
u acres. with over 600 feet of water
front, together with the residence, stables
and cottage, held at 100000.
4 man suffering from govt in his nose
has been a patient at Bellevue. He is
Charles Scharff, janit0r. His nose has
become greatly enlarged. The doctors
were completely at sea for a diagnosis
until they discovered govt in several
joints of his limbs. 1t is the first case
of the kind on record ut the hospital
The library authorities of Columbia
university announce the acquisition OF
what is believed to be the most complete
collection of anarchstic literature i'm the
500 from the administrators of the es-
| tate of a French Anarchist who died i'm
| London last winter. Included in the pa
pers Is what purports to be a death war
rant forecaSting the assassination of Pres
! ident Carnot of France.
If the cofinmakers' strike shall spread
much further among the factories of this
city 1t may become necessary to bury
the dead in union made boxes put to-
cether by ordinary carpenters in the next
few weeks. The Surplus of baskets on
hand is said to be q1ite small. The
| strikers. who desire shorter hours, say
the work makes them melancholy and
they need more time in the sunlight and
to mingle among those who are not al
ways thinking about death.
Supt William B. Davidson of the New
York. New Haven & Hartford railroad
has decided to put an end to the rice
throwing nuisance in the station at Hart
ford. which is directly under his super
vision. The other afternoon he happened
to be in the Union station at Hartford
when bride and groom We're being pclt-
ed. Passengers had to keep off the sta
ton platform till the couple were within
the ear, and then in the hurry to get
aboard several slipped on the rice. Mr.
Davidson promptly issued an order to the
station master to call upon the police to
arrest all persons who committed the nui-
Sance of rice throwing. Half an hour
later the station master enforced the or
der and caused the arrest of IL young
man. but on the ground that the order
had not become well known the youth
was released. Hereafter all offend
ers will be prosecuted.
Details of the deal by which the pro-
~ \
Bank of the United States in New York
with the National Bank of Commerce
have been made public Under the con-
Solidation the capital stock of the Bank
of Commerce will be increased from S10,-
100000 to so, 100000 by the issuance of
10000 additional shares. 125.O0O of
which will be used to acquire the West
ern National after that bank has in
creased its capital to $1250O,0O0. Fol-
lowing the acquisition of the Western
National n dividend of at least 80 per
cent. will be paid to the holders of the
Bank of Commerce stock. Twenty-Five
thousand shares of the new stock will be
offered the Bank of Commerce sharehold-
ers to the extent of p per cent of their
holdings at the present date ut $40 per
share,
After twenty-scven years behind prison
bars, Mrs. Emma Wimpe is free.
|
days ago by Gov OdcIl When the
woman was escorted from the Mattewan
hospital for the insane TO the railway STA
ton at \ewhurg, she appeared complete
~ dazed mt the strange sights. Mrs,
Wimple was sentenced 10 life imprisoIi-
menr for Poisoning her husband. She
entered Sing Sing a pretty girl of Is
and emerged to liberty ii gray-haired
woman of ~. Fifteen months ago she
was found to be losing her reason and
was taken to the asylum from which
she has just been liberated. Apparently
She will soon entirely recover Mrs.
Wimple will live with the sister of her
husband. She poisoned the latter as the
outcome Of 4 love affair The young
man. who was tried as her accomplish
: also was sentenced for life, but died in
prison many years ago.
For several years theater builders have
looked upon the abolition OF pillars as
the thing most 10 he desired in the con-
struction of such buildings There can