Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-12-10

nine, whose stomach had been partiaI,y
torn out by a dynamite explosion. Coils
OF rubber tubing were inserted in the
| man stomach, after part of its crushed
interior had been removed. by forcing
food through this tubing il IS hoped to
preserve his life.
At the regular meeting of the women's
conference of the Society for Ethical Gull
ture. Mrs. Florence Kelley said: Girls
who go to work are headed the wrong
! way for hOusekeepers | believe there
| are 10000 children here who 90 to school
hungry-not from poverty, hut because
; their mothers do not know how to pre-
| pare food TO give proper nutriment. A
/ girl who has sat in our public schools for
years and after that i'll factory for FIVE
/ or SIX years is not fit to found a family -
Mrs. Oliver H. p. Belmont has in
| creased her large estate here by buving
/ the farm of A. ID. Lewis for S15. 900 ana
! large tract of land from Miss Kate
! v. Barnum for a sum not made public.
/ The land will be made into a park at
once, and in the spring numerous inn
proyements will be made. The estate
| will be one of the largest on Long Island
/ and will compare favorably with those of
| Messrs. w. X. Vanderbilt and E. ID.
Morgan and the late William c. Whit
ney. Mrs. Belmont is personally super
! vising the remodeling of her grounds
! The Belmont mansion viii also be con-
/ sidcrably enlarged
/ At Boston, Mass, two aged men are
/ preparing TO contest the strange will of
Mrs. Catherine Burgess, who died No
| yember ), leaving an estate valued at
! S2J0,000. In her win Mrs. Burgess. who
was the divorced wife of John Burgess.
! son of a noted Boston merchant. declared
she had no kim thus denying the relation
snip OF Timothy Harrington, aged 81.
ana John harrington, aged y, who now
allege they are the woman's brothers
Timothy Harrington is a pauper, living
in Leverett ON the bounty of friends.
John is better off. still being able to
work. After Mrs. Burgess was divorced
she became housekeeper for the late Silas
Pierce, who upon his death lett her $780,
600. This sum has increased to $3.50, 0c0
Ill the hands of Charles r. Stratton, her
lawyer, and who under the womaa's will
receives the bulk of the estate. Timothy
and John Harrington now present evil
dence that Catherine was their sister, bnt
cannot understand her denial of them.
Robert NJ Rogers. a broker and mem
Der of the firm of Charles G. Gates &;
Co, and Rev. DR.. Gillet, librarian of the
Union Theological seminary. had a fighT
over golf game at the Apawamis club.
New York city Rogers sat on the min
lister and the latter broke a putter over
the brokers' shoulders. Rogers ceased
to be member of the club and the min
lister was suspended as a result. Rogers,
when III the west, was member of the
Glen View club
The ways of John d. Rockefeller as
man when he wants TO accomplish
anything! For three years he has en-
deavOred, without success, to buy John
j. Melin's saloon in Briggsville, West
chester county, a small tavern ON the
road to the Standard Oil kings home
Time and again he tried to get posses
sion and even tried to get Mein's license
revoked, but so far Melin has beaten
him. When Mr.. Rockefeller realized
he could not Gust Melin he made a new
move-that OF taking Melin's business
away. If Mr.. Rockefeller buys land
and there are no people to patronize
Melin, there is nothing for Melin to do
but to close out at Rockefeller's price
This probably was the line of argument
the oil king made to himself. AT any
rate. the latter's purchases in the vicin-
ity have lad an effect on Melin. AL
ready business is dwindling away, and
those who frequent the place say he Is
losing money. 1t is the general belief
that Mr.. Rockefeller has Melin ON the
tip of the finger and can bring him to
terms.
An indictment for murder in the first
degree was returned against Frank Eel
ton, who is charged with fatally shooting
Guy Roche Thanksgiving night. He will
plead to the Indictment tomorrow
The board of United States general
appraisers has sustained a protest by a
Plattsburg, y. y, firm, claiming free
duty, for concentrated copper ore. The
ore had been assessed at 20 per cent. as
non-enumerated manufactured article.
lt is held that the contraction of ore
while removing some of the impurities,
still leaves it copper ore, which is pro-
vided for in the free list.
A verdict for $4,000 damages has
been awarded in the supreme court to
Mrs. Anna Morhard, wife of a Staten
Island physician, who was killed a year
ago in the cellar of his home by an cleo
trlc shock. The defendant company sup
pied the current that illuminated DR.
Morhard's home and the suit was brought
ON the allegation that the transformer
used to reduce the electric current before
It entered the house was out of order
When the doctor touched an incandescent
bulb TO turn on the current. it was as
serted he received Il death shock from
2400 volts.
When District Attorney Jerome and
ms two assistants, Lord and Corrigan,
with agents of the Goddard Anti Policy
society raided Harris PARIS gambling
house on election night there was LOT
of speculation about the occasion for the
raid. 1t was learned that one of
the mea who had gambled and lost in
the house was l.. W. Ahrens. sta
tIonery printer, who is a member of the
Tammany hall general COMMITTEES and
has done much of the city printing
Ahrens lost about $4,000 in one night
at roulette. He paid by check or checks
Then he became suspicious that every
thing was not all right and stopped the
checks. This story leaked out at the
district 9ttOrDpy's nffiaa ftar Dam