Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-09-17

were concerned. SIX ocean liners were
in port, with a total OF 1916 immigrants
on board, but all were compelled TO re-
main on the ships and were not taken to
Ellis Island until the next day. The
boats, with their quotas Of steerage pas
sengefs. were the Furncssia. 396; the
Galiie. 2Sti; the Main. 100; the iceland,
I3S; the Helig Olay, 1868, and the Rhyn-
dam, IDS.
Agents of the Panama republic In
trug1ed with investing nearly SIO,00OOJ0
here for their government have nearly
completed the task. About S5,00O,000
has been invested in mortgages on inn
proved property on Manhattan island.
yielding ~ per cent. Two million dol
lars are on deposit in four local trust
companies. drawing , per cent. interest.
and about 81 100000 has been subject
to payments for improvements under con-
strucrion or contracted for on the 18TH
mus. The disposition of the remainder
of the 100000 600 has not been definitely
decided upon.
There is shock in store for members
OF the Alimony club who hoped TO be
freed from obligations TO former wives,
if \. II. Hummel is correct in his con-
tention that the new law upon which
they rely is unconstitutional. Under the
law which went into effect September /,
If woman who has obtained q divorce
with alimony remarrieS, the court, upon
the application of the former husband,
must annul the provision of the judgment
directing payments for her support. MIR.
Hummel is confident the law cannot APP
ply to DEGREES entered previous To its
passage. He also will test its eonstitu
tionality.
DR.. J. ]. Orth, professor of pathology
and dean of the University of Berlin,
has arrived in New York city. He is
one Of the best-known pathologis1s in
Europe and upon the death OF Prof. Ru-
dolph Firchow was called by the faculty
of the University of Berlin from Got
tingen, to fill the vacancy. DIR. Ortiz was
one of the physicians who operated sew
eral months ago on Emperor William.
He will visit Chicago and st. Louis and
be entertained at the white house by
President Roosevelt. The faculty of
Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore. will
give a dinner to the German sayant be-
fore his return to Berlin.
East side boys and girls are in great
glee over the announcement that the Edu-
cational alliance has organized n chill
dren's theater for their benefit. The first
performance is to be given Sunday, No
vember 8, and the season will end next
Nldys Il ne dClOFS All VIII Dt tIlHuISn VI
the east side. Rehearsals will be given
several times during each week until the
opening night The "children'S theater'
is to be located at the headquarters of
the Educational alliance. Jefferson street
and East Broadway. The performances
all will be on Sunday afternoons, and
an admission fee of ) cents is to be
charged.
Miss Bessie Allan, a popular and well
known young woman in Essex and Hud-
son counties. Il daughter of James Allan
of kearny, \. j., has gone to Shanghai
China, where she will become the bride
Of John Firth, 4 son of Capt. John Firth,
commodore of the L. d. Roydan fleet of
steamships, which ply between New
York and Shanghai. and London and
chief officer of the Shantouw, which is III
the trade off the coast of China. Miss
Allan is n years old and a native OF
Scotland. She first met her husband-t0-
be when she was quite young and their
friendship soon ripened into love.
Foxhall r. Keene, master Of foxhounds
of the Meadowbrook Hunt club, has re-
signed, because of the clubs refusal to
pay certain bills, although the members
are worth several hundred millions. Mr..
keene has decided to sell his hunters,
worth $4,000, and his hounds, worth
$1,000, and 60 to Europe. The bills for
feed and hay bought from the different
farmers about the country amounted to
nearly $4,000. and the farmers were very
angry. threatening to attach Mr. keene's
horses, until they learned the circum-
stances. The pay of the servants also
has been held up for nearly three months
and some of the men are almost without
means.
Tuesday. September G, was "blnd
mans day in New York. From all over
Manhattan ana the Bronx blind men
aud women to the number of G67, who
are entitled to the apportionment set
aside for their benefit by the state Legis-
lature Hooked TO the pay station at the
charities dock. Since 1875 sum OF
money varying from $4,000 to ST5. 600
has been set aside by an act of the Legis-
lature to be distributed among the de-
serving blind of the city. The most in
teresting blind man in the city is Ben
ny" Scully, who has been drawing his
stipend for sixteen years. Benny is an
expert checker, chess and card player in
II museum and some of the feats he can
90 are astounding.
The vanguard of nearly 2OO0 sypsies.
who are planning to come to this country,
arrived on the Carpatna and was de-
tanned at Ellis island The party
which arrived the other day numbered
260 and a more picturesque band of inn
migrants has never tried to pass the
threshold of the United States. The band
is under the leadership of Jose Michel, Il
Brazilian by birth, but who says he is a
naturalized citizen, having taken out pa
pers in Boston. The entire group was
looked upon with distrust by the immigra-
ton officials and rigid investigation will
be made. Should it prove that they are
gypsies and that it is their intention to
take up their nomadic life in this country
they will be deported
4 large monkey which was used in the
DuIbar pageant at Luna park, Coney is
land. was killed by scenic railway car
the other day. The animal escaped from
the procession and started for the root
Of the India building in the streets OF
Delhi, when Hassau Ben Ali sent a
Young Hindoo to capture the runaway.
In his Hight the monkey tore hat from
a WoInau in the audience aud carried =