Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-12-31

William X. Vanderbilt. Jr.. who has
/ won considerable reputation in various
/ lines Of sport, has been nominated for
/ the office OF commodore Of tie Seawan-
haE@ Cor.athian Yacht club.
Grand Central palace. which, next to
! Madison Square garden, IS New Yolk's
most capacious amusement hall, viii oe
! demolished to make way for the New
! York Central terminal Improvements
abor, to be inaugurated.
Not a single body was found by the
divers who searched the sunken hull Of
the Glen Island The Divers believe the
bodies have either washed away or were
! wholly consumed by the flames which
| destroyed the steamship, which is com
/ plete wreck.
| ]. z. Morgan has purchased the oldest
| piano in the world from Rudolph Niyoh
/ of Firensola Italy. who Is now in Joplin,
! Mo, for $4,000. The instrument was ex-
! hibited at the Louisiana Purchase exp0si-
| ton by Mr.. Vivoli. 1t was built in 170S
| by Rossini, famous musician of Eu-
rope.
| Mary Olah, the Hungarian gin whc
| shot Sigimund Bohn. a waiter. in the
! Cafe Boulevard, and then sent two bull
! lets into her own body, is dead. Before
| the young woman died She said that
| Bohn had betrayed her before she learned
| that he had wife and two children. 1t
| is believed that BONN will recover.
| The license of Benjamin Il. Conklin,
/ who was chief engineer of the excursion
| steamer General Slocum when she
! burned in Fast river with the loss Of
! 1000 lives has been returned TO him.
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disaster. Capt Ira Harris, supervising
! inspector, held that the charges against
| Conklin were not sustained.
james 7. Sanders. aged sc. believed to
/ be the Oldest past master of the Order
! OF Odd Fellows in this country, was
| found asphyXiated ny gas i'll his home in
/ Nonkers He failed to turn off entirely
| the gas from heater in his room before
retiring. Mr. Sanders, at the time Of his
DEATH was grand sire Of the sovereign
( grand lodge of Odd Fellows in the United
/ States.
Judge Plat, in the United States cir
! cult court, reversed the ruling of the
/ board of general appraisers in the mat
! ter of levYing duty on crude feathers inn
ported into this country for millinery pur
/ poses. He holds such feathers are nor
ornamental and should not pay duty
| at the rate of 80 per cent. ad valorem.
The industry affected by this decision is
a large one.
Mrs Dorothy Stanley, widow of the
late Sir Henry NJ. Stanley, has written Il
letter from London to the New York
| Press club. acknowledging the receipt of
resolutions which the club adopted at
the time Of her husbands death. in which
she expresses her love for the United
States. the country which became her
husbands foster motherland' and real
lied his greatness.
One of the women spectators at the
Metropolitan Opera house the other night
got in on the strength of letter from
the management of the marlborough
Rapid Transit company. The letter. writ
ten on official paper and signed by one
Of the officials of the company, certified
that she had accidentally dropped her
opera ticket into one of the ticket boxes
i'll the afternoon. She got in.
In The arrest of Robert Baeckelein.
clerk in the Hotel Stratford. the police
think they have Il clue TO the disappear
ance from the hotel Thanks giving dag of
$4,000 worth of gems belonging to Mrs.
l.. {. Benedict Raeckelein was arrested
IN Paterson y. j., last June on the
charge OF passing worthless check hut
jumped his bail. He is said to have been
on duty at the Hotel Stratford on
Thanksgiving day,
Henry Clay Platt, lawyer, legislator
and historian, and from 1880 TO 1904 as
SiStaut United States district attorney
for the southern district of New YORK,
died at his home in Huntington. L. l.,
from complication of diseases He was
horn in New York city. October -, 1889.
the son of David and Sarah Gould Platt.
/ iilS father was one of the founders OF
the firm of Platt Brothers, refners aud
jewelers., of Maiden lane
The appraisal Of the property in New
York state of the late Philo :. Bennett
of Connecticut, of whose will William !
/ SWan was one of the executors. was
filed in the Surrogate'S office recently
The report shows the deceased'S interest
in the firm Of Bennett, Sloan x Co. to
have been &2S6G11, This is said Ia he
the only property he owned in New
York state. Deductions for debts and ex-
penseS amounted 10 Sl41T2
y scene of unusual disorder was wifi
I messed IN the supreme court in BROOKLYN.
where Justice Marean during il hearing
in lhc case of Mabel SpanS, daughter of
. 3 ordered
/ that admission to the building be denied
/ all newspaper men. Some of them took
/ exception 10 the authority Of the Justice
in ordering them from the building and
declined to leave. The corridors were
/ finally cleared after hand TO hand
I Scrimmage.
Miss Ida NJ Fisher of South Orange.
y. j.. niece of President William \
Brewer, Jr. Of the Washington ife In
/ Surance company, in whose family She
/ has lived nearly all her life. has An.
nouuced that she is going into business
with Miss Harmon Brown of New York
Miss Fisher is highly educated aud has
been prominent in society. She is hand.
some, and is popular in Chicago aud Co
umhus where she visited the family Of
the late Senate" Thurman.
Resolutions deuowciuE the Rajncs law
hotels aud demanding thar the next Leg
iSlature amend the law So as +n Sl1rsr,rpS.