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

ont were passed at meetings of the Meth
odist Preachers association and the Bap-
list ministers conference. The Presbyte-
rian Ministers association adopted
resolution calling on the New York sena-
tors and representatives in Congress to
vote to prohibit the sale of liquor in the
Indian territory for at least one genera
ton.
Mrs. Carrie N. Wyburn of New York
city obtained decree of absolute divorce
in Chicago in 1900 from her husband.
John IL. Wyburn, assistant superintend-
ent of the Jere McAuley mission. Mr..
Wyburn remarked and is living happily
with bis second wife at Bensonhurst.
Notwithstanding this, Mrs. Wyburn the
first has begun another action, this time
| IN the supreme court of Kings county,
against Wyburn for an absolute divorce.
naming the second Mrs. Wyburn as CO.
respondent.
Alfred Gwynn Vanderbilt has pur-
chased J. Hobart Moore's champion four
| finland team-F'ull Dress, Rustling Silk,
Sweet Marie and Polly Prim, at Chicago.
/ The price is kept secret, but is known to
have been small fortune. Mr.. Wander
bit will have the four-in-hand shipped to
his stables at Newport. The quartette
won two first prizes in Chicago, two in
Louisville, and swept the boards at the
New York show. Rustling Silk and Full
Dress won the pair championship at
Madison Square garden, and all were
winners separately.
Rather than face in court criminal
charge by two little girls, Branch Bar
rows, for many years a respected citl-
zen Of Flushing, l.. l., committed sui
eide bv poison, dying IN the Flushing
/ hospital One Of his sons. in Il state
ment to the police, said that BawoWs
took carbolic acid, bur the doctors say
| death was caused bv a poison in which
/ the powerful element was opium. Bar
rows was - years old He lived with
| his wife and four children ut Is Far
| ringtOn street. He was engaged III the
express and livery business.
| The Marlborough hotel has changed
/ hands again and under the new manage
! ment it will continue for three years,
! when it will be torn down to make way
/ for another skyscraper. At the eXpira-
/ ton of that time probable the remaining
two or three old type hotels in Upper
| Broadway. the RoSsmore and Metropole,
| will be ready to yield to the spirit of
! progress. The new lessee of the MARI
| borough is the Sweeney-Tierney COM
pany. This company paid 100000 for
/ the title and equity. Mr. Sweeney Is the
| present proprietor of the Victoria, and
! well known in pittsburg.
The third act of "Die Walkure" the
! other afternoon was interrupted by the
| appearance of a scrubwoman on the
! stage with mop and bucket. When it
was seen that she was i'll immenent dan
| ger of stepping from the ODscurity of the
wings into the full view of the audience,
| half dozen scene shutters attempted 10
| hold her back. But the woman had made
up her mind to get to the other side of
| the stage by the shortest cut. She got
/ there to the astonishment of the perform
erS and audience. But she made the
transit with no loss of composurc amid
cat calls and deriSiye applause.
/ In response to appeals from mission
aries in Japan a committee has been or
sanized in the United States to secure
contributions in aid of the sick and
wounded of the japanese and Russian
armies and of widows and orphans in
Japan. Bishop NJ. c. Harris, Methodist
| Episcopal bishop in Japan and Korea.
had much 10 do with the movement, and
he has gone to Japan to organize q re-
| lief committee for the distribution of the
anticipated funds. The movement is not,
however, confined to the Methodist
| church Many prominent men are on
committee that has issued an appeal.
The New York Central has bought two
more blocks for the terminal improve
mentS which are being made at the
| Grand Central station. The new blocks
are between Fortythird and Forty-tifth
streets, DepCW place and Lexington ave
nue.. The lower one, containing the
Grand Central Palace, was acquired
from the Goelet estate. The northerly
block was divided among number OF
owners. The various purchases were
made through John y. Golding. The
| block between Forty-second and Forty
! third streets. belonging to the New York
! Society for the Relief of the Ruptured
and Crippled has not changed hands.
The properties of the once famous BoS-
| touians, originally costing over $4,000,
/ were sold under attachment proceedings
| for $G35.15 in Jersey City, to satisfy
| Judgment obtained against the operate
corporation. The properties included If
! ~ shelves of fancy costumes, thrty-eight
| bundles of assorted costumes, one set OF
costumes for the opera "Niceroy" and en-
tie sets of scenery for the operas Robin
Hood" "Niceroy." Rob Roy and
| prince Ananias-" The things were
! knocked down in eight or nnc parcels,
! the purchasers being theatrical people.
| The personal effects of Henry Clay Bar
nabee. the head of the corporation. Cs-
capped the hammer.
Frederick Hull White of the Harvard
| football team has attained his majority
| and with his twenty first birthday has
come fortune of $1,000 coo, inherited
| from his mother, and of which he now
/ assumes the control and management
| after several years of the financial guar
/ dianShip Of his father. White first came
| into prominence two years ago, when he
| was lost in the Maine woods and was
! brought back into civilization again only
after Il diligent search The White rS-
| tate has been In the courts many times
| during the last few years, Josiah White
and his son failing to agree ON numerous
| points, but all difficulties were patched IN
long ago. and now there is perfect har-
mony in the White home.
According 10 the latest society gossip.
/ Harry Lchr leased his handsome resi-
| dence in West Fitty-siXth street Il few
/ weeks ago OTpu0Vator\. IN tokints - +,.;7,