Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-09-23

Martin J. Egan, the correspondent of
the Associated Press at Toxic, has been
married to Miss Eleanor Franklin. a
writer from New York, who was sent To
the Orient some time ago by Leslie'S
Weekly as war correspondent.
The Sullivans-"Big Tim" and Little
Tim gave their twenty-hrst annual
''chowder." E.even thousand tickets
were sold at So each. OF this $4,000
was spent, leaving n profit Of $33 600,
which goes to the Sullivan charity fund.
which big Tim and Little Tim" will
use during the year to pay rents and
look after those in their district who
need aid.
Much interest was aroused among
members of different colonies of Mas
sau county. y. l., by the rumored en-
gngemCnt of Evelyn Walsh daughter OF
I Thomas Walsh Of Colorado, to Bradish
Johnson, one of the members of the
! Mead0WbroCk colony and Il well known
cross country rider and poloist. Miss
| Walsh still is partly incased in plaster
of paris AZ a result of her auto accident
some weeks ago at Newport. which re-
suited in the death of her brother.
!
Fred Stone, who takes the part of the
ScarecYow in the Wizard of o."
! demonstrated to the darky head waiter
of an hotel at Reading. Pa, recently.
that he is not so much of Il straw man
after all Stone fell into an alteration
| with the waiter over seats lie took for
| his wife and himself ut window. From
words came blows and the actor sent the
negro spraw wiling to the floor. Three times
! the head waiter regained his feet and
three times he was sent to his corner
Customs Inspector Timothy Donohue
seized quantity of jewelry which
John Stcger. n passenger on the steamer
Moltke of New York, had about his
clothing but which he had not declared
The lot included seven pairs of earrings
seven brooches. seven pairs of cuff but
ton, seven scarf pins, one long gold
| chain and one gold watch charm. The
pieces are set with diamonds and other
gems, and the total value is said to be
| about $1,000. Steger lives at Steger
Ill, which he says was named after
him.
An investigation is being made in New
York city under the direction of the
treasury department of alleged fraudu-
| lent lmpOrtatOnS OF olive oil During
the past week numerous cases are stated
TO have been found of importers alleged
! to be engaged in receiving an inferior
grade of edible olive oil under the guise
| Of machine oil. In some cases several
/ 4iuill4Attl tldlttiN III liiS hit 4 OH acre
| brought over at time. These inn
| porters are said either to sell the oil to
retailers, who mix it with cotton seed
oil and sell it as olive oil, or themselves
50 mix and sell it.
| Propositions to teach the train hands
| on railway passenger trains the priuc-
| pies Of first aid to the injured and to
establish at points all along the line little
hospital rooms which shall contain a
stock of the simplest surgical instru-
ments, was laid before the fourteenth
annual meeting of the Erie Railroad sur
geons' association. The first named prop
osition was passed upon in the form Of a
resolution and both suggestions were
made at the request of the Erie railroad
that its staff of surgeons devise ii means
| of supplying speedy relief to passengers
| injured III accidents.
Delauev Nicoll and his Wife arrived
on the 81. Louis from an automobile
tour of Europe which lasted eleven
weeks. Mr. Nicoll told the story of how
he was stoned in France ami said the
affair was really serious. 1T was near
Rouen,' he said, that we were attacked
by Il crowd with stones and dirt. our
machine was covered. y big stone
crashed through the glass at the
back Of the automobile and how it
escaped striking one of us will always
"emain mystery to me. Showers of
dirt and small missiles were hurled at
| us and for while things looked scary |
assure you.
Charles J. Murphy, formerly a foreign
agent of the United States department
OF agriculture at Washington. d. c.. re-
ceived from Emperor Nicholas of Rus
STA the decoration of the Order of st.
Stansaus. This honor, which has rare
] L., .F-sv.. / =.
| was given to him through the Russian
embassy Mt Washington. 1t was a rec
| Ogntion of his services in behalf of Rus
Sla's peasants during the famine of 1891.
when. as foreign agent ut Berlin of the
| department of agriculture. he started
| the movement for sending shiploads of
corn to Russia. Mr.. Murphy was for
merry a resident of Iowa. bur at present
resides in New York.
While employed as a scrubwoman.
| Mary brennan. an aged widow, is ac-
cuSed of having acquired in the last
/ month jewelry valued ut So 900 from n
large paWnShop in Brooklyn Her
/ nephew, 20 years old. is alleuef IN h0vo
! 9een used IN dlspoSing OF the plunder
/ Both have been arrested. the police
stating that they have confessed and that
about one-thlrd of the property has been
| recovered. y pawubroker through whom
the nephew disposed of considerable
leWeiry also Is under arrest. During her
/ work of scrubhing Mrs. brennan. the
/ police say. managed to secure Il great
quantity of small but valuable gems and
! gold 50 secretly was the work conduct
/ ed that it was detected only by accident.
I Robert Reid. an artist. planned
/ unique dinner at which twelve girls of
/ the chorus of 1t Happened in Nord-
/ land were the guests. dressed in cos
/ tunes representing some of the artists
paintings There were many unnsual
incidents to the dinner. but the most nm
1 usual was not on the programme.
1 1t was when three detectives cautious
/ iy opened a skylight and dropped into
the midst of the roses aud viaudS Of the
banquet table, just as the merrimcnt
was at its height in Mr.. Reid's studio
/ ON the top floor of the Gibson studio
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