Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-10-21

Chicago, who has an OSSined neck Una
would defeat the hangmen in the event
of conviction, scores another point tol
legal electrocution.
Ian Maclaren Rev DR. John Watson
VINO is just leaving the Liverpool church
where he has been minister for n quar-
Ter of a century has made Il collection
of his sermons as farewell volume.
1t is proposed that the Boston me
moral to the late Mayor Collins shall
take the form of building that will
serve some useful purpose rather than
shaft. as the former would be more
typical of a man whose popularity arose
from his works.
Balbino Davilos of the City of Mexi-
70, a we'll known litterateur, who has
translated into Spanish some of the best
American poetry, has been appointed to
the Mexican embassy staff at Washing
ION, and will accompany Ambassador
a9asus to the United States.
Hubert Lyman Clark, who for six
fears has been professor of biology at
oliver college, Michigan, and who has
neen doing work with Alexander Agas-
viz in the line of sea urchins, will join
the Harvard staff December l, in the
museum of comparative zoology.
Among the plans for the ceebra ton
of the 200th anniversary of the birth
of Benjamin Franklin, next January.
is that of an American banker in Paris
named Iarjes, who offers to erect in the
French capital replica of Boyie's
statue of the great philosopher and pa
triot now standing in Philadelphia.
Miss Mildred, daughter of William
Dean Howells, the novelist, is a clever
artist and began to show her talent
when II years old. At that time she
produced a series of sketches around
which her father wrote little book
which was quite successful. Miss How
ellis is now slender, spirituelle young
woman, much devoted to art and litera-
ture
The Turnbull lecture on poetry at
Johns Hopkins university will be de-
livered this year by DIR. Henry Van
Dyke of Princeton. Prof. Hans Meyer
Of Vienna will lecture in the Herter
course, and will treat of pharmacology.
Prof. Frederick Delitzsch of the Uni
versity of Berlin is expected to lecture
sometime during the winter upon Assy
riology.
In December will come the William
Lloyd Garrison centennial. The eminent
aboltionist was born December 10,
1905. In letter to the New York Age.
Principal Booker Washington expresses
a hope that the negroes of this country
will observe the anniversary fttingly
and unitedly. As it falls on a Sunday,
he suggests sermons and addresses about
Mr., Garrison in all their churches.
1t is said that Arthur Balfour. the
British premier, seldom reads the news
papers. Mr.. Balfour has often gone to
the House of Commons in ignorance of
important events published in the morn
ing papers. According to the gossip of
the Hobbies, Miss Alice Balfour, who
keeps house for her bachelor brother, is
dligent reader of the newspapers and
cuts out whatever she thinks he ought
TO see.
Il. ]. Collier of New York, who re-
Gently bought the home and farm in
kentucky where Abraham Lincoln was
born and spent portion of his child
IL IL
willie branch of the United Spanish War
veterans his determination to present to
the federal government the property as
national park, 1t is understood that
the proffer will be made to Congress at
its next session
The laying at Portsmouth England.
of the keel-plate of battleship whose
equipment is to include no less than ten
tweve-inch guns indicates that the Brit
ish admiralty has been convinced that
big fighters with big weapons are to fig
IRE in the naval battles of the future.
The superiority of this ship for heavy
fighting will be realized by comparing
her armament with that of the battle
ships of the Wisconsin type, for instance,
which carry only four twelve-inch guns
two in each of the turrets.
The descendants of Ezekiel Checver
colonial schoolmaster and founder OF
the Boston Latin school, gathered around
his grave in the old Granary buryin.
ground, Boston, for the unwilling of ;
New tombstone. Rev. DIR. Edward Ever
EFT Hale offered prayer, after which DIR
David Cheever unveiled the stone, whicl
is of slate, harmonizing with the otheI
stones in the ground. Ezekiel Cheevel
was born in London, January p, 1914
Ind died in Boston. August n, 1T0G. III,
was teacher for seventy years.
Though barely 80 years old and hut
dozen years out of college. DR. Thcodor,
Woolsey Heermance had an enviabl,
place in the younger group of Yale schol
ars. He came naturally" by his lov,
for the Greek language and literature