Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-09-30

5 New York Every Day. 5.
William Waldorf Astor has fled
claim against the city of New York for
81 100000. asserting that his property
has been damaged by the changing of
grades.
Great activity in social circles has be-
gun with the arrival in this country of
the Duchess of Marlborough Newport
set is making extensive plans for a flu
riOus social whri during her three weeks
stay here Nearly every hostess of fash
ion Is preparing some sort of an affair at
which the duchess is expected to be pres
ent.
Isaac Schamus. the young man who
recently attempted to secure an audience
with President Roosevelt mt Oyster Bay.
in order to submit to the President IL
scheme for settling the coal mining ques-
ton, and was arrested ut the instance
of secret service agents, was ddjudged
insane and committed to the state hos
pital for the insane at Central ISiip, y. \.
Sir Gilbert Parker, author, playwright
and member of Parliament, is in New
York on his way to England after spend
ing several weeks in Canada. He is en-
| thusastic over the western part of the
! dominion and says it is one of the rich
| est agricultural countries in the world.
| He claims it is being settled rapidly and
| that half of the i.0migrants are from
the United States, and who. as rule
are becoming British subjects.
y telephone message from Baltimore
to New York notified Roche's hotel, New
| York city, that j. :. Green. Baltimore
! boy. probably was dead in his room. The
/ caller said she was the sister of Green,
and that she had just received ut her
home in Baltimore Il letter from the
| young man announcing that he intended
! to commit suicide The hotel manage
ment found the boy in his room dead.
with Il bullet wound in the region of the
heart.
Active work is going on in New York
| looking toward Il permanent worlds fair
/ to he opened in 1909 in celebration of the
tri-centennal celebration of the discovery
! of the HuGson river Offices have been
/ opened in Manhattan and Peeksxill for
! the promotion of the enterprise, and OPP
! ti0ns have been obtained on large
tract of land at Verplanck's point, on the
| east bank of the Hudson. near PeekSkiii,
! where it is proposed to locate the expo
sition.
| Raphael Hawaweeney, said to he a
clergyman i'll the Greek church in Brook
! lyn. was arrested with six other men
and held without bail as the result of 4
riot in Brooklyn. The trouble, the police
say, grew out of articles published in Il
/ Syrian paper to which the clergyman
! and his followers objected. Hawaweeney
{ a, of pt hn pbit =
house. \ riot followed, during which a
score of shots We're fired and one man
was wounded in the leg. Police reserves
were called out to quell the disturbance.
Tie deadly vacation" is the latest
peril against which the health authorities
! have issued IA warning. Outings spent i'll
small farmhouses, poorly ventilated with
| bad drainage and contaminated water
supplies are declared by several leading
| physicians of New York city to threaten
an epidemic of typhoid fever during the
autumn. The doctors declare that string
! eut measures will be necessary TO pre-
| vent Il great amount of sickness from
these causes among persons who spent
the summer days in the country, sup
poSedly enjoying change of air and
fresher food than they get in the city.
Charles Edwards. notorious cracks
man. was found dead in New York
stable. The kick of a horse had torn
the top of his head off. Edwards was n
/ member of the famous Jimmy Hope
( gang and WIS known as Second Story
Edwards. lie had been in Jail thirty
eight times, several terms being for bur
@larics. He was also noted triCkSter,
| having Travelled all over the country with
| various circuses. aud had often amused
the children by sticking needles and hat
pins into his body and eating glass. His
/ widow and three children refused to
claim tie body and it will be buried in
| the potter's field.
The great liner Etruria steamed away
| from New York for Queenstown and Liv-
| erpOol on her last trip carrying lust IL
| passengers III her first cabin. Rattling
| about in the quarters built to accommo-
date between 600 and 200 persons, the
| Etruria > guests seemed lost and some
what overwhelmed with the prospect of
having the great ship all to themselves
On the trip over they will have about
seven stewards each 40 minister to their
wants aud TO receive the inevitable tip.
Likewise each man jack Of them will be
>urrouaded 10y swarm of walters il he
Is lucky enough to escape mai de mer
and retain his appetite.
The salary of the comptroller of New
York is $4,000 year, which is 3 per
cent. Interest on $300.e00. Mr.. Grout
finds it too little for his family expenses
He can save nothing for rainy day In
his letter to Mayor Mcclellan regretting
the necessity of retiring from the office
he has filled 50 ably. he says: while
the salary of the office is generous. as
public salaries 60 it is no greater than
l had been earning at my profession
while the demands of office and the in
crease in expenses, and in the require
mentS of my family have been such that
each year have spent $1,000 to $1,000
more than my income"
Bishop Samuel Fallows of the Re
formed Episcopal church of Chicago.
preaching ut the Fifth Avenue Preshv-
terrain church. said The day of per
writes the editorial articles in the news.