Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-06-17
New York Every Day.

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Joseph II. Choate, former ambassador
to Great Britain, Mrs. Choate and Miss
Choate were passengers on the steamer
Caronia, which arrived from Liverpool
Senator William B. Allison, Congress
man Robert G.. Cousins of Iowa and
Mrs. Paul Morton, wife of the secre-
tary of the navy, and Miss Morton,
sailed for Europe on the steamer New
York.
The Northern Indiana Baptist associa-
ton voted down u resolution introduced
by Rev. Mr.. Wheeler of Elkhart, decry
ing the criticism of John ID. Rookie
Teller and declaring that the oil king is
highly moral.
Leo Fleischman, the navy boy from
New York. who was discovered as an
enlisted hospital apprentice at the Nor
folk naval training station after his par
ents had spent over $4,000 in an unsuc
cessful effort to locate him, has been
discharged from the navy.
Sarah Cowel Lemoyne, an actress.
filed a petition in bankruptcy, with la
bilities at S4662, and no available assets.
She had a gold watch valued at $50 and
deposit of IS iii the Second National
bank. Her debts were for costumes,
photographs and household expenses.
\ young woman whose name is be-
lieved to have been Leah Lehman,
jumped to death from the Long Island
Sound steamer Hartford, from Hartford,
Conn, while the vessel was passing
through Hell Gate, inward bound No
reason for the girls suicide is known
to her friends in Hartford.
The Herald says Richard Croker will
return to New York early in September
with Mrs Croker and their three chill
dren who are now visiting him ON his
Irish estate near Dublin. The time of
his arrival, which henceforth is to be his
home for a part of each year, will be
cOincdent with the real opening of the
mayoralty campaign.
A will contest involving between ST.
100000 and SS.000000 is said to be
among the possibilities before the estate
left by Mrs. Charity Hayward of Califor
MIA is settled. Mrs. Hayward, who died
in Newark, was said to have made
will leaving all her property to her only
child, Mrs. Emma Rose of New York
city. 1t is now claimed that a new
paper is in existence making great
changes in the distribution of the estate.
Ernesto Biondi the Italian sculptor.
lost his suit against the trustees of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art to recover
$4,000 damages because of their re-
fusal to exhibit his bronze group ''The
Saturnalia" in the museum. Biondi said
Gen. Di Cesnola, curator of the museum,
had agreed to its exhibition. The group
was subjected to much criticism, some
of the trustees declaring it to be morally
unfit for public exhibition, and it was
consigned to the cellar.
Subway traffic nowadays seems to be
confined largely to those who come from
out of town. The air in the shafts is
positively putrid, and Mr.. Belmont has
given no promise that it will be inn
proved by system of ventilation. To
stand near a subway entrance these days
is to invite contagion. The air coming
from the shafts is like unto that which |
is uttered from the drain pipes of a fer
tilizmg plant over on the west coast of |
the Hudson river in darkest New jersey. |
The New York Telephone companys |
quarterly telephone directory lust is |
sued, contains over 100000 names, |
about 12o.000 of which are of subscrib- |
ers in Manhattan and the Bronx. This |
is a net gain of $1,000 within the last |
three months The new directory repre- |
sents thirty-one carloads of paper, about |
900 tons, which was shipped to the print |
ers i'll Philadelphia. After the books |
were printed. bound and packed it re
qulred twenty freight cars TO bring them |
to New York.
Rear Admiral Colby y. Chester. super !
mtendent of the naval observatory, |
hoisted his flag on the cruiser Mime |
apoliS. which, with the gunhoat Dixie |
and the collier Caesar. will be part of |
the expedition which is to observe the !
eclipse of the sun on August % and 80 |
Tor the government. Stations will be es-
tablished at Bona, Algeria, and Valen-
cia, Spain. One of these will be in
charge of Capt John A Morris and the
other of Prof. Bigelow of the weather
bureau.
A handsomely dressed woman. who
said she was the niece of 4 prominent
official. is under arrest charged with
grand larceny, it being claimed that she
has stolen iewerly valued at $1,000
The woman gave her name TO the police
rs Miss Antoinette Cortelyou AT the
same time she was arrested the detec-
,lves also placed under arrest her co!-
bred maid. Ruth Bundy The complain-
mt against the two women is Mrs |
Dorothy Auerbach. who told the police
That she called on Miss Cortelyou. whom |
she had known for five years, aud that
)n returning home she found that iewelrv
Ialued at $1,000 had been distracted |
rom her chatelaine bag, which she left
n Miss COrtelyou's room while she went