Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-18

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daughter of Lord Miner, governor of
South Africa had died suddenly of heart
| disease iii her home in Chicago. She
| leaves three children, two sons and
! daughter 1t was in London that DR.
| de MEYERS eight years ago met and mar
ried the daughter of Lord Miner DIR.
| de Nevers was already a citizen Of the
United States and had begun his work
rs a bacterologist in Chicago.
Alton B. Parker lost his first case be-
fore the appellate division of the supreme
court in Il decision in the litigation be-
tween Lorenz Reich and the William f.
! Cochran estate. The litigation. which
| begun in 1889, has been over the posses
! sion of the property of the Cambridge
| hotel. The hotel was owned by Reich
| originally. and through series of com
! plcated agreements Cochran became pos
sessed of the property Judge Parker
| represented Reich on an appeal from an
interlocutory Judgment of special term IN
| favor of the Cochran estate
| A conference attended by 100 clergy
men was held iii Calvary Baptist church
! to devise ways and means Of purifying
| the city and reviying the moral sense of
| Greater New York. The ministers rep
| resented nearly all denominations. They
| decided that the situation called for the
| united action of every moral agency, ana
| It was determined to inaugurate Il cru
SADIE of great magnitude Besides stir
! ring the church people to action. it was
! determined to hold mass meetings in
| Madison Square garden and elsewhere.
and inaugurate III evangelical revival.
| Laura Biggar Bennett, the actress. pre-
Sented an amended petition in the county
court ut Freehold, y. j., asking rule
to compel the executors of the estate of
the late Henry NJ. Bennett, whose prop
| erty she has claimed repeatedly a. Ben
| nett 5 widow. To explain why they have
sold certain property of the estate and
| committed other acts which She saws
| were detrimental to her interests. Miss
| 3iggar AYERS that Peter McNnhy and
James Plat, the executors of the Ben
nett estate, sold some land of the estate
/ ut Avon, " j., below its actual value
| to a land company i'll which Mr. Nc
| Nuity is interested.
The American Society for Sanitary and
moral publicity was organized tonight
at Il meeting of thirty well-known phy-
s;cians clergymen and men Of public
| spirit, al the New York Academy Of
Medicine. Members of the new society
announce that they propose to treat the
social evil as the community at present
treats any contagious disease. DIR.
| James Smith presided and DR. Prince 4
| Morrow. Prof Felix Adler, Prof Selig-
man of Columbia university, DR. Ludwig
! Weiss and Edward L. Devine Of the
charities organization society made
! speeches. Bishop IL. c. Potter and Dr.
| Lyman Abbott sent letters pledging their
support TO the society.
| AS n curtain raiser to THE Little Min
| iSter," in which Miss Maude Adams is
appearing. " O o Me Thumb" one-act
play by Frederick Fem and Richard
Bryce, is being given at the Empire the
alter, New York city. Miss Adams
impersonated in it the part of a servant,
i'll a laundry, in London; Il girl from the
w0rkhouse; a being of the tribe of Dick
ems ''slavey." This forlorn creature
cherisnes visions of riches and love; fan
cieS that a certain shirt that she has
ironed, and that remains unclaimed at
the laundry, is the property of a gallant
youth, who will, one day, arrive and be
her lover; and when its owner. coSter-
monger. makes his appearance and pres
entity disappoints her, is constrained to
veil her wounded spirit beneath piteous
pretense of Indifference.
\ summer romance up the Hudson
was brought to light in the supreme court
IN Brooklyn. when Mrs. George g. vii !
liams. II years old, obtained Judgment
for $4,000 against Miss Susie Wright /
an elderly SpinSter of WILLIAMSBURG
whom She sued for alternating the affec- |
tlonS of her husband. All the persons !
concerned are wealthy. George A. Will
| hams Is Il millionaire wire mauufactu !
No defense was put i'll by Miss Wright. !
| W lillamN put IN 4 general denial to all |
| The allegations made against him by his |
wife. Miss Wright is the daughter of !
a millionaire lumber dealer of Williams |
| burg. She was an only child Several !
years ago he died and left her S4OO OOo |
George \. Williams met her at a summer |
resort up the Hudson. where he and his |
wife went for their health.
John Eugene Felix. the German mer-
chant who proved such a plastic dupe in |
the hands of men who claimed to he wire |
tapperS and other New York crooks. los /
ing altogether SD6. 1000. has been swindled |
ont of Sl,0OO.000 in the last ten years !
according to Il statement made nv his /
wife. The wilder the scheme the better |
he seemed so like it" she said a man /
named SchWendle. ar Coblentz induced |
hlm to go into Il scheme to buy up all /
the wool in Europe and corner the mar
ket. They were going to make millions /
out of it and my husband turned over
S21O.O0O to this one Schemer alone He /
LOST it all. \ man named Newman per-
Suaded him to put $25000O in a South |
Afr AN periodical. This money also |
went down when the scheme foundered, |
my husband losing every cent of his in-
VtStlnenC
War continues in New York CITY /
against persons who eXpectorate on side
walks and other interdicted places. such
as corridors of public buildings. theater
foyers and bridge approaches Policemen
To the number Of fifty-fiye are patr0lling
Broadway, the elevated railway plat
forms and other busy places. On the look.
ont for offenders. Many of the offenders
are being fined 81 by the magistrates.
while those compelled to snend night Ia
the station generally are discharged In
an address before the Peoples Institute
club, Commissioners Of Health Darling
ton has declared that 20 per cent. OF .per
fertly healthy persons have the germs of
pneumonia in their mouth and are sub
lect to the disease. He proposed by pub
licity through numerous arrests t. entire
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