Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-03-18
New York Every Day.

A strike of a few women employed as
| trimmeTs i'll hat factories mt Orange, y.
j.. has been settled. Several thousand
employees who were thrown out of work
a week ago by the action of the women
will return To their benches today.
| The will of former Mayor Edward
| Cooper was filed in the surrogate's office.
| Cooper Union, for the advancement of
science and arts, receives 100000 The
testatOr made complete provisions i'll the
will for his wife, but she died before
him. He left the residue of his estate to
his daughter, Edith Cooper Bryes.
The United States Steel corporation.
with /. capitalization of 81 100000. was
assessed for S10,000,000 personal proper
| ty by the New York tax officials this
year. This S10,000,000 was in excess OF
its real estate and debts. The company
made its formal answer, or return. ON
the aSSeSsmp"t and its attorney has
sworn % III save $2.O00.O00 of the
assessment.
The New Yor. Telephone company has
| made arrangements TO reduce rates III
that city about 20 per cent. As Il conSe-
QHence the resolution now pending in the
finance committee Of the Senate and the
ways and means committee Of the AS
scmbly at Albany providing for an in
yestigation of telephone charges and the
bill providing for Il reduction of the
charges are likely to be dropped.
Col. Joseph j. Slocum, brOther-in-law
of Russell Sage, has filed petition in
bankruptcy to get rid of Il lot of debts
contracted twenty-three years ago
through losses on stock transactions. His
schedules show liabilities of S77,i05 and
Ss-f,tS nf ..tssl, in. h.1n l. b,.,
gold watch and chain valued at $25. for
which he asks exemption, His life is
insured for $4,000 for the benefit of his
children,
The romance that led to the arrest and
unfrocking of Rev. Father Evan Do
binac IA young Austrian priest. at one
time laboriug in Chicago. eliminated in
his marriage to Anna Fratter. young
country woman, with whom he eloped TO
Chicago, where the young woman'S ia
Their had the priest arrested. The priest
was locked up in New York city for
three days and then released, nnfrocked
and banished from the church.
Timely discovery has been made that
the roof timhers of the Fifth Avenue
! Baptist church are weakened and that
the building which usually is filled each
congregation, is unsafe. Services will be
held elsewhere until repairs are made.
The church is known as the Rockefeller
church, from the fact that John ID.
Rockefeller attends services there and
the Bible class is conducted by john ID.
Rockefeller, Jr.
Eighteen cases of matrimonial mis-
takes were tried by Judge TrauX III the
supreme court. He lad fifty-three on
his calendar 1t t0oA On an average
about thirteen minutes to n,Er each case,
the total time consumed being oh min
utes. In the majority of instances these
mismated couples did not have children.
As near as could be learned only five
had children. the aggregate number of
which did not amount to Il dozen. Most
of those concerned were of foreign birth.
Decision was reserved in nearly all the
eases.
Whitelaw Reid's retirement from the
editorship and direction of the New
York Tribune in consequence of his hay-
ing taken office abroad under the govern
ent makes necessary Il reorganization of
the editorial department. Hart Lyman,
long Il member of the editorial staff. sue
ceedS Mr.. Reid as editor. Donald Mich
olson, who has been connected with the
Tribune for thirty-tive years. retires ut
his own request from the managing
editorShip. and is succeeded by James
Martin, who has been news editor since
1900.
Mrs. Blank and her there fellow ten
ants who have been adding 80 the popua
tiOn Of the furthest east side of New
York city at the rate of one year each
must move from their happy home. In
| a. a af NJ lar nd
they must "ged ouidt." The great princi-
pie of tine 30 cent raise in rent for every
additional baby has been indicated.
Mrs. Blank, with her four children Mrs.
Frank with eight. Mrs. Friedman with
one, and Mrs Crouch with four must 20
ont in the world to find tenement run
on the Roosevelt principle.
Opposition to the prospoSed salt water
fire system which Fire Chief Croker has
SO vigorously denounced. has reached
the sensational stage. 1t was learned
that the board Of fire underwriters and
the chamber of commerce had caused
letters to be sent To Mayor Mcclellan
warning him not to accept bids on the
present plans, which call for an expend-
iture OF SJ,OuO.o0O already appropriated
They have communicated with the mayor
direct with a view To having the bids
for the seven large contracts for this
work held back until further light can
be thrown upon the proposed system.
Bishop Burgess Of the Episcopal
church said at MONDAY meeting in the
Church of the Holy Trinity that parents
have no right to pray for their children's
lives until they first have done all they
could to save them through the science
of medicine and surgery. He said :
Jesus never performed Il miracle when
the natural means would do aS we'll
You have the right to pray for your
child'S life. if you are doing all you can
to save it, but You have no right To sit in
idienesS and let fever take its course or
blood flow from an unStanchcd wound.
Let MS remember the sanity of Jesus"
HazerS at Columbia university have. it
is reported, finally succeeded in exercising
their arts ON Kingdom Gould. son Of
George Gould, who caused considerable
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