Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-08-26

tlgatlng In Germany new ana secret
process for the manufacture of steel.
Thousands of letters from persons who
are dissatisfied with the treatment they
have received from organizations in
which they or their relatives are in
sured are being sent to the legislative
committee appointed to Investigate the
New York insurance companies.
Joseph II. Choate has expressed his
Discrimination to serve as advisory couu-
sci of the legislative committee which
is to investigate the insurance compa-
MES. He said he is not disposed to in
terrupt his vacation. His answer is not
regarded as final by the committee, how
ever.
The ancient three-story and attise: house
at Elm and Prince streets, \. Y. city
in which President Monroe died July 4,
1881, was partially destroyed by fire
short time ago. The fire started i'll
rag store in the basement. Several
weeks ago a bronze tablet commemorate
ing James Monroes death there was
placed on the house.
Father James +. Mella pastor of St
Edwards Roman Catholic church.
Brooklyn, was awakened by the ringing
| of the burglar alarm, and found negro
rObbing the church. The negro tried to
draw revolver, but the priest Crap
Piled with him, and after a desperate
| fight brought the robber to his knees
with a blow from his fist. Help then
came and the negro was taken to the sta
| ton.
| lowed by a sunfish twenty miles to sea
is the experience of w Scribner of Sag
Harbor Arnold milford of Bridgehamp-
| ton and George Lynch of Montauk
Point. The men were out in a small
power launch and managed to get fast
| to the fish by means of a harpoon. The
fish, which weighed all of 500 pounds,
Immediately started seward The men
could not get near enough to lance it.
and finally cut loose, as heavy fog was
setting in.
A young woman who was shot on Riv-
erside drive and who, since she has been
a prisoner patient in Bellevue hospital,
has refused to tell who she is or who
shot her, has been identified at the hospi-
tai as Della w, Lyttel of Syracuse, y;
Y, by Reginald e. Smith, who had
known her in Paterson n. j. Smith told
the hospital authorities that the young
woman left Syracuse in company with a
girl named Graham. whose father is now
looking for her, helped by the police of
Paterson.
George f. Pepper, the labor leader
who conducted the late unsuccessful sub
way and interborough strike, and now Il
saloonkeeper. was arraigned in Harlem
court charged with the awful offense of
running across the grass in Central park
to drag his S-year-Old daughter from in
| front of an automobile. Park employees
warned Pepper to go back. An argu-
ment followed in which the latter's tenn
per lived up to his name. 1t ended in
| Peppers being taken to the station
charged with violating the park ordi-
| nances.
| The treasure box stolen from the home
! of Herman s. Cheney at Southbridge,
| Mass, last February has been returned.
with contents intact, as mysterionsly as
| il disappeared Mr.. Cheney nad taken
the box. containing $4,000 in cash and
| securities to the value of about $250,000
| from the security vault in Boston and
| hidden it in his house while preparing a
schedule of his property. The box was
reported lost, but no details We're given
| out as to the manner of the loss and
none are given rs to the manner of its
| return.
A diamond hunt is going on in the
ruins of the Lackawanna railroad ter
minal Mt Hoboken. There was vast
quantity of baggage in the building ut
the time of the fire and none of it was
saved. Among other things consumed
was a trunk said to have contained S15,-
600 worth of diamonds owned by q
wealthy New York woman. Private de-
tectiveS are watching the lahorers en-
gagged in clearing away the debris. but
no trace of the diamonds has yet been
discovered and the railway officials re-
fuse to confirm the story of their loss.
Miss Eleanor Fredericks. daughter of
Charles Fredericbs of Haverford, Pa.
armed with a costly Persian rug, played
! the heroine in an automobile accident
in which DR. Richard Flaure Woods of
| Philadelphia came close to being burned
! alive. and friend was made uncon-
scious by Il fall. The young woman
who is something of an athlete. reached
under the overturned and burning car
! beneath which the physician. his clothes
ON fire. was held prisoner. dragged him
| ont and then wrapping the man in the
rug. carried him into her home She
was burned about the arms during the
! rescue.
Stringent measures are being taken by
| the health department to stamp cut ty
phoid fever. which has become almost
epidemic in some quarters of the south
em section of Brooklyn. 1t is said bath
Ing in Gravesend bay, from Fort Hamil-
ton To Ulmer park including Bath
beach and Bensonhurst, will be prohibit
ed unless there is an immediate tecrea Sc
in the number Of new fever eases
The sanitary inspectors declare that
/ sewage has contaminated the entire bay
front ut the places mentioned For
the week just ended the health depart
meut reports seventy-two deaths from
typhoid in Greater New York.
Signor Giuseppe NicolaO. who taught
Nine. Adeliua Patti and a host of other
singers. lies dead in . little flat on
Eighty-thrd street, New York His lack
of worldly success emhittered his 6eclin
ing years and. blind and poor. he went
To his death railing at an unkind fate
He was born eighty years ago inpalermo
/ and came to this country with n small
opera company. The venture was I'M
starred aud Signor Nicolao devoted him