Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-09-09
been married recently, but this was de-

been married recently, but this was de-
MED.
Mrs. Mary 3. Portwood. widow of DR..
Robert l.. Portwood. an army surgeon.
telephoned to the Bellevue hospital, New
York city, that she had read that Mary
Hall" was patient there, suffering
from tetanus, and that she had an al
most certain cure, which she wished the
doctors would try. When asked to de-
scribe her cure she said: Put twelve
large eockroaches in 4 teaeup, add a
pinch of salt and cover with boiling
water. In few minutes there will APP
pear milky substance, which is to be
forced down the throat of the patient,
teaspoonful every fifteen minutes, until
the jaws become relaxed. / assure
you" she added, this remedy has been
tried many times with success"
An investigation which the district at
torney of New York has in hand prom
Uses to show up a series of marriage
brokerage places on the east side, where
professional bigamists are employed to
inveigle young girls into marriage con-
tracts for the purpose of defrauding
them out of their savings. The matter
was brought to the attention of the dis
trict attorneys office through the COM
plant of pretty young Hungarian
girl, Celia Speilberger, who told an in
teresting story of her unfortunate
and was married to a saloon keeper
reputed to be worth $4,000. The hus-
band disappeared after three days. In
vestigation shows he had half a dozen
wives.
Birds, horses and other animals, in
Guiding Dick, the goose; his chun
Phoebe, the educated pig, and Tubby, 4
trained Connecticut turkey, all of which
are to appear at the Hippodrome, New
York city, have been insured for $780,
600 by a New York agency. The pre-
miums were paid by the dozen foreign
hOrsemen and horsewomen whose steeds
come from the royal stables of various
European capitals and will be seen for
the first time on any American stage
when they exhibit at the Hippodrome.
Clyde w. Powers insured Dick, the ia
nous goose, which made such a hit last
season at the Hippodrome, for $1,000.
Phoebe, the pig, was insured for $500
and the bronze Connecticut turkey, Tub
by. for $500 The horses insured num-
Der about fifty and every one of them is
Il thoroughbred.
Angered by their arrest four Orthodox
Jews turned the Mount Vernon police
station, New York city, into a synagogue
and annoyed the members of the depart
ment to such an extent that men who
We're asleep in the dormtories were COM
PEELED to go home to rest. The Jewish
prayers and hymns so unnerved Chief
Foley that he took a carriage ride to get
away from the noise. 1t was not until
the prisoners fell asleep that the turmoil
subsidized. The Jews were plastering n
house when arrested, charged with Il
violation of the Sunday law. They
tried to bride the policeman by Offering
dollar for their freedom. When the
prisoners learned they would have to re-
main i'll Jail for a day they Immediately
| started to annoy the department with
their prayers and singing, and all eff
forts to stop them were in vain.
AdOlph finkeiStein, n peddler, when
arraigned III the west side court reyealed
the fact that he rarely makes more than
30 cents day, averaging So a month,
| though lie IS the master of thirteen lam
| guages. The man could speak only =
little English, but when Interpreter
| Spielberg began TO question him he
| found him to be an astonishing linguist.
| He told the court that he spoke French.
| Italian, German, Russian, Roumanian,
| Turkish, Hungarian and five other lam
guages with fuency. This so impressed
| technical complaint of not having Ii
| cense and gave Finkelstein a letter to
| an educational society asking that en-
| ployment be given him. The court said:
| This man is an astonishing linguist and
| it seems to me to be on outrage that he
| is able to earn only 80 cents day. /
| will do what | can to see that he puts
| his linguistic ability to some more prof
| liable use than peddling.
| At the present rate of progress in the
| work of Improvement it is expected that
/ three months will see the Grand Central
! station, New York city, RACED and work
| begun on the magnificent structure which
| is to replace the only railway terminal
| at present existing on Manhattan island.
| Only the non-completion of the temper
/ airy offices for the railroad company pre-
vents the work of tearing down the old
| structure at once. Work on the improve
ments has gone as far as it can go with
out entering the station or causing an in
terruption of the train service. Where
| two years ago stood several hundred
! houses, in the section beside the tracks
! between Fortyfourth and Forty-ninth
| streets, today is an excavation quite eX-
| tensive in itself, but only fraction of
the great hole that will be made in the
nineteen square blocks which the ter
minal will cover. The plans of the rail
road company call for the expenditure of
| 500, 900, 900 on the improvements.
| When the Cunarder Umbria, from
Liverpool, locked at New York city on
her last trip the officers reported that
on the second day a giant sea had curled
over the liner forward, striking three
seamen probably fatally injuring one of
them, and doing more or les damage to
the starboard side of the ship. At the
time more than half the passengers were
on deck.
Robert Slade. the seaman most dan
gerousiy injured, was on the forward
hatch. The wave struck the liner square
ly on the forward quarter, and Slade
was unable to get away quick enough.
He received the full force of the comber.