Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-06-23
BRIEF NOTES OF
GENERAL INTEREST

I GENERAL INTEREST )
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St Charles avenue residents at New
Orleans have paid $1,000 for a phono-
graph shop that they may close it and
stop tne noise.
Because customer criticised the way
his hair was combed. Joe Wnock, 81
barber of Lexington, Ky, pounded his
face until blood covered the floor.
While dressing for a party at St Louis
Miss Annie NeiSenborn of Bclevillc,
ILL.,, broke her left arm in trying to but
ton her shrtwaist up the back. y ply
stefan put the arm i'll a splint.
Adam Spies, vino twenty years ago
left church at Sterling, ILL.,, owing people
$4,000, and claiming he could not be
Christian under the conditions, the other
day paid the debt and rejoined the
church.
Edgewocd Cold-Steel. Il dog whom
Richard Harding Davis made the hero
Of his novel. The Bar Sinister" died at
Davis home at Mount kisko, Conn.
| the other day. 1t had taken forty first
prizes at bench shows.
Mark Twan'S 14-year-old cousin at
Washington. Pa, has just welded II -
year-old widow who kept her former huS-
band IN tree for three hours with a
gun trained on him to make him comply
with her wishes.
Mrs Harriet Stone who recently died
at South Bend Ind. is survived 10y four
/ L.. Il.l.t1 /. l. tffar
/ six decentralization ana two great
great grandchildren Mrs. Stone was
81 years old. and resided in South Bend
! for thirty years.
| Al Harpster. who is serving life term
/ IN the Kansas peniteutary for the murder
of Martin Julian a year ago, but who
has been proved innocent by the dying
confession of Myron Cole. win not ac-
cept "A pardon. but will ask that his name
be cleared of the crime by a retrial
The engagement of Miss Nora Viii
iams, Gibson county, Ind. and John
Potter, pittsburg. Pa. has been an
nounccd. Last summer Potter who is n
Pittshurg commission man, found Miss
Williams name in a crate of cHnteioupeS.
Correspondence resulted in the engage
ment.
John DOilsky, Al years old. arose in
Fourteenth street ear mt iIalStcd street,
Chicago, to allow Il woman to sit down.
\ moment later he was brushed from
the step of tn. car by "A wagon. He was
injured internally, three ribs in the right
side were fractured and his head and
| face cut and bruised.
The traffic in frog skins has become sc
extensive that New Orleans shippers de-
mand that they he classified ms freight.
| They have been shipped under the head
of wild animal hides. bird skins and fish.
and in Il special class for which double
rates are charged Dealers ship the skins
east for manufacture into covers for
pocketbooks.
William j, Bryan. who was a spec
| tator Of the proceedings in the lower
house of Parliament IN ST. Petersburg,
was buttonhoed by a harmless crank.
who had planned la stop famines by
teaching the peasants to eat the field
rats which destroy the crops and offered
to subscribe $4,000 if he could interest
Americans to take up his plan.
Richard Tighlman, leader in Pittsburg
society. took poison 10y mistake for medi
cine discovered the error soon after. aud
then began losing battle with death
must die and made all arrangements for
his own funeral, even directing telephone
messages to friends in the CITY. Ti2h-
man and family were 10 have sailed for
Europe last week.
Members Of the city council Of At
lantic City, y j.. received Jar when
Chelsea cnttagcrS sent in an objection
to their portion of the S2I.ODO electric
IIfritf e Il
placed in commission for the summer.
The electric light shut ont the beauty
of the moonlight and your petitioners
would ask for their removal read the
request, which viii probably be- granted.
Ex-Mayor Edwin Stewart Of Philadcl-
phia, who has been nominated 10y the
Republican convention for governor
earned the title Of tine great uukiSspd
long before Gladstone Dowir was ever
heard Of in America Stewart is a bach
elor of precise and rigid habits. His
friends declare that never in his life has
he been kissed save by h.s mother. In
his Younger days he was sometimes
called "Blushing Ned.
Grace Mildred Flora Gaskill IF Mount
Holly y. j.. has 10 her credit one pound
If flesh for each of the hftg-ouc weeks
she has been in existence. She is tbc
daughter Of Mrs Emma Ga-kiU of Mon
roe street frail woman. who weighs
only 100 pounds Mrs Ga~kiil says the
baby weighed twelve pounds at birth,
June -. 1905. and thirty-niup pounds ~
the age of nine months Physicians SHY
the child~ health IS perfect
President Roosevelt. who few week.
ago. was made an honorary member "f
the Improved Order Of Red Men. his
being the nniy honorary membership Do
the order that ever was conferred. u1,
received. by the hands Of Senator kjtt-
redge of Sonth Dakota. who is au Eagle.
a beautifully cngrossed certiiica'" Of
membership in the order President
! Roosevelt cordially thanked tie senator