Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-12-01


TOOK part IN peculiar race in Paris
recently, which consisted in running IN
the 80 steps leading to the second stage
of the Eiffel tower. The winner was
man named Neveu, who made the dis
lance III three minutes and four seconds.
Insane from religious study Sanford
Engieman of Byrneville Ind. literally
obeyed the scriptural injunction: If thv
flSht hand offend thee cut it off and cast
II from thee After amputating his
hand he walked half n mile with his
wrist III cloth to stop the flow of blood.
lie refused to say what lie had done
with his hand except that he had east
it from him.
According to the deposition of Mrs.
Emma NJ. Peterson of Boston, support
ing Il motion 10 dismiss her husbands
suit for divorce, Benjamin d. Peterson.
an insurance agent does not consider st.
LOUIS proper place for wife to live.
she testified that when she wrote ask
ing nm Why he did not send for her he
answered that ST. Louis was no place
dogs"
Thomas Ball. the sculptor of Mont
clair, y. j., has Just completed paint
ing he began tifty-three years ago The
picture, which covers II canvas more
than 4XJ feet depicts Christ Gliding
Martha. as told in the gospel of ST
Luke Mr.. Ball began the picture in
Boston in 1888 when he was 81 years
old, but was unable to finish it until
now because his work as a sculptor took
up all his time.
Sewed in a corset, small bag CON
tanning S11O0 worth of unset diamonds
thrown hU h.
ond story window of a private sanitar-
lum i'll Hartford, Conn, TO Francesca
0aVaIlo. an organ grinder, week ago.
| The story became known when police
man went to Meriden to restore the re-
| covered Jewels to the family of the wom-
an who threw them away The Italian
woman gave them up without protest.
Robert Vance Freeman, Il member of
the first poison squad instituted by
Dr. II. II. Wiley government food ex-
pert, to test the effect of preservatives on
foods. died in Washington of tuberculo-
Sis. His mother alleges that the disease
which caused his death was contracted
after his system had been weakened
from eating boric acid in the first gov
eminent test. and threatens to take legal
action. DIR. Wiley declares the allega
ton absurd.
John Hurley of Litchfeld, Conn, a
student of Gaelic genealogical history
after years of research in regard to the
derivation of the name OF Shakespeare,
has concluded that he was an IriShman.
He says that the name of Shakespeare's
mother, Mary Arden, is of Irish origin,
and that early i'll the fourteenth century
Lord Arden was member of the
Irish Parliament. Virgil, the great poet,
Hurley says. was born in 20 Il. c., and
was undoubtedly of Irish origin
Odessa Merrill of st. Paul. aged l.
saw n big doll behind Il show case as she
was walking along the street with her
mother, and with il cry sprang forward
to get it. The child didn't realize that
the doll was behind glass, and struck
the showcase with her head. The glass
broke and Odessa fell. her face scraping
across Il piece of jagged glass, which al
most cut off her nose. She is in her cot
ut home now, her face bandaged so that
only two brown eyes are visible.
At Il recent meeting of the London
Practitioners society. DR. Robert Able
showed, i'll order to illustrate the pene-
trative power of radium, a Photographic
plate upon which IL revolver had been
photographed by a single grain of ra-
dunn. The cartridge with which the re-
volver was loaded and the internal
mechanism of the revolver were clear
~ seen in the photograph, demonstrate
ing that the rays had penetrated the
steel.
BY deliberately deraiing a train load
ed with passengers. the agent of the San
Antonio and Arkansas Pass railroad ut
Flatonia, Tex. prevented collision.
The freight train was standing at the
depot when the passenger came rushing
down on it. The air brakes on the pas
Senger train refused 10 work. The agent
saw collision was imminent and
promptly ditclled the passenger train.
-Four cars and the engine We're derailed. !
The passengers were badly shaken up
but no one was seriously hurt.
Deprived of the society of her husband !
because of the increasing competition in /
business. Mrs. i. 9, Madigan. Chicago |
has appealed to Secretary Nockels of the /
Chicago Federation of Labor to secure |
the aid of that organization in having re- |
tail stores closed two evenings each week. |
She declares her husband, who is in |
business, is compelled, on account of |
neighboring competitor to keep his store |
open six evenings during the week, While |
she sits alone at home. Secretary Mock |
els has referred the matter To the Re
tail Clerks union.
They tell of a Portage (Wisl engi-
neer who has nove' way of ordering
his breakfast as he passes near his
home. Two blasts oe whistle calls
for n beefsteak. aud a single snort blast
following means that he wants it we'll
done If lie wants eggs boiled long
blast with three short ones following
does the business. Should lamb chops
be wanted he blows three long blasts
aud for sausages his signal * a string
of Il half dozen short tootS He mikes
all sorts Of whistle signals when he
wants scrambled eggs.
Peter Klees. the 4O0-pound police mag
istrate of Aurora, ILL.,, was icebound the