Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-01
BRIEF NOTES OF
GENERAL INTEREST

Mahala Lewis. a negresS said to Ice t9u
years old, has just died at Ottawa. Kan.
StV could tell many incidents in the life
OF George Washington. whom she insist
ed she had seen many times. Mrs. Lewis
was native of Virginia and was unable
to read or writes
Samuel NJ Hendricks. ~ years and 1
months cid, has joined the Los Angeles
| hrlCklayerS union. Hendricks has been
a contractor in Los Angeles for twenty
years He wants to do some Journey
man work and decided To join the union
One OF his i've children, a girl, was born
four years ago.
There are two particular kinds OF
| fools in this world--thc didn't-know-it
waS-loadcd fool and the boat-rocking
fool, said Justice Callahan in the Hyde
Iark police court at Chicago. as he fined
Morris Naslew aged II, for rocking "A
boat IN the jackson park lagoon With
NaslcW in the boat were two other young
men and two girls. The latters screams
attracted Park Policeman Brown. who
arrested Nasew
Miss Henrietta Summers, aged Is.
died at Cedar Rapids, la, as a result
of wearing Il steel corset which was Zoo
| small for her. In the semi-centcnninl
| celebration OF the founding of the city
MISS summers represented one of thg
nations on an allCgorlcnl float. Part of
the costume which was worn by her was
steel corset. This was too small ana
during the long parade the girl became
much fntigued and injured herself in
| crnally
One day in Jail was the sentence inl-
posed by Judge John |. Mullins at Den
| Yer ON Charles Pennington tor killing his
li+t ,5,t.r Al
hSt 1 he testimony III Fcnuingtou's ease
| showed the woman was intoxicated and
uunrrrlSomc when Pennington struck
her IN the face with his fist, causing
hhg.r weak heart to cease beating. Judge
Mullins has tried two similar eases here.
tofore and his sentences were in cach
case one day in Jail
Because his brother Samuel allowed
one-half of his blood to be transferred
into his veins, Joseph Miller is on the
! road to recovery at 81. Alexis hospital
at Cleveland O., where he was given IN
| as dying two weeks ago. 1t is the first
! time on record that TRANSMISSION has been
| successful with human patients. The
] operation was performed by Dr. Grille
! Three weeks ago Miller underwent Sc
] we're operation which was followed hy
| internal hemorrhages and his life was
! despaired of. lie rallied at once after
| the fresh blood was infused into his
veins. The physicians say he viii be
out IN a few days.
james j. Sharp, who says hc Is Adam
aud band of followers numbering
about fifty, marched through oklahoma
City. Okla, recently on their way to
the Pacific coast. Sharp led parade
of half nude persons through the streets
here about year ago which resulted
In one of the band being sent 10 the
asylum. Sharp returned II few days
ago and established camp east of
town rs the Garden Of Eden They
were arrested and fined time after time,
but without effect In the parade were
many little children who marched for
eight miles without stopping and were
hardly ahlc to walk Covered wagons
containing dozen or more babies
brought mp the rear.
she wouldn't kiss me, was the de.
Tense offered by Andrew Xaronski when
he was arraigucd before Justice Ochs at
Baltimore, on the charge Of striking his
wife. Mrs. Xarouski. who exhibited a
black eye and sundry bruises testified
that she came home after a hard days
labor in one of the packing houses and
found her husband intoxicated. She had
seen him that way before, she said. and
il was always a signal that she WAS in
for beating. She tried to get away,
but her husband caught her aud pun.
melcd her. Xaronski declared that he
had no intention Of assaultng his wife
hut that hc had been angcrcd by her re-
fusal 10 kiss him. Give dollars and
costs and thirty days in Jail for yours"
said th" court.
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