Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-07-21
BRIEF NOTES OF
GENERAL INTEREST

Roy slocum, aged II. was drowned in
Il the river at Muskeg0n. Mich George
/ HeriIen and Ralph Scuitma. his play
mates. were saved by their dog, which
towed them 70 shore.
/ Miss Julia Munson Beaver Is. daugh-
i Ter Of William G.. Beaver OF PitfSburg
I Pa. died Of nervous prostratiOn. due to
/ worry over the action Of the high school
4 authorities IN Withholding her diploma.
+ after oveTworking herself in a deter
Y n@lned effort 10 win it this year.
Carrying load Of select wines and
+ liquors, a team of frightened horses ran
away from in front Of d liquor compary's
I establishment az La Crosse. Jugs weae
/ overturned and wines and liquors were
mixed with the dust Of the street Leav-
4 ing the team unhitched was the cause of
/ the trouble.
Miss Lucille Weeks Of Syracuse. y.
I L., has brought an action against the
/ Auburn d Syracuse Electric Railroad
Z company 10 recover $1,000 because she
could not get seat on one Of the com
/ panys cars. Miss Weeks boarded
I crowded car and when she demanded of
Il the conductor that he procure her n
seat, she declares, he laughed at her.
Y u. J. Hotchkiss. editor Of the Fox
/ Lake wis., Representative. has been
1 wearing pedometer and found that dur
/ Ing the month Of June he walked IS2
H miles, and without doing any unneces-
/ sary walking. Six miles a day he con-
/ sideTs an easy average. Hotchkiss saws
I tlaf he can now prove to any one who
i dOubts, that being a postmaster editor
/ and general rustler is not as great a snap
/ as one would suppose
/ While dazed and half awake after
1 dream that burglars were l0oting his
safe, J. G. Davidson. proprietor of
general store at Bryant, ten miles south
I OF canton. III. grasped z revolver lying
/ on chair by the bed. The hammer
slipped and the bullet plowed through
/ his left hand and buried itself in the
/ body Of his wife, who was sleeping at
/ his side. The woman died. No blame
/ is attached 70 the husband.
| After forty years Confederate soldiers
Iof Gen. John Fl. Morgan's command are
/ receiving pay from the federal govern
1 Iuent for horses which were taken from
them when they surrendered. DR. L. J.
4 frazee and several other ex-COnfeder-
Iates Of Lexington, Ky. who surrendered
Ito Gen. r. IT. HObson at Mount Sterling.
1 NY, in May, 1860, have just received
/ checks for their horses taken from them
lat that time. The amount each received
| is $123.
/ Prosperity is declared largely respon-
Isible for the marked increase in insanity,
taccording to the report Of DR.. Charles
IL. Hill, in charge Of the Mount Hone re.
/ treat. near Baltimore.
| II believe says DR.. Hill, that by
Thorough research it could be traced in a
great part to the prosperity of the
IperiOd the luxurious indulgence, the dis
/ sipations the departure from the old
standard Of rectitude and the moral de-
1 teriOration.
Mrs John Underwood Of View York.
I encamDed with her husband in n re-
mote guich near Harney's peak, in the
/ Black hills Of Nebraska. was attacked by
a mountain lion while a mile from camp.
She screamed The lion paused, with one
| foot on her breast. She changed her
| screams to a song. As the-a animal still
| hesitated, she continued to sing till morn
| ing, when her husband found her and
Killed the lion, which, apparently, was
| charmed by the sol 6. The woman was
slightly injured.
There Is danger that the borough of
| Saltwater Columbia county. Pa. will
be left without enough voters To fiji the
four qualified voters. Many of these are
employed in a blowing mill which last
week was removed to Berwick. and a
number have followed the mill The
borough has twenty-five public offices
to fill and less than thirty voters are
left, while some Of these may still re-
move As it is, only few voters will
be able to avoid the responsibilities Of
public office.
Mrs. Mary Fay.1O3 years old. who was
sent 10 the New York almshouse last
month after being arrested as destitute
person, died suddenly on July 4 of heart
| disease. DR. Philip S. O'Hanlon. coro-
| ner's physician, states that Mrs Fay
was more than an ordinary person in
physique.
Il have performed 1850 autopsies."
said DIR. O'Ilallon. but she was the
best preserved nerson | ever saw Were
il not for the lines of age in her face
she would not have been taken for more
| than - years olI. She weighed approx
| mately no pounds and was a little more
than five feet in height. The body was
exceptionally well nourished and the
teeth in both upper and lower jaws were
in perfect condition.
Cheated of his evening game of pin
ochle aud a glass of beer. and doomed
| 70 see Sundays pass without even a
chance to meld or bury his lips in the
| foam of n cool draught, old George
/ Schrader, of Jersey City. killed himself
with gas Dying. he blamed the trainers
| of New Jerseys latest Excise law for
| having made life not worth living
| Schrader was nearly 80 years old. He
was character in the neighhorhood. and
| for years not a night passed nor a sun
| day that did not find him in a saloon
near his home playing his favorite game
Of pinochle and slipping lager. Some folk
| told the time by the comings and goings
Of the old fellow. lie was Il drifter.
| without relatives. who lived for the lows
| of pinoclIe and a few glasses of beer.