Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1906-01-10

his testimony sobbed aloud. The ury
returned a verdict for the father
Hoping to induce her husband to
abandon his plan of suing for divorce
and return to her. Mrs. John S. Berry
of Indianapolis three weeks ago Dor
rowed newborn child from a neighbor.
who had more than she wanted, and
presented it to her spouse as her own.
The scheme worked, and reconciliation
followed. but the deception was discOV-
cred and the divorce suit was filed.
The marriage of Bruce Senter and
Miss Sadie Randall took place at Alton,
H. The groom is a candymaker and
young woman was a patron of the candy
store where Senter worked, and 1t is
said became acquainted with him
through the quality of his candy. After
he couple became engaged Senter came
10 Alton to take charge of a candy fac
cory and succeeded III pcrSuadlnS his
lance to join him.
Christmas was a day of unusual re
joicing in the home of Adolph Gebhardt
at Lincoln, Neb., because Of the return
Of his long lost brother, George. Adolph
at moving picture exhibition recently
was startled by strange familiarity III
one of the figures on the screen. He Wis
tied the place again and recognized the
familiar figure as that of his brother
He then learned that George was an
actor in New York and urged him to
spend Christmas in Lincoln.
Alexander Helms, GS years old, one
of the wealthiest men in Steubenyille, o.,
and Miss Louise Wonder, aged 25, Il Pitts
burg milliner, were married and hurried.
~ left for California to avoid Helms
children, who had stopped the marriage
four times. Miss Wonder worked Ill
Steubenville. Helms has been widower
thirteen years. He telegraphed his sons
that he would not be home with his wife
until next April. 1t is said he gave the
bride $4,000 as wedding present.
Because he made public boast that he had
embraced and ShoWered kisses upon her
in the unlighted parlor of her home, Miss
Jennie Miller, a young girl of ting
beauty of RingtOwn, Pa, has brought
civil action against Monroe Manbeck
Of the same place to recover $500 dam
ages. Manbeck and Miss Miller kept
company during the summer and she is
alleged TO have Tilted him. This made
him angry and to even up scores he cir
culated unpleasant stories of their sum.
mer cOurtShip.
George Langstaff of Whittier. Cal. is
rafting himself off as though he were a
secondhand baby carriage or a watch
The chances range in price from / cent
to 81, and the holder Of the winning
number will own LangStaff's services for
two weeks and may employ him in any
manner he may see fit. One ticket hold
er asserts that if he wins he will hitch
Langstaff to a road cart and drive him
about the city IangStaff figures that
the amount he will realize for himself
will be equivalent to wages Of S4.20 Il
day during his two weeks of serfdOm.
A letter was received at the nostoffice
department in Washington from a patron
iii tiny town in Mississippi bewailing
the fact that there had been a years de-
lay in the delivery of letter to him.
The postmaster who seemed to be at
fault was called upon to make report
He looked into the matter and then
wrote the department as follows:
|. That letter must have dropped in my
WaStebaSket a year ago, because l diScoy-
cred it there few days ago, which was
the first time tie basket had been cleaned
out in a twelvemOnth. | will clean out the
basket ofteneI hereafter.
Miss Lulu Bowen, for seven years a
trusted clerk in the Oakland Cali post,
office, was arrested recently for embeZ-
zling $1,000 of government funds. When
| ice officers she confessed. She has been
| furnishing money to Il married man with
| whom she was infatuated. He has been
! playing the races and losing large sums,
which she made good. She was caught
| by decoy registered letters and money
orders. She was a leader in the Baptist
church and the only support of her wild
owed mother and younger sister.
Common Councilman Robert X. Coch-
| rane of Pittsburg IS threatened with
blindness from blood poisoning, which he
believes he caught from a street car
strap. He is in the Presbyterian hos
| pital in a dark room, where he has been
since Christmas morning. He has been
totally blind for several days About
| three weeks ago Mr.. Cochrane boarded
a Woods Run car for his home in Wash
ington avenue, Allegheny. The car was
crowded and he caught hold of a strap.
During the ride home his left eye itched.
He rubbed the eye frequently, and it is
believed conveyed poison germs from the
strap.