Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-02-10
BRIEF NOTES OF
GENERAL INTEREST

Delayed twenty years in transmission.
letter mailed in Richmond, Ind April
-, 1856, to Howard Knight, who then
lived in Bloomington, Ill.,. was delivered
to knight AT Peoria, the other day.
4 rat was kicked out Of q bowling al
ley IT Youngstown, o.. with such fore
that it struck Alfred X. Robertson and
Knocked him down, rendering him uncon-
Ncious. kohcrtSon'S Injuries are serious.
William Scn>c jauitor of IN apart
mcnt house in New York, fell eight
stories and escaped with fractured am
klc and spraincd back. His fail was
down Il dumbWaiter shaft, which was
narrow and the falling man grabbed and
clutchvd at the sides, thus breaking his
fall
When Rev. Balgan Of the Christian
church AT Terrc Hautc. Ind. in the fu-
neral services Of Charles Robbins at
Ellsworth, ind. said that the dead man
had lived life booming him To eternal
torture. Robbins coal miner friends
went T. the church took MP the coliu,
and carried it out To the cemetery with
ont further services 10y the minister
The auti-race Suicide theory Of prcsi-
dent Roosevelt met responsive chord ia
the heart of George Driver. aged ~
years at Auburn Ind. few days ago,
When his wife, aged 90, presented hm
With pair OF baby girls Driver i4
now The father of twenty-lour children.
seventeen by a former marriage. lie is
g retired farmer, and was frs; married
tortE-tivc Years ago.
Mrs w. Koerner of Deshlcr O.,
played the Simon Legrec act on A. t.
Smith, editor of the Deshler Flag. horse
whipping him 20 a finish. The cause Of
the trouble, as related by Mrs. Koerner,
who Is socially prominent. is that She
and Smiths wife were running for IN
office in tie Rebecca lodge She says
that Smith. in order to insure the clrc-
| ton of his wife, circulated false stories
about her,
George T. bordeaux, the racetrack
man and meteor ear enthusiast was
horScwhippcd until he begged for mercy
at the New Orleans fair grounds race
track by Mrs. Bob Rogers. The trouble
was caused by Bordeaux in his automo
bile running down Mrs. Rogers in her
surrey. as both were on their way to
the races. Mrs. Rogers, her cuacluHu
and the pug dog were all tmrercmunious-
IS dumped into the dusty road and Iav
automobile went on
Benjamin lIochstadtcr, a. ana Flor
cnce Schitt. Ii. both Of Chicago. always
thought 81. Joseph marriage was Just
half, and il would not take till a rabbi
performed the other half. thus making Il
whole one. Last summer they agreed to
q ST. Joseph "haIfmarriaEc" and game
back with the understanding that the
matrimonial problem in frartions Should
be completed later if they liked each 9th
or. There was a falling out and then
/ the discovery that they were two
| halves married took them to the circuit
| court to have the marriage dissolved.
| Six young men. said Ia hc senior stu
/ dents at the Washington and Jefferson
! college. were discovered at ! a. IN. climb
! ing into sccuudstory windows Of the
Young Ladies' seminary at Washington,
! Pa. The police say they recognized
! them as they fled and that they must
! give themselves mp or be arrested. Miss
| Mary Mcdonald. principal of the semi
nary. having become suspicious, decided
| Il start at ! q. III. 10 find six young mon
on the porch roof near the windows of
rooms occupied 10y her fayoritc pupils.
/ Miss Mcdonald turned in the fire alarm
and the burglar alarm and screamed
/ through the telephone TO the police sta.
/ ton In y minnie or two after waking
she had the entire town rushing toward
the seminary. The students escaped.
not down the porch posts up which they
lad come, but through the dormtory,
and il is mtimated they got Stance
from tho fair students