Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-29


She has divorced three other husbands
in the meantime, she must be held to
havc paid him high compliment. The
lady must be slightly chagrined, how
ever, to discover now that her first guess
was correct.
Eight rebels were killed and twenty
three were wounded III n fight near Ha-
vana, in which one government soldier
was killed and thirteen were wounded.
The rebels We're dispersed, and the gov
crrment troops did not pursue. If the
lighting is to continue in this way, the
rebellion could continue etcrnany.
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\ dispatch from Winnipeg tells of the
unsuccessful efforts Of automobile en-
thusiasts to obtain the dismissal of an
efficient officer who persists in bringing
them to time for fragrant violation of
the speed ordinances. This will give
JOY to a good many people who have
jumped ut the honk of an auto horn
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Every dispatch that comes from San
Francisco tells of recovery from the
shock of last April and of progress to-
ward Il bigger and more admirable city.
Nothing discouraging is permitted TO leak
ont, even if anything of that nature
exists. This is one of the finest exam
pies on record of what is meant by keep
ing Il stiff upper lip.
Word comes from Washington that
the postponement of the Hague con-
ference is regarded there as fortunate.
1t appears that new issues have risen,
since the first programme was proposed,
which can now be considered ut The
Hague, If the conference were post
poned farther, probably there would be
still more questions to bring before it.
A Cologne professor who is reported
to have succeeded in producing cancers
with cultures from mildew has not been
able to discover cure for the disease.
He Is therefore not as expert as the
specialist in fits who claimed he could
cure the victims of all diseases by sim
ally throwing them into fits, with which
he had no difficulty in coping.
The motor cyclists who recently
made the run from Chicago to Miwuu-
Ree and return experienced less trouble
en- the way than is commonly encount-
cred by automobilists. They have only
tive wheels for which to select trackage
en- the country roads, and they can
therefore escape many of the bumps
which put aut0mobilists out of commits
sion
Announcement that memorials in ia
vor of church union have been presented
to the Methodist General Conference
in Montreal from the conferences of
Montreal. Alberta, New Brunswick and
Prince Edward island is fresh indica-
ton that the general trend of church
work is toward co-opcratiOn The prof
ect may not be accomplished iii the days
at the present generation, hut there can
be little doubt of its ultimate success
i has been one of the traditional
customs of the Connecticut superior
court to begin every quarter with pray
En- Now the custom is to be abandoned
because the judges have found that
there is 10 legal provision to pay the
s. allowed for each prayer. Perhaps
the fee crept in after the prayer had
become regular thing. Such things
do happen. And perhaps the prayer ear
still be maintained as custom, even il
it is not paid for
Souvenir cards are delaying the mail
in the big postotlices aud the clerks ar
being overwOrkcd. If the conditions con
tnuc, the number of employees will hay
To he increased, of course, to handl
the business But there will be no out
cry over the added expense. These col
ditions mean more business for the pos
office system business. too, of the kin
which pays for itself 1t is Sccon,
class postal matter which keeps up Il
departments defci, record, because
abuses of the privileges.
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\ scmi-ofiicial statement in behalf
the Bank of France declares that tn
institution will not export gold direct
TO New York. Il any French gold comt
it will be by the way of London, on u
of those so-ealcd triangular movement
French gold obtained in that way
just as good as though it came strais
10 New York. Incidentally. Amcric
bankers have turned their attention
the Australian market, where more ia
81 100000 has just been contracted {
A mcrciful Montreal judge has let
careless automobile driver of with
months Imprisonment when. as he
planned, he might have given the M
five years aud would have done so
The prisoner had not been frank aud II
est in telling of the accident. He !
killed man 10y running past str
ear which had stopped to let of pass
gers. Those automobile drivers Y
imagine that a fue or damage ,