Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-11-24
BRIEF NOTES OF
GENERAL INTEREST

j, $. Holloway, firemen on Louisville
Il Nashville freight train, recently. ut
Evansville. Ind. saved child's life by
CINE and lifting the child from the track
in front of the rushing train.
Boarding house hash was the prime
cause for the divorce of James Aldrich
from Nina Aidrich in Chicago. He said
Mrs. Aldrich preferred life in a board
ing house to having her own fiat. He
thought the other way and they contin-
ued to disagree.
Leatha NJ. Jones of Nillisca, Ia. who
recently toured Europe with company
of teachers, has received a purse CON
tanning about So, which she lost in Lon
don. Ihe purse had been found by ali
Englishman, who made inquiries and
then sent the purse to Iowa.
While at work at his forge Robert
Linke, blacksmith of Germantown.
Tenn. was informed that he was heir to
100000 under the will of his cousin,
Henry Linke. who died recently in Gin
cinnati. Linke was located at the re-
quest Of Cincinnati officials.
IF there were man who was rs
crazy Oh Tue SUBJECT 81 cohSulhpllon us
Carnegie is on the subject of Libraries
much might ne accomplished to check
the disease said DIR. G.. NJ. Amende
of New York. in addressing the Ameri-
can congress on tuberculosis in Gotham.
Jacob Steen died at the home of his
granddaughter at Amsterdam. ~ Y. in
his ninety-frst year. He and his broth
er, Walter. of Syracuse who was at his
ha1 lO ~ in fln
United States The Steens were born
May 10. 1916, in the town of Florida, Il
few miles from Amsterdam.
II. II. Marley, one of the oldest rail
road men in the west. died at his home
ut Olathe. Kan, recently. after read
ing his own obituary enormously printed
in Kansas City newspaper. Mr.. Mar
ley was on the retired list, having given
up last year his position as travelling
passenger agent of the Michigan Cen
trail. He was T6 years old.
Last seasons marriage license record
Mt st. Joseph, Mich, which broke all
former ones to bits. already has been
smashed this year. 1t is safe to state
that before the year is out close to 100
licenses will have been issued; 1900 al
ready have been recorded. OF the Ii
censes issued this year one-half were
taken out by residents of Chicago.
a. j. Ryan, aged II years. was found
lying unconscious in Franklin street. 81.
Louis. by policeman, who took him into
custody on the superstition that the man
was drunk. Ryan continued to grow
worse. and he was taken to the city
hospital, where. after an investigation. Il
piece of beefSteaG was dislodged from
his throat, He Immediately recovered.
In the Boston primaries recently
Fifteenth ward Democrats gave eighty
votes to James Cassidy. who has been
dead three years. James r. Cassidy.
who sought IL nomination for the com
mon council. alleged that his enemies
nominated the dead man to divide his
strength but he did not discover the
trick until after the ballots had been
printed.
Louis Jorgenson, Highwood. H..
Steamtitter wanted to we'd Marie Don0-
van, but lacked the courage to ask her.
He adopted the idea of getting mar
riage license and read il to her at her
boarding house in North Chicago Miss
Donovan became frightened and ran
away She learned that the entire vii
lage knew about the license. JOrgcnsun
was arrested and fined 81.
Chicago is to have an Official press
agent if an ordinance submitted 10 the
city council by Aid. john Powers is APP
proved. The new position. a. contemplat-
ed in the ordinance, gives the press
agent a rank with that of the chief ex-
ecutive himself. He is to receive sal
airy of $4,000 a year-the same as the
mayor. In addition TO being the official
booster he must hold himself in readiness
to officially represent the mayor on all
social occasions.
Ir. ID. NJ. Fisk. president of Wash
burn college tkan.l. i'll an address de-
clared that the most colossal commercial
and financial panic this country has ever
experienced is imminent and that even
the agricultural prosperity of the nation
VIII experience a terrible depression. He
said that The admission of 1,OOO0OO
foreigners to our shores annually will
force upon America colossal panic. and
the country will again see armies of
tramps begging for bread