Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-10-06
BRIEF NOTES OF
GENERAL INTEREST

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A dispute over the possession of a
chicken wishbone caused James Ham
ford, who lived on a farm near Mi.
Gilead, o.. co shoot and kill his wife.
and then with the same revolver take
ms own lite. The shooting took place
Just after dinner. The wishbone later
was found broken on the table.
Clarence Well, aged Is, is proud of his
long curls that fall in cascades over his
shoulders, so proud of them that he ran
away from his home in Minneapolis
when the school authorities there or
dered him to see a barber. He'll stay
win relatives at Mason City, Ia, where
there Is no compulsory school law affect
ing hair, and cherish his locks.
Mayor Kenpel of Akron, O.. in his
crusade against ''mashers" who hirt with
girls on the street has issued a statement
asking the mothers to help him by
spanking their daughters who persist in
gong downtown at night. seeking adj
venture. The mayor says the girls are
largely to blame for the 'maShing" evil.
Many mothers nave promised to comply
with his request.
William Betz of Cleveland mas the
telephone habit" declares his wife,
Nina, who filed suit for divorce She
says that at all hours of the day and
night she is called to the telephone by
Betz and asked foolish questions. Of
ten, she says, he awakens her at mid
night by calling up to ask her IF the
mockingbird sings" She asks the court
to force BetZ to quit bothering her.
Commissioned as special officer. Mrs
Helms. at kewanee, Ill.,. arrested sixteen
men for climbing the fence and enter
ing the La Fayette fair grounds with
out paying admission. The woman wore
policeman's star and none Of the men
offered resistance when she escorted
them to the office of the association. She
was selected out of many applicants and
her work is regarded as the best yet
done by patrol officer for the fair
The freshman class at Tufts college in
Medford, Mass, is distinguished by the
presence as a member of the youngest
colegian in the United States Norbert
Weiner, aged II. the son of Leo Weiner,
assistant professor of Slavonic languages
at Harvard, is the lad. He lives with
his parents at Medford Hillside. When
Norbert was Is months old he knew his
alphabet. When : years old, he was
reading Darwin, Huxley, Rbot and
Haeckel.
Mrs. Elizabeth Grove of Aberdeen, S.
D.. in the police court at Ottawa, Ont,
was fined So tor kissing her own child.
She was some years ago the wife of
DR.. Y. IL. Lyon of Ottawa. Judge Nc
Coy of South Dakota granted Lyon di-
vorce and gave him the custody of the
little girl. Mrs. Grove, while visiting
here, saw the child on the street and
kissed her, and the husband made a
charge of assault, which was upheld by
the magistrate.
''The horse nearly killed my grandpa
and nearly killed my grandma and now
it has killed me; please kill the horse"
were the dying words of little Charlie
MullenS, aged &, of Ware Mass.
Charlie went into the pasture recently
with Il whip to chase the horse and it
kicked him i'll the abdomen.
Ten years ago the boys grandfather
sustained a dozen fractured bones by
the horse running away, and last year
it overturned his grandmother and broke
three of her ribs.
What undoubtedly was the highest of
fetal military salute ever fired was the
brigadier generals salute Of eleven guns
fired on the summit of Pixies peak, near
~ three miles above sea level recent
ly. 1t was fired by guns from the
Twelfth artilier.,. L. S. A., and was in
honor of Brighten. Zebulon MOntg0m-
cry Pike, who. in 1906. at the head of
the Southwest expedition sent out by the
war department. made the first record of
the existence and location of the noun
tain that now bears his name.
A tramp called at the residence of
Father GaviSk of st. Johns church at
indianapolis and asked for money with
which to buy something to eat Father
GaviSk gave the fellow a dime
You must think | am going to -
cheap restaurant" snarled the beggar.
Father Gavisk demanded the return
of the dime. but the tramp refused.
Then the priests fighting blood was up
and he gave the fellow a blow. There
was struggle and the man went away
from the door without the dime.
Bob" Toosley. Chicago's richest
policeman. has sent in his resignation to
Chief Collins. following n demand by
the chief for an Investigation into a re-
cent fight between LAWN and Collins
adherents in saloon ut Chicago. TO0s-
ley is said to he worth $4,000. For
fifteen years he has failed 10 don 4 po-
Iiccmans uniform aud his defiance Of
orders from downtown" has been the
scandal of the district back Of the
yards" He went on undistubel until
he drank too much one night and d.
trayed his friendship fer LAWN.
After a lavish expenditure Of money
for several weeks. Opal Collier, IL years
old. confessed to Chief of Police Smith
at Anderson. Ind. that she had robbed
her mother Mrs. Maggie Collier, of
$4e2 from purse containing S+e',
which Mrs. Collier kept in a lounge at
the family home. The child betrayed
herself when she handed her mother $50.
saying the money was given 10 her by
man who said he had robbed her
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