Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-10-13

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BRIEF NC TIES OF s
& GENERAL INTEREST ;
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A fat partridge flew through win
dow glass in the residence of Winslo,y
| Goodwin, at Winsted Conn. The glass
cut the birds neck, causing his death.
Mr.. Goodwin's family will dine on part
ridge unless the game warden seizps its
body.
Sixty families OF Kaput German
community established in Illinois fifty
years ago, has petitioned that their ser
tlement's name be changed TO Branden-
burg, the town in Germany from which
the pioneers came. kaput is a derisive
term, meaning broke" which fastened
itself ON the village and for half cen
fury the place has had no other name.
When dozen passengers on the De-
troit sleeper on the Hooking Valley road
awakened III the morning they found
their trousers and other apparel gone
together with watches, money. etc. Two
! dlrt} suits were found III the washroonl
and 1t developed that two strange ne
sroeS had entered the train at Marion.
-; during II stop there The porter was
asleep.
To the pluck of Miss Lamb and Miss
Copman. members of the colony ut Twin
Lakes, Conn, Miss Lewis of brooklyn,
ANA Miss Sesrcst of New Jersey, owe
their lives. They were thrown into u
shallow part Of the lake, where the bot
tom Is extremely muddy, by the capsiz-
ing Of their cano"
Both wire fast being swallowed up
10y the mud aud water when Miss Lamb
4 t.l,., Il tr.l tlt.,
cries Ter help, arrived in a boat. Only
the girls heads were above water. and
they were finally pulled to safety.
The town elections have their humorous
side. Ninsted Conn, Republicans nom
mated III. e. Morse, a veteran, ST, for
tree warden MS Il jest He defeated
Felix Gallagher, the one-legged iucum-
bent of the office. by fI4 majority.
Litchhcd elected w. T. Marsh, n
Democrat, who went to Maine, bought
carload of potatoes aud sold them for
30 cents less Il bushel than the store
keepers, first selectman.
Ia Manchester II dead man, j. d.
| Pickles, served the town on Il Genie
terry committee for over a year and
came near being elected Cor another
| term.
The pushing of loaded wheelbarrow
| taken by Aid. John +. Donohue of
| Wilkesharre, Pa. to solve a case ia his
! court. Joseph Bolis sued the Mellow
| an Construction company for wages,
| Ginning he WAS promised $l,1O aud paid
only Sl3u n day. The company defense
WAS that the man was not able to do n
mans work. The alderman ordered
Bolts to push a wheeibarrow loaded with
sand to the top of a hill. The hill is
! two blocks long and the grade is steep,
but Bolis gained the top after consider,
able effort. tie was thrreupou awarded
! the full amount of his claim.
Inveghing against the non-cuforCe-
mcnt Of the Mahoney City. Pa, curfew
| law which requires children under III
years Of age TO he off the streets at
=. m, Rev, II. -. Kreidlcr. pastor Of the
! Salem United Evangelical church de
! clarcd one reason Tor the presence of
| girls in the street at night was the CAD
| ding prOpensites of their parents, par
| hculGFly mothers, many of whom, he
| said. permitted their offspring to roam
about ut all hours, because of their love
| of promenading themselves. Rev. Mr..
| krcidler suggested that the curicw law
be amended to keep married women off
| the streets after forbidden hours when
not accompanied by their husbands.
Dressed ms man, a 1T-year-old girl,
who gave her name as Asia Mead ANA
said her home was in Tcrrc IIaute, Ind,
was arrested at the Iron Mountain depot
in 81, Louis. accompanied by William
l.. Mead, 10 years old. who. she says,
is her brother They left home with
Sl.l5. In u pocket of the girls trousers
Were found the brown tresses which she
had shorn before the two left Terre
lInute. They were on their way to
Reed Springs. Mo. where they say Mrs
! ,.fg ia lou Il ltK-aA l. 'v,.t
Charleston, H.. to East st. Louis, the
girl told the police, they beat their way
on freight trains. From Terre Ilautc 10
| Charleston they rode first class They
had spent most of the money with which
they left home.
Friday" the 5-year-old Igorrote lad.
/ who has become an international prob
/ lem, has been sent from Rochester. n.
y, to JOIN band Of Fillpnos who are
being returned from Chicago by the gov
erumont immigration authorities The
boy was taken from a sidcshow at On
tario Beach. and since his rescue has
adapted himself 10 American ways and
was progressing rapidly in studies AT the
Humane shelter lie wished 90 stay in
this country. bat the authorities decided
otherwise. So far as known. he has no
parents.
Alfred g. Wolf Of Bartlett. Ncb.. aft
or trying in vain for twelve months -
win the love Of his wife. has given her
up to become the bride Of Henry G.
Bullock Of Newark. y. y
\ year ago Mrs. Wolf confessed frank
~ to her husband that sine had fallen
in love with another man, that never
before bad she known what the word
love meant and that ~hr must leave
the good name which Der husband bad
made for her and join Mr. Bullock in
New York where she had met him
while ON visit 10 her I'D homc. Mr..
Wolf met the situation phUnsoph,calIy
and sought to tcmporizc.
IL nftrr tMelNn mAnlL. NnI still love