Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-12-15

amount. alleging that the ship in which
she was brought from Bremen To New
York year Ego behaved so badly that
she was mace seasick. She alleges that
her husband engaged passage for ner on
the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse. and
that she was given passage on the
ChemnitZ. much inferior ship.
a month ago Giovanni Uinida, IA years
old, was brought TO America from Italy
Dy her parents to get her away from
Samuel Farino, % years old, who was
persistent in his efforts to marry her.
Farino, as soon as he learned the desti-
nation of the girl, took passage for New
York and arrived in Chicago few DAYS
ago. Monday night with the assistance
OF his brother, Charles, Farino kidnapped
the girl and succeeded in making his
escape. Ills brother Charles was arrest
ed but refused to give any information.
Walletta May Yeagle, ii years old, a
country maid from Lincoln, H. has
set herself against f. H. Gary. president
Of the United States Steel, and Frank j.
Loesch president of the Chicago Bar
association, in a fight over $1,000. 900
estate. The fight is for a large slice of
the estate of her uncle, the eccentric Col
George Il. Cline, who died three years
ago. The gir' calls into question acts
IN connection with the sale of Col.
Clne's property, upon part of which
tthe steel corporation city, Gary, Ind.
Is now situated.
Elva Sheriff., girl of IS, was ar
rested at Marion. Ind. on a charge of
horse stealing and in her confession i'm
picated a number of persons for whom
the police are now looking Miss Sher-
rill admitted having stolen 1.-THE horse
~ MI
also confessed to having taken three 9th
er animals, all of which were disposed
of by the gang. She said that she was
really the leader of the horse thieves. as
they deferred to her judgment regarding
the kind of horses to take and also as to
where the sale should be made.
William =. Clark. the newsboy candi-
date for mayor, was victorious at the
recent election Ill Newport, r. l. Clark
was nominated on reform ticket. by
the summer cOlonists. who long have
cherished a grudge against the way in
which municipal affairs have been con
Quoted and this year entered actively i'll
politics. The newsboy is a favorite of
the rich colonists and they decided to
honor him. They also have captured
other offices. The election was the first
under the new charter. which bars par
tisanship. Clark nominally is a Demo
crat.
Fifty-three years of mountain life had
put no chill on the ardOr of Ballard Cole
and Mrs. Nancy Jane Wiseman of Cum
berland Gap Tenn. who ran away from
the wrath of their own children and
came to Lexington, Ky, the other day.
Mr. Cole gave his age to the license
clerk at 13 years and Mrs. WiSeman
owned up to the same age. The ardent
pair told that they had been forced to
walk several miles across the mountains
to where they could get aboard train
and escape their pursuing children, who
thought that the clippers We're too old
to know their own minds in the matter.
Nicholas Quinton, twenty-five years
old. just released from the Ashland, Pa,
county Jail, after serving eighteen
months for burglary in a newspaper of
flee. announces that he soon will wed
Miss Emma Stephany, who was ac-
quilted in September of the charge of
numbering her sweetheart.
Quinton fell in love with the girl in
prison, proposed there and was ac-
cepted. He shared his prison dainties
with and encouraged her to be brave in
the ordeal which resulted in her free
dom.
On her release Miss Stephany rejected
The city fathers of Grand Rapids,
Mich. are facing the problem of deter
mining just how 1000 hogs and several
times as many ROSTERS and hens can be
figured as an asset in the capacity of Il
municipal garbage reduction plant. Ava
w. Adams, who was awarded the con
tract for the disposal of the city's gar
bage. has announced the completion of
his works" The contract specified that
the plant was to be erected by him,
which part he filled by the purchase of
the hogs and chickens. The contract
runs for three years, and at the end of
that time the works" may revert to the
city if the contract is not properly full
filled. Hence the perturbation i'll official
circles.
Caruso. the Peoria. Ill.,, monkey, is
dead. The burden of fame his name
brought upon him was too great even
for his happy nature to bear, and he
curled up his toes, kinked his tail around
his perch and gave up the ghost just
about the same hour his Italian name
sake was thrilling New York audiences
with dulcet tones.
Caruso, with Il look of resignation
upon his infantile simian features was
found dying by the keeper in Glen Oak
park. There was nothing of the grand
opera about the death of Caruso. He
just simply put on the tremolo Il fiat
and gave up the ghost. And all that re-
mains of him is now under a carefully
rounded mound on hill which Overlooks
the Illinois,
Before her departure with her party
for the Grand canon and Chicago, Mrs
Potter Palmer purchased for $1,000 in
lo n,
vase from the royal palace at Picking, IA
piece of Chinese ware so old and so rare
that the date of its manufacture is
known only by surmise to have been
something more than a thousand years
ago.
The vase is known as Black Haw-
thorne. 1t is about two feet high and of
a design known to connoisseurs as the
Wal Tai 1t is extremely plain, being
entirely black and with hardly any dec
Grafton.
lis value rests on IFS antiuuity aud IL,