Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-04-20
BRIEF NOTES OF n
GENERAL INTEREST

ii GENERAL INTEREST )
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Gunpowder administered to Jesse Bee
man, aged 16 years. and Albert Beeman,
aged Is, brothers, while suffering from
measles is believed to have been the
cause of the death of the two at Spokane,
Wash. The gunpowder was not pre-
scribed by the physician. but was given
by the parents.
A mail package. apparently containing
dynamite. exploded while it was being
stamped in the St Louis postotfice. The
explosion blew' away portion of a fin!
ger and thumb Of John e. Bayer, the
clerk who was stamping the package.
1t also destroyed all trace of the con
tents and all the address excepting the
words Independence. Mo"
The drug store of David y. Bruner. at
| Sandburn, Ind. was blown up and com
pletely destroyed by dynamite.
The residence of George POhmeier. the
Commercial hotel Sandborn Bank build
ing. knights of Pythias hall, Nandalia
station. and the residence of II. l.. Rem
ner We're badly damaged by the force of
the explosion.
Bruner has been running blind
tiger for years. Bitter feeling has eX-
isted between the liquor element and the
opposition.
The breaking of every rib on his right
side by the kick of a hog was the re-
markable experience of ii. NJ. Hutchins.
a well-known farmer near Redheld, Ia.
lie had been chasing n fractions pork
err for some time and reached for a grab
hold when the animal suddenly stopped
and planted both hind feet in Hutchins
right side.
In great pain the man FASTENED to
physician. who made the discovery that
there was a fracture of every rib on the
side struck by the animal.
Judge Shields of St Louis, Mo-. held
/ IL the suit of Angelo De Foto against
| Aurelia DE Yoto that wife may not
| tell i'll court what her husband says in
his dreams. The principle was laid down
when Attorney Harold Johnson asked
! Mrs. De Vote whether she had ever
heard her husband talk in his sleep about
other women. The question was object
ed TO, and Judge ShaJUss4yeOld Johnson
that such evidence was inadmiSsible. De
Voto testified his wife put love powders
in his coffee after a clarvoyant told her
she had rivals.
An unknown man. thought to have
to death and five ears of refined oil and
one ear of gasoline weSs totally de
stroyed in wreck at Polk. Ia.
y freight train ON the Franklin branch
of the Lake Shore railroad was wrecked
I through the breaking of Il truck. Six
cars containing refined oil and gasoline
| piled up in a heap and the contents
/ took fire. Trainmen. on leaving the ca
| boose. met Il man ablaZe from head to
/ foot, running toward them and scream
ing for water. Their efforts to save him
we're futile. He rolled into a ditch and
died.
Seriously wounded in the foot and fac
/ ing life as Il cripple Otis Stone of Ne
waygo county, Mich, aged 10, blew out
/ his brains.
While hunting with a companion young
| Stones gun went off while he was cliMb-
/ ing n fence. the charge mutilating his
foot in a terrible manner.
His friend tried desperately to stop
/ the flow of blood but failing to do so
ran off for Il doctor
When the two reached the place where
! the wounded boy had been left they
/ found him dead. He had empticd the
second barrel of his gun into his own
/ head.
! Eleven human heads. valued ut 500,
were stolen from the roof of the John II.
Drake company, Chicago, recently.
The loss was made known to the police
and Il want ad was inserted III local
paper Offering ii $40 reward for the cap
ture of the thieves.
! The company deals in human heads
and skeletons, which it sells to medical
| institutions for experimental purposes.
1t is the only company in the world tram
sacting such Il business.
| Drake says that medical students must
have stolen the heads as they are the
only persons to whom they would be
valuable.
Robert Overmiller, aged Is years, a
farmer living on SAILS creek, Jefferson
county. Ky. became insane and barri-
caded himself in an old building on his
fathers farm. He had two shot guns
and revolver and refused TO allow a
posse of deputy sheriffs and c4mn1x. po-
licemen to arrest him.
At night he comes out to get food, but
in the daytime hides in his barricade.
Deputy sheriffs Were sent out from the
city to make n final effort 10 arrest him.
that he may be sent To an asylum.
His insanity is attributed to a scare
which he received in menagerie when
a boy. He imagineS he is bea1.
What is claimed to be the largest tree
in Wisconsin is on the farm of Matthew
Nallon near ReedSburg 1t is an elm
and il takes a string 70 feet long to
reach around the base at the top Of the
ground. This. Of course, is on account
az the spreading roots but feet frog
the ground the string must lee IL feee'6
inches long TO girdle this king of1elmS.
The tree is about 50 feet high and tue
body holds it's size remarkably well for
about 40 feet. where several large
branches are thrown out making sym
metrical and beautiful specimen. Ii is |
estimated that n saw log Of ordinary
length could be cut from the tree which !