Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-03-16
BRIEF NOTES OF
GENERAL INTEREST

GENERAL INTEREST
Samuel Beatty has been awarded a
damage of S10l, by the circuit court i'll
Wellston, O., against the Southern Ohio
gas company, for the loss of Il luXurant
growth of whiskers. burned off in gas
explosion two years ago.
President Roosevelt has presented
Senator Hansbrough of North Dakota
with the pen with which he signed the
denatured alcohol act. 1t is Senator
Hansbrough's intention to present the
pen to the State Historical Society of
North Dakota.
Learning that the dead mans wallet
containing money had been left in
| pocket Of the clothes in which he was
buried, relatives of George sherman of
Reading, Conn, caused his grave to be
opened. The wallet, containing some
500 or $50, was recovered.
George Harris, negro janitor of the
medical school of the University of GeOr-
gia, has been arrested charged with
stealing and selling to physicians
throughout the country over 100 skele-
tons. The average price was $50. The
skeletons were taken from the dissecting
room bone by bone.
Rev. Lyman Abbott, at a mass meet
ing i'll New York to express sympathy
for the people of Russia, declared it was
the duty of the people to throw off the
yoke of the Gar, who has proved him
self either too despotic to give them jus
Tee or too weak to protect them from
the rapacious nobility
1t is announced in London that the
Duchess of Marlborough will join the
church army with the intention of devot
ing herself to social rescue work in the
slums of London. At the headquarters
of the church amy there is great excite
ment over the news of the acquisition of
the duchess as Il member.
Great clearance sale. premises com
ing down. are the words ON a placard
pasted on the outer walls of CHEEKY bic
house i'll Cannon street, Manchester,
England. This means that another Dick
ems landmark is to be RACED. CHEEKY bic
house was the premises of the brothers
Grant, the originals of Dickens Brothers
Cheeryble in Nicholas Nickleby.'
Mrs. Frances Peca Peter, aged 81.
who died at her home near Lexington,
Ky. recently, lived seven miles from
tONH- anu udu HCl Detil Ill Jne city Ill
| more than forty years. She became an
cry at some of the people in the city
| before the war and vowed that she
would never visit the place again. She
was very wealthy and was a relative of
| Henry Clay.
To be free of a disfiguring scar upon
| her neck that induced her to foreswear
| lOw-necked gowns and appear ut recep
! m HraGGpC wit OH
| Miss Laura Stallo of Cincinnati. grand
| daughter of Alexander Mcdonald. the
| Standard Oil magnate, submitted to
| painful operation. Two years ago she
was badly burned by the upsetting of
! coffee urn while serving an afternoon
/ tea. \ new method of removing such
! sears by surgical operation was re-
sorted TO. Miss Stallo has so far re-
covered that the attempt is pronounced a
success.
! Because they had to walk four miles
/ after being put off Il train before reach
| ing their destination, Mrs. Bella Stew
art. her daughter, Stella NJ. Stewart,
and Mrs Rebecca Wurzhurger. demand
an aggregate of sd 900 damages from
! the Pennsylvania railroad i'll Il suit filed
! at PittSburg. The women aver that they
| purchased tickets for Leatherwood, Pa,
and that when four miles from Leather
wood the train stopped and brakeman
told them that they had reached their
destination. They left the train and
walked four miles.
Municipal ownership Of tramways,
| electric lights. and other public utilities
| in London, Eng, suffered decisive and
| overwhelming defeat Saturday in the
! election of Il new county council.
There are Is members of the London
county council. The reformers elected
| 80. the progressiveS or socialists 30, and
| the laboriteS 3. In the old council there
were So progIeSSiyes, - IIOderates (noW
| called reformersl. and | independent.
Never in London hHs there been such
| an extreme reversal of the popular will
with regard to party or policy. The
| progres>iveS nave controlled London for
eighteen years. or since the creation of
| the county council.
The dead will he brought to life 10y
| corporation of the trust variety should
| the design and expectations of the Poe
artificial respiration corporation. just or
ganzed and chartered mt Norfolk. Va
with capitalization of Sl000OO. be full
| filed. The corporation WAS organized
! for the purpose of developing the inven-
/ ton of Il Norfolk county genius. who
| claims he has a scheme To restore the
| breath of life by pumping carbonic acid
! NdS 1Fftiii tHe iuiiS> anu oxygen INTO
! then. Any case 0f apparent death from
| aSphyXiation, drowning, ar an overdose
OF anaesthetic. if taken in time, can be
brought back to life. he claims Ordi-
nary DRINKS. too. can be Sobered up i'm
! five minutes, he says.
"Stuugr
Like the hiss of a trapped snake the
| word forced it, way past the NOUS
! tacbed lips of Detective Sergeant Clifton
! Il. Woodbridge Chicago. author Of
| "HandS-Up in the World of Crime. "
! Trapping the Wildcats" and other liter
azure graphically descriptive of the
| fnin.-s ,lnnp ~ .-rillinais LIZ Tho 1iln.ln.r