Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-02-16

a crapial development in the part where
me intellectual faculties are seated.
someone has writtn book on illus
trlous shoemakers. In it are Sir CloudIes-
icy shovel; Clifford the Terrible: Rloom-
nehi, author Of the well known Far
lneF Boy; Carey, the orientaIiSt: Adj
hirai MyngS: George Fox founder IF
the Society of Friends: John Kitto. the
biblical scholar; Sturgeon. the electro
clan.
The late Capt. $. =. Brown. noted
horse owner and coal operator. who was
reported 10 have left $15,OO0O0O. only
ieft S3oVD.OON according to the account
nled by his executors at Pittsburg III
hraries at the city and country homes az
the deceased which were valued hy him
N S30UO have been appraised at only
Nl"3 These Libraries. together with
trophies won on the turf. and thirty
bonds Of the pittsburg Brewing com
pany. valued mt S}3.900. were be-
queathed To Miss Martha Lewis. who
has since married William Porte, who
was Capt. Browns betting commission
or. For accepting the brewing company
bonds Miss Lewis was forced to resign
aS Sunday school teacher in the Mary
Brown memorial chapel.
The prnye: cure for insanity was
urged IN the lower house of the Illinois
Legislature recently in communication
from Il resident of New Boston. Ill.,. who
believes that if Il knee squad from the
Salvation army We're To put up supplica-
tionS three times day in each state
asylum there would be- no need of hydro
therapeutic baths. pSychopatIc hospitals
and the rest of the modern scientific an
pilances which the state board of chart
ties wishes to install. The New Boston
ian picked out the Salvation army work
erS because of their fervency IN prayer
and his suggestion that the state pay
salary to picked brigade of lasSieS and
soldiers was hailed by Speaker Shurt-
left as atfording opportunity for an iron
ical dig at the administration idea of
giving the charitable institutions the
most improved equipment.
Eighteen inches of as beautiful whiSk-
ers as ever grew on mortal man went up
i'll smoke when Jacob Critics upset a
lamp at his home at Findlay. O.
The WhiSkers were the pride of Find
lay. Like the courthouse the mayors
residence. and the cemetery, Critics lux
uriouS hirsute adorament was pointed
ont to visitors as one of the interesting
sights. Now Fiudlay mournS
critics was pouring camphor into ii
bottle on Il table. \ lamp stood near
by. Little lid Critics think of the dan
ger that threatened his beard, \ sud
den nudge with his elbow tipped over the
lamp. The eighteen inches Of whiSkers
caught fire.
Now there is nothing eft of the Pride
of Fmdlay' except faint odor in the
room where the tragedy occurred. Critics
was not seriously burned otherwise,
The police of Pittsburg raided spirit
uallst meeting III the Oakland residence
district The medium. the spirit" and
twenty-three other persons were hauled
to the police station and locked up for
time, charged with violating a city
ordinance. Soon all were out on bail.
The spirit. who was six feet high
and weighed $50 pounds. put up fear
full battle when the light was turned on
aud il gave the detectives all they could
do for several minutes.
The police got into the meeting in the
dark. and at signal turned their electric
lights on the medium. who was caught
talking through horn impersonating
the voice of II wealthy man some time
dead.
The mans son was almost deirious
with JOY ut hearing papa s. voice, but
when lie saw the deception he started
for the medium with a chair leg.
Carl Buchta. clerk ut q. K. Evans
drug store at Kendall. Wis went to the
store at > o'clock one morning to fill
prescription. Mr.. Evans. who lives
above the store. heard him as he left
and under the impression that the store
was being robbed began firing his re
volyer from back window This awoke
Postmaster Hedug, who lives upstairs
next door. and he also went 10 win
dow and began firing into the air. Hi
ram knehler. who sleeps in the back
part of the drug store. was awakened by
the shooting and went outside to see
what was going on. and the two up
stairs. installing Linn for II burglar. be
gan shooting at him. DR. Peter Moe
who lives upstairs next to the p0Stmast-
er was also awakened and fired Il few
shots from window. Meanwhile Koch
Ter. finding himself the target for the
others. took refuge in the doorway of
George WciSe's saloon Night car tap
pers and others FASTENED across from
the railroad shop in response to calls for
help only to find Koeher crouching in
the saloon doorway and shiyering with
cold and fright. Fully twenty shots had
been fired at him without one taking cf-