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

| ~ NphAN W dpHtstiS III II FRANKFORT.
Ky, has upheld the constitutionality of
the Legislative act of 1904 making chick
en- stealing q felony. The act makes II
felony, punishable by imprisonment
IN the state penitentiary for from one to
hye years, for stealing chickens TO the
value Of 81 or more.
Alvin Shaw. 81 years old. * dead in
the City hospital at Newark. \. j., of
disease known as mtral stenosis, or
musical heart" Shaw was an iron
worker. In explaining his peculiar i'll
ness to friends he said his heart
twanged like a banjo when it beat He
some months.
AS the result of her anchor getting
atOul of something at the bottom of
Hampton Roads, fishing schooner was
the innocent cause of discovery and re-
covery. Of the lost anchor and chain G.
the Confederate armor clad Merri-
| mac or Virginia. The last name WAS
given her by the Confederate government
and under 1t she fought the famous bat
tie with the monitor that revolutionized
| naval warfare.
Chickens pecking at dynamite caused
an explosion which wrecked part OF
the house of George Kallenbach, far
mer near Henryyille, Ind Three mem
| berS of the family We're injured one little
| girl having one of her eyes torn out by
| flying pieces of broken stove. Kallen-
| bach had taken the dynamite home from
| a quarry where he had been at work and
| placed it ut the rear of his kitchen,
where the chickens got ut it.
| The most unusual package ever re-
| ceived through the mails of Kenosha
came recently, when Il well known man
| of that city received two pounds of well
| cooked sausages from a girl way up in
| Canada. The wrappings had been
broken and the sausages gave IL strong
odor of garlic to the entire sack of
| mail. The postmaster called in the
health officer and when the latter pro
nounced the sausages 20. k they
were delivered.
y dispatch from Los Angeles. Cal.
| says that the Southwestern deserts and
! the forest reserves of the region are to
| be restocked with antelope. to be brought
| from Africa. Private capital already
| has been secured for the purpose and
| the project it is stated. is already under
| way. 1t is intended to secure Il species
| of antelope that thrives in the hot desert
! regions and are able to live Il long way
| from water. In former days antelope
| were numerous in southern California.
| y decision holding Il newspaper re-
| Sponsible for wrongly advising Il reader
! who asked for financial advice was Civ
en- by Lord Chief Justice Alverstone i'll
| London the other day. The defendant
| was c. n. Pearson one of whose publ
cations invites its readers to apply to
| the editor for financial guidance. The
| plaintiff accepted the invitation and was
| sent to certain stock broker to whom
! he intrusted $1,000 for investment. The
money was never invested, and the lord
| chief justice in his decision ordered Mr..
| Pearson to repay the full amount to the
plaintiff.
| James Wooster Brown, accused of feed
| ing his children on shark meat. and with
| keeping them out in the cold halt
| clothed on the plea that such treatment
| was good for their health. was convicted
| ut Cape May Court House, \. j.. re-
! Gently. The verdict was rendered by
| jury of only eleven men, the twelfth
| Juror. Frederick Boomer having been or
dered from the jury box by the court
after an attempt to pass note 10 the
| defendants counsel The jury acquitted
| Brown of the two charges of assault,
continuing his guilt only to the six counts
against him for cruelty.
The Omaha courts have decided that
works of art by famous painters. includ-
ing Van Dyke, Rubens and Van der
| Wertf, are indecent and that reproduc-
! tiOns of them cannot be sold i'll Omaha
stores. For persisting in their sale John
Greenberg was fined and warned that on
the next occurrence he would be sent to
| Jail. Greenberg had on sale copies of
Rubens' Judgment of Paris" the orig
inal of which is in the Dresden Art gal
| lery: Van Dykes Diana and the Golden
Reign of Jupiter Van der Werff's
Mag alena" and others of that class
In Justice Charles w. Reeders court
at GAINESVILLE. Wis. the garnishee action
of Mrs. II. Iibbel vs.. William Bigelow
was settled. The plaintiff is the land
| lady of Il boarding house, while the de-
| PENDANT is her star boarder 1t is claimed
| that as the result of the defendants i'll
smelling feet that bed clothes 10 the
value of 81 were ruined. Constable Dulin
served the papers on the surprised board
er, who stated that he could not remedy
the trouble with his feet, and that prom
inent physicians had advised him not to
try for fear that the trouble would result
fatally in a blood disease. Mr.. Bigelow
settled and paid the costs.
The aid of the monograph has been
invoked to solve the mystery surround
| ing Peter UZeac, an aged immigrant
| from Croatia, now at Waterloo, Ia, who
| has been unable to make any one under
stand his language since he arrived two
months ago. He was induced to talk
into a phonOgraph and explain all about
himself. The record has been mailed
to the American consul at Vienna. with
Il request to have the message translated
into English and returned Greeks.
Italians, Russians, Germans Prussians,
Poles, and persons speaking different
dialects have attempted to converse with
the stranger. but have failed to gather
more than an occasional word or phrase.
Mrs. Elizabeth Mohe of Beloit. who
is serving a long term in the county Jail
ut GAINESVILLE. became suspicious that all
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