Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-21
BRIEF NOTES OF
GENERAL INTEREST


aire. Abram Brokaw, $4,000 worth Of
stories during the declining years of his
life, and then sued the estate for the
money, of which he got only fraction,
Won a bride by his tales. even if he
failed to get fortune. The other day
he was married to Miss Selma Lantz,
who was Mr.. Brokaw's nurse, and as
such heard the stories told the dying mil
lionaire, and was captiyated by them.
John Baier, a young man of Easton,
Pa, was waylaid and robbed while re-
turning from a visit to the south side the
other night. He was found bound and
gagged. As Baier was passing. dark
and lonely point he was struck from be-
hind and felled. After recovering con-
seriousness some time later, and being I'M
able to undo his bonds, Baier rolled down
hill to a group of houses. Crawling
on to. doorstep he summoned aid. he
could not describe his assailants, bat said
that he had been relieved of about $50.
Rescued from the hands of mob by a
woman George L. Wells, white man
whose advertisements for a negro wife
startled Colorado Springs, took the ad-
vice of those who threatened him and
left for parts unknown. Wells was
aroused from his sleep by a mob which
gathered at the rooming-house where he
lived and after effecting an entrance
ordered him TO leave town. Mrs. Flora
Hoag, his landlady, pleaded with the
mob leaders to dispense. After much
parleying they left.
In a suit filed for $4,000 damages
against the Carroll Davidson Undertake
ing company and the Hahnemann MedI-
cal college of Kansas City, mans dis
sected body and missing head play inn
portant parts. January % w. B. Tur-
ner was taken to the General hospital
sick. He died five days later and the
body was removed to the undertaking
establishment. When his wife, who was
out of the city at the time of his death,
returned few days later she found her
husbands body on the operating table or
the medical college, but the head was
missing.
B. f. Ferrill, a farmer living near
Danville, KY, narrowly escaped death
after he had sucked a mouthful OF bees
into his windpipe while removing honey
from a beehive.
He was using a large wooden pipe,
blowing smoke into the beehive to keep
the bees from singing him. While in
haling through the pipe he accidentally
sucked in several bees, choking him al
most to death.
Ferrill coughed up the bees, but not
until after they had stung him in his
mouth and windpipe; Medical attention
was necessary to reduce the swelling III
| his throat and save his life.
When Miss Elizabeth Stoddard Of
Schenectady, n. Y, became engaged to
| Alvin De Koressy, an electrical engi.
neer, she had no idea that he was q
nobleman. 1t was not until the marriage
ceremony was in progress that the young
man announced to the officiating clergy
man that he is an Austrian baron. His
bride was almost overcome with sur
prise.
/ The young man had told Miss Stod
| dard's father his secret, but begged thai
| his fiancee be not informed until the
| time of the wedding, as he wanted hel
4 to love him for himself and not hi:
| title
Baron Kocessy has been employed b,
the General Electric company for foul
years.
Because of bis alleged broad" ser
mons, Rev. William Boiler Walker, rec
tor of Christ Episcopal church, Macon
Ga. has been forced to resign. Broad
is not used in a theological sense, but il
Mr.. Walkers case it means "risque."
Christ church numbers the Macol
|
some time ago, when Mr.. Walker begal
to preach sermons in which he referre
to fallen women and their treatment b.
society the fashionable pewholders be
gan TO have all sorts of shocks. MI
Walker began to receive anonymous lei
ters denouncing him, and the vestr
finally told him he had better resign.
Mr.. Walker came here from Joliet
ILL., He will go to Chicago. where b
will be assigned a church by Bishop An
derson.
When Martin Eckert, a plumber VIII
came from Denmark few days age
discovered his wife in Racine a strang
story came to light. Eckert left Der
mark for America, leaving his wife an
two children behind. intending to sen
them money later to come over. But n
had no sooner sailed than Mrs. Ecker
! came into possession of sum of money
: She determined to follow after her hu:
band and ON the next steamer she sale
and came direct to Racine. The husban
happened to be introduced to a perso
who knew his wife was here, and he wa
informed of her presence, but refused [
believe it, and it was with difficulty tina
he was dragged to where She stopped
He was so astonished that he nearl
tainted, believing at first it was the ghoS
. of his better half.
By the action of the sea a bar of san
has been created into an island, and th
! man who paid the state $1S5 for it tw
years ago has just sold it for $4,000.
The island is to be enlarged with san
pumped from the sea and connected wit
f Five Mile beach, which probably will al
ford a means of connecting the coas
i: trolley lines between Atlantic City n. J
and Cape May in the great project of
continuous line from Atlantic Highland
to the Capes.
By one of those puzzling switches
the currents the bar began to rise abol
ten years ago, and as it gradually gre
higher and higher it at last was visib
above high water.
The shifting sands continued to pi
up and finally created the island.
! Some joker at the Stratton rheater {
| Middleton n " came near breaking Il