Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-10-05

the subject of discussion at the conven-
| ton of the American Peanut Growers
association at Norfolk, VA
The opening address of President G..
| w. Mitchell was diverted from the reg.
4 ular professional channels long enough
1 10 inform the few uniniriated spectators
I who had dropped In out of curiosity,
! that peanuts did not grow on trees.
/ There were other addresses and papers
| on more routine subjects. One by L. Il.
/ Edwards of Franklin. Va, Oh THE Use
/ 81 the Peanut was instructive even to
the initiated, as il opened vista Of
| hitherto undreamed Of possibilities OF the
| tootlsome tuher.
! The Thirteenth ward Of pittshurg i
overrun at the present time with snaiis,
! four inches long which have become
such an annoyance that Che residents
have appealed TO pr j. T. Edwards,
sunerintehdent OF the bureau Of health.
Dr. Edwards is trying Go figure out how
Ia get rid of them,
The snails are known MS the hog faced
variety and are natives of China How
they got to Pittsburg in such large NUM-
hers Is too much for Dr. Edwards
The snails make their appearance nj
night by the hundreds. and people are
awakened hy the creatures crawling over
them IN bed. Several men who have i'll
duiged too freely in liquor have heeH
| thrown into commissions ON account Of
them,
In trying 40 get rid Of his wife James
II. Loop, q prosperous farmer of Marion
Ind. lost 5000 to clairvoyant and still
has his better half Professor 7 Nic-
tor henwood, the. clairvoyant, is sup
posed Go be in Chicago,
Loop and his wife had had difficulties.
Loop decided il would be il good plan
20 have her declared insane, and went
20 kenwood for advice. Iienwood said
u he had 5000 he would mark the
charm. Loop gave him that amount.
II he had $500 lie would work the
wear Tie money in his vest pocket and
20 out of town to make the charm work.
Loop Went 70 his farm aud kenword
left Marion. Then Loop began 20 gruv
suspicious. He visited the prosecutor
and an affidavit was filed The police
now want Kenwood.
Holding needle in his hand az he
stood III the prisoners cage in the snpe-
rior criminal court at East Cambridge
Mass, just htorc he was sentenced "a
| state prison for FIVE years for picking
| pockets, John 4. Twomey exclaimed:
Your Honor ia prove my innocence
III put my right eye out with this nee-
die"
| just as he was about TO plunge the nee
| die into his eyehall court officers grabbed
\ his arm and prevented serious injury. al.
/ though in the struggle the point pricked
/ the tieSh ON the side of his face.
/ The scene followed an appeal for le-
nlencN by the prisoner VINO. when asked
| II he had anything 10 say before sen
! tence was pronounced, replied: Il ask one
| iavor-that my sentence he not imposed
until tomorrow. | have nm aged mother
and ! wish 60 see her before | am sent
! away. Twelve men who are supposed to
| be sensible, leVnl-headed mon find me
| guilty. ! would sooner kill myself than
/ convict n man on such evidence"
/
Separated from her husband. children
and home in Joliet. Ill.,, by the action
of tue United States immigration IN.
| spector NJ New York, Mrs. John Visch
- an Involuntary passenger ON steam-
er bound for Austria, from which she
| had Just returned after years visit
The reason given for denying her read
mission into the United States is that
she Is suffering from contagious dis
| ease
Mr. md Mrs Nisich lived III an7
Bridge street. For many months She
had been q sufferer from an ego disease
and last October she decided TO visit
! a well known specialist IN Austria in her
home city She went. and lust week re-
| turned not much improved She came
over on the steamer Americana aud Ian
| cd ut Ellis Island last Friday
4 There the Immigration office hated
! her refusing 10 permit her to 20 Go New
| York or 10 Joliet Commissioner Murray,
| however telegraphed Joliet. informing
her relatives that she would have 10 h.
| deported. Mayor John Cronin then be-
calne interested in the case aud sent
message to Mr.. Murray advising him
that the woman was "A resident of this
| city aud that her husband and two chill
dren lived here He requested that the
woman he sent 70 a detention hospital
until friends arrived from Joliet
/ Mr.. Murray sent an answer Sunday
saying that the woman had already been
sent back. Meanwhile relatives had APP
/ pealed to the Austrian consul in Chicago
hut he could do nothing
! C6roner's Physician Philip +. O'Ttan-
! Ion. acting under orders from Coroner
| Julius hamburger of New York made an
1 autopsy in the presence of nearly the en-
/ tire staff Of the New York hospital. on
! the body of Florence Stevens 33 years
old, who was taken IN an unconscious
/ condition from her home The autopsy
/ revealed rupture Of the heart which
/ the physicians and surgeons said, so fur
| as they knew, was without Il precedent
/ in medical annals and showed the won
| derful attempts Of nature 10 heal
! wound which has hitherto been believed
/ 10 be fatal
/ The autopsy WAC ordered because there
| had been some talk nf morphine poison
| ing. When admitted 10 the hospital the
\ woman WIS cJmat0se. with slow. deep
/ hrething, followed 10y quick and forci-
/ BILE expiration The pericartlium or sack
/ enclosing the heart. was found TO he dis
| tended to three times the hearts size
/ and in ii was larg eliot of blood. This
| eliot was organized" that is had formed
| itself into q Kind of muscular tissue.
/ Near the apex or bottom II the heart
| WIS rupture in the walls OF the organ
| into which the index finger might have
! been inserted
! Across this opening and surrounding it
/ In the paricafdial sac WAS network of
/ this organized" clot with which nuturc
| had tried To stop the hole aud had silc-
I eeeded 10 the extent of preserving life
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