Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-06-01
BRIEF NOTES OF
GENERAL INTEREST


AT Oskaloosa, Ia, the body of George
Ieggner, buried nine years ago, was ex-
h9med and brought to Des Moines In
ne NE Geggner weighed but a little over
lOO pounds. The remains now weigh Il
trltle less than 1000 pounds. The corpse
appeared to be solid stone.
Ihe chemists who examined the corpse
say the soil in which it was buried con
tanned large amount of alkali. which
produced the same effect as in the petri-
ned animals found in the Black hills.
George SchoonOver, former mayor of
Port Jervis, n. Y, has a small mixed
breed dog. Recently he purchased col
lar with bells and put it ON the ''purp."
The other morning, while in Richard
sons cafe, the dog got in the cellar and
cornered rat, but its bells warned the
rodent and it escaped. The day after
the dog. accompanied its master to the
same place, went up to him and kept
paving its collar Mr. Schoonover. won
dering what the matter was, removed the
collar, and the dog ran into the cellar.
and in two minutes returned with big
rat. The bell had made the mistrial be-
fore, and he was not to be caught nap
ping again.
kilograms from Kentucky received at
Mrs. Carrie B. Tuffree, 80 years old.
owner of a $75O00O orange grove ut
Placentia and much other property, that
she had married her hired hand, Matt
Plttman, and was in Kentucky on her
honeymoon. Mrs. Tuffree- Pittman has
eight children, one of whom was the
wife of brother of Pittman. Thus Mrs.
Carrie Il. Pittman is now the sister-in-
law of her own daughter.
Mrs. Dora Bennett Roster, with con-
stable, went to her husbands home in
Hartland, Conn, and removed her be-
longings. Roster walked about his farm
carrying shotgun, but did not discharge
Mrs. Roster, who was married to Kos
ter, April %, after a days courtship. will
bring action for divorce.
L was never so deceived in a man in
my life as | was in Roster" remarks
Mrs. Roster. He stole twenty-eigbt of
my chickens and sold them. He has
bow legs and to hide them he wears
SIX pairs of trousers. When | came to
his home there was not spoon. fork,
towel. or dish rag to be found anywhere
Furthermore, John was jealous of Mr..
Perigai, who stood up with u.s.
Eight-year-old Davy Markovitz. the
Omaha boy who simply cannot be good.
rs to have surgeons knife inserted into
his head to take the badness out of him.
This will be the first time the Omaha
juvenile court has ordered a surgical
operation to cure the disease of delin-
quency.
Davy has been before the court A
number of times and has been forgiven
on his promise to be good. When it
came to keeping the promise, however,
Davy always failed
Then physicians discovered that ade-
mold growths were pressing upward from
the neck and back of the nose, and. push
ing against the brain. constructing its
growth. The removal of these is not Il
dangerous operation, and, it is believed.
will remove the cause of the boys wick
edness.
Flaring posters announce an ''old set
tiers picnic, June 4 and ). at Murdo.
). ID. By the Milwaukee railroad calen-
just able to walk. but quite able to
make itself heard, as the noisy posters
prove.
Murdo is on the line of the Milwaukee
extension in the former domain of the
Sioux Indians. The bills tell of grand.
glorious, hilarious fun" with 1000 Sioux
Indians in sham battle" and warriors of
cunning" There are to be startling.
thrilling and ghostly sun and Omaha war
dances in full paint and war costumes. -
Other spectacles on which the ''Oldest
living inhabitants will gaze will be wild
Indian butchering contests" broncho
busting and roping contests. races. ball
games, tugs of war and a bOwery dance.
\ movement is on foot to install at the
IN,
department of Photographic records con-
tanning the utterances of statesmen and
other distinguished men from all parts of
the world.
The idea started with t&e gift of pho
nographic record of an address delivered
by Kaiser Wilhelm. An attempt will
be made to have the leading men of the
country talk into the phonograph, and
records thus made will be sent to the IL
brary.
The Smithsonian institution has some
most interesting records of Indian dia-
lects, and the authorities propose to fol-
low the example Of the French and Aus
tralian governments to preserve famous
voices of the stage, as well as of the
forum.
No doubt the first record to be made
for the congressional library will be by
President Roosevelt, to be followed by
records uttered by members of his cabi-
net. the vice president, the speaker, and
members of the Senate and House.
DisconSOlate after having walked many
hundred miles to find a daughter said to
be living on West Madison street in Chi
cago. the humber of which place he new
er learned. Charles Robinson, an aged
Indian. sought refuge in the police sta
ton at Danvile, H.. and is said TO be
near deaths door.
Almost 100 years old, according to his
story, MS limbs distorted from the raw
ages of disease. brought on from expos
ure to the cold air which has swept
through box cars in which he has made
his home for years, his condition is de-
plorable.
Several years ago. while working in
Hot Springs. Ark. Robinson learned that
a daughter. Marguerite Jones, lived in
Chicago. and he started to that city.
walking the entire distance. Reaching
Chicago. he heard that the daughter had
went to West Virginia, and again he start
ed out on long walk. lie reached the
town, did not find her, and returned on
foot 10 Chicago.
Robinson came into Danville three
days ago. ragged and unkempt. He was