Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-10-19

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BRIEE NOTES OF
| GENERAL INTEREST
Jose Gutierrez, aged lit. is dead at lei
/ Paso, Tex. He smoked cigarettes till
he died and drank whisky till he was
100, when he declared he found it was
not good for man, and quit.
Three thousand persons, mostly WON,
en-, attempted to crowd into 10-cent
store that opened on Main street at Kan
sas City, Mo. A panic resulted. 4 doz-
en- women tainted. a baby was trampled
4 upon, but not seriously hurt, and three
women We're slightly injured.
Mabel Bennett, daughter of the Fort
Dodge, Ia, mayor, who has been urging
| bachelors TO marry, eloped with a cilauf-
feur, holland Snow and they We're mar
ried here. Mayor Bennett recently is
sued a ukase requiring all bachelors to
| marry. Snow took him at his word
In the will of Andrew Gardner of Ma
sonville, n. Y, offered for probate at
Middleton, the $4,000 estate is left to
his widow on condition that she shall
| not be absent from home more than five
nights in any one year. This clause was
inserted, it is said, to keep her from
church. Gardner was opposed to churches,
While his wife is devoted to them. The
will is to be contested.
Cockroaches stopped big engine and
caused shutdown of the Edgemere
mills, in Great Darlington, Mass, the
other day About the mill are electric
buttons, and by pressing these the engine
is stopped. The engine suddenly stopped.
and on investigating it was found that
several cockroaches had made their nest
in one of the buttons, and when they had
crawled III the connection was made and
the engine stopped.
William Jeffrey Of Berkeley Heights. N
j., who is the father of six sons ranging
IN age from 8 to ID years, is building a
one-story bungalow in the rear of his
home for the exclusive use of his boys
and given over entirely to their care
There the boys are to live, study and
play, and there they can trough house"
TO whatever extent they please, says
their father. but they are only to enter
their parents house on invitation, and
their parents in return will call on them,
Miss Iva Wagner, II years Of age
and the daughter of u minister at
Rochester, Ind, is under arrest here on a
charge of trying to wreck Lake Erie
d Western passenger train, thus endan-
gering forty or fifty lives. No less
strange is the accusation that the wreck
was planned by Miss Wagner in order
that she might get to see her sweetheart
who is employed by the railroad com
pany, and who would have been sum
moned to the scene of the wreck, had it
occurred
While a negro fisherman at Gulfport.
Miss, was rolling u cigarette he tied his
line about his neck. The next moment
great catfish swallowed the bait. For
several minutes battle royal waged,
then the catfish sprang high into the air.
leaped away and pulled the unfortunate
man after him, The onlookers were ter
rlhed to see the fish start straight for
the sea, with the body of the negro in
tow. A boat was put out after him, but
the crafty fish soon left the surface So
the search proved fruitless. The negro
surely was drowned.
Mrs. John Matzke of Eau Claire. Wis,
has just completed her funeral shroud
and her husband with his own hands has
dug her grave in Forest Hill cemetery.
Mrs. Matzke has been in poor health
for six months and short time ago she
decided that she would make prepara-
tons for her death. After prevailing
upon her husband, he finally consented
to dig her grave, which has been walled
up and is covered over so as not to be
visible The style of casket has also
been decided upon and the grave stone
has been selected Mrs. Matzke said
such arrangements in her native home
IN Austria We're not uncommon.
On a simple tombstone of gray granite
an Inscription of few lines will be
placed as an epitaph to John Alexander
Dowie. The stone will be placed at the
grave of the fallen ecclesiastical leader
at Zion City soon.
Such a modest reminder of his former
existence is not as the founder of the
religious colony planned it, He wanted
magnificent mausoleum as the resting
place of himself and family. but Glad
stone Dowie, his son, has ordered Al
stone that never will tell TO coming gem
erations of the remarkable man who
held captive the loyalty of thousands
the world over.
1t will cost only Slo0, and viii not
even have the name "Dowie" npoL it,
Because sixteen years ago, he yielded
to curiosity aroused by his expanding
girth and had himself weighed, Rudolph
Isch, a Woodford, H.. county farmer. al
leges he has been bounded ever since by
the members of the Amish church He
declares he has been driven from one POI
sition after another his home has been
broken up and his fortune dissipated
The other day he filed suit against Ru-
dolph Witsig, wealthy farmer and an
elder in the church, for $4,000 damages.
Isch says that when he was excOmmuni-
Gated from the church for violating its
rules by getting weighed. members Of his
family were forbidden TO eat with him
OF TO have anything to do with him.
Is there a standard tone for news
boys cry? May his shouts carry one