Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-07-20
BRIEF NOTES OF
GENERAL INTEREST

/ hd3hI AOunS mas put the III on Mason
City Ia, SO tight that church bells can
not be rung on Sunday. The good people
OF the town began 4 crusade to shut up
all places of amusement, and the result
was counter fight which resulted in the
noisy church bells being declared nut
sancc and silenced. The fight was SO
hot that the mayor was hung in eftigy
When Mrs. Andrew LucasLow was led
from the church into the home of her
! husband after her marriage at Treverton.
Pa, one of the wedding guests proposed
that each man kiss the bride and give 81
| apiece. The bride and husband agreed
to the proposition and soon the young
woman was overwhelmed with kisses.
She eventually had $685. on the plate
provided for the kiss fees.
Charles Bossen, who has been night
| clerk at the Dutton hotel in Jewell a
small town south of Webster City. Ia,
for seven years, has just fallen heir to
$4,000 through the death Of brother
! IN Trenton, \. j. BOssen is an unpreten-
tious bachelor and will remain as night
clerk in the Jewell hotel. He does not
even expect to return east unless trim
is necessary to prove his identity.
\ dispatch from Robervalc. Quebec.
reveals the death from starvation of
!
! forest about Lake MistasSini. The IN
/ dams left Mistassini. 500 niles north of
/ Lake ST John, about the end of March
intending TO make the journey to Roher-
/ vale on foot. Their provisions failed
| them and they succumbed one after an
other only one Of the party surviving.
To be made grandfather three time.
/ in but little more than that number of
/ hours was the experience of Capt J. f.
| Ryan of JeffersonviIe, Ky. The fathers
| are his three sons, John T.. Ryan. who
! is in business III Jeffersonvlle; Thomas
+. Ryan, who is connected with the
army depot in Jeifersonville, and VIII
| liam -. Ryan, a barber in Louisville
'Phe children of John and William Ryan
are boys, and that of Thomas is a girl.
The conductor of a freight train that
passes through Middleton. Conn. daily
told of a pet lizard four inches long that
has lived in the cabooso for the last
year. Just as soon as one of the crew
| lies down to sleep the lizard crawls upon
| his bosom, and when a fly, mosquito, or
other insect comes around it is caught by
a swift movement of the lizards tongue.
The conductor says that no netting or
blinds are ever necessary to keep out
such insects when the lizard is about
Chester Coppeck of Elwood. Ind. has
field suit against the Pittsburg. Cincin-
natl, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad com
pany for $1,000 He alleges that while
he was en- route to Hamilton. O.. he was
pulled out of his seat by an employe of
the company and roughly treated. lie
was accompanied by his fiancee. who
was so indignant because he did not re-
sent the indignity that she Tilted him
He says that it was owing TO the act of
the company's employee that he lost the
affections of the Young woman
Mrs. Charles Robinson of Lawrence
burg, Ind, i'll the role of a feminine Will
liam Tell. saved her husbands life by
shooting a large dog, which had thrown
him to the ground and was Juggling at
his throat. Robinson was at the dogs |
mercy, when Mrs. Robinson appeared on
the scene with rifle The dog was
standing on her husbands body, and |
had not her aim been true, the bullet |
might have killed the man she saved |
Resting her rifle on a fence some dis |
lance away she took aim coolly and sent |
the bullet straight through the animals |
body, killing it.
Because NJ ]. Cronin of Chicago. ap- |
parently in wholesome dread Of sT. Os- |
Ter and his story of chlorofOrm for men /
of 40 years and over. developed an over
weening desire to play baseball and mar |
bles with the boys of his neighborhood. !
he was committed to the Dunning hos /
pital for the insane. Cronin j. just |
turned 45 and lives at 1913 North Hoyne |
avenue. Besides baseball and marbles.
Cronin has mania for playing pool /
and throwing dice with youths of tender
years. In the county court for the in
sane it was deemed advisable to commit
him to the asylum for fourteen days as
q possible means of curing him of his /
dread Of Or. Oslor.
Robert Walton. a Vernon county. Mis-
souri,. farmer delayed the Missouri Pa
cifc passenger train on the line crossing
his farm for half an hour by refusing
to get off the track. Walton took this
novel method of attempting to collect
claim against the company
Some time ago the same train with
the same crew killed three mules and Il
horse belonging to Walton. He filed no
claim. but waited as long rs he believed
was a reasonable time for the company %
settle with him.
The compny. having failed to make
any move in tho matter, he mounted q
horse and stood on the track as
the train appeared. The engineer vhiS
lied but Walton kept his place. waving
his hand To stop the train. II was ueres
sary To remove him by force before the
train could proceed.
William J. Bryan has written "a Vii
liam Mckinley at Bartlcsyii1e, /. T..
asking that his thanks he conveyed TO
JEFF Davis for the return Of q nigntshir-
The letter ends the shirt episode which
aroused comment throughout the country
two weeks agn Mr.. Bryan was a pas
Sengcr coming 10 Bartlesville on q Ms
souri,. Kansas 4 Texas train. lie left
his nigbt~hirt lin his berth. where il later
was found by Jeff Davis, the Pullman
conductor Tie latter brought the com
mcners wearing apparel 20 Bart'eSvi4el
that afternoon and turned il over 10 VII
liam Mckinley, the sraiion agent. In
the evening Mr. Mckinley sent the night
shirt to Mr. Bryan's hotel. Tie oezr
day he received the following note from
Mr. Bryan
Dear Mr. Mckinley 7 thank you for
sending me the underclorhes. ard have
noted with interest the uames of the par-
ties concerned. Please present = y co.'s
pliments and thank> to JEFF DAVIS.
w. J. Bryan.