Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-06-22
BRIEF NOTES OF
GENERAL INTER EST

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The boys mother died when he was a
child and mis- father disappeared.
The IIinde e Dauch Paper company
of Sandusky, o., has decided to conduct
a social campaign in an endeavor to pro-
cure girls to work in its factory.
All sorts of advertisements and ali
kinds of inducements have. failed to lure
women and girls. Now the management
announces it would give q series of re-
ceptions and pink teas in the factory TO
show women and girls what a nice place
It Is and how agreeable is the work.
Police Judge Batterre of Little Rock
Ark, has dismissed a complaint filed by
Charles L. Harnwell against Gus Cans
and others, who We're charged with keep
ing growing chickens in their Yards
Harnwell asked that the defendant be
enj0ined from keeping the chickens. as
they disturbed his slumbers in the early
morning. Judge Ratterre denied the in
junction, stating that the good qualities
possessed by the chickens outweighed
Harnwell's need of sleep.
The state department at Washington.
p. c., in formal document from one
Of the consuls has been informed that a
company has been organized in Europe
with a large capital to make potato lead
pencils, and that their product will soon
be placed upon the market. BY using
the new composition the highest grade
lead pencils can be manufactured at n
cost Of less than cent each, while or
binary good grade pencils can be turned
out at cost of half cent.
Because of an overplayful spring in the
roller of window curtain. James Daily of
Jeffersonvilie, ina, Is now restricting his
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food which does not have to be masticat-
ed. DAILY, who is unfortunate enough to
be minus one arm, attempted to wind the
curtain roller by holding the metal piece
at the end between his teeth, when the
spring got too tight and began to squirln.
He tried to hold on, and then. when too
late. tried to let go. He lost several
teeth and some blood.
A delay of one minute cost the life
Of Marie Botkin, aged Is, of Lima, o..
who committed suicide, according to evil
Idence unearthed by the coroner. He says
he believes Miss Botkin and Miss Flossie
Swigert agreed to die together at a. m
At one minute after O'Clock Miss Swi-
CERT phoned Miss Botkin, but the girl
was found lying unconscious in her room
having taken carbolic acid. The coroner
says he believes Miss Swigert weakened
lat the last minute and called up her
friend to release her from the suicide
agreement.
Carl Schuster, a young German of
Indianapolis, ate heartily and a few
moments after he had risen from the
table complained of intense pain in his
stomach. Ten minutes later he died
The coroner held an autopsy under the
suppositon that Schuster might have
eaten poisoned food, but instead he found
that he had eaten so much that his stom-
ach had burst. The organ was not dis
eased, but appeared in n perfectly
healthy condition. There was a long
rupture, which. the physician said, was
the result of the hearty meal.
The other night at a street fair in
Ladd ILL.,, John Jordan, an engineer on
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul rail
way. was passing by a fish fry tent when
the proprietor came out to announce that
the fish supper was ready and beat on
gas drum to attract attention. The
drum exploded with report heard five
miles away. Jordan was blown ten
feet. One leg was nearly torn off and
viii have to be amputated. The fronts
of three store buildings were destroyed
by the force of the explosion. The fish
fry man escaped with slight injuries.
Howard +. Weisman. ticket and
freight agent Of the East Ohio Traction
company at Chagrin Fails. o.. shot him
self at the Colonial hotel Cleveland. and
is dying at Huron Road hospital. Rob
ert ID. Beatty, general manager of the
company. had called him by telephone
and Informed him that a shortage had
been found in his accounts. In the mid
die of the conversation Weisman pulled
out his revolver and shot himself in the
head. The shot could be heard at the
other end of the telephone line as Weis-
man dropped the receiver and fired the
bullet.
Pittsburg has drawn the line at The
Bath" CASTOR La Touches first prize
winner in the Carnegie art competition
La Touche. who resides in st. Cloud.
France, received $500 and a gold medal
and gave the purchasing committee of
The Carnegie Art galleries a Sixty-day OPP
ton on the painting for $1,000.
This is the first time in the history of
the Carnegie institute that the first prize
winner has not been added to the perma-
nent collection. The painting portrayS a
woman ready to plunge into a pool of
water, with Satyr peeking around Sc
dan chair in which the bather apparently
has arrived.
The painting evoked a storm of criti-
cism as soon as il was placed on public
view Hundreds of letters were written
to the local newspapers, protesting
against it being placed in the galleries.
The pulpit also denounced it. Public
opinion has won, the fine arts committee
has bowed TO the storm and the jury of
awards receives n rebuke.
A plan by which over one hundred APP
pheants for state certificates as physi-
clans were certain of successfully passing
the examination through the aid Of n list
of questions to- be propounded by the
Kansas state board of medical eXamin-
ers, surreptitiouSly secured beforehand.
was discovered at Kansas City while DIR.
X. A. Light. member of the board. was
walking about the room where III APP
plicants were engaged.
DIR. Light saw a man consulting some
thing under the desk. and grabbed it
from him. Ii was the complete set of
questions on ten subjects which were to
be given 10 the pupils, and answers We're
written TO each in pencil.
When asked where he got il. the man
said he bought it fer 81 The offender
was told 10 quit the examination. and be-