Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-10-26

have had great difficulty in inducing him
even to move. He is a big, heavy man.
Chilcott was awakened to hear the re-
corder sentence him, but as the magis-
trate began to read him a lecture he
dropped off to sleep before he heard that
he had been condemned to twelve
months Imprisonment with hard labor
Two meteors fell in the coal mining
and manufacturing town of Elizabeth
vile, in the Lykens valley, Pa. The
first meteor fell in the afternoon and
made a great noise in the air and ter
rife crash when it fell. The shock was
felt all over the town and could not be
accounted for. About midnight the sec
ond came. awakening every one and I'LL
ing the streets with scantiIy dressed peo-
pie. Trees caught fire on the mountain
and attracted attention. A hole in the
ground was discovered. in which red-hot
ashes and cinder mass were found.
Today there are fewer saloons in the
thirteen southern states than in Greater
New York, and only few more than IN
the city of Chicago. In New York there
are 10000 places where liquor is sold.
in Chicago $4,000, and in the entire
south only 10000. In New York state
the estimated population in 1905 was
S.160.000. and the government issued in
the state that year "a, 0S0 especial tax
stamps TO persons desiring to engage IN
the manufacture and sale Of liquor. Inc
thirteen southern states, with 2350o.WH
people, secured in 1906 less than 10000
stamps.
Since the Bell Telephone company an
nounced an advance in rates in central
New York a few weeks ago there has
been nothing but trouble for the man
ayers, and the other day saw the climax
in the way of Complaints when farmer
living near Carthage demanded tha'
thirty-hve telephone wires strung near
his house be removed. The farmer
chief source of income is from millions
of honeybees. The farmer alleges that
in flying from a buekwheat field to the
hives the bees by thousands hit the teie-
phone wire and drop lifeless to the
ground.
Paul j. Kraft, aged % years.
wealthy wholesale liquor dealer in Adrl-
an. Mich. and formerly Detroit base
BAH player. was stricken suddenly WIN
commissions while roofing for the Ilsess
at a game, and died in St. Mary hos
pital kraft's frantic yelling for hi>
team brought on hemorrhage of The
lungs. This caused his death. hra!t
came from Adrian TO attend the world
series games A few years ago be was
He played with the old Pearl ana
Eclipse local league, and with Bay Cl'y
in the State league.
Mrs. Hannah Goodrich, the clde>
woman IN the northwest. is ceiebraua-
her 123rd birthday anniversary hy d
party at Tracy, MINI.
Mrs. Goodrich, who was bora IN NJ.
lucky in 1854. came to the nartbWF'-
nearly seventy-five years ago. Sne he9
been a widow for more than CITY yealS
and for thirty years has lived "a a sii'"
cabin a few miles from here
She is in full possession Of ais htl
faculties. and cares for her llttie IaF.1
fully as well as an able bodied man A
present she has more than 100 ealehtl-S
half a hundred hogs. and small a'FS
IT sheep. which she attends 50 WITHOUT
aid
She receives visits from her granite .l.-
dren. who live near, and seems to euJ''
life 10 the utmost.
Declaring she has prophetic FiS-e'~-
she says Il has been revealed "a her sA'1'
Roosevelt win make the run Tor Ai'9'
aeas again and he defeated b ljrFs-'-
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