Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-02-16

s opnceS 1t is well developed and will
live.
The editor of a weekly paper published
i'll Barber county, Kansas, grants no ia
vors to the railroads now that the pass
the railroad time table and instead prints
this information: Trains are about due
when you see the smoke
Marie Saint Victor, young French
woman, has just applied to the British
government for patent of new Gig
arctic which, instead of tobacco. CON
tans coffee. There is already craze
among society people for these cigarettes,
which are said to be extremely delicious
Mrs. Cashel Hoey. the English novel
list and newspaper writer, is probably the
oldest woman i'll active journalistic work
Mrs. Hoey is still Il busy writer for the
press and bears lightly the burden of
her seventy-six years. Her first news
paper article was written more than
half century ago, in 1858.
Though the German Emperor has a
very large income. he is expected to
make some provision for his children out
of it, and with six sons and Il daughter,
grandson, two daughters-in-law and
sary to check some of his own expenses,
notably those incurred by constant ira,
yelling.
The small child of Mrs Henry Wal
ters. Bloomington, H.. fell into els
tern while at play and the mother i'm
mediately plunged in after it. There was
no one about the house. and the woman
had to stand in water which reached her
chin and hold the child above her head
for hours before neighbors finally heard
her cries and came to the rescue.
The nearest surviving relative of Abra
ham Lincoln in Indiana is Elijah Lincoln
of Fort Branch, Il cousin. who strongly
resembles the martyred President. He is
6 feet > inches tall, of the lank and
muscular Lincoln build and though past
the age of "A he is still vigorous and
takes active interest in general affairs.
Like the famous cousin, he is unpreten-
tious to a degree.
Gar Nicholas is a good hand Mt whist
and plays a great deal. Last year he
and his intimates used 1900 packs of
cards. which cost over $4,000. His cards
are made of the finest linen rags with
water mark of the imperial eagle and
crown. The Russians, by the way, are
the greatest cardplayers in the world,
their yearly expenditure on cards being
never less than $1,O00,000
The worldfamous bandit Raisuli, ''the
scourge of Morocco" received Il solid
education in religion at Tetuan. He had
good looks, an adventurous disposition, q
cruel nature, extreme courage and he
forsook the path of holiness for the more
lucrative calling of cattle robber. In
Morocco this is not an altogether dis
honorable profession and RaiSuli speed
lily achieved Il name for himself.
Absent twenty years and for eighteen
years unheard of by his family. Julius
Moss former Manitowoc boy. has
written from Port Townsend. Wash.
Moss, whose parents reside on Il farm
near Manitowoc has long been mourned
for dead and the letter was a great sur
prise. An effort will be made TO induce
the boy to return here, his aged parents
desiring that he care for them in their
declining years.
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts is
an enthusiastic pedestrian and the
weather is very bad indeed when he does
not step off half Il dozen miles between
the usual time of adjournment and his
dinner hour. Although older by several
years than the President, he can with
| out being winded keep up the furious
pace set by the chief magistrate. whose
companion he frequently is on long
tramps into the country.
Simply to show that they could. AL
len Meller. Harry White and William
Eberhart, youths in Jail ut Wooster, O..
under indictment for murder in the first
degree. made their escape from Jail
recently by cutting off the bars. The
three got out of the steel cage and went
down into another part of the building
and gave themselves up. The three
! escaped from the Jail a month ago and
were recaptured in a few hours.
In the hands of the Indiana state rail-
way commission which is now inveSti-
eating the Sanford explosion in which
passenger train was blown up. is Il
battered can of powder which evidently
passed through the disaster unex-
| ploded. The can was found recently
| half mile from the scene of the wreck. y
| peculiar fact is that the can and con-
tents. it is alleged, are entirely unlike
those claimed to have been shipped from
the factory.
Elijah Clapp. one of the pioneer citi-
zens of Battle Greek. was 81 years
old a couple of weeks ago, but works
daily at the blacksmith trade, even shoe
ing horses, which is regarded as the
hardest work that falls to the lot of
! men in his walk of life. Mr.. Clapp was
born in Syracuse \. Y, but came with
his parents TO Michigan in 1915. At one
time he was well to do. but lost his
property long ago and now works cheer
| fully ut the anvil.
Will Fl. Thompson, poet and lawyer,
has won his fight for the life of his son.
| Chester. who will not die on the gal
lows for the murder of former Judge
George NJ Emery at Tacoma, Wash
| The jury brought in a verdict of mot
guilty, 10y reason of insanity" The YER
| diet is ascribed largely TO the remark
able fight of the father, who. in the
course of his plea to the jury, quoted
from his own poem, The High Tide at
Gettysburg"