Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-02-09
RRIEF NOTES OF
GENERAL INTEREST

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Rochester Mimi business men have
organized a crusade against cigarettes
| One hundred business firms have signed
an agreement not to employ any person
that smoke cigarettes.
| Mrs. Polly Baker of Ncwburg. Ind.
elght times married, is seeking divorce
from her present husband William Ba-
kef, an electrician, so that she may re-
marry her seventh husband. r. Il. Ed
wards. from whom she was only recent
| ~ divorced. Mrs. Bak er is Is years old
and is said to have 10000 IN property
Rural Mail Carrier Buckley of New
Hartford. Conn, was unable to leave
| or collect any mail at box near Bakers
| VILE, Conn, for two days because a
large hen hawk which was roosting there
would not let him go near the box The
hawk would circle over his head each
time and savagely attack with it's talons.
Finally Buckley took Il gun and killed
the bird. which was one of the largest
ever seen in that locality
One hundred dynamite caps were re-
moved from the safe of thu burned But
Ter hotel recently. George \. Wales.
a travelling salesman now at Button
Ind. handed them to the landlord some
time ago. asking him to take care of
them. On the day Of the fire he wrote
70 the proprietor of the hotel stating
that the package contained dynamite
and that he was much worried over the
matter. The cartridges. however. went
safely through the fire.
Henry Wright, "A hod-carrlpr, en-
ployed III the construction Of Il new
brewery at Bentleyville. Pa. lost his
footing and plunged eighty-three feet
from the roof of the structure In falling
he encountered two 2-inch pianks. which
We're broken in two. Two physicians
were summoned and. rs they entered
the building they were met by Wright.
who asked one for Il cigarette. An eX-
animation showed that not Il bone was
broken and only a few minor bruises Sus-
tanned. Wright resumed his work.
Some one relieved Attorney General
Hadley of Missouri, while he was on his
way TO Topeka Kan, the other night
to address the State Bar association. of
bis suit case containing the manuscript
of his speech and an evening suit The
speech was on Larceny
About an hour before the time for the
meeting of the bar association the suit
ease evening clothes, speech and all,
were returned to Mr.. Hadley.
Il guess the man who took the grip
must have read the speech" said Mr..
Hadley.
Loyal G. Kellogg, once the wealthiest
man i'll southern Michigan, died in
poverty the other day ut Battle Greek.
Mich. aged 81 years. Kellogg ran two
big flour mills here and paid farmers of
this county n total of $1,000. 900 for
wheat. He was the first buyer in Mich
igan to pay 81 Il bushel for wheat. In
1866 he cOrnered flour in the west and
expected to make fortune, but com
binatiOn of unfortunate events made the
venture a losing one, and he found him
self out S352, 900. He was a native of
Syracuse, \. Y.
Not all of the American girls accom-
pliShmentS are useless, as is proven by
the example of young woman who for
merly resided near Eau Claire, Wis.
but lately moved to the southern limits
of Eau Claire county. In December
Miss Mailer purchased forty-four pigs
for $40. She kept them just thirty-siv
days. feeding and tending to them all
herself and last week sold them for
Sl26. She has since received several
proposals of marriage. but to these she
has turned deaf ear. saying that she
has no time at present To think of such
things.
Because one end of his farm was not
inclosed by a fence Charles Miller. an
Outagamic county farmer, lost his suit
against the Chicago X Northwestern
railroad ut Oshkosh for $4,000. Miller
sued under Il statute which directs that
railroad company shall be mulcted $50
every time one of its locomotives passes
through inclosed property which has not
been protected by railroads putting
IN railroad crossing properly guarded.
Judge Burnell dismissed the cast. when
it was shown that one end of Miller's
farm was not iucoScd
An agreement has been concluded be-
tween the Lutine company. represent
ing the insurers and Fred r. Whitney of
Washington. ID. c.. whereby further at
tempts will be made to salve the bullion
which was part of the cargo of the
British ship Iutine. which f0undered off
the coast of Holland in 1880 The British
Parliament granted the insurers, Lloyts,
the right to 81 $50, 900 of suuken gold.
half of which under the present agree
meut will if recovered GO To the Salvers.
Simon Lake, the American submarine
boat builder, viii be consulting engineer
for the Lutine company.
People residing in certain section of
Lexington. ny, are not certain that an
earthquake has not had something to do
with the sinking of the street 50 that il
is impossible and shut off from travel.
There are great holes filled with wa
ter ut various places. and attempts Ia
ill them have failed. The substance
thrown in disappears and no progress
has been made in finding bottom. The
crust of the street is cracked in places
where there is no water An ice wagon
attempted To 30 through and before it
had gone any distance had sank To tue
aNles and had to be abandoned The
roadhed of the Mt. Horeb pike, five miles
out of Lexington is broken and sunken
for distance of seventy yards.
VIII II. Thompson. the poet-lawyer,
brother of Maurice Thompson. the novel |
list. recently at Tacoma. Wash. recit- /
ed from his own poem, The High Tide |