Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-07-06
BRIEF NOTES OF
GENERAL INTEREr +

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After day of terror due to the find
ing of stick of dynamite" on the town
dump at Somerville, Mass, the police
Gingerly picked up the supposed death
dealing stick. 1t was a loaf of German
bread.
While the citizens of New Memphis,
H., were appealing to every city between
Belleyille and Chicago for bloodhounds to
track 3-year-old Earl Roseberry, the boy
was found by an obscure bulldog twenty
bours after his disappearance.
As the result of being pecked on the
hand by a setting hen on Thursday of
| last week Joseph b. Bryan, 80 years old,
a retired building contractor of Ander-
son, Ind, is dead. Bryan undertook
| to lift the hen from her nest and she
pecked him. Blood poisoning developed
the following day.
1t was reported at the convention Of
| the Loyal Temperance Legion of this
state at Wilkes-Barre, Pa, that the
heels of members of the legion had dur
ing the year trampled into the dust or
mud 6S7S cigar stumps. Applause
greeted the report. The anti-narcotic
division having charge of this work
found that urchins smoked Il large mum.
Der of the stumps which they picked out
of the streets, and it was decided that
the only practical way to prevent this
was to destroy the stumps.
Albert Woltemade, cashier of the AL
! ton branch of the Anheuser- Busch
! Brewing association at Alton, ILL.,, who
| has been missing for eight days, re
| turned home after having travelled $500
miles without a purpose for making Il
! pilgrimage. 1t was apparent from his
| appearance that he had suffered from
a fever. He went to Texas, and after
| travelling around in that state engaged
at Fort Worth to accompany a ship
ment of cattle to Chicago. in Chicago
yesterday his brain became clear and lie
at once departed for his home.
j, Z. Defebaugh, editor of the Ameri-
| can Lumberman, at Chicago, will be
called upon to choose between literature
and new time clock installed to keep
tab on his forty-tive employees.
Douglas Malloch, head poet, said a
| true poet never would condescend to
! punch the coarse commercial time regis
| ter. Leonard Bronson. head prose writ
er, expressed similar sentiments.
The editorial force of fifteen men sent
a letter to Editor Defebaugh, informing
him strike would be declared unless
the order to punch the clock is rescinded
Passengers on trolley car crossing
| the Brooklyn bridge the other night
| were Mortified when the rear window
| suddenly crashed in. admitting the form
of a man who landed senseless and bleed
| ing in the car aisle. Where the man
came from is Il mystery and he was
| dead when an ambulance surgeon
reached the scene a few minutes later.
The neck was broken and a fractured
| rib had pierced lung. How he came
to be thrown through the window into
a car may never be known as the police
| after n thorough investigation failed to
determine how such an accident was
| possible.
Louis J. Schultz of Toledo was mar
ried to his sister-in-law, Rosa Schultz,
and the marriage brings an odd tangle i'll
relationship in the family Several
| years ago Louis Schultz was married
to the sister of his BRIDE and his pres
| ent bride some years ago was married
| to bis brother.
! Louis and his brother were twins. and
| Rosa and her sister We're twins So
twin sisters and twin brothers were
married.
First the wife of Louis died and left
! him a widower. Then little later the
| husband of Rosa died. leaving her
| widow Now both are together.
The death of William r. Speare, vet
| eran undertaken of Washington, j.. c..
| has disclosed that the government has
| for twenty-six years refused to pay the
| expenses incident to the funeral 81
| President Garfield. Soon after the Gar
field funeral Congress appropriated
money to defray all expenses, and the
| secretary of the treasury appointed q
70 claim
| ants were required to tile recelpted bills.
| Spearc, who had MS own ideas about
| business, persistently refused 10 give
receipt in advance Of receiving the mon
ey The heirs have agreed to comply
with the requirements and the bill VIII
be paid.
Starting on a wedding trip. but not
knowing where they were going, Is a
novel experience that is being enjoyed
by Mr. and Mrs. Lester J. Charnock.
who were married at Bridgewater,
Mass.
Charnock's brother asked to be al
lowed 10 make arrangements for the
wedding of the young couple and was
granted permission. At the close Of the
reception at the home of the bride the
groom was handed an envelope by his
brother. who told him to 90 to Fall
River and then open it.
somewhere and the necessary money to
pay all expenses. No one knows where
the couple are spending their honeymoon
except Charnock's brother, ard he won't
tell
j single United States silver dollar
of the coinage Of 1904 brought $500 at
Philadelphia At the sale Of the collection
Of the lnte NJ. A. Stickney, the best
price during the sale except Sc 200.
which dealer paid for a famous Brash
ers New York donbloon, the face valuf
IF which is only SIC.
There are but six specimens OF ths.
1904 dollar known to be extant. one Of
which is now at the mint in this city
Stickney received the rare coin on May
,. lS43. from the local mint in exchange
tor other coin.
L weighs a trife less than AIS grains.
and. having been kept in 4 chamoise bag.
II IS extremely fine and brilliant.
Before II changed hands again az the
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