Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-07-27

| Uptown.
Because James Allen. colored. Is years
old had driven his horse when told not
to do SO Russell Young, young farmer
living near Taylor, Mo-. shot the boy.
killing him almost instantly. The cor
0nor's jury returned a verdict that the
killing was done in selfdefense
Carson Emery was arraigned in court
at Logansport, Ind, charged with snor-
ing so loudly that he kept neigibors from
sleeping.~
He lives two blocks from me-" said
Louis e. CARRIER, the prosecuting wit
t-ness, obut last night he kept me awake
| by his snoring"
Police Judge Smith put Emery under IA
$50 bond TO keep the peace.
Mysterious robberies in the nome Of
Mills Manning Of Detroit that hive been
bothering Manning and the police since
last June, were cleared up in a confess
sio made by Mrs. Manning. She adj
mits committing all the robberies and
explains that she did it because at times
she was seized with an uncomfortable de-
sire to destroy things. and at other times
she took money and household articles be-
cause she was angry at her husAand
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Ind, contains the names of for chill
dren of Il woman 81 years old Fourteen
Of them are represented as being II
years old. This is shown by the reports
of agents of the state superintendent of
education, who investigated charges that
the persons who compiled the school emu
meration and were paid 3 cents a name.
padded the lists Hundreds of names &
persons far over The school age are in
cluded in the lists.
you may laugh now, but I'll laugh
later Joseph Parker said as he climbed
into chair in the office of Il. -. House,
a dentist of Kansas City Mo. y few
minutes later he was dead.
Parker wanted several teeth extracted
and was given chloroform. After taking
several inhalations his body stiffened and
respiration ceased.
DR. u. e Cooper was called, and for
an hour the physician and the dentist
worked to resuscitate him, but failed.
Because his sweetheart left her home
LA Delaware to go to Los Angeles
GeoTge Crichton, a private enlisted in
the fourth company Of coast artillery at
Fort, dupont, Del, deserted the army
and followed the girl to the coast. Dis
appointed at not being able to find her
and foot sore, weary and half sick, he
surrendered himself 10 the recruiting Off
GERS at Bakersfield, Cal, and is lodged
in the county Jail and must face "A court
martial with the prospect OF long term
in the military prison on AlcatrdZ~ island
ahead of him.
Beatrice. :Neb., is the first city in the
world to get gas from straw and corn
cobs.
The new. plant, the idea of Rev.
Charles Eaton of Cleveland, said to be
backed by John ID. Rockefeller, was
opened the other dSg
The method promises to be II great
windfall to the western country. as the
raw materials are procured for almost
nothing.
Gas is now being furnished to this city
at a rate of S1.19 per 1000 feet, the low
est price given to any city in Nebraska.
Lawyers who make a. speciality of di-
vorce cases already have discoyered Il
method by which they can evade Iowa :
new maria ge-after-divorce law. they say.
There is joker in the new law. 1t is a
clause which says that by permission of
the Judge granting the decree the parties
may rcmarry as soon as they desire. IT
is only necessary to insert in the divorce
decree these words: And the parties TO
this case are hereby expressly permitted
TO remarry at any time they So desire:
When the signature of the Judge is .af@
fixed to decree of this kind the pur-
pose of the law is knockedsout.
4 game of Joan of Are in which the
participants were all girls under 10 years
old, resulted in fatal injuries at Min
ueapoliS to little Mia Njorlng. who
played the. part of Joan. \ huge bon
fire supplied the setting for the historical
IL al, IL. .t,fl I. 4
told by their teachers. They circled
gaily about the fire. As Mia approached
the pyre. singing happily. gust of wind
blew the flames IN her face and she
fell foremost into the fire. Her cries
brought the assistance of a neighbOr,
who wrapped his coat about her. She
was taken to the city hospital and will
die.
When the "geutlemaniy appearing
agent" PASSED among the audience at a
circus in Kentou, O.. and William Carr,
Il prosperous young business man OF
| Btlieceuter. purchased two tickets for the
concert he little thought it would be the
cause of has marriage an hour later. \
prtpoSSesSing young woman sang Sentl-
mental ballad. 1t proved too much for
/ William. and he hreathed a proposal to
Miss Nellie Cones, whom be had eS-
,.ar+pd -tA-ke circus. He was accepted.
am. The couple were married 10y Rev.
/ w. I.tpiuSertou at the Disciple parSon'
age IN kenton after slipping away from
their friends. ~
William McCarty who was arrested
Inv Mrs Sophia Demuth, Of Alton. H..
was fined 500 by Magistrate Gross,
! Mce'arty met Mrs. nemuth, who i a
probationary officer. in frnnt Of the tltl-
renS' National bank.
Good evening" he said. pleasantly.
raising his HAT.
Wretch. have you the eifrontery To
insult an officer Of the law 2" exclaimed
Mrs nemuth. as She seized McCarty by
rbe ear and led him 10 the police station.
Mrs. pemuth is about : feet : inches
tail. weighs 175 pounds. i - years old
and cray-headed. The man arrested *
about the same age
Rev. Mr. WaS>er, pastor of the Me1ho-
dist Episcopal church of Mason Csty. la-.
and Rev. Mr.. Moore Of the Cougrega-
tiaual church n Clear lake were hung in