Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-07-13

| lation of 5000. not a death occurred dur
ing June. This record never has been
/ duplicated in the history of that city.
/ \ fifteen-pound pickere hooked on a
trolling line attached TO "A small boat,
pan under the boat, doubling the line UNI
uer the keel and upset the craft drown
ing Mrs.LGeorge Cutler and Charles 7.
i Chamtfers, both Of Ionia in Chippewa
| Lake, Mich.
/ E. Moody Boynton of Boston. Mass.
| who has just received a charter to build
a "nicycle railway" OF his own invention.
! predicts that-~i44~t+me, if his scheme is
| adopted, as he believes it wilE the trip
from Boston to Chicago win be made in
/ twenty-for hours.
/ Cromwell Dixon, the 14-year-old
/ aeronaut of Columbus, O., made an
ascent in his sky cycle" He was car
ried mp more than a mile by an adverse
air current and drifted several miles be-
fore he was able to land. The propeller
of the airship is run by foot power and
Dixon has been able to handle it readily
/ in "A light breeze. After being up about
half an hour Dixon landed safely sever
al miles away from the starting point.
Mrs. Margaret Gilmore. 20 years of
age Of Nincennes, Ind. was placed un-
der arrest in surety of the peace pro-
1 ceedings on the affidavit of John Paris,
i who charges her with responsibility for
the death of his 2-year-old son Mrs.
| Gilmore lives in a one-room house and
it is currently reported among her neigh
bors that she is witch. that she has
not slept a wink for fourteen years, and
that to incur her enmity is to he visited
by some direful calamity
/ Dropping thousands of feet from n
| balloon into the Waikiki river. from
which she was soon rescued, Miss Mag.
gie Daily, an aerOnaut, was married a
few minutes later to c. Arthur Brockett
at Midway park, near Middletown, y.
| T., i'll the presence of more than 1000
people. The crowd had been attracted
by the announcement that Miss Daily
| was to wed Immediately after her
ascension and that the day would mark
her retirement from aeronautics.
There Is a hole in one Of the stockings
that Mrs. Monroe Green of San Fran
cisco wore at hotel in Pasadena. CAL
and every time she took a step some of
i her diamonds and pearls worth $4,000
/ ia all. were scattered about the floor
Mrs. Green put them there because she
] thought they would be safe She says
| the stones cut the hole in her stocking
which had none in it when she put it ON.
| A hotel clerk found the gems and re-
stored them all TO her just as she dis
covered her loss.
Edward Schumann, proprietor of Il
| saloon in St. Louis is under a doctors
care with broken leg he received i'm
trying to beat his business rival in fat
mems race. Schumann and Walter
| Pinnell, proprietor of another St. Louis
saloon, were the only entries. Each eX-
tended invitations to his friends in adj
vance to partake in the case of cham
payne. the prize. In nearing the goal ut
i the END of the fifty yards Schumann
slipped, and his 240 pounds crashed
heavily to the ground.
Six children found box Of dynamite
at the rear of 81 Peoria street. Chicago,
the other afternoon and for more than
4 am hour played tag. using the box of ex-
plesive for a goal post. The box, which
is the property of Charles Anderson. the
police learned, contained sufficient dyna-
mite to destroy a block of buildings.
i After the game was started one of the
children found the la bel dynamite" and
the police were notified. Later Anderson
missed the box and went to the station
and obtained his property.
Gov. Hoch ut Topeka, IAN, received
Ia telegram from the Santa Fee passen-
ger department at Chicago stating that
a passenger tOnuHtIOES Udu Dttil instructor
to carry harvester hands from the Mis-
souri, river to the wheat belt at | cent
per mile in parties of five. Dispatches
from the wheat section say that 10000
men are needed Immediately. Kansas
farmers meet all trains and convey the
harvesters to their homes in carriages
and automobiles, Wages range from
81 to So per day and board.
An attempt to show that Capt. James
Il fl. Hooker of Rochester. \. Y, was of
unsound mind was continued in the eff
fort to break the will which makes the
United States government and the city
of Galesburg, ILL.,. the chief heueiciaries.
John G. Culver. one of the witnesses to
the disputed will. -Fe44es+et4 various incl
dents that seemed to him to indicate
that the testator was irrational Mr..
Hooker. he said. classed all women with
cats. He suffered from n hallucination
that some one was trying to poison him,
Louis BONANZA of Pittsburg. to save
ferriage, tried to swim across the Monon-
, gahela river at Black Diamond. He was
unable to swim so far and when he be-
; lieved himself to be in peril of drowning
he called for help Leonard Chattaway.
the ferry boy, went TO his rescue, pulled
him out of the water and took him back
/; to the starting place. The boy demanded
, - cents for his work as life-saver.
Bonzania refused TO pay because he had
been landed on the wrong side of the
river He finally paid the boy 10 cents
to take him to the other side and gave
him : cents as reward for saving his
life.
I'm automobile accident has given the
power of speech to Harry Hack of
Battle Creek, Mich. after seven years
of dumbness, and may restore his hear
ling.
Hack lost his hearing and speech in Il
railroad accident. When an autoist oil
Coldwater street tried to warn him the
other night he heard no sound. He
raised his head just in time, lodged and
escaped
Something snapped in my head. said
Hack. and became i'll. | went to
lbed and this morning was able to speak.
now hope my hearing will be restored.
as | can readily distinguish sounds
Three children who said that i'm all
their lives they had never been in bed.