Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-01-19

| is in jail AT Green Bay TO await examina-
| ton as to his sanity. He has been
lattempt to find Santa Claus or, as he
described him, 1.-THE man with long white
whiskerS who owes him money"
| Frank G. Egan, proprietor of dra.
matte school at Seattle, Wash, ordered
! Henry Austin Adams, former clergy
man. better known as Vincent Harper
of Socialists because Adams or Harper
| assaled the marriage relation.
| 4 trained dog belonging to the Holder
circus. now in winter quarters at Wa
bash, Ind, kicked over Il lamp recently
and set fire to an old building where the
animals were quartered. There was IL
| panic among the animals, but the flames
were subdued before any great damage
| WAS done.
| The highest price ever paid for an ear
, of corn was given for the prize ear of
| the Iowa Corn Growers associa ton
show Thursday. The ear was bid in by
its owner and grower, Dan Pascal of
| Dewitt Ia. for $3.50. This price aver
ages $3.50 a bushel as the ear weighed
| just nineteen ounces.
| Hammond, Ind, is to have Il municipal
| jag cure and habitual drunkards will
he forced to take the cure or be locked
in Jail indefinitely. 1t is reported that
other towns in Indiana have found the
new scheme to be practical. Mayor j
w. Murphy of Wabash having been the
first to put it into use.
The executive committee OF the Ma
ti0nal Congress of Mothers has approved
a bill which will be acted upon by the
congress when it meets in Los Angeles
in May, which has for its object the
creation Of cabinet portfolio to he
designated the department of child and
home. The function of the department
viii be to train parents in the art of
raising children.
Work in tile office of the Kalamazoo
(Mich) Gazette was opened recently
with prayer by Rev. r. S. McGregor.
president of the Ministerial Alliance,
who officiated at the invitation of John
\. Ross, the managing editor. Only one
member of the staff refused to attend the
services. The prayer in the office is to
become daily feature. ministers of the
town taking turns in otticiating.
The Lexington hotel, one of the oldest
in Boston. has been closed. after l.. ID.
Tanning, president of the Lexington
singnment for the benefit of cred
itorS. The liabilities are given as
Sto,o0O and the assets as doubtful. Sun
day blue laws and country village
ideas. according to Mr.. Tanning were
largely responsible Tor the financial diff
culties.
Louis. that means bad luck for YOU"
exclaimed Mrs. Josie Henrietta Mayer
of Milwaukee, at Marinette. it is said
as she saw hearse pass the justices
office where she was to wed Louis Mel
son. Il shipping clerk from Oshkosh
The bride explained that she had inst
secured divorce in Milwaukee court
and her husband had had three wives
previously, each dying shortly after the
wedding
Fifty thousand acres of land in Refu-
giO county. in the extreme southwestern
part of Texas, have been purchased for
womans colony. announcement is made
that the deal has been closed for Mrs
Mary +. Hayden of Chicago. who. it is
said, will come To Texas in February 20
make the necessary arrangements for
women to locate on the land. which. ac-
cording to the prospectus, is to be an
"Adamess Eden
Having Inherited $1,000.0O0. MarIette
1AbitSt' YEARS Oi NSt. ultlll recently
Ia Yale student, has founded ii corpor-
alton to publish a national magazine to
be known as the Journal of American
History. Grouse was studying mechani-
cal engineering at the Sheffield Scientific
school. but, becoming enthusiastic over
hls work as manager of the Yale Scien-
tlhc Monthly, he decided to go into the
publishing business.
A cook who did not leave, but was i'll
vited to depart, has been bothering the
Chi chapter of the Beta Theta ri fra
ternity at BelO;t college. and recently in
a justice court at GAINESVILLE size secured
a Judgment of $3.50. She is Kate Gut
tenberg, who testified that she was en-
gagged for year and discharged before
the time had expired. Representations
of hard biscuits were not considered
proper evidence for the defense.
new indoor sport that is little
more interestingly hazardous than play
ing with matches. butchers knives. Par
= green. etc. has been discovered by
Marshtield, Wis, small boy who in No
vemher toyed with the coled spring Of
an old curtain pole. AT that time il
Suddenly snapped back and Alexander
ChriStianSon, aged H. son of Robert
Chrlstianson. has just left the operating
table ut Stevens Point hospital minus an
eye.
Though Miss Ellie Henderson of Sioux
City, Ia, was awarded the prize as the |
handSomeSt woman ut the 81 Louis ex-
position and her desk is piled high with
offers for the use Of her photograph in |
advertisements, sac has married Floyd r. |
Wilson. dining ear conductor. who fell
IN love with her picture at the exposi |
ton, Wilson met Miss Henderson by |
chance in Hot Springs. s H.. and n |
railroad courtship followed. Wilson for. |
merly lived in Chicago.
The terms Of the lease of the Grand
Opera house property at Chicago. were
disclosed when the document was placed
ON record. The lease is from William |
Borden to John \, Hamlin. The lease !
Is from May /. 1898, to May l. 1892. In |
the document is the declaration thar tbe
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