Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-09-14

/ AAiehN lAAG plANC VI u oldfe Il ulule, ltt
Just now Waukegan is practically in
| as unbarbered a state as ever was Kan.
sas in the palmiest period of Populsm.
The increase of 5 cents in the price Of
a shave went into effect the other night
1t had been widely advertised, and every
able bodied man in the village, with the
! exception of a bare handful of capital
lists. waited around the barber shops I'M
til all hours for the last of the 1O-cepr
| Shaves
Hank Herkimer, who keeps the fish
store, has announced that he wouldn't
be shaved any more until the price was
| reduced Others took up this cry. and
| two barber shops have gone out of bust
ness. The proprietors had no trade and
said they would rather close than cut
| the price.
bllions of flies or gnats, in a swarm 50
thick that the sun was obscured for sew
eral hours, enyeloped the German steam
| ship Ammon, which has just arrived at
Seattle, Wash. The vessel was running
along about sixty miles off the Gala
pagos islands, near the equator west of
South America, when a westerly breeze
brought the dense swarm of insects that
drove every person from the decks. The
captain and his officers have passed the
islands several times, and say they are
unable to account for the strange phe-
nomenOn. The vessel was blowing her
V way along late in the afternoon, when
| Il cloud was seen coming out of the far
| west. AS it grew rapidly in dimensions
and density the passengers and crew
hoped for a cooling shower to ward off
the perpendicular rays of the tropic sun
Instead of cloud of vapor they received
a cloud of pestiferous insects that bit
to seek shelter below. The insects re-
sembed a small fly or gnat and re
manned with the ship until nghtfal.
when a northerly breeze sprang up and
drove them off. In May last the Norwe-
gian bark Sark was attacked by a swarm
of insects in precisely the same place
The sailors were kept below for hours
by the insects.
n international romance. which start
ed in the Belmont tunnel at New York
! and hourished through two trips across
the ocean in the steerage, will culminate
at 4 Pittsburg altar soon, when Miss
Anna NJ. A. Ward, a young English
newspaper woman, will become the bride
of Charles Mould. superintendent of n
tin mandatory in Pittsburg. They We're
passengers on the liner Baltic, which ar
rived from Liverpool.
Miss Ward first came to this country
last July in the steerage of the steam
ship Majestic for the purpose of study
ing steerage conditions for an English
newspaper.
During her stay in New York she was
one of party to inspect the Belmont
tunnel, Another member of the party
was Mr.. Mould, to whom the young
woman was introduced.
| When Miss Ward embarked on the
Celtic month later to continue her
studies, she found Mr.. Mould on board.
apparently deeply interested in the same
line Of work. He made love so eloquent
| lV that when tho 0ouOln landed IN, LNr,
land Mr.. Mould had persuaded the news
paper woman to promise to become his
wife
Il am going to become an American
citizeness." Miss Ward admitted blush
ingly. Il like America and all Amer
cans, particularly Mr.. Mould"
Now. it won't hurt you a bit You'll
Just float away and when you come back
I'll have the tooth out and that will be-
ALL" said DIR. r. B. Leonard. a Wash
ington dentist, as he prepared to give
George W. Bowers gas before extract
ing the tooth. $50 ahead, Doc" said
Bowers. This gas must be great
Now Bowers is in the hospital, suffer
ing from a fractured skull. while Or
Leonard's associate dentist has just been
released from Jail on $1,000 bonds Bow
: ers still has his aching tooth, but as hc
has not regained consciousness since he
took gas, it is presumed that he does not
know il.
The doings which led up to the grand
t finale were so exciting that Bowers
wife and a number of other women i'm
the dentists office fed, shouting for
| help.
The dentist started the little music
box and turned the gas into the cap over
the patients face. Bowers took few
, deep breaths, but about the time
he should have gone under the influence
l,F fhn he toIn L.
} tackled DIR. Leonard, whose call for help
brought DR.. Wunder, his associate.
The latter. after observing that Bow
ers was violent TO a degree which ap-
peared positively unsafe, seized Il ham
, mer and beat tattoo on the head of d,
, patient
Then the police came and took Bow
, ers to hospital and DR.. Wunder ~
, the station.
Madam: The dinner was very good, uu'
next time have some pie ready for u>. W.
needed something like pie to finish of Win.
but we couldn't find any. Anyway, w, r.
much obliged for what we had
BILL THE BURGLAR
This was the note that Mrs. Patri,s
Leonard, 300 Greenwood avenue, enc.
go. found on the dining room table d..
: her room VIXEN she returned from
shopping trip. An odor of ham.and e.
and beer that greeted her when she 't
, tered the house led her 10 invesusai
and the note was discovered.
visit to the kitchen showed i-t
diners had taken the trouble 10 cook tHta
meal The whole house had been ran
sacked. every drawer and closet nt't-
= turned topsy-turvey. Clothes and ORA.
-brlc Were scattered right and if "
I Nothing had escaped the search az III.
> burglars. Even the beds had been pni"
? to pieces in the hopes that money mig
? be hidden there
On the dining room table were f-r
remains Of a spread which the bur-..
had prepared for themselves. l..'
, bottle of brandy and four bottles II t-r
had been emptied. For the rest Of
: meal the robbers had satisfied ta'.+
Z selves with nam and eggs.
They took with them 5000 worth
; SILVER. leaving behind all thai W.
marked with monographs They
; took $500 worth Of jewelry and two Sa-.-
eases