Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-14
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4 baseball player is slaborer" and
not, professional man" according 10
Judge Birchett Of the circuit court at
Ni@ksburg. Miss. who held today that
Pitcher Bishop Of the Nicksburg Cotton
States league was immune from gar
nshment proceedings under the state
law
Tie property Of the late Joseph
Grcenough, amounting to S1.000.000
Vas claimed by three widows i'll a Bos
ton court.
According 10 the testimony Greenoush
married Mary NJ. Higgins III 1871 1t
also appeared that he married Emma
Eaton Pomeroy in 1885, and remarked
her after their divorce i'll 1887.
x thlrd widow appeared in the per
son Of Mary q. Kirkus, but the date Of
her marriage was not stated.
Hunting rabbits with a ccrnet is a
violation OF the Pennsylvania game laws
according TO Warden AIalloy.
The warden's detectives arrested T.. b.
Ferry and Alexander Mullhearn after
they had discovered Mullhearn. who is q
noted cornet player. with the funnel Of
his cornet in a rabbit burrow playing a
march while the rabbits. hynothized by
the music, walked into his hands.
Ferry was at another hole waiting
for the rabbits which We're not music
lovers.
1t is claimed Mullhearn has caught
GO rabbits by means of his cornct this
season.
The failure of hard coal as fuel Tor
q locomotive gave passengers on Della
ware * Eastern train a novel experience
The coal furnished for the engine was
so fine that it sifted through the CRATES
OF the engine, and near Gregorytown,
y. H., the ire went out and the train
was stalled The male passengers, when
they heard the trouble got out and helped
the train crew demolish nearby rail
fences to obtain fuel With this the
train was carried along for some dis
tance and then another foraring party
secured a new supply of fuel. After
seyreal stops the train reached a point
where proper fuel could be obtained
Andrew Carnegie's personal check for
$50 was juggled between two PittsbuTg
banks for an hour before it got past the
clearing house red tape and was hon
ored by payment in currency.
The bearer of the check was crippled
widow of Il former miilman. She has
been on Carnegie's personal pension roll
for years The other day she presented
her monthly check to the teller Of a
/ downtown bank.
I'VE are not paying out-of-town checks
in currency, began the young man..
You might open an account
Rut the teller got no further,
I guess Mr.. Carnegie's checks are still
good, said the indignant woman. and
she sought out a friend who took her to
a rival bank and saw that she got the
cash.
There are more than 500 of the per-
sonal checks of Mr.. Carnegie which come
to pensioners in Pittsburg every month.
The clearing house has sent out word
that all of them should be honored IN
cash when presented.
Miss Louise Leclerc of New York.
who died last February filed in the
Hennepin county probate court at Mime
apolis The will contains the following.
inserted by Miss Ieclerc. after giving
large amounts to French benevolences:
My object is giving to the institu-
tons OF France 50 large portion of my
estate is to raise France from her pres
ent low moral state"
The will bequeaths 100000 francs to
the Academic Franchise in Paris. with
the proposition that the interest shall be
| given to the French school mistress who
has most distinguished herself for her
moral influence ON her students.
4 similar sum is willed to the Faculty
! Of Protestant Theology at Montabon,
TO be devoted to scholarships for minis
! terial students.
Oscar Frederick Spat. alias Reginal
! Spauding alias Sterling. arrested at
/ Pittsburg several days ago, has been
| fined 500 or thirty days in the work
house. He admitted that he was a
swindler. Spat offered 10 introduce sew
! cral wealthy persons at King Edward s
court if they would pay him a certain
sum of money. His arrest followed his
advertisement for a private secretary
10 so with him on a "trip to the Congo
state To secure natives TO exhibit as
| samples of King Leopold's cruelty. Spat
, also said he had made contract with
1he park commissioners of New York
city TO place chairs in the parks and
rent them for ) cents each, but that
the commissioners revoked the contract
after he had spent an his money buying
the chairs.
That Editor Andrew Strueh of the
Chadwick, H., Clarion has the highest
esteem for the grand jury that indicted
him was proven by his entertainment of
the jurors.
Besides having them all as his guests
at the opera house. he gave them a ban
0uef and put them on the free snbscrip-
ton list Of the paper.
He WAS indicted on a charge of libel,
While a work on the Milwaukee road
bed near Helena. Mont. workmen un-
earthed the teeth and bones of gi-
gantie mastodon Tile largest tooth
weighs more than pounds Or. Charles
n Reinig- who has made many %xpiora-
lions in the wilds of South America ara
who has q large collection of maStodonle
relics. estimates that the animal has
been dead for more than 20,o0o years
The fossils were found in .lawbone can
Won. and the theory of DIR. Reinig IS
that these monstrous animals fi0Hrished
ID these ATTITUDES at prehistoric period.
What is doubtless the most expensive
and handsomely appointed private club,
house in America is the new tennis and