The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1907-09-26
BRIEE NOTES OF
GENERAL INTEREST

Down on their knees at the pulpit ul
the now Church of the Messiah in St
Louis the police found three men, \
crap game was in full blast. Grorg"
Greeley, formerly Il city detective ami
John Northoh were arrested.
John Wikuud. who has Just returned
from Sweden, brings unWelcome news TO
many of his couutrymcu at Rockford,
Ill. They had been induced to invest in
supposed Ilch mine of gold. silver and
biSmuth located near Raguuda. in .Iamt-
land. lie says the mine is Il fake.
Alfred plowlcn. the London policc
magistrate, who is Il notorious judicial
humOrlSt and CunGr of d.daCtic aphUr-
iSnS, delivered the following from the
bench i'll timing a man for uSsauting his
nagging wife: Women are sent into the
world To try men, and men are sent into
the world To Keep their tcmpcrs III spite
of women.
The whole town of Sandusky, O., has
the Sauerklaut habit, not because the
people like this style of German deli
catessen, but because food prices are so
high in the village. The peach crop is
short. and grapes, too, will be scarce.
advancing market. But not 50 with
cabbage Hundreds of casks of sauer-
kraut have been made, and the price
Is 50 low that the dish is to be found ON
every table in the village.
After witnessing a production of "Dr.
Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde some time ago, Al
bert Deaver of New Castle. Ind, at
tempted to initiate the rawlings of Mr..
Hyde. lie became so adept that his i'm
personation amazed his friends. and in a
few weeks he began TO experience the
same difficulty that DR.. Jekyll did in re-
turning to his normal self. \ few days
ago lie lapsed Involuntary into the char
acter of Mr.. Hyde, W hich now has COM
pletc control of him. lie was taken to
the insane hospital ut Richmond.
Seventeen prominent women of Love
la. Ia, the other night after an indgna-
uou meeting marched to the home of
Mai. Cobb and searched for liquor. They
found tWcnty-four quart bottles and
three gallon jugs Of whisky hidden in
the attic. While several of the women
guarded the owner the others conducted
the search. After breaking the bottles
and jugs and spilling the liquor the
women knclt and prayed for Cobb. The
, the saloon and anti-Suloon elements in
Monroe county.
While ploughing in a swamp III the
western part of Steubeu county, New
York, John Mersh, farmer. unearthed
parts of the skeleton Of a monster ami
NAL. One tusk measured eight feet and
part of another four feet. Ribs four
and five feet long and rs large rs a
man arm were dug up. Several of the
animals teeth were found, including one
tooth which weighed nine and one-fourth
pounds. All of the bones were fairly
we'll preserved. Mersh has notified the
geological department at Washington Of
his discovery.
For the first time on record Il con-
trihutor to Uncle Sans conscience fund
has asked the government to refund his
donation. \ civil war veteran in the
middle west received an allowance of
S43O arrears in his pension. Later his
right to the money was questioned. and
the old soldier sent the entire amount
to the treasury department for the con-
science fund. Now. however that it mas
been established to the satisfaction of the
veteran that he was entitled to the mon
ey. he is trying to get it back As the
question never has been raised before,
the officials are in doubt. and an act of
Congress probably will be necessary to
return the money.
Rev. DR.. Henry =. LymanWheaton,
Tor many years pastor of the Reformed
church at Whitehouse, \. j.. but who
is now located at Ridgeield, is said to
have fallen heir to peerage.
He is now baron by right of de-
scent. but has not expressed any inten-
ton of returning to England to claim
his title.
He came to this country many years
ago and was pastor of a church in u
ster county. New Jersey.
Some time after he left Whitehouse
station he was in charge of a church in
New York state.
Now, it is said he is likely to become
pastor of st. Georges Episcopal church,
Hampstead, l.. |.
That any person can lawfully do