Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-02-23


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Attorney General Bonaparte's reported
determination to get after the trusts
which violate the laws insures him
busy spell.
Homer II. Dill of Gardiner, the expert
Maine state taxidermist and curator of
the museum in the state house a. Au-
Susta. is to become chief taxidermist in
the Iowa state college at Iowa City, Mr..
Dill has made Il reputation for skill in
museum work.
The Illinois idea of providing automo-
biles with tenders, or cowcatchers, isn't
far fetched The high-power road
vehicles are more dangerous than locom-
tives when they are under way, because
they run on public highways, and are
not confined TO a fixed line of track.
L transpires that Mr.. Jeffrics, OF prize
ring fame, retired for the purpose of
giving the purses Il chance to swell When
they get big enough to suit him, he will
buckle on the championship belt, tie on
his gloves, and spring over the ropes.
This is the way of the pugilist.
The motor boat has captured the honor
Of opening the yachting season of 1907,
by racing from Miami. Florida, to Mas
saul in the Bahamas This is Il long
winter run for little power boats, but
the racers will be conveyed. In the
course of time there will doubtless be
motor boats Of larger size racing across
he Atlantic.
King Charles of Roumania has con-
ferred the jubilee decoration upon Mrs.
Montgomery Schuyler, the wife of Mont
somery Schuyler, Jr., of New York, who
is United States consul general to R0u-
mania and Servia. Mr.. Schuyler leaves
his present post shortly to become secre-
tary OF the American embassy at ST.
petersburg.
y letter addressed to Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt was held at the Upper Alton
Qll.) postOfiice because the writer neg
lected to place postage stamp on the
envelope Postmaster Seitz sent
formal notice to Mrs. Roosevelt that the
letter will be forwarded when the neces-
sary two cents are RENTED
Two plucky young sisters Lettie c.
and Pearl NJ. Dillon, carry rural free de-
livery mail on No. 4 route of Keokuk
county Ia They began the discharge
of their duties in 1904 and, though the |
two succeeding winters were marked by !
several fierce Billiards, they made the |
twenty-fve-mile trip daily.
Kendall, Wisconsin, which was fright |
ened into a wild fusillade by the move |
ments of prescription clerk who had
made a late visit to a drug store to put
up a prescription, has at least notified
burglars that her inhabitants are pro-
vded with guns" But this warning
Is offset 20 some extent by the fact that
with ali the shooting nobody was hit.
One of the GARDENERS, of Gardiner.
Maine, is reported to have discovered i'll
AN old document that an Indian maiden
named Schools should share honors with
pocahontas for saving the life of Cap
tain John Smith. There were plenty of
Smiths in those days, as now. To give
any number of Indian maidcns a chance
to save somebody of that name
France has discovered that oysters
fattcned on sewage flats are not fit to
eat This discovery was made in the
Emitted States several years ago, and
since that time the oyster has been more
thoroughly understood; but there other
dangers in connection with the oyster
that are quite as bad as germ infection.
and they will be cured ny the trade
in the course of time so that the demand
for the bivalves may he maintained.
\ year or two ago Henry Clews the
New York banker. named the five lead
ing fortunes in the country as being John
ID, Rockefeller'S. estimated at $500 600.
OOO Andrew Carnegic's, $3.50, 100000
w. w. Astor's, S200,00O000; Gould fam.
ily's $3.50, 100000. and Marshall Fields
$1000oO,000. The fact that the Field
estate is found to inventory very close t
100000 is regarded at Chicago as tend
ing to confirm the accuracy of the Clew,
estimates in the other cases.
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There is increasing talk among south
ern Methodists of an extraordinary SEES
sion of the general conference to elec
new bishops. Two members of the epis
copal college, Bishops Smith and Tigert
have died since the regular session. Bish
ops Cranberry and Fitzgerald are super
animated, Bishops Duncan and Gallowa,
are sick, Bishops Wilson. Morrison an,
Key are growing old OF the five young
or bishops one DIR. Hendrix has veal
heart and all five .lrn bning loD rnrou,,Y,