Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-13


at the boarding house of Mary Lobich
at Clarksville. Pa, Mike Wobish. a
boarder was so badly hacked with an AK
that he win die. The woman, who is
alleged to have welded the weapon. is
in jail.
In this season of drought the death of
William Il. Soder, aged To years, of
Reading, Pa. was most peculiar, He
disappeared from home during the day,
and in the night his body was found by
his wife in the cellar in two feet of wa
ter. There are several springs under
meath the house. and there is always a
lot of water in the cellar Mr., Yoder
was subject to vertigo.
When Barber Wright of Milton Del
called next" to his waiting customers
two men made for the chair. claiming it
was their turn. and both crowded into
the chair together. Wright slapped the
lather on both faces, and. while rubbing
it on one mans face, started to shave
the other man with his other hand. He
was soon combing one mans hair with
his left hand, while his right hand was
drying the other fellows face.
Mabel Callahan, the model who exhib-
tied directoice gown in a woman's out
hitting store in Earsas City, Mo, here
after must give her demonstrations away
this effect was made by Police Judge
Kyle and agreed to by the manager of
the store. The case against Miss Gala
IAN, charged with abetting a blockade
OF sidewalk. was continued generally.
"The only trouble was that Mabel and
her gown attracted too great crowd Of
'rubbernecks' and these blocked the
walks. said Capt, Whitsett.
Frank Walker and A. A. Cromwell
OF Danville were automohiling near Sha-
moSin, Pa, when their machine sudden
~ slowed up and finally stopped. The
young men made an examination, and
found big rattlesnake twisted about an
axle of the car the reptile having been
caught up from the road by the machine
as it passed by. The snake was killed
and brought here as trophy,
Jeremiah Berger. aged GO. is at the
Delaware hospital in Wilmington, Del,
suffering with a broken arm He met
Patrick Dougherty and the two clasped
hands in a hearty shake. A few days
later Berger's arm began to pain him.
He went to the hospital TO consult a
| physician and was then told bone
had been broken.
4
Frances Meyer. aged -, of Bethle
| hem. Pa, is the champion girl boxer SC
/ far. On vacant lot series of open
air bouts was held the other day. Miss
Elsie Harris, 13 years old, was Miss
/ Meyers first victim. Then. in turn, sh,
/ bested on points Harold Sharper. Law
renee and lie Roy Housmer and Math
/ ew Donahue
Two fishermen in gasoline launci
were lowed all around the mouth of tho
/ Columbia river near Portland, Ore. 10y
an SO-foot whale The whale ventured
! into the ship channel and got caught il
| a seine One end of the net was mad'
! fast to the fishermen's launch. With the
net dangling from it, the whale woult
spout great streams of water into the
| air and then settle down to the task oil
! chasing about with the boat. 1t is saiG
| the monster covered at least ten miles
an hour. In its frenzy it appeared Z,
travel in a circle.
The largest stack of barley. sacked
! and then piled up, ever known in the his
| tory Of the west now lies near Garfield
/ Wash. the result of a determined poo
| by farmers to hold their grain until such
IA time as the market price is enough Il
warrant them 10 sell at a profit. The
| stack of grain is ninety feet high,
Policeman Holzwarth in raiding Il
/ crap game in Newark, n. j.. jumped az
/ eight-foot fence, and his go pound,
| landed on an innocent COW, which rar
! eral blocks but finally fell off spraininl
his foot. The COW is still running.
! A 4ltpfto that ,.yag 1.pGv,,1 e., .,
| Years in limited quarters was released
| from beneath q lock in the Miami and
Erie canal at Findlay. o. The work
| men believe it was imprisoned in boz
Of heavy oak timbers in 1898. when the
lock was constructed. Il was as fat as
though it had enjoyed three square meal,
a day. 1t is supposed that crawfish aut
| other marine life came in 10 the turtl,
through crevices which were too small t.
! permit the turtle to escape.
Carl McMarlin was accused Of ma
Iicious mischief before Justice f. II
Davye IN Butler. Pa, by William Bar
end. William Thomas 10. who in EN-
| ployed by Barend, was the witness
! When Thomas was called 70 the stan,
the justice asked: DO you know wha
The oath meansE' No was the reply
! DO you know there il q Cody" Nope
t''tt lffAAfA opAtAetitAiAS +NF'N 'iAIAg bFAt@s
a hell.
Ever heard Of heaven Nope"
Were you never at Sunday SCHOOL,
mo, never went 10 Sunday school
Never was at church. Never went {,
school"
Can you read or writer Nope"
This witness is not competent" sal,
the squire, and he was dismissed.
Homesck and pining for a sight o
her baby daughter, which she had lcf
behind her in Vancouver when startinj
out on a theatrical tour Of western Can
ada. Belle Walter, a vaudeville aetres
attached to a company which wen
broke in Calgary a few days ago, al
tempted 10 walk from that city to Van
c0uver. a distance Of about GOO miles
She had no money for her railroad fare
and as she was a stranger in Caigar
she could not borrow any. Two day
after starting out on her arduous jour
ney she was picked up at Cochrane j
an exhausted condition. Her stOr
aroused the sympathy Of the resident
Of that city, number Of whom ad
vanced the woman the price Of a tickle
70 Vancouver. which city she reache
and found her child.