Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-10-16
NOTES OF INTEREST.


celebrated the one hundredth anniversary
| of his birth, and his faculties are Wig
| orous for a centenarian. his sight and
/ hearing are good. and he eats and sleeps
I we'll Last summer he spaded and plant
] ed a quarteF-acre garden surrounding his
| home raising sufficient truck for home
/ use. Powers is Il bachelor. He said: Il
J chew tobacco and have drunk sparingly
| of whisky since | was boy in my
teens"
After giving the police chase and
making an attempt To escape by jumping
! from a third story window of her home
/ to a kitchen roof, S-year-old Elizabeth
| Crossen of Chester. Pa. was appTehend-
/ ed by the police. charged with being one
! of three sisters who robbed the safe in
| the office of Thomas Wildly * Sons and
getting away with S11.20 from the mon
| ey drawer. The sisters-Sallie. Ella and
| Elizabeth Consecutive in Patterson
| street. and the Willy establishment is
| but a short distance away. According
! To the confession of the girls, tine eldest
| of whom is not more than L years. one
| of them stood watch mt the door while
the others entered the Office and succeed
] ed in extracting the money from the
! drawer of the safe. They We're having
a royal good time, buying chewing gum,
! dolls and riding in hacks. until their law
( ish spending of money attracted atten-
| l1Ol. AZ ponce uediQ udTteTS 81 Oh iHe
| money was recovered, and, owing TO the
| youthfulness Of the youngsters, it was
/ decided not to prosecute.
Hanging to a narrow ledge of the wall
| of the Wheat canyon, with a drop of
more than 100 feet below Louis Leh-
man of Los Angeles. Cal, was rescued
from certain death by Chief Shill Of the
Hollywood fire department. Lehman left
Los Angeles for n days dove shooting
in the hills near Hollywood. He had
worked his way to the ridge of Wheat
canyon wall by dusk. His luck had been
poor, and when she shot Il dove it fell
into the soft earth of the wall. few
feet below the ridge. Lehman dropped
his gun and started after it, lie reached
the dove and started TO crawl back to
the top, about ten feet above him. The
ground slid away, carrying lin twenty
five feet before he gained \ footing. His
position was terrible His feet rested
ON narrow shelf of rock. not four
inches wide, while the scale kept Sitting
from beneath his hands as he clutched
at the wall. Below him the cliff
dropped sheer to the rocks. The man
had been there almost an houI before
his cries attracted the attention of a
party of campers some distance away.
who sent in an alarm to the Hollywood
fire department. Chief Shill and two
men hurried to the scene in automobile
apparatus, and, as Lehman was unable
to climb ladder the chief lowered him
self by a rope to his side, then lowered
him to the foot of the canyon. Lehman
was exhausted when the chief reached
him. His hands were torn and bleeding.
To hold to his perilous perch he had dug
his fingers into the scale of rock and
the nails had been broken into the flesh.
His arms, neck and face We're purplish
from the terrible strain which he had
been compelled to undergo to keep from
pitching headlong to the rocks of the
canyon bed far below.
William Jackson. of Wilmington. Del,
colored, who was SO anxious to get back
into the New Castle county workhouse
ut Greenbank some time ago, in the court
of general sessions had his wish gratified,
for he was sentenced to serve q four
year term in the prison in addition to
a fine of $500. Jackson pleaded guilty
to the unusual charge of attempting to
break into the workhouse several DAYS
after being discharged therefrom. He
was detected in the act of trying to de-
liver saws aud revolyers TO other prison.
ers To facilitate their escape, and almost
lost his life. because a guard who de-
tected him fired two loads of shot into
his body. Jackson lowered between life
and death ut a hospital for several
weeks.
A big bald eagle that settled on the
flagstaff of the city hall in Atlantic City
y j., just before nightfall held Il crowd
of 1000 while he preened his feathers
and rested before continuing his flight.
A half dozen men who rushed for rifles
and shotguns were prevented from firing
at the handsome bird by Mayor Stoy.
who is a keen sportsman, and who oh
iected to the noble American bird being
slaughtered. The mayor had just re-
turned from Trenton, where he appeared
before the state commission. and he felt
that the eagles appearance was an omen
of liberty.
While trying to telephone to a bank
president that cracksmen We're drilling
the safe in his bank the telephone
operator at Goehner. Neb.. the other
night made mistake and rang the teie
phone IL the. bank itself The burglars
answered aad We're given the information
that their movements had been discoy-
cred. and that a posse had been formed
and was watching the front door of the
bank while another posse was forming
to guard the rear. The burglars thanked
the telephone operator and escaped
through the rear door.
State Treasurer Julius Hauser and
Sheriff Wells of Sayyille, l.. L.. went on
rabbit hunt recently. Hauser left his
newly made false teeth at home, fear
ing they might cucumber him in the
woods. When near Bohemia he saw ap-
preaching him smilingly a pretty young
woman in whom he had taken interest
before his recent marriage.
by golly," said Hauser, turning 10
the sheriff. II have left my teeth at
home. and here comes the very woman
No use. l can't talk TO that woman
without my teeth, and with dead earnest
ness Hauser pleaded with the sheriff to
he quick and lend him the latter's teeth
The sheriff sized up Hauser's broad jaw.
compared with his own wee bit Of
conservative" one.
"Hauser, / guess nix cum rouse" he
said.
"Dacryocystablennorr is word
that has caused CONSERVATION at the
Colorado Springs, Colo. courthouse and
that likewise has caused the filing of a
motion TO the end that more light may
be shed on it, The word appears in an
amended complaint in the case of DIR.
A. c. Magruder against Mrs. Henrietta