Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-07-17

a rat kissing bug, mule. ami par
rot.
Alleging that she had been bewitched.
| 19-year-old Mary HiIlman of Pottstown.
/ Pa. has worked herself into a state
/ that is considered dangerous by her phy-
| Sicians. She viii not take the medi-
cines prescribed and has consulted a
yoodoo doctor in Reading. This doctor
requires that she get some hairs from
the head of the person who is supposed
i to be bewitching her. The person who
/ is accused is a bald negro, and She
can't get any hairs.
Warner, the 14-year-old son of Col
Robert (. Banes of Media, Pa, is con-
hned to his home severely i'll, the result
of blood poisoning from the sting of a
bee. He was stung on the arm by a
bumblebee and in short time all parts
| OF his body became swollen and extreme
| ~ sore. 1t is thought the insect had
been culiinS honey from some poisonous
plant,
Frank Sterhng's bantam hen in Pitts
burg. Pa. fused around so 70 rear Il
family he put six turtle eggs under her.
She swelled with pride as she felt some
thing moving around under her later.
but the next instant was running
through the yard with a baby turtle
!
L. r. Richards, supervisor Of health
of Elizabeth. n. j., says that he believes
the mosquito question has never been SO
encouraging as at the present time, in
so far as Elizabeth is concerned. He
believes that no further appropriation
Will be needed until the fall, when, he
says, $1,000 will go a long way toward
erecting permanent determination of
the pest.
Weakened by heavy rains, the walls of
an old house in Main street in Rich
mond. Va, collapsed today. With half
the house piled over and about him,
Albert Pacini, 6 weeks old baby, who
went down with the building, bawled
Justify from the cellar, in which he land
ed. He had fallen straight through two
floors to the cellar.
Mrs. Lena Adams. young Wild
ow living on West Hill, Con-
neeticut had to have some one
to help her look after her growing crops.
do the haying and cut wood for next
winter. Her farm hand, Charles Drake
OF New Hartford, faithful since she em-
| plans by rendering his resignation.
Knowing that she couldn't get any man
who would suit her better, and to keep
Drake. Mrs. Adams is said to have taxi
en- advantage of her leap year privileges.
The marriage took a big load off Mrs.
Adams mind, for good farm help and
good husbands are very scarce.
While sinking a 1000 foot well for oil
on a farm near LenOx. Wash, thirty
miles south of Spokane, workmen,
operating heavy drill, encountered peb-
bles and wood at depths of $50 and $50
feet. The wood is in fair state of
preservation though it has the appear
ance of having been charred by fire.
With it and the pebbles was substance
resembling beeswax.
Violently cursing, On the Storm
'D----n the STORM" a scared parrot was
rescued from the flames of the New
Carlisle, o., railroad Office, which had
been struck by lightning. The operators
room was full of bue flames from the
telegraph switchboard when Waterman
broke into the station, and the profane
screams of the parrot rose above the
fury of the storm. He had been the pet
of an operator who was disposed to
vent his spleen thus when the wires
worked badly because Of bad weather
conditions.
Because she wants to get the benefit
of his life insurance policy. the wife of
Jim Lynn, Pueblo negro under a death
Price, white girl. has asked Gov Buch-
tel TO commute his sentence to life inn
prisonment. The woman writes that il
her husband be hanged she cannot col
lect his life insurance. but if he be inn
pfisoned for life she will keep up his
policy and eventually benefit BY it, Gov.
Buchtel has refused the strange request.
Because Indiana cast a solid vote
against Secretary Taft an enlisted man
in the United States navy. stationed at
the Norfolk navy yard, will be paid a
cigar by Secretary Taft. Several days
ago, when down at Norfolk, Va, to wit
ness the monitor Florida test. Secretary
Taft made a wager with Seaman Burns
OF the Florida that he would get votes
from every state in the union at the
Chicago convention.
Harry Taylor. - years Of age, of Fort
Salonga, l.. L.. scratched a mosquito
bite on his left cheek with his finger
nails. He died of blood poisoning With
IN an hour after he had scratched the
bite the flesh began to swell. Physicians
were called, but We're unable to check
the infection.
As two fashionabIy dressed women.
Mrs. John Collins and Mrs. James Har-
per. were saying goodbye on the gang
plank OF the steamer Columbia al
burlington, n. J., and leaned toward
each other for the last kiss. the baby
daughter Of one Of the women slipped
from her arms and dropped into the riv-
err. A deck hand dropped from the
plank. swung by one arm from a beam
Of the wharf, and seized the dress Of
the baby as she rose to the surface.
Capt. Edward Rabey commander Of
one Of the small steamers at the quaran-
tine station on the Staten island shore.
died in Staten island santarinm from
hydr0phohia. New York physicians are
convinced that his death was direct
result Of an attack made upon him by "a
dog nearly FIVE months ago. The wound
made by the dogs teeth was slight. ana
Rabey had no thought that any serious
results might follow
A small but furious riot occurred al
Nanticoke, near Wilkes Barre. Pa, when
a number Of men and boys who had paid
to see o side show performance 81
much advertised lady dancer" discoy-
cred that the dancer was a roan attirpd
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