Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-02-21

j When jeremiah Kennedy turned ON
the light after catching a burglar in his
cigar store at Alton. Ill., he was shocked
by the discovery that his captive was
one of his neighbors, wealthy man with
whom he has been on terms of close.
friendship for years
! hennedys store has been robbed fire.
4nently IN the last eighteen months The
thief never took anything but cigars
Upon his promise never 10 rob anoth-
er store. and to lead an honest and up
right life, | told him thar | would let
| him off this time, but if | ever caught
HIM again | would punish him severe
! il, said Kennedy.
/ The cat still lives. Next time Miss
Grace Carr of California, Ky, attempts
i the feline's life she will not use ehloro-
| fern. In her endeavors to dispose of
| the cat in humane fashion, Miss Carr,
her sister-in-law, Mrs. Carr, and her
| cousin, Miss Herbert came nearer 10
death than did pussy. 1t was a thieying
cat. and the family imposed the death
/ penalty. The cat was caught black can
| adjusted and chlorof0rm administered
But the cat did not care to lose even one
/ of IFS lives: and struggled valiantly to
get free. The chloroform was spilled
and Miss Carr, Mrs Carr and Miss
| Herbert were overcome. A neighbor
called physician, who, after several
| hours work, managed 10 resuscitate all
three. Meantime the cat escaped.
Senior Chimpansee, chief of the mar
moset family for Hanscom park in
| Omaha, Neb. underwent an operation
| for appendicitis and showed the animal
| keepers at the park the cause for the
| recent deaths i'll the zoo. incidentally
| it was shown that the vermiform appen-
dix possessed by this representative 81
l.,,te Ill
/ sometimes worn by men just under the
watch charm Adherents of the Oar
winian theory at the park are firm in the
/ belief that the marm0Sets were the first
| to indulge the extravaganza Two in
| habitants of the monkey cage died be-
| fore surgery was employed to stop the
| epidemic
\ bachelor farmer of Eau Claire conn
| ty, Wis. is out with a communication
TO local paper under the caption,
Voice of the People" asking for a
wife
A wife wanted at once. by an honest,
/ we'll to do farmer" says the communion
| ton THE lady must be Christian,
but not Extensively religious. She mus;
not make me shine up and go to church
whether | want to or not.
| mo crusaders wanted. a plain, good
woman, who has outgrown the gum
chewing period; who appreciates that
marriage is business and not dream of
poetry and music. Z. S.-Applicant
must have 500 spot cash.
The debate ON the question That Gov.
| Crothers of Maryland, could better up
hold the dignity of his office by get
| ing married" resulted in Il verdict of
mot guilty at Baltimore.
The affirmative was represented by
three married men, DIR. Benjamin Smith,
Rev. John l. Yellot, and William e.
| Robinson, and the negative was cham
pioned by three single men, William F.
| Stedman, Charles H. McNabb, and NJ.
| A. Reckord.
The judges were Rev. c. X. McCaslin.
/ George l.. Van Bibber and Richard Dali
| lam, all married, and Frederick r. VIII
liams and Edwin II. Webster, who, like
| The governor, are single. The two lat
er were added to the jury at the last
| moment as the result of a strenuous
bjeetion by the negatives claiming that
/ hey stood no show whatever for a
| verdict with the judges all married men.
The first judges took some time for
/ their deliberations and then returned a
| verdict of mot guilty"
''The governor" said Mr.. Yellot, levi.
| IDENTIFY feels the need of a lovely woman
| in the executive mansion, hence the
/ appointment of Adj.-Gen. Warfeld,
i whose strongest recommendation is Il
charming wife, and the governor pressed
her into service at his first reception.
| What's an administration without re-
ceptions? Annapolis answers 'Unthink-
able What's a reception without the fair
| sex? An abomination of desolation. The
governor can borrow his friends wives for
/ his receptions, but it is scarcely digni-
fed
Charles II. McNab, on the part of The
negative. said in part; ''rhe act of the
| governor being married mt this time
would be a catastrophe to the state
After TIE debate it was announced
| that Gov. Cfothers has sweetheart
/ August Tenround of Kewanee, Ill.,,
made an experiment while trimming
| trees in his door yard. He sat on limb
| and then sawed the limb between him
Land the trunk of the tree The dror,
| was % feet, and Tenpomd was a close
second to the amputated limb. He was
| injured internally.
Dumfounded. an audience sat in
| breathless astoniShment in the Morning
| side college auditorium at Sioux City
Ia, as H. FL. Gill of Epworth preSi-
dent of the college prohibition oratorical
association, stepped onto the stage os-
/ tensibly to receive the first prize of SO,
and with white face announced that he
could not take the money because MS
Grafton was plagiarized.
AS result Moningside college is i'll
a middle as to who shall represent the
school at the state prohibition contest to
be held at Oskaloosa, March t.
To decide bet of $40, even after
large leopard had attacked the trainer
and scratched him on the hand. Daniel
Lagsden, Bay City, Mich, barber en-
| tered the cage containing the animals
and shaved the manager.
The leopards were behaving badly all
evening When one attacked the trainer
the barber did not back down, but IN
sisted that he would go ahead and make
good.
| The animals resented Lagsden's en-
trance TO the cage, and continually
| snarled at him. The barber kept on and
finished the shaving. though not as UNI
concerned as he would be in his own
shop.
| He got the $40.