Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-24
NOTES OF INTEREST

me ageAburg of sos Cherry street
i'hliadelplia, Pa. TO swallow her money,
hnt infinitely worse To lose the pair of
skates for which she was saving. In the
lloFnlng neighbor gave Pauline a pen
ny ms she put in her pocket. and later
"a "a tue Jay TWO cousins increased Tier saw
lhgS by nickel and a dime. Her play
iuateS We're jumping rope and when il
game her turn Pauline put the coins in
n.y. mouth At the first jump Pauline
cldtehed her throat. bur ii was too late.
size swallowed all the money.
Hls study of medicine in Philadel-
pnia hospital made it possible for James
murphy 10 save tie life of John Ward
his PAL in the bull pen nj central no
lce station, where both were quartered
Fl dodgers the other night Both men
are leading the life of tramps Ward is
SUFFERING from a bad cold Coming here
IRON iittsburg he had an alteration
wita tramp riding on the same train
before arriving here they seemingly
l'elyitvd up their differences. As they
parted the other man gave Ward a bot
We OF cough medicine which he de-
ciared would cure the cold. At central
station ward was about To drink the
medicine WI EN- Murphy happened 10 note
us color. He examined il closely aud
round II a deadly poison. Murphy gradu-
a atedi at Harvard and studied medicine in
Philadelphia
Doc" said the barber. who was hath.
erlng the face of DIR. Irving Norris. in a
shop at Corunna, Mich, the other day.
1here'S man dying, or something"
Ihe doctor jumped out of the chair and
beht over Capt. I'll. ID. pugh, Civil war
veteran. who, while waiting for his turn
60 be shaved, had sunk to the floor Ar
tlhaTgl pAg ion,
the failing heart stimulated. Capt Pugh
Is in serious condition still. but may
pun through.
Milton, a town four miles from Taco
ma, Wash, has gone on record with n
tax OF ~ per annum upon all bachelors
living in that place The town has
large number of single men, and mem
berS of the city council argued that if
they get these bachelors to bring in
wives it will nearly double the popula-
tion Many of the single men declare
they viii retaiiate by changing their res
ldence to other parts.
Slowly initiating like a balloon. Peter
Deal is puzzling proposition to Cincin-
natl physicians, who have strapped him
down to his cot with wide bandages for
fear he will explode. Deals condition is
due to knife thrust. He was bent
over an ash barrel, looking for some
thing he had lost and il is alleged that
tharles Tray an enemy. came up from
behind and stabbed him. According 10
the physicians, the wound created a
valve. and now instead of the air being
drawn into the lungs and then out
through the bronchial tubes. it enters
INTO the muscles and is driven under the
skin.
County Superintendent Frank ID. 10.
seph, of Manchester. Ia. was recently
in Waterloo to arrange for the inter
county spelling contest to be held in that
city between teams representing Black
Hawk and Delaware counties. Rules
were adopted governing this UNIQUE con
test, and Prof T. Nj. Irish of Dubuque.
was chosen to pronounce the words. The
Judges will be County Superintendents
Belknap of tayette. aud Arildson of
Buchanan. Valuable prizes will be of
fered Tor team and individual hon0rs. At
the county spelling and declamatory con-
test for Black Hawk county, hello IN
Waterloo. Elmer Blough won the for.
mer and Glenn Morgan the latter.
When the remains of Mrs. Wilson L..
Smith were buried in the Washington
cenefery M Washington, Pa. the dream
Of dying girl was fulfilled Miss Bertha
Breese, a sister of Mrs Smith. while i'll
five months ago, had a vision. in which
she saw four collins, each occupied by
members of the family, one being her
self. She died shortly afterward A few
weeks later a 3-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Smitn died suddenly. Two
months ago 5-munth-old Dauy passed
away and last week Mrs. Smiths death
occurred.
Charles Reynolds. who was swept
from his mothers arms by the waters
in the Galveston storm. September s,
1900, and carried to sea. has been found
and retored to his parents in Galveston.
Tex The child was 4 years old and
was picked up on the mainland forty
eight miles from Galveston island. The
boy was sent 10 an orphan asylum and
adopted by IA farmer living in southwest
Missouri. A few months ago the lad
ran away from his foster parents and
fell in with band of gypsies. who We're
horse traders and went to Texas. The
mother believed her boy had persisted IN
the storm, but she Travelled on horseback
sixty miles to overtake the gypsies and
investigate. Birth marks make positive
the Identification.
His sigh. restored by shock of cleo
tricity. John Miller of Phillipsburg, y.
r.. was made happy today by a
remarkable experience. Miller had been
totally blind in his right eye since 1874.
During the last three or four years the
sight Of the other eye has been failing,
and Miller was of the opinion that he
would soon be totally blind. Miller,
while in Howard Schooley's store the
other day was feeling around to turn
on the electric light, when he received
shock So powerful that he was knock
ed down. The light wires crossed with
a trolley wire had furnished the current
that felIed him. A minute later he
gave shout Of joy. He could See well
enough TO distinguish colors on the OPP
posite side Of the street, and with the
blind eye as well as with the other.
Two babies Of Mrs. Bella Cooper, a
widow living at 1889 East Forty -seventh
street Cleveland. were held in lieu of
rents. Mrs. Cooper's rent vas due bat
she did not have the money. She says
her landlord put her and her furniture
on the sidewalk but kept the children.
She swOre ont a warrant charging as
sauit and battery. Mrs. Cooper got her
babies.