Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-12-04

| last pot that he sheared broke the
molten glass was lost. and. as he pre-
dicted. the men viii have holiday I'M
III a new pot is put in. Hoffman was
~ years old.
Learning that her friends. as a joke,
had planned ''tin shower upon her,
Miss Mary Gladstone, "A Spinster of
south Norwalk, Conn.,, stole march on
the jokerS by scurrying around and get
ing husband whom she presented 10
| her friends TO their complete cOnsterna.
ton. The man upon whom Miss Glad
stone exercised her leap year privilege
was William Green of Stamford.
Nine million pounds of tea were stored
away ON the steamer Indramayo when
she entered Boston harhor recently from
ports IN the far east. Ii was the larg
est consignment ever received at Boston,
not excluding the shipl0ad that once was
dumped into the harbor and moi be-
cause 1t was poor tea. Only half of the
lndramayos enormous consignment was
discharged there, for the remainder was
destined for New York, along With
good share of the rest of the yaluhle
cargo On the voyage of 1900 miles
the worse weather was encountered in
the China sea-, in the shape of a fierce
typhoon,
The largest bear shot in the Pennsyl-
vania mountains in years was brought to
their home in Parsons. Pa, by Elihu
Smith and Frederick Chase, who shot il
near Bear creek recently 1t weighed
GOO pounds and they We're three days
getting it ont of the woods. 1t crawled
into a deep cave after being wounded,
and they had TO rig up a windlass and
get wire rope to haul il cut after they
had killed il. The skin measures feet
from nose to tip of tail.
A post mortem examination of the
body of Mrs. Robert Glenn. who died
several days ago AT her home near New
vile, Pa. developed the discovery of a
! l5-inch square silk wash cloth which
Mrs. Glenn had swallowed supposedly
| while recovering from a hospital opera
| ton, Local physicians believe that as
the patient breathes. deeply after an
| operation and is generally bathed about
the moula aud throat with such : cloth
when regaining consciousness from
anaesthetics, Mrs. Glenn must have
! swallowed the cloth in the hospital,
Because Oscar Kent, q wealthy stock
man of Republican City. Neh.. had had
a dream he almost demoralized train
schedules on the Burlington road. He
| first knocked down the conductor of the
ST. Louis-Ienver train which left st,
| Joseph. Mo. at 1920 O'clock. The
| brakeman was similarly treated and the
| train which had gone amile, was backed
| TO the city, whore the police took charge
| of Kent. Another conductor was Sc
| cured. but the train was delayed an hour
and number of other trains were de-
! layed in consequence of it. Kent said
| he was asleep when the conductor
aroused him aud had been dreaming That
he was fighting.
Charles Crampsey, a Newark, \. j.,
| business man, had strange experience
while driving through Caldwell. " j.,
with two friends in his automobile As
| the ear was going along the mountain
road on the outskirts Of the town the
occupants saw dog pursuing n rabbit.
| The rabbit and its pursuer came dag
! onally across n field toward the road on
which the automobile was speeding hut
| they We're running at a speed that was
| far III excess Of the vehicle. As the rap-
bit reached the roadway il had 10 leap
on stone wall that ran parallel with
the highway. The elevation brought Ii
| almost on a level with the tonneau of
the ear, aud the next instant II had
| sprung across the Intervening space and
landed squarely in the seat beside Mr.
/ Crampsey. who was driving the automo.
bile.
The dog also had to leap the stone
| wall. but the automobile had gone by
| when he poised for a spring after his
quarry and he missed landing where the
rabbit did The rabbit, after a fright.
! ened glance, seemed to come 10 the con-
clusion that the automobile was safe
refuge and made no effort to escape from
Mr.. Crampsey, who had put a protecting
arm around il. And now comes the
strange part of the adventure, according
10 Mr.. Crampsey, The dog. not Ia be
baked ty the rabbit. gave chnse to the
automobile which was carrying away his
! prey. With loud yelps he chased after
the machine. Mr. Crampsey had put on
fun speed and his machine was making
a quick run over the country road. The
dog was game. however, and he soon be-
gan to gain on the automobile, As he
| reached the automobile the dog WAS seen
TO reel and the Text moment fell over
dead
Mr. Crampsey, who had been looking
back. watching the futile chase Of The
dog. stopped the machine The party goi
out and went back to where the dog lay
dead. Que of Mr.. Crampsey's friends
who was veterinary surgeon, said the
dog. whose heart had been weakened Is
the fierce race after the rabbit had auc-
cumbed to the gasoline fumes and was
suffocated. Mr., Crampsey said he would
take the rabbit, which made no effort 10
escape, even when left alone in the auto.
mobile while the occupants were investi
eating the death of the dog. TO his home
in Newark and make a pet of it for his
children ...,
Invisible Writing.
Prof Gross Of Germany has disclosed