Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-09-11
NOTES OF INTEREST.

Not needing a warning not to wander
/ far. l0year-old Maggie Tanning of Chr
cage, who with her mother is visiting
| relatives near tarnwood, Sullivan eoun,
~. y. y. was lost III the woods When
| found she was sitting on a log feeding Il
half-grown bear with cakes from 4 pa
/ per bag. At the approach of the SEARCH
| ing party the bear fed. and the child
cried because they had scared il away.
! The little girl said she had walked a
! long way, picking and eating buckle
berries, aud ut last became rired aud sat
| down ON big log to eat her cakes, When
| the bear, which she thought was dog,
came out of the brush and she handed
| it a cake. This was followed by other
| cakes until the whole dozen had disaI-
/ peared.' Then she said she was about
/ to follow her doggie to his home, where
she knew there would be people who
would take her home. The child had
/ been gone five hours.
1 Jesse Harpole of Boonville, Ind, after
| exploding a charge of dynamite in well
which he is digging on the farm Of
| his father, descended to clear away the
| debris leaving his brother to draw the
| dirt out by means of a windlass and
| bucket.
| Upon reaching the bottom he was
overcome by gas and fell unconscious.
! His brother descended TO the rescue,
| but found it Impossible to lift him ous
Then he climbed to the surface hur-
| iled to the barn for horse, after which
| he returned to the bottom, and both he
and his unconscious brother were drawn
up by the horse. Both had narrow
escape from death.
! The stoppage of an old sewer at
| OswegO, \. Y. was explained when thir-
! teen calcihed rats Were found choking
/ the drain. The old block is being put
| in repair by "a recent purchaser, and in
| going over the place it was found that
| the old triangular brick sewer which
runs under the cellar from Second street
10 the river was blocked up. The drain
| was opened up and within a distance of
| 4 feet the petriiied rats We're found to-
! gether with some other refuse The ex-
| planation for the strange find is that
( there is probably limestone spring
/ which emptleS into the sewer and that
the rats, being caught there, were cal
| clhed by the action of this lime water
| The Old drain has been in place for over
| forty years so there has been ample
time for the transformation.
The forefeet of a horse driven by
Amos Gould a farmer of South Nor
walk, Conn. broke through the roadbed
| while Mr.. Gould was on his way to
| town one morning and out of the open
| ing came a fountain of honey and an
army of bees which put Farmer Gould
| to rout and then attacked the horse.
| which could not eXtricate itself from the
| hole. From the singing and its exer-
tons to free itself the morse died, but
/ Gould was able to load his wagon with
nearly 200 pounds of honey from the
hole, the proceeds of whieh-S25-he
paid for a new horse. An investigation
showed that the bees entered ut the side
OF the road and had stored honey there
for nearly a decade.
John S. Camp Of Paris, Tex. is eager
I to have the remains of William Penn
found and brought to this country.
PENNSYLVANIA tried to have this done
twenty years ago bat gave it up. Camp,
IN communication to the state depart
ment, says that PENIS grave is not in
London, as supposed. He declares the
Iindie family, descended from Penn,
are friends of his, and that few years
ago they took him to a place about 100
miles from London and showed him the
real grave of the first owner of Pennsyl-
vania. Acting Secretary Adee has writ
ten to Camp that, as Congress has not
reimbursed Gen. Horace Porter for the
S5o,OO0 he spent in finding the body of
John Paul Jones' the suggestion did not
appeal to him.
Miss Irene Mcdonald, member of a
| camping party near Butler. Pa, slept
WITH snake in her pillow the other
night. The sleeping tents of the campers
were in thicket. Miss Mcdonald was
awakened in the middle of the night by
something moving in her pillow Think
ing II was mouse she threw the pillow
ON the floor and silent the remainder of
the night without it. When she made her
| ha layrt Inr sla e
biacksnake inside the pillow
While John Timmons' road engine was
being driven from Pine Tree to Odessa.
Del, the governor belt broke and the en-
CINE ran away. Raymond Francis. en-
gineer, was thrown off, and the ponder
Gus steam wagon suddenly whirled and
plunged into the house of Adam Smith
wrecking the building. The porch of the
house was carried away, and the en-
CINE did not stop until the front wheels
rested in the pariur Francis was severe
ly bruised and his face was badly LAGER.
ated.
Minnie, the 3-year-old daughter of
james Meyer, had a funeral for her pet
cat, Tom, at Bridgeboro. n. ]. In n cof-
fin which her father made the body was
exhibited in the back yard. Minnie in,
duced her little friends to bring their
cats to take a last look at poor Tom
While the cats mewed in sorrow the lit.
| tie folk shed tears. Tom was buried be-
meath his mistress favorite tree. The
grave was decorated with flowers which
neighbors had contributed Efforts to
get preacher were futile.
Joseph Gerson. years old. 1O4 Bay
view avenue, Jersey City, got up and
resumed playing after an auto had run
over him without touching him. 1t was
his fourth escape from death. A year
ago he fell twenty-five feet from a win
dow. When weeks old doctors said he
could not live because of a hurt. Later
another injury caused the same predie-
ton.
i John Wax had large cast iron frog
weighing four pounds, painted green
which he used to hold the door open
The other day the frog disappeared
Yesterday James Bistline was blowing
near Wax's farm, when he discovered d
blacksnake feet long. He killed il
and noticing it TO be abnormal about
the body, held post-mortem, resulting
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