Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-06-05
OF GENERAL INTEREST

After bear scare which has kept
men running for their lives and women
ana children behind closed doors, the
farmers Of Diske, village near Wa.
bash, Ind, have organized posse of
/ Loo. which is hunting for bruin. This
ueclslFe action was taken when The
bear, which is believed TO have escanel
from travelling menagerie peered in
AT the window of Mrs. Betty Holeombe's
kitchen while she was baking cocoanut
pies. Mrs. Holcombe. who is - years
oid was frightened into commissions by
the grizzly faced apparition. Her shrieks
brought the family TO her aid. bur the
bear escaped into a nearby wood. with
TWO eocoanut pies he tilched from the
window sill.
Maynard Farr. a farmer living five
miles cast of Chetek. Wis. claims To
own the most wonderful productive COW
IN the United States. The animal is now
supporting a family of four calves.
which are allowed to run with the moth
er IN the field. The calves all were
born within the last eleven months.
There are two pairs of twins, each ami
mai perfectly formed, healthy. and thirty
ing.
Just ms Mrs. james Klock, a bride of
"a Few moments. was stepping INTO n
carriage IN front of her fathers home to
50 to her own home ut Kalamazoo,
Mich. gang of women and children
began throwing mud at her. She wore
her wedding gown and ii was ruined
NO reason Is given for throwing the mud
other than it is thought some one in
the crowd believed mud would answer
the purpose in the absence of rice. For
more than one hour the mob about the
house booted and yelled and squad o.
police had 10 be sent to dispense the dis
tufhers.
Sixteen dollars for one stolen kiss
struck Burt Eddy, young farmer of
Lee township, Mich, as being rather
steep. The justice before whom he was
hailed had other views of the matter.
considering the circumstances, and
wouldn't reduce his fine. Anyhow. Burt
didn't dig" and is languishing in the
county Jail for ten days in default OF
payment. Perhaps pretty Alma Sund-
berg wouldn't have been SO "eut up"
about it If Burt hadn't done il right IN
front of the schoolhouse and right be-
fore all the pupils. She didn't propose to
be imposed upon in that public way.
SO she straightway had Burt arrested
and punished TO teach him lesson in
good manners.
Chicago has newsboy who is credited
with being worth $150,000 He is Thorn
as Tagney. who started out to make his
fortune with a bundle of papers under
his arms at the car barns ON the North
Side more than twenty years ago. Since
then his wealth has grown so that he
now controls a company owning more
than fifty news stands on the elevated
roads of the city, and besides does big
billboard advertising business. Its all
right to work for money" is the philoso-
ply expressed yesterday by Tagney,
but much better to make money work
for you. I've tried both, and | try just
as hard not to have an idle dollar on my
hands as | try to keep busy myself
Tagney has made much of his money
IN real estate investments
A hard substance. on which Mayors
Secretary Alfred Roger of Atlantic City,
n. j., broke gold tooth while eating a
raw clam introduction to the Press club
dinner in that city, has proved to be n
handsome brown pearl, perfect in form
and coloring. Expert jewelers. have Of
fefesf3 to pay for the restoration of the
tooth and give Mr.. Royer $500 to boot
for possession of the pearl
Before a crowd of onlookers Mrs. Ida
Green. a young matron of Stamford,
Conn. sought satisfaction for alleged
tale bearing by using a horsewhip on
Andrew Charlton. Half dozen times
Mrs. Green slashed Charlton in the face
with the whip before he overpowered
her. Then he called a policeman and
caused her arrest. Mrs. Green declared
Charlton accused her of receiving atten-
tons from visitor from st. Louis She
says her husband was with her when the
st. Louis man visited them.
In doing an act of human kindness Will
mer Sandt of Bethlehem, Pa, violated
the state game laws unconsciously and
was arrested by Deputy Game Warden
Acker of Allentown.
Sandt was picking stones from field
at Freemansburg when he uncovered a
nest of three rabbits. Fearing that they
might be harmed he took them home
The arrest followed. and Sandt was
fined $3.50.
A bulldog belonging to Enrique Ca
peros. a Mexican student at Cornell.
jumped from the third story window of
the Wilson block at a Merry Widow
hat which he saw passing on the other
side Of the street and was saved from
death by striking an awning. The dog
was seated on the window sill when n
pronounced blonde walked by wearing a
bat larger than the largest tray ever
carried by a waiter in this city. The
bulldog crouched on his launches,
growled. and made one long dive. He
struck the awning and lit on his feet I'M
harmed. The awning will cost Cape
ros $40.
DIR. Carroll Rogers and Miss Alice
Weatherby of this city have been mar
ried. This is another blow to the Bach
elor's club, organized several years ago,
which will now have but three members.
These have vowed anew to remain sin
gle, but each is evoliing suspicious. The
club started eight years ago. but could
get only twelve members even with the
ipdHcement that any member who got
married was to give the remaining mem-
bers fine supper. The eight who have
suceumbed have carried ont the com
pact, and now another will have to fol.
low suit.
James Graham, a contractor Of Glen
field, suburb Of Pittsburg. Pa. while
moving 81 house dug up an old lard can.
which when opened was found to contain
English gold sovereigns and half s0ycr-