Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-02-07

| pigs home.
Barney was an invetera.e tobacco
chewer and hard cider drinker and
would smoke pipe occasionally for
Sam and stand on its foreegs against
the wall for sugar.
\ burglar who entered the home Of
Mrs. Mary Mcp3de at pittsbure had
/ gathered together Silverware and Jew
| elry and vas about TO depart WREN he
saw photograph of Miss Margaret
| McDade. the lS-year-o,d daughter of
! Mrs. McDade. The picture showed Miss
/ McDade in bathing cuSJHme. IL APP
pealed to him more than did the gold.
so he took the picture and left every
| thing else behind. He also left note.
in which he said:
Dear Miss I had intended to carry on
all this junk that | have gathered together
until | discovered this picture, What Is
mere gold compared with such a face and
such ttgurey Keep your gold-I want
none OF It, But l must keep this picture
/ and It viii he more to me than all the gold
/ In the universe,
| Mrs. McDade turned the note over to
the police. but they are not making n
| great effort to locate the burglar
For the second time within three
years Miss Mary Trimble, daughter of
Justice of the Peace John Trimble of
pittsburg. followed her fance TO the
grave when Frank u, Creese of Aspnr
wall was laid away. They were to
have been married this week. Three
years age Miss Trimbe was engaged to
Walter Mckee and the date of the we'd
ding had been set, when Miss Trimble's
sister died and the wedding had TO be
postponed. Another date was set but
! two weeks before the day arrived Me-
kee was taken i'll with pneumonia, and
he died on the day they were TO have
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intimate friend of Mckee and after a
year of mourning had passed he began
| TO court Miss Trimble. Finally they
| became engaged, aud the wedding was
to have been this week Ten days ago
Creese was taken i'll with typhoid fever.
| il developed into pneumonia and he died.
A ST. Petersburg letter in the Oes
Ierrechische WochenSchrift contains
this story; I'VE were 10 have Nero
at the 0chtaer theater. and the house
was well filled by people who waited to
hear the opera, The curtain time had
| long passed, when the audience began
to manifest It's displeasure at the delay
by making much noise of all kinds, AT
last the curtain went up aud the man
ager came forward and said that the
| stage was SO cold that the singers were
afraid to appear. There would be. he
| said, only iccles instead of music
| Then he pointed to the back of the stage.
where there was the best evidence of
! the North Pole temperature in the form
Of real ice and snow. The audience
| sympaihized with the frostbitten man.
ager and his frozen company. but not to
| the extent of allowing them TO keep the
/ ticket money with which to buy warmth
and comfort. Under threats to make il
warm for the cold company their money
was refunded"
/ III 81, -.
ing on the walls of the Puritan club
| Boston. for twenty years to "Gll mp the
/ blank space has been discovered to be
| genuine old master, none less than the
portrait of the great Cosimo de Medici.
ruler of Florence and Grand Duke of
| Tuscany, by Angiolo Bronzin0, The club
| has refused an offer Of $4,000 for the
painting.
Some time ago Paymaster Maupin of
| the United States navy, while travelling
! in France found letter bag containing
valuable Jewels. They were turned over
| 10 the state department which, through
/ its agencies abroad. have ascertaincd
! that Spanish countess Is advertising for
/ it's return. Instructions have been SEM
| to the departments representative ut
| Madrid 10 take such action as will es-
| tablish the identification of ownership,
The New Jersey state Sabbath assoc
| citation, mn organization having for its
| object the extension OF the Sunday OBJ
/ servnuce laws, was formed at Trenton.
/ One of the first reasons Introduced at
| the meeting provided that no pastor in
! New Jersey should receive into his pull
| pit any minister or speaker who had
/ travelled in public conveyance on Sun
! day The resolution caused consider
| able discussion and was finally voted
down on the ground that Ii would cause
/ too much Inconvenience,
| For the first time in the history of
| WestChestcr county, N. y. a lien for
S4tJ was filed against John u. Rookie
| Teller in the county clerks Office at
| White Plains. The lien ia in favor of
! Abraham X. IIaruash Of New York.
| Rockefeller evidently knows noti ing
about this lien, as he is in Georgia, id
il was only last Sunday that he atte, al
| services at Il negro church near Au-
gusta. The official paper filed says
among other things:
"The labor performed was painting,
| vanishing, and rubbing, and the ma
teral which liener furnished in counec-
/ ton with the said work was paint var
nish. white lead. oil tnrpentine, and
colors for new laundry for Rockefeller
| ut his country estate at Pocaptieo Hills.
! Compelled under the provision Of the
national bankruptcy act 10 dispense with
| his front lawn, and denied entrance to
| his home from the street Lester Cook,
! a Gainesville (Wisl merchant who was
declared bankrupt. has petitioned the
| court to sell to him at a reasonable fg.
IRE the strip of land which he was com
/ PEELED to give up. Mr.. Cooks house Is
/ located more than a quarter Of an acre
| from the street, and this amount of land
| IL the limit one can retain under the
| bankruptcy law. The court has taken
| the matter under adyisement.
"Afc pants is airer' shrieked Frank
| Zimmerman, 12-year-old hopeful, as he
| fed down the hall Of the Oak Park
school building Traverse City, Mich.
| leaving behind him trail Of smoke and
cindcrs and wall Of groans and moans
His teacher, Mrs. Ella Finney, didn't
| faint Before the burning, screaming
| fleeing youth had time to start panic
! she grabbed him and rushed him to the
basement, where she employed the fire
| hose effectively on littlf Frankie's trous-
| ers.
/ After the blaze had been extinguished