Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-12-25

and buried with her.
| Summoned TO the telephone. Miss
Frances Neamer. n sal Sgirl in an Al
tooua (Pa.l department store, was III
/ formed that her dearest girl friend was
idylng at Cresson. Scarcely had she hung
| up the receiver when she was again
lcaed and informed that her home was
ION ire, and already badly burned out,
Thanks to the prevailing fashion. Miss
Gertrude Brown, daughter of r. S.
Brown of Kansas City. Mo. is walking
ABOUT her house. Had not fashion de-
creed that she should wear her hair III
one of those rolls around the back of
| the mead which are n never ceasing
source of wonder to the men, the fall
which she sustained when the horse she
was riding was struck by an automobile.
would undoubtedly have proven fatal
The machine struck the animal with
such force that it was knocked down
unseating Miss Brown. whose head
came IN contact with the pavement with
terrific force. But for tho fact that she
had placed a wire rat" in her hair her
skull would undoubtedly have been frac-
tured. AS it was she was rendered I'M
conscious and sustained a Jagged cut in
her scalp,
Unable to pay half the costs of the
case brought by him in the criminal
court Freeman Lorah of Nescopeck.
Pa, is in Jail with no immediate pros
/ pect of getting out, Lorah had Samuel
Sinner arrested on charge of assault
and battery and the evidence showed the
case 10 be so trivial that, upon the ad-
vice of Judge Evans. the jury returned
q verdict of not guilty and divided the
costs as Il warning that such petty
eases must not be brought tC court.
Unlike the usual father who RACES
when his youthful son elopes, A. w.
Pickard. business man of Utica \ v
took an entirely different view. The son.
Raymond \. fickard, hurried to Cleve-
land, O., Thursday with Miss Alice
| Clarke, Il pretty young woman who
lives in West Winfield, a nearby town.
took out a license, and was married the
same day by Rev. Frederick Hagetv.
The elder PicKard found it out. but too
late 10 intervene. even had he desired 10
do So He didn't fume. just sat down
and wrote letter to the Cleveland POI
lice: If you find that my son has mar
rietl. look him up, said the letter. IF
he needs any money give it 10 him and
look TO me for remuneration" The de-
tectives investigated. found the license
issued, and are trying to carry out Pick
ards words. Pickara's letter declares
the groom is but 10 ana the bride II.
but they will not he molcsted.
Theodore Lee of Hampton, Va. Had n
narrow escape from death while attend
ing meeting in Greble hall. Mr. Lee
was presiding as council commander ut
meeting Of the Woodmen, and his chair
was ON platform back of which were
three windows In leaning backwards in
his chair Mr. Lee lost his balance and
fell through one of the windows with
the chair. His life was saved by striking
and .demolishing an awning, which broke
his fall.
From a position on Il hill top Al Watts
contractor at the Rose mine, near Los
Angeles while testing the range of 4
new pair of powerful field glasses, saw
tragedy enacted great distance away,
Of which the following details were
afterward obtained: William Mickey. a
mining man, shot and probably fatally
wounded DIR w Kahns and another
miner whose name could not be learned
at Rose mine. an isolated camp in the
san Bernardino mountains, fifty miles
from Los Angeles The sheriff was no
tilted and has loft for the scene.
Straight home goes the Evanston, Ind.
high school boy who comes to school with
his clothes giving forth Odor of tobacco
'tNtiit-' VIII w HAlHllfllNltfl as lbIlS as IL
takes them to get the smell out of their
clothes" said Principal Leonard Young
Of the high school
Mrs. Carolyne Sullivan, wife of Maur-
ice Sullivan Of st. Joseph, Mo, has
been granted a divorce in the circuit
coHrt. Mrs. Sullivan testified that her
husband left her because she refused to
kiss his mother. The reason she gave
for refusing this show of affection was
that her mother-in-law was cigarette
smoker.
Hanging by one foot for several hours
Peter Smith. aged IS years and wealthy
nearly lost his life at his farm near
Columhlana, o. He was in a tree pick
ing apples when he lost his balance and
tell. Il was only by sheer luck that
q daughter came along and found him
WIN other members Of the family she
succeeded in getting him from the prong
ln the tree where he was caught.
After quarterEg cow slaughtered
at The West Philadelphia stockyards it
was found that her heart was abnormal
~ large. being t!e size of an ordinary
bucket. and metal fork was found
lodged in the tissues Of that organ.
A small boy with Flobert rifle de-
iayed the operation Of trains on the
Lake shore railroad several hours near
Cleveland, O., and tied mp the block sig
nal system eighteen hours. The boy
was Frank Voyshzll, aged Il. 22Ol
Lakeside avenue, and he fir.d seven bull
lets AT q block target. Several lodged
in the electric mechanism, short-circuit.
Cd the current and signals did not work.
i vas shooting at birds" young Noysh-
Izill told the juvenile court lie was sent
+" the detention home.
Master George Newton Bilbrick, 1
year old, Is the object Of the interested
attention Of every medical man for miles
about Portsmouth. y. H.. in that he has
been successfully operated on for appeu-
tdic.tis by DIR. Thomas w Luce, who de-
clares that the infant required as much
ether 70 produce sleep as a full-grown
boy The child was taken i'll and doc
| tors tried in vain to diagnose the case.
The little fellow was taken to the hOspi-
| tai, aud il was there determined that he
was suffering from appendicitis. and the
appendix was removed.
Il never heard Of case like this. -
says DR.. Luce Appendicitis in infants