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

| va ~ loNet DesaNafe To puck berries
Instead of allowing them to come here
railroad detectives have picked them m
and sent them 20 Jail at the taxpayers
| expense. Many farmers who are unable
| 70 get plckers are complaining of the
| detectives action. and are asking that
the men be released 20 pick berries. The
other night a number of men held a
meeting aud II was decided that, unless
| the men be set free, the crowd would
| enter the jail aud release them. Notwith-
standing the popular opinion, the men
still are kept confined and a jail deliS-
cry IS expected at any time.
While motoring along Upper Mountain
avenue, Montclar. \, j., John V. Tor
rens his wife, and two sons were badly
frightened by two large hlacksnakes
which crawied into the machine. Mrs
TorrenS discovered one of the snakes
crawling over her lap. She screamed,
causing her husband to turn quickly
around aud shut off the power. SEEKING
the reptile in both hands. he flung il into
the road. Mrs Torrens had tainted and
had just revived when her husband dis
covered second snake i'm time TO save
her another shock. Torrens thinks the
snakes sprung upon the chains of the
machine aud teen crawled into the tom
neau.
DIR. Fordyee has returned to Lake
wood, \. j., from a trip to Ohio, under
taken to recover a highly valuable collie
dog which was stolen from his home
here last Sunday. The doctor was called
up on the phone ana told that one of his
patients required his attention at once.
when he called on the patient he found
that the phone message was faxed and
he had not been wanted. He returned
home to find his house had been entered
nj fla aAli "a fs,fn
traced to an Ohio city. where the physi-
elan recovered it after his 1900 mile
journey.
John Mcneil, Frank Allison ana
Frank keudig of Philadelphia had an
exciting encounter with Il 4-foot water
snake on one of the small runs leading
into Darby creek below Colwyn, PA,
Searching along the run to add to a
collection of insects and butterflies, Ken
dig saw the snake wriggle from under
log on which he had just stepped and
atI2lapt to make for deep water with a
big frog. half swallowed, ia its mouth.
The sntke was having considerable
trouble in mastering its captive for the
sind legs of the frog were kicking Wig
orously. Before the snake could escalEe
into deep water Allison hit il with y
club, knocking it clear out of the water
TO the bank. where II fell against Mcneil
and promptly wound itself around his
leg. The reptile elected the frog and had
to he killed before it could be UNI
wound from Mcneil
Fifty dollars was the price paid hy DIR.
Charles Lawson of kokomo. Ind, for
scraping an acquaintance with Miss
Anna keane in Chicago yesterday. That
was the amount of the nne imposed by
Municipal Judge Decker after hearing
Miss Keane's story and the physicians
defense. Miss Keane said the doctor ap-
preached her at State and Washington
streets with the inquiry whether she
still lived on the West Side. She re-
Piled that she did not. StroIlng along
State street several other questions and
answers We're INDUCED in. Miss Keane
finally striking DIR. Lawson with her
umbrella, and Miss Gertrude Biton a
probation officer, CHANGING along oppor-
tunely, handed him over TO the police
Miss keane said she struck DR. Lawson
when he invited her to have an ice cream
soda. DIR. Lawson said it was when he
refused TO buy luncheon for her Judge
Decker said:
There has been enough of this mash
ing on downtown streets aud I'm going
TO put stop to ii. A man Of your age
ought to know better"