Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-13

the properties of a strong acid and
burned its way into the eyeballs and into
the flesh of the face. Spendlove was
blinded, and physicians say that his eyes
have been permanently injured, and that
/ he will never see agaia. The tree is
thought to be a species Of poison oak.
| The natives in that part or Mexico have
| known of the dangerous properties of the
sap for many years.
| Miss Franc Kingsworth, an artists
model, was led blIndfolded into a room
/ filled with cada~ers in Chicago and was
photographed for picture TO be entitled
/ Asleep with the Dead" She tainted
when the bandage was removed and her
/ eyes opened on the gruesome grinning
hnlks OF human forms that surrounded
| her. Her collapse was followed by hys-
! terics. in which she screamed and strug-
| gled TO free herself from what seemed to
to be TO her a living tomb, until She fell
| in an unconscious heap on the floor For
| hours after her experience, she was in
a precarious condition at the home of
DR. John Il. Wilcox, 227 Lincoln street.
where she was removed following the
scene created as the result of an effort
to obtain a photograph that would
| eclipse all the imaginative hprenrs con
ceired by art.
| New mooGs have a queer way of man.
! ifesting themselves to Roscoe. r. Burnao
/ of Lower Waterbury, Conn. He lost
| horse on July in a runaway, his gold
watch was stolen from his person on
August 2, he saw a thief disappearing
with bag of his best poultry on Sep
tember 5, and he sprained an ankle Oc-
tober l.. On November 10 and December
g his children were stricken with dyDh-
| iberia. He, was dropped from the fac
tory payroll ON January ). Recently,
after an attempt at self-destruction. he
said to a friend: i've got a wholesome
regard for the early days of the months
and new moon time. If you see an
earthquake strolling about start it IN
my way if it's not busy"
Vernon Wolfe of Oaktown. Ind. IA
years old, has been suffering for months
| from diseased bone in his forearm
and after Il consultation of physicians
| it was determined to remove the bone
AS the member would be useless with
out the larger bone, the physicians con-
| cluded to substitute the bone from the
leg of dog. While the bone was be-
ing taken from the arm of the lad big
| st. Bernard dog was choroformed in an
adjoining room, the bone of his foreleg
taken out and placed in the arm of the
boy. The doctors say that the operation
was in every way successful, and the
boy will have perfect use of the member
as soon as the wound heals.
There was a social function at Water
bury Conn. in the Merryweather club
for two days recently, which has not
| been chronicled in the list of the weeks
events. Dusty Rhodes had charge of
the affair, ably assisted by Weerie Walk
er and Tghe Trotter, while about doz-
en- others of their set participated No
expense was spared to make the occa-
| sion notable one and to that end the
clubs cellars of choice wines and its
well stocked larders We're swept clean
| The affair was given as a surprise to
the members of the club which is sit
| uated near the Hotchkiss pond, in VOL
| colt, where the eottagers fish and hunt
nowadays. In fact, they knew nothing
about it until the other day, when five
of them, who undertake to look after
the property, went there. The aim of
Mr. Rhodes and his companions was
well carried out, for never were there
FIVE more surprised men in Connecticut
| They did not have TO use keys to get
into the club house, because all the locks
had been broken. Upon tables, chairs
and floors lay bottles that had once con-
taiEed costly champagnes and bur-
gundies Throughout the place were
scattered remnants of a Iucullan feast
Not only had the thickest of steaks and
Iile udiUlleSL VI CitDS from the GIuD s
iceboXes gone to furnish the board, but
chickens, canned goods. rare connections
of delicatessen and everything avail
able in the way of vegetables had con-
tributed to the temptation of the faded
palates of the epicures. As token of
appreciation for the involuntary hosts,
notices had been hung about the walls.
Some of them were Rolling stones
sometimes gather something as they
roll - - A III tho worlds or Wal
are the stars at the present time,
Here's where we all meet on com
mon level, Leave your safe open and
it will save us many heartache,"
"Please look at the coal bin and if you
miss anything put it down to us, the adj
vance agents of prosperity" When Mr..
Chaviut and his companions had recov-
cred their composure after surveying this
interesting spectacle they remembered
that band of tramps had been infest-
ing the neighborhood of late.
will Senator JEFF Davis go to heav-
en?" is the subject for discussion an
nounced by Adjt. Howard, in charge Of
the Salvation Army, at a meeting IN
Little Rock, Ark, TO which all burglars,
cigarette fends, wife beaters and moral
degenerates in the city have been in
vited.
Reciting that he has learned that his
wife, who, he asserts, told him that she
was negress before he welded her, is
white. Henry Edwards, well-to-do ne
gro business man Of Lima. o., has be-
gun divorce action in the common pleas
court His petition recites that he mar
| ried his wife in Lexington, Ky, after a
| lengthy courtship, and that she told him
| she had negro blood i'll her veins and
| never by any hint let him suspect that
| she was of another race than himself.
| Fer this alleged deception he insists he
| is entitled to freedom. They Were mar
| ried FIVE months ago
| Eighteen hundred gallons of wine
seized in a recent raid ON four blind
| pigs" in Tacoma, Wash. were dumped
| into the sewer, being destroyed under
order of the court The owner Frank
Reed, was found guilty of selling liquor
| without a license and Ilstica Gard III.