Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-20
OF GENERAL INTEREST


Instead of charging So per acre, one of
the Texas rice canal companies has com
promised on two sacks of rice as the
water rental
To cut yellow pine lumber in Hondur-
as. import 1t TO America. paying duty
OF II per 1000 feet, and competing with
me home market, Is the object of the f.
L. Morse Timber company, with $780,
900 capital organized by Louisiana pro-
motors, who hold 2,O0O,0O0,O0o feet of
Stumpage bordering ON the Chameleon
river in Honduras.
Ii costs a quarter 10 say ''damn" i'm
Borough Recorder w. = Brownies office
at the city hall NJ Ninelaud. \. ]. The
squire has d little box with a slot in i,
which he immediately presents To friend
or stranger who happens 20 use the
Word IT costs more TO say larger words.
The money is devoted to charity
Divorce, apparently, has become
habit with the Foren family. of Mill
Bridge, Me, according TO the petition
on which Mrs. Charles FOreu was freed
from her husband. This is Mrs. Foren's
third divorce, and. like the two previous
ones, ON statutory grounds. AIRS FurenS
father, Capt. John Mitchell. Il wen
known seaman, was divorced Tour times.
ills fifth wife. Mrs. Forcn's mother, had
been divorced four times when she mar
ried Capt. Mitchell. and she divorced
him when her daughter was twelve
years ola. Mrs. Foren says she is
through now. IN tired Of men. she
says. Marriage is failure. and IN
never try it again.
Deserted and divorced twenty years
ago, Mrs. Emma A. Baker of South Nor
walk. Conn.,, answered Il matrimonial adj
Yerlsement recently, only to fall INTO
the arms of her former husband Their
former aflinityshlp was renewed, with
the result that they were married within
the hour and are now planning to return
to their old home in Norwalk to reside.
Mr.. Baker made "A fortune in Kansas
City in the building business and lost il
all in 1854 He then sent his wife and
family back to Norwalk, where they
have since resided Mr.. Baker assumed
a new name and has been quite success
full.
n bandit Of no mean ability is making
life hard for the evildoers of pittsburQ.
Within the last ten days visitors with
large sums of money in illegal resorts
have been held up at the point of n gun.
robbed by masked man aud dared to
tell the police AT least two big poker
games in hotels have been held IN by
the man with the gun and the bank roil
taken, while some of the big places
where drinks are sold illegally have been
plundered without mercy by the same
smiling masked man. He has always at
tackled people who knew themselves 90
be breaking the laws The police say
they had the bandit in their clutches
some days ago, but not knowing then
who he was, they allowed him to escape
on bail forfeit.
j, c. Hoskins, so years old, and Mrs.
Rachel May, 81 years old, were married
in Carmi, Ill. Hoskins admits that he
has won his seventh wife, and Mrs.
Hoskins. No. I, confesses she has taken
the marriage vows three times.
Charles Freedman, a Bostonian. and
one of the best knewn sporting men
his home at Victoria. Il. c., under mys-
terious circumstances. The theory is
that the shooting was deliberately
planned by some unidentified enemy. 1t
is a marvel TO medical men that he
should have been able TO run 60 feet ia
the street line, a bullet being imbedded
IN his heart.
On his way down town President Henry
Dickinson of the Mount Victory (Ol
bank was telling friends of having dream
that his bank had been looted When
he reached the bank there was confusion
over a visit from robbers during the
night, the vault having been dyuamted
and $4,000 stolen,
Alfred Taylor, Vineland. \. j., II
years old, broke his arm the first time
he tried stunt on the bars Of the new
Young Peoples association. Hurryng
home he surprised his mother by hold
ing up the broken limb and smiingly OK
claiming, Wei, mother. I've been mi
tiuted."
Crazed by turpentine thrown upon it's
back by mischicyous boys. Il big black
cat ran wildly along South street, near
Eighteenth, Philadelphia, terrifying
children on their way from Sunday
schools sending dogs yeIping into alley
and men and women scurryiug into door
ways finally running ap the leg of Cal
vim Bryant, aged 20 years, OF 1907
Catharine street, and lighting him
hercely. Two men with clubs had ell
they could do to beat the cat away from
young Bryant He was standing at the
corner of Eighteenth and South streets
when the Infatuated animal rushed at
him, jumping up his leg and clawing IT
away, but it came back at him Had
IT not been for two bystandcrs, one Of
whom used cane and the other n club
he would have been disfgured for life.
As il was Bryant had 10 be taken 10
the Polytechnic hospital, where the doc
tors were busy last night burning out
the poison from the wounds He will
recover.
Doubt az to which man she should
marry is believed To have caused Mary
McCuc, 20 years old, 10 attempt suicide
in the home Of Mr.. aud Mrs j. Frank
Green, II Rutland road. Fiatbush, \. y.
Two young men are said to nave been
attentive to her, both having asked her
to marry them. She could not make up
her mind which one She preferred. aud
worried over the matter. She shot her
self She will recover.
Reports from Las Palmas. Canary is
lands. tell Of an amusing case. Eighty
persons have brought suits for damages
against u chemist named Alfonso. II APP
pears that during the carnival man
applied for novel kind Of facial dis
guise and the chemist painted on the
mans face a large green Ay, This ear
uival decoration proved popular sue