Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-21
NOTES OF INTEREST.

Wv tFf>is u Ath LNlfttE 81 the Nor
Walk baseball club. drove a ball iuto The
mouth of Walter Smith. an African
uoager. with such force that several of
the dodgers teeth We're Knocked out and
tue ball locked 50, securely within the
coiored mans mouth il had I, be cut
% pieces before il could be removed. IN
happened at ROTOR Point. a resort on
Long Island sound. 'Gne bali, two balls
III {he niger IN the head aud get a
good cigar," shouted the barker. BEST
Threw the first two balls easily just to
thfoW the dodger off his guard Then
by arrangement Richard Burke. coach
ior the HarStrom college nine, lei one
drive. Smith hauled up his head and
opened his mouth. One second after
Burke. BEST LEI 20 a terrific drive and
the ball struck the dodger squarely in
the mouth. Smith lost two teeth from
each jaw and says he will resign FROM
the ancient and honorable profession of
African dodger.
The ACTON of an Italian boy in milk
ing neighbours COW started battle
which eliminated in the shooting of the
boy and his mother at Newton Mass
The victims We're Mrs. Dominic Caponi
and her son Frank, who is accused of
milking Tony OmhreloS cow Ombrelo
aud his brother did the shooting.
Louis III. Roe. merchant of Pine
island, Orange county, \. Y, is in 1T.
lakes hospital, Newburg. suffering from
n peculiar malady. He was smoking a
pipe the stem of which was split, and
tins pinched his tongue. Nicotine poison
ing followed.
His tongue Swelled until he was un-
able to close his mouth. He will prob
ably recover
Meadmg broken arm with Il nail is
the extraordinary feat in surgery which
has just been performed successfully in
New York city by Harlem hospital sur
seons. 1t was a plan resorted To after
usual methods had fai'NA and when the
case seemed to be hopeless. Now the
Sllmh operated upon is MS sound as ever
1T was. Charles Nelson, IL years old,
OF 26l4 Eighth avenue, was injured in
alighting from a car Oh July l.. The
wrist of his right arm broke with such
4 severe fracture that one hone Tapped
over another. Nelson WAS taken imma-
dlately TO the Harlem hospital and the
arm was placed in splint. but the bones
did not set When he went back next
day, however, lr. H. A. Hauhold of -
West Eighty eighth street and DI. John
+. Connors of pa West Seventy-ninth
street, visiting surgeons, examined the
boy and resolved upon the novel method
house surgeon, aided in the operation.
The lad was put under the influence of
ether and an incisiou was made in the
injured arm. above the wrist Joint What
Is called the shaft of the bone was then
pried open. and the two overlapping
bones We're set together. Meantime
steel nail about one and half inches
long had been carefully sterilized and
medicated A wise of cotton and other
material was made for the arm, and
With an ordinary hammer the nail was
driven into the head. piercing both bones
in much the same fashion as two boards
would he fastened together. The splints
Were then replaced. Nelson returned TO
the hospital recently. and it was found
that his arm was as strong as it had
been before the accident. A few min
uies later the boy was playing ball in
the street. There is no record of sim
liar case. and forthcoming issues of the
surgical journals viii contain full ac-
counts of the operation and its result,
On the outer stone coping of an eighth
story east window in the postofiice de-
partment building, Washington, sat a
bushing bridal couple, obliyious of sur
roundings or the risk they were running
calmly holding hands and looking love
into each others eyes. Assistant Super
intendent Shaw. who discovered them,
had TO clinch his teeth tightly To keep
his terrified heart from jumping out of
his mouth. The bride, blushing young
lass of 20. with soulful blue eyes and
golden hair. hid her face when she saw
the superintendent. The groom, with
a far away look i'm his eyes, just kept
on holding hands and sighed heavily.
When the couple had been yanked into
the building with the aid Of 6-foot
step ladder, they admitted the brides
John, newly wed from Naldosta, ia.
But they declined to tell how or why
they got into their perilous position
Carrie Withers and Annie Munroe,
Philadelphia young women boarding az
a farmhouse near Lackawaxen Pa, "an
across Il rattlesnake and put il out of
business with chewing gum. Miss With
ers took long stick and piac-
ing the gum on the end showed 1t
toward the snake. which struck az il,
getting the gum in its mouth. The rep
tile tried to expel il, but the more u
tried the fiFmer it seemed to take hold.
Finally il rolled on the grass as If chek-
ing, and the young woman called farm
hand. who killed it, The gum had wound
about the snakes fangs until ii was TN
able TO open it's jaws.
Levi Hall. farmer living near Oris-
kany. n. Y, was severely bitten on the
face by one of his horses and some fear
il felt for his recovery. Hall was about
to unhitch the horse, when the animal
turned upon him and bit him through the
lower lin. also in the right cheek, neck,
chin and forehead Just before he was
bitten Mr.. Hall had driven the horse
past some water, and the animal indi-
Gated that it wanted drink. but since
they would soon be home Hall thought
he would wait until they arrived there
before he watered the horse. lie believes
this angered the horse.
Goats have been put Ia novel use IN
the American Smelling and refining
company at Cokedale, Colo. Trouble
with leaking reservoirs batled the engi-
neers of the company until Engineer
Cutton and Supt. Bayles determined %
use goats to help them ont of their di-
lemma. One reservoir was emptied and
herds Of goats were driven back and
forth over the bottom for several days.
The reservoir is now as sound as a
churn. The goats packed the earth
50 hard that the water cannot get
through. The same means will be used
TO make other reservoirs tight
Tn, a ys-iga old gray horse owned By