Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-05-15
OF GENERAL INTEREST

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bull and held captive for nearly three
hours was an unpleasant adventure that
| Miss Laura Nelson of Biackwater, Del
doesn't care To repeat. On her way to
cali on friend Miss Nelson passed
| through field. where, unknown to her.
q fierce bull belonging to her father had
been confined. The moment he Der-
eeived her he gave chase, and only by
fast running was she able To reach a
small tree, into which she hurriedly
| climbed. the vicious animals horns Just
1 grazing her as she swung out of his
reach. For nearly three hours the girl
sat in the tree, while the bull stamped
and paved beneath. making every effort
/ To reach her. Finally her father hap
pened to drive along road at one edge
of the field and drove the bull away with
a big stick.
| Rev. DIR, William T. Manning, vicar
of 81. Agnes chapel in Trinity parish,
! New York and assistant rector of the
parish, has been unanimously elected
rector of Trinity parish to succeed the
late DR. Morgan Dix. Rev. DR. Manning
was called 10 this city as assistant rector
| of Trinity five years ago from Christ
church, Nashville. Tenn. He was born at
Northampton, England, in 1866, and
came TO the United States with his par
entS in 1878. He was graduated nj the
University of the South at Sewanee
Tenn. In 1891 he was ordained to the
ministry.
Thomas Urin. miner, tied stick of
dynamite about his neck in the dining
room of his boarding house at Virginia
ailnn. lie then called TO the four
women in the house to see the explosion
ana aile when they assembled he lit the fuse
Nhen the women saw the fuse sputter
they ran The explosion wrecked the
| house aud injured one of the women
hled.
To be wed at H. parted ut Is, and
grass" widow at rs bids fair TO be the
lot of pretty Clara Carlo Amiano, whose
li-year-old husband, Frederick, has
started an action for annument of his
marriage at Newark, n. j. According
70 the tale told by Clara. E'red's court
snip was arranged by his mother. When
Ilara was II years old Fred's mother
declared that the hos and girl should
marry. The boy and girl, then IL aud
i Years old, respectively, would have
been married then. Clara says. but for
her father William Carlo.
Miss Susie Stonesifer of Hanover, Pa.
mas Just finished patchwork quilt after
htty years of sewing. In 1883 she be-
gan making a quilt. and continued work
ing upon ii for half a century. This
now famous quilt is a nine square de-
sign, 6x1 feet in size, and. contains
patches OF fabrics made scores of years
ago. 1t is Il model of neatness and
beauty, and will be an easy winner at
the county fairs next fall, where fancy
quilts are "A leading feature in the house
hold department. Miss Stonesifer
worked on the quilt during leisure hours,
and sometimes was Obliged to relinquish
her task for long periods. \ remark
able feature of her accomplishments il
that she did all the sewing with the same
needle and in the same house, quaint
one and one-half story structure built
ny her father, and which is familiar TO
all visitors to Hanover.
Adopted in infancy, May Lathrop,
Lake City, Ia. now 16, has long been
searching for her father, two brothers,
and sister, while they have made in
quiries in almost every city for her
While the search of years has been go
ing OH, the two brothers and the father
have been living in Gowrie, within an
hours ride of the girl, May Lathrop.
The queerest feature of the family re-
union is that May Lathrop. after ull
these years, cannot speak to her own
| father. He is German and speaks not
q word of English, having always lived
in a German community. May Lathrop
was adopted by Americans who speak
only English.
Jersey justice" has long been far
| famed for its speed, but if the state pro-
duces many more freak cases like one
| that cropped ont last week its courts are
| likely to become known for something
besides celebrity. A live monkey is II
regularly committed inmate Of the
State Home for Boys at Jamesburg Not
long ago the monkeys owner an Ital-
| ian. was sent TO the state prison from
South River. What to do with "da
monk" was question for the law otfi-
GERS. until one of them hit upon the
happy idea of committing him to the
state home. The papers were made out
| by q sheriff and the monkey was ac-
cepted and receipted for in due form by
the superintendent Of the home. Pedro
| lives for two weeks at a time with each
of the groups of families" of boys in
the institution.
Benbow City. ILL.,. the fiat town.
which has grown up around the Stan
| dard Oil cOmpany's new refinery, eight
miles south of Alton is the wettest town
/ in Illinois, and because 1t is the wettest
| it is also proportiOnately the richest II
| began its corporate existence as viii
iage Monday witE eighteen registered
voters and twenty-three saloons. Within
the corporate limits OF BenbOW 1lty
there are 300 persons and one saloon
for each thirteen inhabitants. In addi-
ton to the twenty-three saloons there
are seven brewery agencies and each
saloon and agency pays $500 year
| license. Payments for the coming year
have already been made and the little
village starts out in life with a $4,000
nest egg.
During the last six weeks Elizabeth,
| the young daughter Of Charles Mcfioni-
| gal. a Lansdowne, Pa, merchant, com
| planned Of acute pains in the chest, I'm
| til this morning it was thought that the
child suffered from Indigestion. DR..
| Dunn finally concluded TO make an ex-
animation Of the girls throat, discover
/ ing that there was an obstruction in the
| tubes As he drew his fingers from the
child's mouth she coughcd violently,
emitting a large safety pin, which was
open. DR.. Dunn declares that it il re-
markable how the child managed 10 live.
| She will recover.
Rev. William j. Evans, the young In
dianapolis minister who secured a mar
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