Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-01-10


MIA, who tells how man saved his life
when caught in a cattle guard by light
ing one of the emergency bills and using
it as a torch.
1t is evident from the reported failure
of the closing laws in New York and
Uplaha that many people went down
toxin" to see how thirsty things looked,
anu became 50 thirsty themselves during
the journey that they We're impelled to
try the side doors.
A young business man of New York
who ascribes his success in the cotton pit
to baseball training received in the Uni
versty of Virginia, probably entertains
the idea that such training enables
man to get money when opportunities
are presented by making strikes for one,
two or three bags" as batters do.
The story from Racine that cabbage
growers who have been disappointed in
the price for the crop of 1907 are MAX
ing arrangements to raise sugar beets
instead, is of more interest to the sauer-
kraut manufacturers than to the cab
bage-eating public. The manufacturers
will doubtless take steps, as do the can
ners Of vegetables and fruits, to insure
supplies for the annual pack.
A youthful genius of Worcester, Mas
sachusetts, who has succeeded in oper-
ating electric lights and motors with
electricity sent through space without
wires for distance of nine hundred
feet, suggests anew that such use of
electrical power may mean disaster in
warfare whenever electrical impulses
can reach magazines or loaded missiles
with sufficient force to illuminate their
contents.
A freight steamer resembling the larg-
err lake carriers. from the yard of Seat
tie builders. has been facetiously styled
the Submarine" by sailors of the coast,
because her decks are freely swept by
water But the new ship will doubtless
show that she can keep afioat with the
dryest of ocean packets" Water rolls
over lake craft quite freely during gales,
but they always rise and shake it off,
like ducks.
Americans as well as Mexicans will be
ground out of existence in the border
country if the American authorities get
after them in conjunction with a cam
paign for their determination by the
aexican government The Yaquis are
interfering with mining operations in
which large amounts of American CAPT
tai are invested, and killing American
engineers and promoters.
1T
An item of particular interest in these
times when many have been made tenn
porarily idle comes from New York city,
where the Board of Education announces
that it wants seven hundred teachers to
fill vacancies in the public schools, and
has no names of applicants ON the elig-
ible list. Industry may pause for time.
but not the teaching of young people,
who must be kept moving through the
grades in amending procession.
IT
The yacht Puritan, which successfully
defended the Americas cup against the
British cutter Genesta in 1885, has Just
been sold for S2650, although she cost
in the neighborhood of $4,000. But the
fact that she is in existence more than
twenty years after her famous victories
is proof that the yachts of her time were
better than the racing machines of the
present, which generally go to the scrap
pile the moment they are outclassed.
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The fatal mine explosion at Yolande,
Alabama, follows closely the terrible dis
aster at Monongah, West Virginia. In
both cases the cause of the explosion can
only be conjectured. These disasters
within so short time will stimulate the
efforts of the members of the United
states Geological Survey who have gone
to Pennsylvania to institute series of
scientific tests for the purpose of evolving,
if possible, ways and means by which
the business of mining coal may be made
safer.
Property owners in Kingston, Jamaica
nave had troubles similar to those of
San tranclscans tc whom the insurance
companies refused to pay are losses in.
eident to the earthquake. But the courts
have just decided in an action against
London company that the company must
pay. This decision viii give satisfac-
ton in the earthquake belt" where
the insurance companies must provide
special policies if they would dodge
claims for damages by fire following
quakes
Great Britain has very adroitly ham
died the matter of suppressing plrac,
along West river, in China. by notifying
the government that she will patrol tbe
river until the Chinese police boats arc
placed under the administration of the
imperial Customs Department This ac-
ton recognizes Chinese authority while
IT throws dscredit upon the viceroy
whose laXity gave rise to suspicion that
he IS in league with the pirates. 1t IS
now up to China to attend to its re-
calcitrant yiceroy.