Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-09-04


be suppressed, The petition cited i'm
strict legal phrases that the fowls con
Stltuted 4 serious nuisance hy reason of
their Growing and cackling between fhe
hours of midnight and q a. m. Chief
of Police Harry Gallagher has received
a communlcauon from man in Bev-
erly, Mass, who wishes Ia aid the anti
noise crusade. He told the chief that a
sure way TO stop the roosters from crow
ing Is To place them on rooStS too high
to allow them 10 stand upright in their
eoopS. lie says that roosterS cannot
crow when compelled 60 stand in
eroaching position.
Fred Holland. deaf mute subject
10 epilepsy, who sells popcorn i'm Water
bury, Conn, for Il living. has been mar.
RED IN Lynn by Il magistrate to Agnes
Sexton. = mute and an invalid who has
spent much time near Revere beach in
hopes of gaining strength. She was
never fully sane or capable of taking
care of herself. il is said. Boston au-
thorities had taken steps TO have the
marriage annulled Holland says:
When met her she told me in our sign
language she would like husband. and
| told her | would like n wife and we
We're engaged for 4 day, then married
Six thousand and two hundred dollars
was HNiA aNA NlkC pa ana one NIti &Nfl
piece at auction in Philadelphia. Pa
Both were coined privately, but were at
the time of their issue legal money and
contained the required weight of virgin
gold, j. j. Conway x Co. of Colorado
coined the SIS that brought $500. 1t
bears the date 1861. The other coin
was stamped by the Cincinnati Mining
and Trading company of California i'm
1919, 1t WAS bid in for $1,000
Because he was compelled To PAY $500
to compromise breach of promise suit
William Hitesman, Il wealthy and CO.
centric bachelor of Hartford City, Ind.
has gone insane EIitesman lived with
his brother, another bachelor. and his
father aud when his father became nj
II was necessary to employ young
woman servant To look after the house
work. The young woman asserted that
HiteSman made her proposition Of
marriage. which she accepted, but Will
ham denied IT, and finally lmid $500
rather than face hearing in court lie
brooded over the matter till his mind
gave way. and application has been
made for his admission to the EaSthayeu
hospital The compromise in the breach
OF promise case was effected in Squire
Fargo's court, and Fargo is now facing
charge of anprofeSsional conduct pre-
feTed by the Blackford County Bar
association.
John SlmcoN. a farmer of Clinton, y.
j., says he will never again believe what
he reads IN a magazine about chicken
raising. lie read in a magazine recently
that il weasels were put in chicken
yards. rats and other enemies of the
young chickens would Immediately yan-
ish, Thereupon Simeox produced several
weaSels and made them as comfortable
ms possible. lie placed food for them in
convenient places. as the magazine said
If food was provided for them the wens
els would not interfere with the chickens
The barns were soon clear of rats and
mice and everything went we'll until
yesterday, when SimcoX Went out TO feed
his poultry. Lying in his yard, dead,
We're twenty-five of his finest chickens.
In the chicken house he found eleven
white IeghornS lying dead ON the floor.
SimcoN went 10 Montcair and bought
three traps to catch the weuselS.
Leppo, the wild man with the Metro
politan show in Mcdonald. Pa, became
erazed the other evening when lightning
struck the big tent and III his fury att
tackled John Dudley. a negro, and tore
him 50 badly that he will die. Ieppu
fastened his teeth in the neck of Dud-
ley and held on until his jaws were
pried apart with an iron lever. Once
separated from his victim Leppo ran
wildly about the tent in which several
hundred had taken shelter from the
storm, and he hurt many before being
felled with fence stake and tied with
chains.
Leppo had just finished lunch of rat
tie snakes when the bolt hit the tent.
Dudley, who had been assisting Leppo.
was thrown to the floor aud then the
wild man attacked him.
The officers believe there exists in
North and South Dakota an organized
gang of horse rustlers with a regular
relay route. Within Il few months hun
dreds of fine horses have disappeared
and no trace has been found. The man
who performed the original theft Is sus-
pected and in the early morning Il visit
has been paid to his home, where he has
been found quietly sleeping. The fact
is that he had gone fifteen miles
away with the horse, turned il over to
another man and hurried back. Tho
second party to the contract has taken
the horse fifteen miles farther aud
turned it over to third party who
sometimes conceais the horse for several
days and then sends him on 10 the
fourth. Each rustlef generally brings
back 10 his own stable horse that has
been stolen at the other end Of the route.
Hanging by his toes from a trapeze
bar. Philip Graesser of pittsburg was
found UNCONSCIOUS in the gymnasium of
BIS home. For some time he was be-
lieyed 10 bc dead but was finally resus-
citated, and physicians say he will re-
cover.
Graesscr, who is 10 years old. Is be
lieyed 10 have hung from the trapeze for
two OF three hours. He was practcing
on the bar and when he achieved the
feat Of hanging by his toes he became
unconscious. The muscles Of his feet be-
utained rigid and prevented his falling
Equine fizz is a new refreshment con-
coated hy John Farson. the Chicago
banker. who win introduce 1t NJ the Oak
Park horse show next month. The drink
combines the c0ors Of the Horse Show
ass0ciation--red, yellow aud blackjack
color occupying third Of the glass. Mr.
FarsOn says that the new "iizz' will siz-
zle more than any like product on the
market and viii sparkle like rainbow
ia the sunlight. IL will be served az
booths on the grounds during the fair
The Chicago Tribune says il Is not re-
lated in any way 10 the old time drink
called "a horses neck.