The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-07-29

love, and the last of his many visits here
resulted in the announcement of their
coming wedding, TO take place in Sep
TENDER.
! So weak from an attack of typhoid fe-
yer that he could not leave his bed. J.
Clayton Gable of FELTON,, Pa, yet man
| aged to shoot a red fox which had stolen
about forty of his young chickens this
season. Gable was lying in bed, too
weak to sit up, when his wife, who was
in the room with him, saw the fox enter
the hennery, directly in a line with a
window opposite the bed. Propping her
husband into a sitting position with pill
lows. at his direction she secured his
| loaded gun. As the marauder came into
view again Gable shot and crippled it.
Mrs. Gable started in pursuit as it
dragged itself of, and, coming up with
| it a quarter of a mile away, killed it
with club.
| The baking of the horse they drove
saved John Mcknight and Levi Hannum
| Of Chester. Pa. from being struck by
n train on the Baltimore x Ohio railroad.
! They started across the tracks, when the
animal stopped suddenly and refused to
proceed. A few seconds later an ex-
press train placed ON the south bound
track. within a few feet of the carriage.
When Mrs Peter Woodruff went to
the Gibson county jail in Princeton, Ind,
| to see her husband, who is in durancc
vile for assault and battery on her she
| took their little poodle dog with her.
| The canine was playful and seemingly in
the best of health until it hcheld its mas
| ters face behind the bars. Then, with
out warning. it suddenly threw fit
frothed at the mouth and awakened the
corridor with its sorrow-stricken carry
ing ON. Realizing the dog might be mad
| Sheriff Shelton chased it out Of the Jail
and dispatched it with an axe. 1t is said
| Pete has been asked to get another dog
and pose for a work of art to be entitled
"He Sees His Mastered Checkered Ca
reer," a companion piece for those famed
masterpieces "He Hears His Masters
Voice" and He Smells His Masters
Breath"
Tired of being accused by its red
breasted and dark coated companions of
! constantly showing the white feather to
the world, and broken hearted because
her mate had turned against her. the
| Albno robin which has attracted so
much attention on the Rand estate in
Montcair. \. j., since she appeared
there with the opening of spring COM
mitted suicide this morning. \ few
minutes before the tragedy the gardener
noticed that the white plumed and pink
eyed songster and her somber-coated
mate and overload were having n terrific
quarrel, in which the white robin was
punished terribly.
Twins. the third set of eighteen chill
drcn born to Daniel Calvey of AvOca
Pa, arrived at his home. The father
said he was getting used to twins
when the nurse announced the event, and
| IppIDrlI IN
dren in his home for a happy family.
Fifteen of the children are living.
Phillip Walters, fairly well dressed and
with an assurance born of former resi-
dcnce in New York, Philadelphia. Bos-
ton and the world ut large, stood before
Judge kimball in police court in Wash
ington, ID. c.
Il found him begging on the streets. .
said Patrolman Shepherd, "lle had this
razor in his pocket and an account book
showing how much money he had earned
by begging"
Il carry the razor for shaving, Judge"
Walters explained
"Wel. it will cost you $50" answered
the court
'I'll pay it," said the beggar Where
upon he produced n roll and paid.
Asserting that ordinary building sand
is not harmful, to stomachs OF mortals,
but on the contrary beneficial, j. NJ.
Hubbard, an architect, of st. Joseph,
Mo- ate twelve teaspoonfus on a wa
ger and thereby won So Mr.. Hubbard
had just finished n heavy repast, and
while waiting for friend gave Bill
Brand, night clerk at n hotel in Mime
apolis, his views on the efficacy of sand
when taken internally. Brands views
on the subject were different. and as u
| tpI q
plate, filled it with sand and placed it
before Mr.. Hubbard. Mr.. Hubbard ate
the sand without grimace and with APP
parent relish.
Sand in considerably smaller doses
than the one | took is one of the best
things in the world for the stomach. -
he said. Il don't place any faith in the
theory that sand hurts the membrane"
Awaking just in time to 90 to work.
Charles -. Troop of Pottsvile Pa,
found that his clock. which had run reg
ularly for years, had stopped. Simulta-
neousiy he discovered that his wife.
aged Is years, was dead, Physicians
stated that the woman had Succumbed
to heart trouble and-remarkable coinci-
dence-had died at the exact hour n.
which the clock stopped.
There are numerous substitutes for
whisky. There are manufacturers who
put coacOanut shells in coffee and spices.
But the Kansas state board of health
has just found the browning attempt at
substitutiun-nn Limitation egg \
travelling man from an eastern house sent
some of the egg substitutes to Kansas
johbcr To be introduced. The jobber.
with due respect To the pure food law
and the Kansas hen, sent box of the
stuff to the pure food department for
analysis. This was made and the chem
lists report says:
ut would be entirely inadmissible to
sell such an article ms an egg substitute.
since il in no way resembles eggs in it's
chemical nature or nutritive properties. =
The wife of Fire Chief SNmue Il.
Taylor of Greenpoint. l.. l.. Informed
him that she had found his long lost
watch in Il ha- of onions inside her
locked iCehuN. Former Mayor David l..
Body of Brooklyn gave the watch to
Taylor. who is his nephew. Taylor wore
it only on Sundays and holidays. The
rest of the time he kept il in "A wooden
box with less valuable jewelry. Three
years ago box and contents were taken
mysterOusly from his room. Mrs Tay-
Tor wanted onions for soup, She went to
her icebox thrust her hand in bag of
onions upon Il shelf aud felt wooden
box. The watch licked its appreciation
at being liberated from its cold berth.
The Taylors have moved since the watch
disappeared, The iceh0X was cleared
out at the time of moving and dozens OF
! times since.
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