The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-07-15
NOTES OF INTEREST.

NOTES OF INTEREST.
Miss Merle Link. an attendant at the
Hospital for Insane in Fulton, Mo-, owes
her life to Il rat she was wearing in her
hair when She was assaulted with
hatchet by Chat Taylor, Boonville ne
gresS. trusty who worked in the dining
room. The assault occurred without n
word. The negreSS borrowed the hatch
ct on the pretensc she wanted To fix
tack III her shoe. She made two deSper-
ate attempts To brain Miss Link and
would have succeeded but the rat
checked tn, force oi the blows.
The efficacy of the bee sting for rheu-
matiSm is being tried by Capt John II.
Law. Il rich retired IIollidaysburg, Pa,
man. though iuvoluutarily. He went to
his farm near Hollidaysburg to recover
from an attack of rheumatism and while
walking through a field disturbed II
swarm of bees and was Stung forty-three
times.
Benjamin Sellers, - years old. a re-
tired farmer. obtained Il divorce in the
circuit court ut Kansas City, Mo-. from
Emma Sellers, IS years old. He came
To Kansas City from Wakeeupy, kaS,,
StNtIH months ago ana lHtN Ncl' mn RI
ricd. They lived together three weeks.
once Sellers caused the arrest of the
young wife for running away from him.
! She brought the divorce suit and he
obtained the decree on a cross bill.
Hold on there, sheriff; you won't sell
that Nag 10y any means, exclaimed AID.
Robert l.. Schifert of Allentown, Pa,
rs Sheriff Y. II. Wicand was about 10
put handsome American flag under
the hammer. The incident took place ut
the shcriff'S sale of the personal prop
| crty of Al Frantz ut TrcNlertuwn. Ald.
Schiflcrt had been engaged rs attorney
for the Judgment creditors. He is also
member of the Flag Day association.
being sold ont he ordered the sheriff TO
halt when it came to selling the Stars
and Stripes, and explained several fine
points of the law Ia the latter officer
| with tn" result that the flag was not
sold. When the crowd caught on to the
the alderman and hailed him as the
Abraham Lincoln of the day.
Fiftecn-ycar-old George Krulatz. son
of farmer in Montana Hills, residing
mt Iron Mountain, Wash, has made It
record for bear killing for a lad of his
age. three huge black pcls hanging in
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assortment of deer and cougar skins.
The husky little fellow fcllcd mon
rtcr brown bear above the old town of
| Forest city, on Cedar creek, Mont,
! weighing over GOO pounds. His dogs
/ assisted in the capture, the animal put
/ ting MP fight while in the throes of
| death.
Few women ever have three different
names in one week. but this fell TO Mrs,
! STANLEY SissOn of Columbia. Mo, now
on her bridal tour. She was Miss Mary
| Dyer who was reared in the home of
! :. II. Baker of Columbia She became
| Miss Baker adopted daughter of Mr..
| and Mrs. Baker, last Monday Later
! in the week she and Stanley Sisson, as
/ sstaut in experimental psychology in the
/ University of Missouri We're married.
! Count Bertrand. an eccentric Partisan,
/ who died recently, asCrihcd his longevity
| to one of the most marked Of his many
| VCCcntriCitics Once Il year he would
! 90 TO bed and remain there for three
months. On these occasions he would
see nobody but his servant who brought
! him his meals. and even him he forbade
| to speak a word
/ Just before the Germans laid siege to
! Paris the count went to bed for his
three months rest The servant, faith
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events going on outside. One day the
bread was SO bad that the count demand
! ed an explanation. lie then learned
| that Paris was surrounded by the enemy.
Springing out of bed the count paced
| the floor, cXcIaming WHAT should a
Bertrand do in such circumstances
! suddenly he stopped and cried Gle
should go to bed,' To bed he went and
stayed there till the siege was over,
NO house is big enough to keep n
husband and wife and n mothcr-iu-law,
! said Judge James X. NacFarane in
! Desertion court in pittsburg, Pa. whcl
! the ease of Mrs. Fred Mlllard. who
charged her husband with dcsertiOn aud
non support, was heard. Mallnrd said
! his mothcr-in-law. who lived with him,
| was the cause of his marital troubles.
! Miss Sadie Williams, of New Fair
| field, Conn, escaped unframed when n
! bolt Of lightning killed II dog that lay
! in her lap. Miss Williams. the daughter
| of Oscar l.. Williams, who has a country
/ home near Noycrsiuk Pond, was sitting
/ on the verandH when the storm came
| The dog, alarmed at the thunder and
! lightning, ran To her to seek protection.
| Miss Williams took him in her lap and
| was trying to calm him when there came
II flash of lightning and Il ball of fire
! which trayer~cd the yeranda from end Ia
end and disappeared across the lawn.
! Miss Williams was dazcd 10y the flash
j but recovered Immediately. The dog
unmarked by the lightning, lay dead at
! her feet
Taking the oil portraits of her father
mother, brother, two sisters and herself
10 the grave with her, Miss Sarah IT,
/ Maurice, % years old the last member
| Of the old Maurice family, we'll known
| throughout Long Island and in New
! York city years ago, was buried in the
family plot in Mount Olvet cemetery,
| Maspcth L. l.. at SHUTDOWN on Tuesday
evening, June -. With her property all
gone, all the immediate members of her
family buried years ago, aud living an
! invalid for the last seven years, Mis-
! Maurice expressed the wish that the last
I few relic, of her family might he buried
! with her when She died. Friends saw
! that this request was carried out. The
/ portraits of her father. james, her moth.
or Jean. her sister Margaret J. aud an
/ other sister and her own portrait. Wer,
/ cut from their frames and placed in the
/ cHSkct and lowered with the lonely
woman who had nutliyed family ano
friends into the grave in the Maurlc,
burial plot
Leila Wells went to Paterson, y. ]
with some friends for an evenings ont
iug. While they were having some ic,
cream. She nj first thought il was rucl
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