Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-16
NOTES OF INTEREST.

| the mousse was closed up for the night
| MT. CheeSebrOugh shut the pianola and
uhWlttmgly consigned the animal To an
untlmeiy death. Ii died. bur not without
a struggle, the effects of which can vet
/, be smelled. Ii was some time before the
| planola was discovered as the cause of
the diSagreeahle odor about the house.
but 1t did not take long for the owner of
| the musical instrument To get into action
after the discovery was made At the
latest reports all efforts To secure a piano
| tuner TO renovate the pianola had met
WITH no success. and the job is still open.
Over mountain tops and through ravines
| Tor distance Of l2O miles, and all the
| way on mulehack, is the honeymoon trip
/ TO be taken 10y Stanley Il. Weld. Il min
1 ing engineer, and his bride, who was for
merry Hiss Charlotte b. Latham, daugh-
| ter of the late Arthur Latham of Win
| chester \ a. The young couple will so
! into the interior of Mexico a distance of
| TO miles on mules. through the widest
| section of country in Mexico. the trip oc
/ cupSing seven days. At the end of the
| novel honeymoon Mr.. and Mrs. Weld
Will have reached their future home. a
| retinue of servants accompanies the
young couple on their honeymoon.
Not believing thrilling story of a
nest Of snakes told around the dinner
l tahiC ~ htI cHi1OTtu, hES. JNtlu t'iCh~
Ierson of Glendale. Del, made an investi-
CATION on her own account, which sud
denly ended when she came upon a huge
RATHER This alarmed her SO badly that
she tainted and she might have been
Ibitten by the snake had not another
member of the family. who saw her fall,
| ran to the spot and killed the snake.
| Ii was found to have fourteen rattleS.
| Because his personal appearance
| frightened women and children. Marion
Burkhart. who claims Barry, ILL.,, as his
home, was arraigned in the police court
at York, Pa. There is really nothing
against the man" exclaimed Chief Bush,
| "but his appearance frightened so many
| people that | thought ii best to lock
him up Burkhart is giant, slightly
stopped; his face is covered with Il heavy
growth of short. black beard, sticking
straight out, and his head has IL similar
covering. One eye is missing. and al
| though apparently very amiable fell
| low. the spectators in the courtroom
were half afraid of him. too. The mayor
/ found a way out of the dilemma 10y Civ
ing the man his liberty on condition that
he leave the city ut once.
A fishing reel sent to John Milan of
| Frankfort, Ky, to repair has associated
with it the pathetic story of several trag-
edies. The reel was made for George
| A RaiSbeck of Minneapolis, who pre-
scented it to J. c. Terhune of Chicago.
Terhune died a short time afterward.
and Mrs. Terhune returned it TO Rails
| beck as a token of the friendship exist
| ing between the two men, and ii was
4 only a short time afterward that both
Raisbeck and his wife were drowned in
the lake while making use of the reel.
| The reel was recovered and became the
4 n M ~ AtInnn-
apols, who had it repaired.
The queerest of all oil gushers has
| developed at Sour Lake, Tex. 1t has
eight outbreaks every twenty-fOur hours
and at each eruption il gushes just fifty
barrels of oil, The period of activity
| lasts only five minutes The well then
suddenly subsidies and for four hours it
| is perfectly quiet, not a sound escaping
from its surface opening. When the
time arrives for another eruption the
earth around the well suddenly begins to
trembe. a nud subterranean roar is
heard, and out of the pipe spouts the
oil to a height of more than 100 feet.
| This remarkable well is attra citing much
attention among experienced oil men.
They are unable to account for its pecu-
liar actions. The owners of the wei arc
satisfied to let it "cut up aS il sees tit,
so long as it continues to produce 400
barrels of oil a day without pumping.
The gushing of the freak well comes Mt
such regular intervals that the work
men in the field set their watches by it,
There goes the noon pop-off of the
| Ransom we'll" one Of the men will eX-
| claim. and il is taken as the signal that
it is time to knock off work for dinner.
After having her negro servant arrest
ed on suspicion of theft and enlisting
l eta y,.F Il,
| a search for $500 worth Of her dia-
monds. Mrs. Mary Bectel of St Louis,
Mo, found the lost jewels I'm pillow
| slip in her house. When the policemen
and detectives reached the house they
found Mrs, Bechtel fainting on the floor.
Her husband who was bathing her face.
said the shock of finding me Jewels had
proved too much for his wife. She said
that she had placed the jewels in a fam
! iy altar erected in her home to the mem
! DRY of a dead sister. She attributes her
| recovery of the jewels to her prayers 10
St. Anthony, her patron saint Although
she said she believed the servant had Sc
GREETED the jewels with the intention of
making away with them she declined TO
prosecute the girl, who was released.
! O. G. Hubbard. Alaska gold hunter.
has reached Portland, Ore TO erect
monument over the grave of his first
wife, who died here twenty-five years
ago. He was too poor to mark her grave
suitably at the time, but went 10 Cali
fornia, then caught the Yukon fever
and finally landed good stake.
| I've worked years and years to get
the money for her monument" he said.
I've spent winter after winter up in
the Arctic region. / have a second wife
and three children. but they have never
taken the place of the girl ] loved.
sent them through to Chicago this trip.
for / did not want my wife TO know my
plans
When Hubbard went out to Mount
Tabor cemetery, however, he found the
! portion of the cemetery whore she had
lain bad disappeared, Houses had arisen
over it and he could not even find the
approximate locality.
The payment Of $4,000 TO Miss Stel-
| la Josephine Feiler of Harris county
! Tex, has brought 10 light it is declared,
! that the young woman possesses some
remarkable power by which she locates
oils and minerals. The $4,000 was
paid by ten land owners upon whose
! property two productive wells We're
!