Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-09

| from four To ten birds have been killed.
The queer incident was repeated when
hoek of quail coming from the south
| struck the house with almost bulletlike
! force. Several of the birds struck tae
glass in the door which is in the south
! SIDE OF the house. and the impact not
only shattered the large pane of glass
] but the birds and pieces of glass struck
| the opposite side of the room. Six of the
| birds were dead and four of the others
were so badly stunned that Mr.. Aspe-
| gren picked them up.
| Mrs Joseph Cokely of East Trenton,
/ y. j.. has sold her home for about half
/ ITS value because, she says. the ghost
| OF her husband, lately deceased haunts
! the premises. Mrs. C0kelys story of
! the appariti0n is suhstantated by Henry
| Richie, a boarder mt her home. The
! night OF Cokely'S death. Richie says. he
! was asked 10 20 upstairs and mind the
/ children. He declares that he met tke
! dead man on the stairway and claims
| the ghost told him to leave the house.
! He obeyed the request of the spirit very
| quickly Mrs. Cokely AYERS she has had
no peace of mind in her old home since
! her husbands death and is determined
! TO i've IN another part of the city. That
upon several occasions her house shook
as If an earthquake had struck the
premises is her claim, and she accounts
of her dead husband. She says her hus-
band was jealous of her and gives this
| as the reason that he pays occasional
| visits to the earth
| The TaftS are keeping n COW i'm Wash
lhgtoh, ID, {. II is nice pacific crea-
| tufe. with soft brown spots as big ms
tubs scattered here and there over pelt
| which is otherwise Il fawu color. Ow
| ing TO the fact that it's horns have been
| eliminated it is warranted not to hurs5..
! The Jersey animal showed up on the
white house lawn the other day. She
| had been purchased by Mrs. Taft that
| the white house table might he supplied
| at all times with pure milk Explicit
! orders appear to have been given that
| she may roam the rear eXpanseS of the
| executive grounds at WILL cropping the
| luscious grass blades as they appear Al
night boSsy occupies one of the
stalls in the white house stables. Rich
ard Davidge one of the stablemen. does
the caretaking and procures the great
| Jar of foamy rich milk which is sent
| each night and morning to the white
house kitchen. He done II special white
uniform while attending to this process.
Softly grooming an old German lullaby
| to black eat. which has been his only
! friend for years, I0-year-old August Doc.
| termarSh of the rear of 1909 Orianna
| street III Philadelphia, Pa, tied a moose
about the faithful feine's neck. swung
! II from chair and into a cats eternity
| But before the animal left this unhappy
| sphere it gave some bowls that brought
neighbOrly attention To the Doctermarsh
| house, and it was this that resulted in
the old mans being cut down from "A
similar position before he had strangled
to death He was resuscitated and
| taken to the Tenth district station house
/ Ihnrn 10 ntFth L,
out of work and without friends and I'M
| able longer to get the necessary So n
month to keep a roof above his head
| The plant of the Respondent man is
| that no one wants to hire an old man
| He is coppersmith by trade ana when
working earned good wages
! What is Familiarity known as The
| Ark the oldest building in the ancient
! town Of Quarryville. Pa, has changed
! hands for the first time in many years.
The original deed for this property is
the oldest on record in this county. 1t
had been owned by Sir Joshua Burt and
Sir William Keith, one of the early
governors of this state. The large stone
| house, still standing in good condition.
was built in 1902 by Abram Barr. who
ut that time owned the whole original
! tract, some 1900 acres. The Barr fam
| lily opened up the stone and lime bust
!
/ today consists of more than a dozen fine
| farms, but none in the hands Of that
| family. For several years very little
| lime has been burned at OuaFryville
| commercial fertilizers having taken it's
| place, but in the last two years there
| has been gradually demand growing
| for lime. and it looks as though the bust
ness would assume its old proportions.
| Twelve million dollars is the price
! agreed upon for horse in ffeak deal
! that was made in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Frank kress, superintendent of the Riv.
eryiew coating mills, owns a big colt
which Louis Ehrmann desired to pur-
chase. 4 dispute arose over the weight
of the animal, kress claiming that tn,
horse would raise the scales at f1GO
pounds and Ehrmann denying it, The
owner then told Ehrmaun that he would
let him have the horse free if he was
under that weight, but that Ehrmann
must buy him if over that weight, pay
ing with beans for each pound over
weight, on Il geomeirical basis of one
bean for the first pound. two beans for
the second, -four beans for the third, etc.
The horse weighed an even 100 pounds.
making Ehrmanu liable tn pay on a
basis Of 40 pounds. kress got busy with
his pencil, and, allowing 34OO beans 10
the quart finds that he sold the horse
lbF 'spbb,DbD UHSftE 81 btAtlSt WINCH.
at the market price, are worth between
Sl2,0O00O0 and S12.500.O0O. He de-
clares he will deliver the horse tomor-
row. and will hold Ehrmnun to their
contract.
While trying the case against Blaine
Record. charged with assault and bat
terry upon his wife. Judge X. NJ. Cooper
Of KokOmo, Ind. interrupted the testi-
mony long enough to inform the witness
that he was n "damnable liar" Record
had testified that his wife fell down and
that he had not knocked her down, when
the court intcrposed With the query:
DO you know what this court thinks
1t thinks you are Il darnnable liar" Rec
ord was sentenced to Jail for sixty days
and fined so.
Sold 10y her husband for SEQ year
ago. when she aud Joseph Foibrata
eloped and were caught, Mrs. Ann PA
trnza returned 10 Hazleton. Pa. from
Midyale. y. j.. with a story Of cruel
desertion. FoIbrata paid the womnu's
husband $50 to withdraw prosecution
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