Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-25
NOTES OF INTEREST.

a flush. at the same time handing Ole
Olson, his aCconlplCe, four duces from
n cold deck. Judge j. Stanley Webster,
who passed sentence on Bensrud, has
granted a stay for Olson, as his counsel
will apply fer Il new trial or appeal 10
the supreme court The game started
with 81 stakes, at which the tender
foot won nine out of ten hands. Then
it was proposed by Olson to raise the
limit, Bi0rklund objected BeuSrud
and Olson threatened TO take all the
money unless Bjorkhnd covered the
raise. Biorklund skinned" his hand.
which was made up of two aces, a pair
of kings aud queen. The rest is the
old, old story. He drew one card and
filled full hand with another ace.
His hand looked good and he plunged
for SJ0-and lost.
Louis Becker, a florist of the Hilton
section of South Orange, \. j., owns Il
eat that has "mothered" chicken waif
while raising offspring of her own
Rose is the name of the cat. The chick
en- has grown SO large that Becker
doesn't want it about the house but he
IL having hard time keeping the pets
apart. Mrs. Becker put the chicken in
the greenhouse back of the kitchen IA few
days ago. but the eat found it, picked it
M by the nape of the neck and carried
it back into the house.
A large pickerel Jumped over stone
wall aud escaped capture by Wilbur
Schermerhorn mt Highland lake. Connec-
ticut Schermerhorn was fishing in
boat in Third bay when he noticed the
big fish swim up into shallow water back
of the stone wall He rowed to shore
jumped over the wall. which is > feet
in width and inches above the water,
and disappeared.
Grabbing for his hat in the water,
Atlee Il. Allison. assistant treasurer of
Nixons theater. pittsburg, who is visit
ing his brother Frank, in Colwyn, Pa,
was badly bitten Oh the little finger this
afternoon by Il 6-pound swapping turtle
while rowing in Darby or EEK. His broth
er had TO cut the turtles head off before
Allison's bleeding finger could be re-
leased,
A dozen or more radical friends of
John w. Abbott, self-confessed atheist,
who committed suicide in Salina, Kan.
by drinking carbolic acid, attended his
, funeral No sermon was preached but
| James Toles, q friend, read AbbottS
creed, written by himself, Il part of
which was: mo love for Jesus Christ
Before his death Abbott requested that
his wife sing at his funeral n song which
he had written, entitled Lay Me Low
and this part of the programme was
carried out. Mrs Abbott declared that
she and her children had the same relig-
ious belief Ms her husband
Worshippers of Bacchus in the village
of Coscob Conn. and vicinity have late
~ become terroriZed by what is said to
be Il mysterious elan which is working
in the interests of temperance in most
novel fashion. During the last month
nearly every ippler in the place has
come to grief. The latest case Of mis-
fortune happened the other night when
Special Oliicer Jones took into custody
very black man, who was later found to
be Charles Caroig. Carolig tried to tell
his trouble to the policeman. but was
hustled into a cell When the ialer
aroused the man in the morning by call
ing, Come out here, you niger tor
rent of profanity issued from the cell,
and upon examination the keeper found
that CarOig was II white man, but that
Il coat Of stove hacking had been APP
piled to him while he lay IN an alcoholic
stupor.
Miss Harriet Walker, a wealthy mem
Der Of the young society set at Yelling
ton, O., astounded her class when she
appeared for high school graduation in
a calico gown. -. +. Wells. her wealthy
uncle, does not believe in women wear
| ing elaborate gowns aud more to satisfy
him than to win the $50 which Mr..
Wells gave his niece she, at his request,
| agreed TO wear calico.
My object said Mr.. Wells, sis TO
begin a campaign for more sensible
gowns at commencement exercises. Too
/, many poor people spend comparatively
large sums on such gowns. If everyone
could afford it the custom would be all
, right"
A geologist of New York city has no.
tilted Miss Irene Tmmons. young
woman Of South Seattle, Wash. that as
a descendant of family of Mnssachu-
! sets pilgrims, she has the right to he
buried in an exclusive burying ground
r. overlooking Bnrnstable Bay, Mas. Miss
D TimmOus is making preparations to the
end that whatever death overtakes her
her body shall he cremated and the
ashes forwarded to Massachusetts for in
% | termcut ~ the ancient cemetery of the
Worden aud Breed families
Playing upon "A dynamo. First Assist
! ant Fire Chief Patrick McGill and Fire
e. / men Miller, Glenn and Kenuey of the
& | WcCacOe fire company. near Wilmington,
+ Del were seriously shocked by elprtrici-
u | y while fighting a fire in Swift X CO.
= | plant, 7OS Lancaster avenue the other
r ! night Electricity went right up the
stream and passed into the budie, of the
g men. The fremen had difficulty Ia get
a ting rid of the hose, but the current was
. not strong enough to be fatal
o John Black, who says he is 1OJ years
@ old. and looks il, was locked mp in the
n county jail in Muskogee. Ok. to serve
p sentence Of thirty days for wife beat
d. ing. Black, who lives iu Muskogee Coun-
n Is. was convicted Of heating his third
= wife. Two years ago he was fined for
& beating his second wife. In jail he ere
4 atcd "a sensation by thraShjug the judge
n of the Kangaroo court. He is very act
N / I'VE and muscular.