Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-05

a wife and children and they are worth
more TO me than your hose I've GOT -
get out of here quick
This proved effective and the hose yv,.,
uncoupled i'll a hurry.
Queer Old secret tunnels. built sivt,.
or seventy years ago. and leading fr,,,
one o. Clevelands oldest residences
artificial caves in the hillside above tLo
Cuyahoga river. have been discover
in the demolition of the old w j Co.
don homestead, on West Ninth street
opposite Lakeside avenue W. J. Gordn,
who gave Cleveland's largest park -
the city, was the grandfather Of DaiSy
Gordon Hanna Patton of New Vol
divorced wife of Dan X. Hanna. Sacref
stairways and hidden closets aboundei
throughout the building and were located
ON every floor, secret cabinets beipa
found even in the garnet near chimnays
Just what purpose the tunnels ana
strange compartments served nobod,.
seems to know. Gordon was ALWAYS con
sidered eccentric but his oddities in the
construction of his home and grounds
were never brought to light. lie was
for years one Of the largest wholesale
liquor dealers in the central west.
The Indiana supreme court has hand
ed down Il decision in the famous ST fua
case in which John +. Curless of In
ion township, Ind, has BEEN defendant
for several months. The finding is adj
verse to the interests of Mr. Curless and
involves him in the payment of 500
costs. The litigation was matter of
principle with Curless. In the start Of
it Curless had been ordered by a town
ship trustee to remove fence. which he
refused to do. He had stretched the IN
closure across a bit of bottom to get
water for his stock, which he deemed
he had right to do. Convicted in a
justice of the peaces court. he appealed
to the circuit court, and finally to the
supreme court, refusing to pay a cent.
and his defeat has followed.
1t is announced that Louis O. Rasch.
who recently retired from the iudgeship
of the circuit court in Evansville Ind,
and Mrs. Jennie Mueller Magin will be
married some time in March Rasch is
one of the local Republican leaders In
March, 1905, he granted a divorce to
his future bride from her first husband.
Attorney Fred c. Mueller. 1t is said
that their courtship dates from thar
time. Judge Rasch is AZ years old and
a bachelor. The divorced husband Of
Mrs. Mueller was formerly a member of
the Indiana Legislature.
Risking his own life with those of his
companions, Willie Miller, aged Il, saved
the New Haven iron railroad bridge.
over Hop brook, from being swept away
by an ice jam. When the freshet be
gan to batter it with huge ten inch thick
blocks of ice, the bridge swayed and in
short time the jam caused the current
TO tear away the foundation of the sup
ports. a railway watcher started To-
flag an approaching train. Willie Mil
Ter then called to his friends who had
gathered to watch the arctic spectacle.
OF l.,
tellers.' The boys balanced themselves
on the swaying cakes and in a few min
utes they had broken the jam.
Lancaster Pa.) horse created Il
scene on South George street. a fashion
able residence district of York the 9th
er night by gulping down a pint of whis-
Ky and becoming disgracefully intoXicat-
ed. The nag belonged to Henry Vile Of
the Red Rose City, was driven to York
by Eds Scott, and fell exhausted Some
almost human instinct" led it to drop
where a call for stimulant brought Il
flask of the choicest sort of liquor from
a sympathetic soul in nearby house.
\ few minutes later the animal was
going through the queerest antics, and
spectators. who thought il mad, sent a
hurry call for Agent Herb b. Kahn of
III ). Il. G. A. and DR.. Z. I'll. Lehman,
veterinarian
THE horse is drunk said the veteri-
MARIAN smelling the animals breath
This is case for tn w. c. T. IT,
suggested Agent Kahn.
Staggering like Il man coming home
late from the club, the horse was led to
the nearest livery stable to sleep it off.
Under the skullful treatment of Chief
of Police Clark of Altoona. Pa, the
power of speech was restored to Mary
Morrison, aged 10, of Grand Rapids.
Mich 1npiHp1lV GIRL yXho hoS
been posing as deaf mute" and doing
a land office business selling soap from
door to door. She carried a card which
she presented at each house. and in
very few instances it failed to get re
suits. But the girl. who was a member
of a party of five, had failed to take out
Il license, and it was for this she was
arrested. She maintained that she was
a deaf mute until she saw the cell door
swing open. then orally she told the
truth. The others of the party We're also
arrested
Mrs Clara Wiedemann of 1926 South
Twelfth street, st. Louis, Mo. used 10
allow her dogs and cats 10 sleep in her
bed, and her husband, William. had to
sleep i'll an armchair. according 10 his
petition for divorce. He says sleeping
in that manner injured his health. He
AYERS his wife associated with another
man, left bills unpaid, although he gave
her sufficient money. and that she struck
him and ordered him out February II.
since when they have not lived together.
They We're married April 20, 1908.
Little Elizabeth Boyer, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Boyer of Plymouth.
Mich, has jingling around somewhere
in her little "tummy" a nice new 81
gold piece. 1t is the result of a mistake
Elizabeth made when she attempted.
with marked success, to impersonate a
savings bank. Elizabeth's papa gave her
mamma a nice new pocketbook for
Christmas. In it were two bright yellow
coins that dazzled Elizabeth's eyes So
she could hardly look at them. Eliza
beth likes to be dazzled. so when her
mother left the pocketbook on the din
ing room table yesterday the hopeful
daughter climbed laboriously upon
chair and dragged the purse off into her
lap. Then Elizabeth began to hunt for
spot to put the coins into for. Of
course, money is no fun without some