Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-01-29
NOTES OF INTEREST.

ny OF children hut hVe are alive.
Henry Benter Of Pittsburc. Pa. who
admits he Is a years old, is suing his
wife Annie aged 40. for absolute divorce
on grounds of deSerliGa. They were
married one year ago
SHE left me the first morning after
our wedding and left me TO cook my own
breakfast, toe, he says.
mere wasn't anything TO cook. We
ate i all the day before for our wedding
brea ktast, when we had coffee and two
pork pies, said the woman, fun of
tight.
Hot blazing whisky, being brewed for
wedding guests, exploded at the home of
Mary Smarto in Mahanoy City, Pa,
causing ire III which the woman was
! burned SO badly that she will die. Her
daughter Mary. was being married III
II Joseph's church when the fire oc-
CURED.
John Demaree of Benham, Ind. was
| painfully burned in the face and eyes
while attempting to heat can of beans
Tor his lunch. He is building a house
on his farm three miles from here. He
took his lunch from home and put the
can OF beans on stove. Just as he
was ready 10 remove the lid the can
exploded and the beans were thrown
burned that he may lose his sight In
spite OF the fact that he could see moth
ing he hltched up his horse and drove
home before the wounds received any
attention. The cold wind caused the
injured man much pain.
Country dairymen near Lancaster.
Ia, have lost hundreds Of bottles in the
last few weeks, and they combined 10
catch the thief. At Il house where he
was expected trap was set, the bottles
being connected with an electric Wire
A man was stationed to get a tlaShlight
OF the thief, and TO work it on him. The
card was SO arranged that the words
Thou shalt not steal would appear
when the photo was developed The 9th
er morning Abraham Stricken was
caught in the act, and the noise Of the
tiashlight so scared him that he dropped
the bottles and ran. but his photograph
was secured. Albert Remain his az
legged accomplish, is also charged with
the oifense.
When Theodore Roosevelt starts on
his African journey he will take
with him several pair of the warmest
of Maine hose. Aroostook county knit
socks. One of the two women WHO
worked on the knitting is blind. The
President has sent "A personal letter Of
thanks with his photograph to Mrs.
Flayila T.. Caldwell of Sherman Mills
In his letter the President says to Mrs
Caldwell:
''Aly old friend, Bill Sewall. has writ
ten me about the socks. and | write SO
thank you for them. Have you received
the money for the gray paiTsE | under
stand that the black one is present
from a blind girl. VIII you thank her
for me? ! am greatly obliged to yon aud
hope yon will accept the inclOsed picture
of myself
"Gre my regards to your husband,
who. ! learn. is veteran of the great
war. Tell him / was only in small
war, but | hope | acted 50 that the vet
Grams Of the big war had no cause 10
feel ashamed Of me-
At the memorial hospital in Johnstown,
Pa. with both feet frozen, lies Daniel
Sweeney, who says he halls from Ger
mantown avenue Philadelphia, who tried
perlouS ride of eighty three miles on
top of an eastbound Pennsylvania train.
He was discovered in Pittsburg trying TO
beat his way on the train, made up who'll
ly Of yeStibuled mail and Pullman cars,
and the engineer stopped and put him off.
But Sweeney, undeterred, boarded the
train again riding between the tender
and the forward postal car until the
track troughs' deuged him with water
thar fairly froZe his clothing TO his
body. Then he climbed ia the roof of the
car and crouched on his hands aud knees
till his feet and one hand were frozen
stiff and practically adhered to the roof.
In tins plight he was discovered ana TAX
en- off at Mineral Point and FROM there
semi to the hospital here
This curious clause has been discovered
in an ancient deed just une1rihed at the
county clerks Office. New York city II
relates to a few acres Of land in New
Jersey which William Patterson decided
10 his SONS in 1852, and reads as follows.
IF at any time the grantor shall be born
on earth again, the within described
parcel of land shall revert TO him. In the
event that he is not born again. or that
the second coming of Christ rs delayed
more than 800 years then the said Viii
liam D. aud Samuel Patterson shall lac
possessed Of the property, etc.
Supt. Rctailic Of the municipal light
ing station IN Marquette Mich, who
took several men to the R0ney creek
country 30 open beaver dams in oraer 10
release some of the water held up 10y
them so that the supply in Dead river
could he repleuished. is Of the opinion
that the busiest lot Of beavers 10 be
found anywhere are at home in the dis
trict. In Raiuey creek obey have dams
about every 200 feet About half d0l
Ell dams were opened. with the result
that the level Of the water ia Dead river
has apparently raised and at that Mr..
Retallic has now learned that he missed
the largest dams, located higher mp zoe
stream There are twenty five or mere
distinct dams in the Greet. As showing
the capacity Of beavers FOR woodworking.
the superintendent relates the following
incident. Close to the power station q
family Of beavers recently established
themselves in the river and constructed
a roomy house One morning the past
week the men found five trees that the
beavers had cut down, The stump Of
the largest was . inches through. and the
others were not much smaller. The next
morning these trees had been cat up.
branches and all and used by the beav-
crs in the construction Of their house.
The trunks had been cut accurately in
4-fOat lengths Beavers are protected by
law, and Of late years they have been
rapidly increasing in numbers. There
are hundreds Of them in the colonies es-
tablished IN the Dead river district.
Abraham Broida Of Oil City. Pa. sued
William Wilson. Proprietor Of the Ey-