Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-12


her and fastened it, teeth in the back
of her left hand. Suffering excruciating
pain, the girl ran several blocks TO her
home. with the infatuated cat still hang
ing on. 1t had 10 be killed with club
before it let go its hold 1t is feared
the girl will lose her hand.
"Warning-I you have any business in
this house ring the bell or knock on the
door and wait until some one answers.
If you enter without needing these eau
tions. beware of the gun"
The above is Il copy Of the sigIr which
Jesse Hitch. recently of Terre Haute.
Ind. has posted on the doors of his
home, at II Randolph place, in North
hampton. Mass. He doesn't mind neigh
hors. he says. but he doesn't want them
10 be too neighborly, and when it got
50 that the people were running in on
BIN at all hours of the day or night
without the formality Of knocking or
ringing he decided that it was time 10
call a halt So he posted the notice on
his doors, and now when any one wants
To borrow an onion or an egg or a cup
of milk they stand meekly on the door
step until they are properly admitted.
CaSS county, H.. comes forward with
the first snake story of the season. sam
Scharder and Il gang of section men
employed by the Chicago, Peoria & st.
Louis railroad unearthed a huge ball Of
reptiles while eXcavating for n new
building in Bloomington, Ill. Two feet
under the surface the snakes were found.
and they were SO closely entwined that
they could not be untangled. When they
became warmed by the sun they started
to crawl away, and were then dispatched
with shoyels. More than 100 snakes were
counted. Cass county is anti-saloon ter
rtory.
DR.. John h. Beaver of Philadelphia is
to be given dinner at the University
club on February IA, when his hosts VIII
be 100 physicians on whom he has per-
formed surgical operations and from 10
of whom he has removed the vermiform
appendix. These physicians Will come
from all parts of the country. lie is
credited with having performed more OPP
erations than any other surgeon on earth
and is said to have made Il world record
in removing 400 appendices within a
year.
Declaring she was hypnot2ed by
strange man on a train, Miss Alice Ger
Der of Chicago is in IA trance in Allen
town, Pa. Miss Gerber left Chicago
bound for Boston, where she is engaged
to marry Charles Burnett next month.
Allentown to visit her brother, Morrs
Gerber. Miss Gerber and her brothers
lancee came to town last evening and
attended a theatrical performance. As
they were waiting for car back Miss
Gerber was suddenly attacked by hys-
terra. In lucid intervals she explained
that Il strange man had hypnotiZed her
ON the train while she was on the way
from Chicago to Allentown. She was
taken home, but the spells continued.
She says she does not know the name OF
her alleged hypnotizer
An autopsy performed on the body OF
Fred FOmplitz, Denver who was 81
years old revealed "a black vest button
embedded in the heart over the right
auricle. DIR. W. &. Mudd and DR.. j.
7. Hamill made the autopsy. This was
not all. for they found in the spleen of
this same person Il piece of rock, two
inches i'll diameter, One-eighth of an inch
thick and an eighth Of an inch wide.
The doctors theory is that lie swallowed
the button by accident, that it stuck in
the bronchial tubes and by Il process of
liberation was carried into the vena
caya. The rock" in the spleen was
caused by salt cOncretion from the blood,
The town clock in Watertown, Conn,
began cutting up Capers several years
ago, striking madly and getting the vii
lage hremen out on false alarms or else
running slow and causing people to miss
trains. The villagers held special
meeting and appropriated money for a
new clock. f. J. Working, school prin-
cipal, interceded in behalf of the old
clock. repaired it, and the appropria-
ton was not touched. Mr.. Working re-
moved from WATERFOWL last spring. He
arrived in Watertown today on visit
and the clock began striking. and didn't
stop till the hammer had hit the bell
100 times. Friends of Mr.. Working say
the clock was extending him n welcome.
The fling of the marriage certif-
icate revealed the elOpement to New Ha-
ven, Conn, of Thomas j. Fales of Fall
River. Mass, II years old and divorced.
and Mrs. Ella NJ, Armstrong, also of
Fall River, widow of GA. They came
by separate routes, met and took out n
license in the city hall. The ceremony
was performed by Justice of the Peace
Pond. They then started on a wedding
trip. Mr.. Fales is ship chandler and
has acquired considerable property Mrs
Fales is also said to be well-to-do, and
they came here separately because they
thought there would be opposition on
the part of relatives if their plans were
discovered.
A unique character. William Rogers.
II years old, better known as old Rog-
ers," died in Long Branch. n. j., of
Brights disease, the other day. The
old man had been a resident Of Long
Branch since 1860, during which time
he had 10 home, sleeping in barns to ac-
Cumulate money and leaving r fortune
estimated at $4,000 "Old Rogers"
claimed Lancaster, Pa, as his home.
Time and again he refused to discard
tattered clothing and shoes, preferring
to present the most pitiable condition.
Mrs. {. \. Thoma. at whose home he
died, on Prospect street, had allowed the
old man to sleep in her barn for over
twenty years.
Henceforth when the japanese resi-
dents Of Los Angeles. Cal. battle they
will do SO singiy and not in pairs. trios
or other groups, as they have been won't
to do. An ordinance passed by the city
council makes il a misdemeanor for
more than one person TO use a bath tub
at one time. Heretofore japanese resi-
dents here have been accustomed to use
their back yard bath tubs in "A manner
that shocked Occidental neighbors. All
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