Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14

OF GENERAL INTEREST
All widows within a radius of five
miles of the Charity farm" in Pike
county, Ind, are the benefciaries in a
strange bequest made by an aged man
named Dean, Familiarity known over the
country as "Old Man Dean Dean.
who was bachelor, was the owner of
a tract of land embracing $40 acres
When he died and his will was read ii
was found this land had been left in the
care of board of three trustees, who,
under the terms of the will. We're to pay
the taxes annually and then to spend the
remainder of the profits of the farm for
the benefit of widows living within five
miles of the land 1t was also provided
that on the death of trustee the re-
naming two should appoint a third.
making the board perpetual. The land
has been rented from year to year but
little profit has been made from it, and
only one widow. it is said has benefited
by "Old Man Deans" bequest. a few
days ago, however the board of trustees
granted an oil lease on the land and a
drilling outfit will be placed at work
there soon. The prospect of oil on the
farm is good. The royalties from the
oil may amount to thousands. Also,
since the will says nothing of the term
of residence within the FIVE miles, wild
ows are likely to move in and there is
some speculation as to the outcome.
Richard Brownell, a prominent young
man of Rochester, Mich, lies in critic
nj condition at his home. While working
at the ID. t. Il. powerhouse his hand
was cut with a stone chisel he was
using, and while running home he
stepped upon rusty nail, which pene-
trated his foot. Blood poisoning started
in both hands and foot, and the next
day he was stricken with typhoid fever.
You're crook, you ought to be in
jail, shrieked fortune telling parrot
when Albert Burns, held under bonds
as leader of a wharf gang known as the
y. Q.'s, approached the cage on which
the bird was being carried through the
city of Elizabeth, n. j. Burns resented
the birds seeming insight into his af-
fairs. and knocked it off the perch. The
organ-grinder interfered, and Burns
blackened one of his eyes. The Y o.
leader was held in $500 bail when taken
before Judge Mahon on the organ grind
er's charge.
Its bad enough to be under three
charges without having dinky green
bird throw it up to you in the street,
shouted Burns i'll court.
Hes a crook, he's a crook, screeched
the parrot,
80 they say" remarked the Judge
ON tack another $500 on to the bonds
he already carries"
While giving his fireman a lift on a
coal train near Norristown, Pa, Conduc-
tor Levi Miller Shoveled his month S
wages. sos. into the frebox. Miller, to
stoke the fire, threw off his coat, and
not until he put it on again did he notice
! that his wallet had fallen out, and I'M
noticed he had shoveled it into the fire.
| Applying the doctrine of caveat emp
| tor-''buyer beware"-Judge Hodson Of
Buffalo, \. Y, non-suited Miss Leona
| Lee in her damage action against the
owners of a Main street store for 800
| for the loss of part of one of her front
teeth in biting into Il bun purchased at
| the store and striking a pebble con-
| cealed inside Miss Lee testified that
| she took two bites ut the bun. the sec
1 ond being the disastrous one She adj
| mitted that her teeth struck Il hard sub
/ stance ON the first bite. The court
/ held that Miss Lee was guilty of con-
! tributory negligence in not desSting from
! eating after the first bite, and eXamin-
/ ing the bun for other substances likely
/ TO cause damage TO white teeth.
\ prank of CascadiIla y.
\ y. school student has caused an
{
the preparatory school during the
past few days. The student missed
a great quantity of bay rum kept
/ for shaving purposes, and, suspecting his
! fellow classmates in the dormitory. he
refilied the bottle with peroxide of hydro
/ gen, As a result a large number of stu
/ dents were transformed into peroxide
/ blondes when they appeared in their
| classes. Two members who had jet
/ black hair are now beautiful blondes
| while another with red hair is now
| adorned with locks Of silver Wilderness
/ Many have shaved their heads. but all
| have vowed to buy their own bay rum i'll
I future.
Having failed to perfect the desired
mechanism of his new aeroplane i'll his
| enthusiasm to make the machine 20 up
! Felix Gallo of Pueblo Mexico. who has
! been working on the problem of aviation
| for many months, found himself sus
| pended for an embrasSing period in the
| air. With the lightneSs and grace Of a
| bird the machine left the earth when
| Gallo put it in motion before a large
| group of witnesses just outside the city.