Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11
NOTES OF INTEREST.


channel of Hampton roads off Sewells
point recently, when the ashes of Il for
mer Confederate soldier. who recently
died IN Seattle. Wash. were lowered
into the water in tiny silver casket in
which they were sent from Seattle by
the direction of the deceased The huria]
was made 10y w. II Fitzgerald of Rich.
mond, by whose side the Seattle man
fought in the United artillery of Nor
folk, AT Sewell,S point during the Civil
war. The identity of the deceased has
not been revealed.
The hoodoo number Is was the cause
of Conductor Philip I. Birds losing his
life in South NOrwalk. Conn As he left
in the morning he glanced up at the
new number on his house and saw 13
staring him IN the face.
Mother, | don't like that" he said to
his wife, with a shudder. IF l don't
come home, YOU had better telephone to
the hospital
The superstition so unnerved him that
while cutting his train in two Mt VIII
sons point he slipped, and two ears
passed over his legs cutting them of
He directed the crew how to bandage
the limbs and stanch the flow Of blood
and was then taken to the hospital
where he died.
Wis president of the COnfederacy, when
he was captured by federal troops fol-
lowing the surrender, are i'll the posses
sion of = &. Ziegler of MELVILLE. Pa,
who served with the Pennsylvania troops
under Gen. John +. Hartranft and at
tended the ceremonies incident to the
unwilling of statue to Gen. Hartranft
at Petersburg recently. Ziegler says he
secured the spectacles from a business
partner in Ohio Immediately following
the war paying the man $50 for them,
and for sworn affidavit as to their au-
thenticity. Ziegler says this man per
sonally took them from Davis at the
time of his capture.
In a decision made public Justice
Belts of the supreme court of Kingston,
n. Y. rules that lazy people have II
right to live" The decision was in the
suit of Elizabeth A. Hanofce of Liberty
against James ]. Hanofee for a separa-
ton In his answer Mr.. Hanofee said
his wife was rugged, robust lazy and
able TO take care of herself Mrs. Ham
ofee admitted she was we'll and strong,
but she WAS incenSed at being termed
lazy, and her attorney, John ID.
Lyons of Monticello, demanded that the
paragraph be stricken out on the ground
that it was scandalous and irrelevant
just to prove that Mrs, Hanofee isn't
lazy | submit her affidavit, in which
she says she weighed 165 pounds when
she married and now weighs only 100
pounds" said Mr.. Lyons. Justice Belts
denied the motion, but added that even
though person is lazy he or she has
right to exist.
For years the man who turns the draw
span of the Lincoln avenue bridge at
Tacoma. Wash. has been paid $50 a
month for ten minutes work three times
a year About once in four plNuths the
draw of the bridge has had to be turned
| to allow boat to go through. Years ago
when the bridge was constructed n
tender was hired His salary was fixed
| at $50 month. and. beyond paying this
/ regularly. the city officials forgot him.
| Ii now develops the hardest work the
| man has done was to walk over to the
| city hall and get his pay check. Four
months ago the mayor dismissed him
and since that time the draw span has
only been turned once. The mayor fig
ures that the man had to turn the draw
! span just three times year.
/ Ed Mccoy of Lewiston Pa, who is in
! charge of gang of men engaged in
| peellnG bark on the mountains adjacent
/ 70 Granville, reports that T0wser the
| camp dog, killed a 6-foot blacksnake.
! AHS hne - al I'tthAlti NIttliltIi, WIFI lltt
| trait of kindness to children, but loathing
| snake. The dog circled round and
! round his cOiled up snakeship Just be.
| y0nd striking distance, darling backward
/ and Forward as opportunity appeared to
/ afford, until finally the snake was caught
| OIL its guard, and, grasping it back of the
| neck, he shook it us terrier would a
rat. On examination it was found that
| the reptiles back was broken in three
| places.
James f. Way of 1910 Banning street.
| Wilmington. Del, sergeant i'm Co. &.
! Delaware militia, was seriously injured
and his home was partly wrecked AS the
| result of his desire to see what was in n
| cartridge that had been picked up on n
| battle ground near Santiago. Cuba He
took the cartridge from the wall and
struck it with chisel. Immediately
| there followed an explosion that broke
| the glass in the window and shook the
! plaster from the wall. Way was Knocked
! TO the floor, and when picked UP it was
| found his face. side and one leg had
| been badly burned and cut and that the
| bullet had plowed "a long furrow along
! the under part of his left arm and then
| buried itself in the wall. Way was hur-
| ried to a hospital.
The payment of $4,000 to Miss Stel-
! ~ JOSeDDllt L flltI u nun ~ 'NtilA y
| Tex, has brought 10 light. ii is de
| clared, that the young woman possesses
some remarkable power by which she
| locates oils and minerals. The $4,000
| was paid by ten land owners upon whose
| property two productive wells were
| struck after Miss Feler had located oil
! not far from the Humble field, Miss
| Feiler. it is said. has accumulated a
| fund Of over 100000. and is erecting
| an orphan ansylum in Beaumont with
| the money she received for locating oil
| and sulphur lands.
/ While two men were blowing a field
on the farm Of William Miller, short
| distance west Of York. Pa. one of their
mules suddenly dropped almost out of
/ sight. The animal was extracted with
/ difficulty. and it was then found that IL
! had broken through into a cave, The
/ cavern which is about II feet deep,
! seems TO extend through the limestone
! foundation for "A considerable distance.
/ parallel with COdorus creek, close By,
/ but IT has not yet been explored.
/ His attention attracted by the queer
antics of q dog racing up and down tie
tracks of the Reading railway between