Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-09-17

| get these two games | couldn't resist
| the temptation, When | serve my sen
| tence | viii save my money and buy
| these same two chickens that have Senr
me TO Jail
| Capt. Daniel Gaskm of Long Branch
| y. j.. landed n hat-Shaped fish at Galilec
| that is said to be a native Of Spanish
| waters Ii is 8 feet wide and between
| II and L. feet in length To the tip of It's
| tail 1t has Il square mouth Ii inches
| long. It's eyes stand out on arms OF
horns. II required the combined efforts
of Capt. Gaskin and six men To carry
the fish from the Skin to the hShhoat.
\ baby fish nestled in its mothers
bosom. Old time fishermen a number of
whom have tished for half century,
say that the monster landed by Capt
GaSsin is the first Of its species ever
seen along the coast.
\ Holstein bull at pasture on Thomas
Wiuthrop'S farm near Ogdenshurg, \.
Y, was almost tanned alive by lightning
In a thunderstorm this morning the
beast was struck between the horns 10y
a bolt and the current passed down the
broad white blaze MT its nose. down
white stripes on the neck foreShnulderS
aud forelegs into the ground. The black
hide was untouched, but the white hide
and the skin of the bulls nose were
burned hairless and tanned Ia the APP
pearance of leather. The bull was
stunned, hut will live,
William Beach. fisherman at Lewes.
Del. was actually attacked while in u
boat 10y Il shark weighing more than 100
pounds, He and John Marshall were
fishing ut the mouth Of the Delaware
bay when a man-eatmg shark became
entaugled in their net. They began to
pull the net into the boat when sud
denly the big fish, which was being
hauled over the side of the craft, seized
Beach's leg in its jaws. Its hold
slipped, but the grip on the tShsrmans
trousers was So firm that the jaws of
the shark did not relax until its throat
had been cut. The mans lee was badly
injured Ivy the sharp teeth of the fish.
The shark was landed,
Pursued by two hghwaymen at
o clock in the morning, William Wagg of
PhoeuiNville, Pa, led them a chase of
nearly mile. and finally, as they We're
about to overtake him, plunged into the
Schuylllll river at Black Rock and
swan to the Montgomery county shore,
After waiting an hour he swan back,
and later was found by his mother, lying
moaning i'll the yard of his home Doc
tors restored him To consciousness. aud
the police are now trying To discover the
identity of the highwaymen. Nagg, who
had been working on farm neas Spring
City for several weeks, returned 10 his
home with his savings. lie says that
the robbers struck him once with a
heavy instrument. He does not recall
anything after swimming the river the
second time.
Mrs. Wallace Kutel Of Glendale, y,
J., has lost the sight of her right eye
through Il pin that pierced the Nupil.
Returning home from n visit to a niece
in Millville Mrs. kittel found her skirt
very dusty. and gave il shaking. Sud
denly there was piercing pain in her
eye. and reaching up, she pulled out II
pin. Suffering great pain and unable
to see with the injured eye, Mrs. kittel
was hurried to specialist in Long
Branch, hut he gave her no hope of
ever seeing with the eye again.
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A splinter which William Frazier.
| farmer near Sperryville. Va, ran into
his eye twenty years ago. while burning
brush, emerged the other day below the
eyelid 1t was half an inch long. Dur
ing all the years that the splinter was
working its way ont Frazier suffered in
tensely. At times it was thought he
would be driven crazy. His pains have
HOW ceased.
Harry j. Tolson, Chester. Pa. mer-
chant, directly after supper the other
evening retire.! for a nap. He dreamed
that Harry Whulock, his chum, had
tainted when Informed that his son.
Martin Whitlock. was i'll with typhoid
fever, and was conveyed to the Crozicr
hospital. Tolson awokc as il from
nightmare and hurriedly dressing hims
self, FASTENED TO the home of his friend.
lie found his dream was correct. Mr..
Whtlock had just recovered from his
fainting spell, and his son was being
placed in the hospital ambulance
Charles Wolf of Connersyille Ind,
known rs the "IIuosior Suicide King
was sentenced 10 POO days in the worR-
house by Acting Mayor Smedley in po-
lice court at Hamilton, Ohio The
other afternoon Wolf went to the
office Of DR.. G.. NJ. Cunmins and
while the physician was waiting on
Il patient in his private Office swallowed
n quantity Of diluted cnrboic acid. He
was removed TO Mercy hospital where
older attaches recognized his voice and
identified Wolf, who has spent several
DAYS in the institution on previous occiF
si0ns and under similnr conditions Wolf
was elected from the hospital and placed
in Il cell in the county Jail. He has
made no less than six attempts ut sui
eide in Hamilton
Thomas ID. Bausher, of Reading. PA.
has invented q new fuel, with Cupful
of which costing just cent, he can
make two cups Of coffee and fry slice
Of ham within seven minutes: and in
| less than five minutes he can start
coal fire with the same amount Of the
fuel. without the aid Of II particle Of
wood.
Mrs. Virginia Stein. Librarian Of the
public library at Lafayette Ind, is again
in possession Of 4 gold thmblc. a pres
ent forty years ago from her husband
the late John Stein. and which she lost
in 1889. The old Stein home was at
1Oll Columbia street and is now owned
by Mrs Mary Mucahy. A few days
ngo her son. Michael Mulcahy, was dig
ging a flower he'd in the back yard when
his eye was attracted by something that
glstened IN the earth. He picked M
the object aud found it 10 be n gold
thimble, and on the inside was engraved
~. s.. 1866 Mr. Mucahy learned
later that the Stein family formerly
owned the property. and took the fhimble
to the library and presented it 10 Mrs.
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