Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-01-22
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SI G&1N G1GfAL IN i EESE sSS 4
| Aroused by some one turning the knol
OF her door. Miss Alice NJ. Rowe. p
Sehool Teacher Of Altoona, Pa. found a
/ burglar surveying a table laden with
Christmas presents. evidently SELECTING
the most useful TO him. She chased him
down stairs and outdoors. where she
was ohhged 10 stop. because she was at
tired IN her night gown.
! David Cassidy of Altoona. Pa. is the
champion sausage maker of Peunsyi
wanna. He has succeeded in producing
| a sausage that measures 81 feet q inches
IN length, which is double the best
previous record known
Premontion of danger saved Miss
Lillian ietfries, assistant postmiStress
| OF Be!lwood. Pa, from serious injury
while returning from Pittsburg over the
PENNSYLVANIA. Change YOUR seat "
something seemed TO tell her. She did.
and short time later stone was
hurled through the window, striking and
perhaps fatally iniuring Il child that had
taken her place.
Two weeks after he had beaten his
wife for joining the church. James Cone
,'sAAN - -ititIAt, illti-s StN Allt error 81
ms way and became a member of the
Christian congregation. But in the in-
term he had been arrested for cruelty
imprisoned and fined. Copeland. wheu
IN Jail awaiting trial for miStreating his
helpmate, repented. was reconciled to
her, and ut her pleading his sentence
was llghtened. When released he made
"a profession of faith, was baptized and
received into the church
Passing through his ear to collect
fares. Z. Sullivan, conductor on the
Northampton traction line, near Beth,
lehem, Pa, found one of his passengers
apparently fast asleep. Shaking failed to
awake him. Then thee ondueto grabbed
the stranger by the arm. intending to lift
him from his seat, but the fellows body
was rigid and a doctor passenger said
he was dead Just then Tatamy was
reached and the supposed dead passenger
got up and remarked, as he left the car
Not dead. but Twin forever
Hello, papa.' These words, uttered
by a 3-Weeks-old baby, startled not only
Colo, but the doctor and nurse, ana
the doctor II. Mitchell Burns, is busy
perusing his scientific works trying TO
account for the case which is the most
unusual that has ever come to his notice.
The baby is Helen Marie daughter of
William Wagner. former policeman.
She is developed physically and mentally
far beyond her age. and is one of the
most beautiful babies ever attended by
the physician Ability to utter under
Standahle words at her tender age is
her most remarkable accomplishment.
Although he is II years Of age and
almost blind. Thomas Freese of Will
mington, Del, succeeded in fighting off
the attendants ut the county hospital at
Farnhurst and escaping He walked all
the way back 10 Wilmington, where he
was taken in charge by the police,
Freese had been sent to the hospital at
the request of his relatives. AS soon as
he saw the building he declared he did
not have to go there. and he refused to
enter the place. The attendants at
tempted to force him into the hospital,
but the old man used his walking stick
with good effect and drove them off.
He will be examined as to his sanity.
Because the ghost Of lie His Yet. a
Chinese laundryman, who died and was
buried in the Springfield IN. j. Presby-
terrain cemetery fifteen years ago, is
wandering around China without sep
uichre annoying his relatives with
haunting dreams, his grave was opened
and the body was shipped to his brother,
who lives near Canton, there to rest
with the bones of his ancestors. lie was
converted to Christianity before his
death. and was buried by members of
the Springfield church. His relatives in
China have been haunted by his ghost
ever since. they state in letter to Hi
Yung of this city, an acquaintance of
Lee Recently they held Il meeting in
Canton. exchanged tales of their expert
ences. and raised a fund to bring lie
back.
Geneva Reynolds, "A 10-ycar-old girl
living near Middletown. Va, is So crit
ically i'll from one Of the raresr diseases
known to medical science that little
hope of her recovery is held out She
is suffering from ichthoyesis, commonly
known as fish skin disease. In the
past six weeks the entire skin has
sealed off her body six times On sew
eral OF "asiOns the skin covering the low
err part Of her body, together with the
soles Of her feet has fallen off and ply
sieians have taken quart Of scales
from her bed in twonty-fuur hours. a
new layer Of scales forming as fast az
Que drops Off The child also has lost
all Of her hair. She has n ravenous
appetite and apparently cannot get
enough 10 eat. Attending physicians
say that the disease is somewhat similar
to lepr0sy, but is worse than that malady
in the rapidity with which it works
Ministers Of the churches in Ardmore.
Ok. confronted with a declaration Of
the male members of the congregations
that they would not attend church unless
the women removed their Merry Wi
doxs" have issued an edict that all
women. on entering the church shall re-
move their hats The order was promul-
gated when the ministers learned that
the distinctive dropping of If the male
attendants was due to feminine head
gear.
The Red Lion Hunt club Of York, Pa.
had a new experience when a big gray
fox which had been liberated when
hard pressed by more than 100
dogs climbed % feet into
tree. AZ the Sanimal saw the
hunters coming however, it leaped from
a branch into the middle Of the pack
Of hounds, and. after brief but fierce
fight. was torn to pieces. Apparently it
deliberately chose this method Of death
rather than be ANONYMOUSLY shot The
fox was crossing a field on the farm Of
H. G. Kaltreider. and was in full sight
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