Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-28
OF GENERAL INTEREST

i OF IFS fairesr members had furesworn
love ana vowed never to marry" 40 de-
vote their lives to the great work" of
! 'woman's emancipation and. inciden-
taliy to show cynical world that
l man was not at all essential to wom-
ans happiness" But Cupid and his ally
old human nature-got to work Three
weeks ago Miss Edna Stinson one of the
leading spirits of the club. married.
! Three others have followed. and the club
| looks askance at the epidemic of matri-
mony and VIII at, least temporarily dis
band.
Alleging that his wife deserted him
on the day following their marriage.
! William Wesley Wiser of Chester. Pa.
has commenced divorce proceedings.
| Wiser and Catherine Genevieve Bradley
! were secretly married in Wilmington on
/ October IL 1908.
For more than twenty-three years a
| piece of needle half "a inch long has
! been lodged in the neck of Clarence Nor
| riH, special policeman at Berkeley,
| Cal. and the tiny piece of steel was only
| discovered by an operation. Morrill, then
! recalled having heard from his mother
| that he swallowed needle when baby
5 years old Recent pains growing in in
F! tensity accompanied by swelling on
| the back OF his neck below the right ear,
| caused him to see, the services of DIR.
| IL. \. Hass few days ago. That ply
stefan applied local treatment without re-
! suit. and then an operation was decided
| upon. The knife of the SUI geon pene-
| trated the flesh more than half an inch
before the needle was brought to view.
| The steel was bright, but where the re-
manning half of the needle has gone is
| battling Morrill, and his physician Prob
| ably a search will be made for it, Nor
| rill believes that when he swallowed the
! needle the sharp point lodged in his
| throat and during the score of years
while he was growing to manhood
| worked into the neck. without pain.
| finally lodging where its progress was
! blocked and causing tester. DR. HaSs
| says his patient will suffer no compiled
/ tons.
George w. Quick. 50 years old. resd-
| ing on Spring Ru.s. Meigs county. O.,
| is the owner of a Franklin penny dated
| 1871, which he came into possession of
| on the day of the inauguration of Ahra-
ham Lincoln, March 1. 1861. and for
which he has refused an offer of 500.
A section of the fleet Of schooners
which reached Norfolk, Va, from New
! York and New England after bluefish
| struck great luck one night recently
about three miles off Cape Henry. They
| ran into a vast school OF striped sea
trout which were entering Chesapeake
| bay and with purse nets took thousands
of them. Louis Feuerstein, dealer and
| expert, places the catch brought here ut
| about 1000 barrels of 200 pounds each,
| The schooner Latonia had 600 barrels,
! and the Bertha and Pearl and the Lib
bic each POO barrels. The fish weighed
| from to : pounds each. Hundreds of
1 barrels of them packed III ice were sent
by express to New York, Baltimore and
| other markets north and west of Nor
folk. The Bertha and Pearly would have
| taken many more of the fish which were
| swimming near the surface, had not an
able fisherman Gus Delaney. fallen from
the seine boat in to the seine and caused
his comrades to lose the school while
they were SEEMING him. When the net
was hauled and Delaney landed aboard,
he was nearly all in, but is now recover
ing.
james X. Saunders, alias William Ii.
| Glyndon. was released from the peni-
Tertiary in Fort Madison. Ia, by pardon
! of the governor, after serving thirty-One
years for the alleged murder of a Il
year-old girl in Grundy county. Saunders
served a longer term than any other man
| ever sent to the prison and is now hale
and hearty at II years. He was sharp
war and was granted a soldiers pension
since his Incarceration. during which
time he saved $500.
William Price, a farmer. committed
suicide in Pana ILL.,, by placing a stick
Of dynamite beneath himself and touch
| ing it of. The lower part of his body
was torn almost to pieces and he died
within an hour after the accident. No
cause is given for his rash deed further
than he had been acting strangely for
the past several days.
4 worlds record for speedy marriages
has been established in Idaho Springs
Colo, To meet, become engaged, and
be made man aud wife all within thirty
minutes is the mark set by Edward L.
Mosher. aged b, prominent mining
man and ranch owner of the Clear Creek
district, and Miss Claire Hale, aged "a
of this city. At G:45 O'Clock the other
evening while waiting at a table in the
Manhattan hotel Miss Hale caught the
eye of a newcomer at one Of her tables.
When she went to take the order she
stammered and blushed until, instead Of
ordering a meal, Mosher for it was heJ
made "A proposal Of marriage. 1t was ac-
| cepted. Then Mosher decided he did not
want the fiancee to do any more dOmes-
tic work and suggested that they be
married at once. A carriage was sum
m0ned and they were driven to the
home of clergyman and married at
T:15 o'clock.
The Lynn, Mass police are trying to
locate false alarm club believed 10 ek-
list in that city. The members are
thought to be responsible for the large
number Of false alarms of fire which
have been rung in Lynn lately. The
ringing of the alarms is supposed by
the police TO be due to "A custom preva-
lent among Lynn youth Of sporting pro
clivities to make pools on the number
of the next fire box pulled. The police
are satisfied that the pot had reached
unusual size last Saturday night and that
one Of the members unable to longer
withstand the temptation, rang in box
30. Following this came false alarms
from boxes 3l3, G2 and Gl2 Oh Satur-
day night and Sunday. The police ac-
count for these on the theory that new
pools were Immediately formed and thai
members, satisfied that there had been
cheating in the former one. seized the
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