The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-02-11
NOTES OF INTEREST.

/ He sets forth his qualifications as n
Sleuth in a letter to Chief Wikic. As
| the identity of a great detective usually
| Is withheld from the public the appli-
cant name Is not given. His Communi-
/ cation follows:
| Dear Sir: My name is -. | can
stay up all night for Il week without
getting sleepy am only lG years of
age, and | have not got much of an
education. | can solve Il murder ease
| without saving Il word. because | use
] certain kinds of Colors. | claim that
| viii he the second Sherlock Holmes
/ before | die. | do not expect You 10
give this letter Il thought, but if you
4 want To give me test | am ready 10
start III young.
Richmond Pearson Hobson, repre-
sentative from Alabama, young smooth
laced and baud aus an onion, is one Of
the new members pointed out 10 the
visitors 10y the House guides His con
/ ircrcS were discussing llohson the 9th
81 evening, aud one raised the question
| as To whether he had treated his fame
| fairly in leaving the navy, whore his
/ reputation was established, ana taking
up political career. That reminds me
of what a young Washington girl once
/ said to me- remarked Representative
/ Huller AmeS, who WAS one of the party.
"Shc had married Il naval officer and
J 7
officers are away from homo So much.
Well she said. ! figured up the thing
pretty carefully and | concluded that #
/ my husband didn't turn out to lac my
affinity he would hc away half the time
and if he did he would hr home half the
time. What more could one ask
\ triple wedding took place in South
| \orWalk, Conn, the other evening in
| which each couple thought To surprise
! the other and each in turn was aston
| ished. John :. LIIommediou. although
| 60, thought he would take second wife
| ana announced reception for the even
! ing. His tiancec was Mrs. Hattie Deni-
! ger of Bridgeport. who is his cousin. AT
/ the height of the reception Mr.. L'Hom-
/ mcdlcu introduced Roy. Henry T.. Wing
! and announced his connubial intention
AT the same moment his granddaughter.
/ Mrs. Grace Shine, stepped forward
| with Edward Shine of Stamford broth
/ er to her late husband. and said Me
! too, grandpa From another door came
| a second granddaughter, Miss Ncttic
/ llaudor. on the arm of Harry Minor.
/ with like declaration. An had planned
/ a like surprise. The three ceremonies
were performed in turn.
Twice within two days Baby Charles
| Eaton. Jr, months old, has discovered
! burglars IN his parents home 2GJ Nor
! gan street, st. Louis, Mo-, and has
! driven them out Now his parents arc
wondering if they ought not to have
named him Sherlock H. Eaton. Baby
| Charlie first heard the burglars at /
y. m, when they were in the dining
/ room Investigating the Sidcboard lie
/ sounded note of alarm in high key
I aud the robbers went through the dining
/ room windows SO fast that they knocked
over the plants on the window sill and
smashed III" pottery containing them
/ IN" infant burglar alarm had done his
/ work So promptly that the burglars had
taken from the sidcboard nothing but
1 two bottles of wine. The burglars. or
others, returned to the house at $50 the
same night, while Mrs. Eaton was in the
| parl"r They made the mistake of enter
/ ing Baby Charities bedroom There
/ they were rummaging bureau drawers
when one uf them kicked Charities rat
lie, which lay un the floor This touched
of the alarm again, and there was
wall which called Mrs. Eaton aud
nurse to the bedroom just as the men
/ He'd through the rear entrance.
Prompted by II vision of his mother
as he lay in n cell ut police headquarters
IN Elizabeth, \. j., John killmct
charged with burglary, wrote on the wall
4 iull confession and n resolution to re
form. When his cell was opened in the
morning he pointed TO the writing, with
the remark:
I'm II tough one; have served three
terms, and ! was willing to serve more
uhtll my mother came TO me last night.
She found some soft spots in me, and
when she told me to write that ON the
wall, so that wouldn't forget it, | made
he break, aud I'll stick TO it. You'd
have done The same thing"
copy of the writing on the wall will
he used against him if he attempts to
deny his guilt IN the higher courts.
Edward Malcolm of & State street.
Jersey City, y. j., today celebrated the
twenty eighth birthday anniversary of
ms cat. Cruel. inc animal was orig
inally black, but has grown into sort
pt nondescrlpt color. and its tail is now
white. Grlzcl has been the mother of
hundreds of kittens, and strangely
enough, while the back fence has at
fractions, she has never been known to
leave the premises. She is well. and
beside the gray hairs does not show her
age.
Freebooter Thomas l.. Munyau of
l.ichInohd y. 49, had desperate fight
Tue other day with a large, strange bird,
which he supposed to be Il great north.
crn diver. Mrs. Munyan discovered il
IN field aud called her husband who
started after il with gun. The bird
came toward Muuran, flew upon him
and attacked him with its needle point |
ed brak, while the beating Of its wings
Munyan says felt like the swift punch |
IS Of n pugilist." Munyan could get no
chance to shoot, but finally seized The
bird by the neck and chokrd it until il !
became submissive. He then took il
t" his barn and Gagged 1t in a large box |
Alone in a tower ~ feet above the
ground, and his right hip dislocutrd aud |
his left eve almost guugcd out Edward |
Richardson of Jersey CITY y. J.. slid |
down i5O-tUut chute to get medical |
AID, Richardson is the tuwcrman for a |
bucket elevator that lifts crushed stone
ut the western end of the Erie railroad
excavation aud today he was caught
10y n slipping belt and hurled around for
some little time before he succeeded in
cXtrcatiug himself Elerling profusply
and suffering great pain, he managed 10
signal for the stopping Of the belt This
was accomplished and then Richardson
waited Tor help to come, There was
no way that h. could signal thar ne had
been injured, ana the men below waited
for the signal 10 start the engine again
Fearing that he might die from his in
lurtes Richardson Crawled out of his
enclosure and slid down the chute for
the entire $50 feet Fellow employees
then realized he had been badly hurt aud
he Was hurried to hospital
\ BOBBY hut sleigh. so-called IN the
days WHEN Yankees considered 1t effem-
mate for q man 10 ride in a covered