Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-01-08
NOTES OF INTEREST.

state ponce captured Joseph Nahum
SKY on the mountains near Shamokin
"a. Wlth whlSkerS eighteen inches long
ana halr on has head hanging almost to
his Knees. He was warmly clad with
fough looking apparel. He said he was
| hernir and lived in the woods between
acre aud Mahanoy city the past year.
existing ON roots and herbs.
Russ French and Nose Brickey. hum.
berlae6S. employed near Franklin Falls
III the AdirondackS, the other day met
as me a specimen of black bear closely
followed by three fat roly-poly cubs rs
they ever laid their eyes on Nose and
Russ were not scared-they just thought
II would be a good joke to give hruin
and her family foot race and started
hrs3 On the other hand bruiu and
FANNY, with the exception of one cub
started the other way. The odd cub
mace short cut on Brickey and he was
forced 10 bring il down with his axe
/ y CLIP ON the back of the head finished
the playful little fellow, and Mr.. Brickey
was socn exhibiting his sleek-lookius
nrlZe 20 bis friends Mt Franklin FallS
The cno weighed about 80 pounds.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. A. Hampstead Of
minneapolis Mimi. owe their lives 10
their pet cat which aroused them from
IL slekenng Stupor. caused by escaping
coal gas y physician worked several
hours over Mrs. Hampstead before re
storing her 10 consciousness Some time
III the night the Stovepipe became dis
connected and slipped out Of the chim-
| aey, allowing the smoke and gas from
/ the hard coal fire t. escape. The odor
lof The gas did not tyaken either Mr.
I0r Airs. Hempstea,. Mr. HempStead
was finally awakened 10y painful
| scratch across his face Still dazed from
the zaS, he fell back when trying 10
ARISE. Then the cries of the cat, which
| was ON the pillow Ivy his head, brought
lam e consciousness. He arose. opened
the windows, and then tried to arouse
his wife. Unable to bring her out of the
stuper, he called a physician Except
| for slight illness, the gas did Httle
hariR but had they remained while
longer in the gas filled room, the ply
| stefan says, they would have been be
yond help The cat is said to I've no
/ longer mere pet. but q member in good
standing of the Hampstead family
Mrs. Ethel Manning petitioned the dis
| trict court Of Minneapolis. Mimi, 10
grant her SllGO,SO damages against the
| Western Union Telegraph company for
an alleged mistake in a message. Mrs
Manning says in her complaint that her
husband, Patrick Manning. is addicted to
the use of liquor and during September.
l9US. went on Il spree. Mrs. Manning.
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following message:
''Pat is drinking; come at once"
Instead of this message Mrs. Manning
asserts that the telegraph company sent
a message saying:
Fat is dying; come at once"
When l.. q. Manning. the brother, re
ceived the dispatch he telegraphed all
relatives living in Clinton. Ia. Chicago,
and Fall River. Mass, to be present at
Pauiek's wake Mrs. Manning was
much surprised to have the relatives
come pouring in several days later and
when the mistake was discovered had TO
pay all the expenses of her guests
amounting to Sl60.S0, she says, In add
ton to refund of this amount she asks
$1,000 for damages to her nerves,
|
An advertisement inserted rs a joke in
a Boston matrimonial paper recently
won Mrs. Fannie Eleanor Emerson,
nurse of Broekton, Mass, well-to-do
! husband The marriage ceremony was
age Of the First Baptist church. and
1 the Bridegroom was George Lamphere.
The romance began about four months
ago. when Mrs Emerson accepted the
| dare of friends 20 insert the advertise
ment for n husband. She was at first
| inclined to sigu an assumed name, but
| finally made up Ter mind to carry the
! Joke as far as possible. not only signing
/ her real uame hut also sending along
| her picture which, to her surprise, the
paper published. She received hundreds
of letters from men who vowed that they
were already in love with the comely
nurse and could not live without her.
while some Of the aspirants for Mrs
Emerson's hand came to this city for a
personal interview.
Has President.eect Taft joined the
An IL. Il = l.
of Cincinnati asked itself after reading
the morning newspapers. A dispatch
from Atlanta told of an invitation eN-
tended to Mr.. Taft 10 accept box at
a theater in that city on New Years eve
and how Mr. Taft declined in a telegram
reading: Thanks Have attended only
one theatrical performance ia twenty
years. Then | went to see Uncle Tom S
| Cabin. The fact remains. however,
that Taft witnessed cOidic opera ut
the Grand Opera house here in Noypm-
/ Der. He did not stay for the entire per
Torrance and some of his friends charit-
ably explain that he probably mstoDk
what he saw, Of the show for Uncle
/ Toms Cabin"
While on his way home 15-year-old
| William Walsh, whose father is care
! taker of the city park in Bayonne, -
| j.. saw Wallace McKenna. aged 10
pointing an air rifle ut him. Six months
ago Walsh was shot in the eye by an
air rifle fired by Isaac Greenstein and
lost his sight He was provided with "a
glass eye.
please don't shoot at me. lost my
Ieye that way cried Walsh to McKenua.
III shoot ont your other eye" was
/ Mchenna's reply as he tired
| The bullet struck Walsh's glass eye
land shattered it. He fell unconscious to
/ the sidewalk and McKenna aud his com
panions ran away. At the city hospital
/ the physicians said they believed Walsh
/ would come around all right. The frug-
ments of glass were removed
/ Mckenna was arrested on q charge Of
/ assault. An effort will now be made TO
have the Bayonne council pass an ordi-
nance prohibiting the use OF air rifles.
| TO n Philadelphia, DR. Carroll Fox.
has fallen the distinction Of being the
! dIsc0verer Of q new species Of ilea, and
entomologists throughout the world are
much interested in il. not only because
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