Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-01-28

tain side. which is covered with snow
and sleet, when he missed his footing,
| plunged forward and rolled. tumhled aud
slid at lively rate down the steep side
for fully 500 feet. Striking against icy
rocks aud stumpS. grabbing for dear life
IT protruding bushes and twigS that
We're peeping Out from under the deep
snow, he managed. 10y great effort To
steer clear of 4 mine breach at the foot
OF the mountain. and to land in Il raViue
we'll filled with snow, which saved his
| life. His hands are badly lacerated and
his body and limbs bruised. but fortu-
nateiy not seriously.
When six months old the son of MIR
and Mrs. Wesley Pease of Garden
Prairie, H., swallowed an open safety
pin. Physicians never were able to re.
cover it and said there could he no
danger in swallowing IL safety" pin, be-
sides the acids of the stomach would de
stfoy it in few months. This was two
years ago. Recently as the child was
eating piece Of chicken, he choked
badly. Mrs. Pease expected to find n
chicken bone, but much to her surprise
removed the safety pin.
Miss Blanche Green, senior of the
Liberty Ladies' college in Liberty, Mo.
almost lost an eye when a hot curling
IRON became entangled in her hair, be-
meath her right temple. Before aid could
he rendered the iron had burned deep
into the flesh around the eye. Miss
Green and her roommate were dressing
for reception when the accident oc-
CURED. She is under Il physicians care.
The warden of the Jail in Montreal dis
covered that prisoner committed under
the name of William Dubors, 6S years
old, is a woman, who has maSqueraded
as a man for thirtytive years, most Of
the tiIne gaining her living as u deck
hand on lumber barges.
Jose Valdez Of Santa Fe, y. NJ. the
crack shot, who knows whole lot
about bears and how to hunt them, can
ROW claim to be the champion bruin
killer of the country. The other day he
discovered a cave twenty miles from
Santa Fe, \. NJ, that showed unmistak-
able signs Of being the winter habitat of
bears. Valdez started a fire mt the mouth
of the cave and smoked ont the bears
There were just thirteen Of them in the
cave, and as they came out, one by one,
Valdez killed them the job occupying
less than one hour,
Every single man of manageable age
in Boonsboro, Md, and vicinity has pro
vided himself with one or more steel
traps and has set them where love
treads ever since it became known that
a prominent young farmer, who lives
near town. caught his bride-to-be be-
tween the steel claws of trap. Wheth-
er the plan to catch a wife originated
III the mind of the young farmer, or il
was accidental, does not cut any figure
when the results are considered Per-
sons who know the facts, but do not
desire to diyulge names, say that a few
evenings ago n popular girl, whose heart
had been besieged by the young farmer
and other admirers in vain, was walking
TO town, when her foot was caught in a
steel trap. She was held a prisoner, but
not a silent one, until Il young man APP
peared upon the scene. 1t was the young
farmer He released her, proposed on
the spot, and was accepted.
The congregation Of st. James A. NJ.
Z. church in Wilmington, Del, decided
that colored mothers must purchase black
dolls for their children. There was n
lively debate on the question whether
colored children should play with and
fondle white dolls the same as white
children or use black dolls, as matter
Of race pride. George w. Benson of that
city and Rev. X. i. Pennington of Cliff
ton Mills colored mission presented the
opposing views, after which the congre-
CATION voted for black dolls. The con
gregation also came to the conclusion
that in heaven negroes would still he
black, and that they had better stick to
their own color on earth.
To save the lives of several children
from bites of a mad dog j. ID. Morgan
of Coleman, Tex, attacked the animal
with his bare hands and, after fierce
struggle, the dog was strangled.
Having already read the entire Bible
sixty times, Mrs. Rebecca Huber of
Reading, Pa, started on the volume
again with the new year She is already
able to quote whole chapters without
referring to the book. Mrs. Huber is
81 years old and spends her spare time
in reading and sewing firing of the
one occupation, she begins the other
Mrs. Huber is a member of Salem Evan
gelical church and attends services reg
ularly. She is the mother of seven chill
dren. five of whom are living Mrs.
Huber says if young folk would read
mt least a chapter of the Bible each day
there would be far less wickedness in
i the world.
Thinking that it was coon her dog
| had freed, Mrs. +. A. Chamberlain, the
| best huntress in Trinity county, Cal, got
| off her horse and set her rifle by the base
| of the hollow oak. Then she threw
| snowballs into the opening to draw out
| the coon, but bear emerged and came
| serambling down the tree. The dog
/ chased the bear up a second tree. and
| then Mrs. Chamberlain shot it dead
A peculiar romance was revealed in
the probate court in South Norwalk,
| Conn, when the estate of Ann STANLEY Of
| Darien was about to be wound up. A
husband in the person Of james Tobin
showed up with a marriage certificate
twenty-ninc years old. and the estate.
already divided among more remote
| heirs, will have to be probated over
again and the claims Of the husband rec
| ognized. Miss Stanley lived all her life
| in Darien and died at the age Of 30.
| She was always thought to be a spinster
and as such had many suitOrs for in adj
| dition to being wealthy she was comedy.
| She refused all offers modestIy and with
out excuse. According to the facts now
| made known there was a romance in
her younger days. Tobin was an actor,