The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-18

W. AAAt, " 1iO " III NC SldlI t'l uNAI SStt
son i'll My Antoinette," will spend the
summer in :! canal house boat on the
Erie and Delaware canals.
Police Commissioner Partridge dis
missed from the police force Capt. John
Reardon Of the Manhattan and Green
port avenues station, Brooklyn, for neg
records. :
a man committed suicide the other
afternoon by jumping from the Brooklyn
bridge. A rope was thrown to him from
a passing tug, but he refused to seize it
and soon sank from view. The body was
not recovered. In his hat, which bears
the mark South Norwalk, Conn.," he
left four 81 bills.
Mrs. 3. T. Cheney, known on the stage
as Julia Arthur, underwent surgical OPP
GRAFTON at the summer home of the Che
neys, Brewster Island, Boston. harbor.
The operation was not a serious one, and
was made as precautionary measure
against appendicitis, with which the act
ress was threatened. The patient is re-
covering.
Miss Kitty Ralnpone has Deen engaged
by the park department to sing at the
Band concerts in Mornn@Side park and in
Mount Morri: park. She has the dis
York city has employed to sing before
the public. She is the daughter Of the
late Sig. Rampone. who was the leader
Of the Old Guard band. -.
Through tho generosity Of Miss Annie
Icary, the only American woman to be
made Countess Of the Holy Sea. anil
OF Mrs Henry =. Plant, widow of the
wealthy railroad and steamboat owner
the Fathers Of the Blessed Sacrament
who are in this city are soon to have
4 church of their own-thr first in the
United States and the only ono which
will be permitted by the rules of the
urle".
Columbia College students have found
4 new means of livelihood at the sum-
mer hotels Instead OF serving as wait
rrS, which is IL rather onerous task, they
are hiring out as ping pong attendants
ut the immature courts in the country.
1.-The young person. will also find that
mamma will not object so much to Il
love affair with ping-ponS attendant as
she will to an attachment to tray car
rier. The first is in the fashion, any
how.
Thomas Preston, a seaman on the
schooner Sirdar, is afflicted with an ag-
Sravatcd ease Of moon blindness caused
by sleeping on the deck in the full glare
of the tropical moon. Moon blindness as
a rule is merely temporary, but return
ins: with IL slight attack at full moon,
but in the case of Preston the facial
muscles have been affected and his whole
race Is drawn up and staring. 1t is not
thought he will recover his sight unless
n,sf< j
Because they give the conductors an
opportunity, for dishonesty, the 3 cent
"half farcS' are to be abolished by th,
l;ronklyn Rapid Transit Company. In
all lines OF the company at present chill
.!r'n between > and - years old are al
lowed to ride for > cents The old Mas
S;,u electric compan; had no half fares.
hlllrr!l under 3 years cd were allowed
/" rid" free and all hers paid the rc=11-
llr > cent fare. This is tn" system which
;hr r.;riI transit company intends To
H,i"pt.
Capt. Swain Of the Liverpool, \. s..
5" schooner Pnlanoc has just arrived in
I'l"s coast, IL country where Il glass Of
Lemonade costs a dollar. In tarlhu
-"na and all through the Colombian
coast, sald the captain, lit takes forty
five En"mban paper dollars to make one
American dollar. Lemonade ut Il dollar
il glass IS really cheap, it's actual cost
helnS Il mt lc more than cents. The
captain and the crew are now drinking
New York beer 1T > cents Il glass.
President Charles ". Schwab of the
steel trust returned to New York and
confirmed the report that he is going to
hui! mansion in this city. lie is en-
thusiastic over the home he will build
1t will cost him between $2,OooOOo and
$22.3oU.om. The building or the man
sion and the laying out Of the maynif-
cent grounds on the Old orphan ASYLUM
site in Kivcr>i,lr drive between Seventy
third and Sevcnty-fourth streets. will
take nearly three years. The mansion
will combine the chief characteristics Of
non, two of the most luxurious and arts
tic houses in Paris. 1t is the intention
to make the residence the finest in New
York.
New York is threatened with an epi-
demic of typhoid. Two physicians of
prominence declared the other day that
the cause was the recent heavy rains.
which washed into the streams LARGE
quantities of decaying vegetables and All
NAL matter. The month of May was
dry and large quantity of material had
accumulated. which was carried down by
the heavy storms. They thought that
too much care could not be exercised at
this season with regard to drinking wa
ter. The water should be filtered if there
were indications of impurities. At the
same time attention should be given to
the choice of food. 4 number of deaths
from the fever have occurred within the
past two weeks.
The "hatiron'' Officially the Cumber-
land--building, now going up on the tri
angular lot at the intersection Of Broad
way, Fifth avenue and Twenty-third
street, will soon be initiated by similar
building to be erected on triangle in
Longacre square at Broadway, Seventh
avenue and Firty-third street. The
building. like that at Twenty -third street,
will be put up by the George A. Fuller
CONSTRUCTION Company, and part of it,
when completed, will be leased to a
morning newspaper, which there is good
reason for believing is the New York
Times. -
The Pabst hotel, the only building
standing on the site now, has been aban-
doned for hotel purposes, because it's
vaults were needed by the Subway Con-
struction Company. The remainder of
the plot has been purchased from the
Subway Realty Company and the new
building will be erected on the Joint plot.
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