The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02

According to private advices received
at Newark, y. j., Frank W. Reddins OF
that city has been made u mandarin by
the Sultan of Mndanao. Reddins for
merly was Il member of the -Astor bat
terry
For first edition of John Bunyan's
"The. Holy War;" London. Dorman
Newman. 1862, a book OF great rarity,
$500 was paid by Messrs. Scribner at
collection.
Joseph jefferson bought at auction 1O3
Riverside drive for 800 1t is i've
story dwelling house. south of Eighty
third street. The house was sold at fore
closure sale, and Mr.. Jefferson was the
plaintiff.
John +. Searles, formerly prominent
in the affairs of the Sugar Refining Com
pany. has been granted discharge in
bankruptcy. He made an assignment on
March ;, 1901. when he scheduled liza
bilities Of s., 1850 and assets Of 3D.
G1GOOO.
Mrs Adele Lederer, wife Of George W.
Lederer. theatrical manager. was grant
ed S15 week alinOny and counsel fee
of $50 in the supreme court pending the
trial of an action instituted by her for a
separation Oh the ground of inhuman
treatment.
Word has been received Of the death
in St. Augustine. Fla, of J. +. Whitney,
editor and journalist. He was one Of
the founders of the Boston Herald, and
founded and edited the New York Com
mercial Pathfinder. He removed to Flor
ida many years ago.
Rowles Colgate, the soap manufacture
er, died at his residence at Lakewood
y. ]. Mr.. Colgate was universally
known not only as q successful bust
ness man. but as a liberal dispenser of
charity He has at various times given
considerable to Methodist churches.
The electric light shown from the torch
of the Statue of Liberty, New York har-
Dor. which was extinguished in the fore
part of March by the lighthouse depart
the supervision of the war department.
to which it's control has been transferred
Plans have been filed with the build
ing bureau for a twclve-story hreproot
office and store building. with Il front
marble, pressed brick and terra Gotta, to
be built for the New York Realty Com
Thrty-fourth street. 1t is to cost $780,
COD.
Dash. pointer owned by Bernard Mi
cllacl of Union Hill. n. J., broke away
from a keeper who had him out for ex-
ercise and jumped from the Palisades in
Weehawken. He was picked up at the
bottom Of the cliff, stunned but unin-
jhred. The keeper says the dog I'M
doubte1y tried suicide.
An eighteen story apartment hotel is
to be erected at the southwest corner OF
Fifth avenue and Fifty-hfth street,
carried forward immediately by the Fiji
ty-ffth Street Company. Including the
cost Of the ground the new structure will
represent an investment of about S.
100000.
Sam Bernard, the comedian who has
been identified with Weber & Fields. an
nounces that he had secured his release
from those managers and would not be
seen with them after this season. The
news came in a telegram received by
friends of Mr.. Bernard in this city, and
was in the nature of Il surprise to theat-
rlcal people generally.
The district attorneys detectives are
actively engaged i'll working UP the tes-
timOny for the second trial of Roland Il.
MolineuX, and believe that they have un-
earthed several important witnesses
They assert that the new testimony ma
will go far toward relieving the prose-
cution from depending upon handwriting
experts
It is SAID that the will of the late
William n. West, the minstrel. probably
estate Valued at about 100000 lie
left $1,000 to his sister, Eliza Gibbons of
RoekaWay. and her counsel obtained per-
mission from the surrogate court in
Brooklyn to examine the witnesses to the
will. Counsel declined to say why he
desired to examine the witnesses.
Great mystery has been thrown around
is generally admitted that the n Burclar rs
got away with more than 500, 900 worth
OF sllverware and gems. Other reports
say one diamond necklace alone among
the loot was worth fortune Those in
the secret absolutely. refuse. to divulge
the name of the loser, but the police ad-
NIT that the home robbed was that Of
one OF the leading families of New York.
It is a remarkable and praiseworthy
rule they have adopted at the Waldorf.
Astoria cafe. If anyone has heretofore.
been inconvenienced when taking a
friend to dine or when dining alone by a
third party planking himself down at the
same table he can cut this out and paste
it in his hat. Such intrusions are to be-
tolerated no more. An edict has gone
forth that, no matter if only one be at a
table, the table is to be the castle Of that
one so long as he is there.
When Mrs. John Himrod of BROOKLYN
saw the announcement that her daughter,
Sybil Clifton. an actress. had been be-
queathed 100000 by Huntington Hale
of Beaumont. Tex, she was somewhat
surprised. The dispatch said that Hale
was Miss Clifton's uncle. ''The man was