Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-06-04
NEW YORK EVERY DAY.

The appearance of the pocket stocking
is simultaneous with the souvenir hosiery
intended to commemorate the st. Louis
exhibition. One sample shows black
ribbed foot and ankle, which breaks off
suddenly at the calf to three stripes. the
French tri-color, above which pure white
runs to the top. Upon the stripes are
worked in silk the words, Louisiana Elk
position, st. Louis. 1904
Figures made public Mt Fills island
show that there has been n perceptible
decrease in immigration since January /,
rs compared with the hgureS Tor the
anne period Of last year. Up to May is
he total number of persons who landed
at Ellis island this year is 210,2iS, which
iS ';o,NO less than the number of ar
rivals for that period last year, The de-
crease for May, as compared with May.
1865, is l0,T1l
The Western Union Telegraph com
pany is paying State Senator George
ttaineS 500 day To prosecute George
H. Borden, its operator ut Avon. 1t is
alleged that Borden received message
and sent it as being dispatched from an
other town. that he destroyed the orig
lnai copy, and pocketed the 80 cents
charges Other employees are under sur
VIGILANCE for this practice and wholesale
arrests of operators may follow. The
technical charge is forgery.
Mrs. Carrie McGuire returned from
Italy, where She had been tourin- Tor
three years, ana went to Bellevue nos
ptal to get news of her friend Mrs
Lucy Clark, who had been in the hos
pital for almost Il year before She left
Tor Europe. 1t was found that Mrs
Clark died October 1. 1899, a few days
after Mrs. Mcclure left the country,
aud had been buried in potter's field 1T
Is outrageous declared Mrs. McGuirc,
who SAID she saw a number of savings
bank paSSh0okS in Mrs. Clark's posses
SION and knew they represented amounts
exceeding S3c,0Ou Mrs, Clark came to
New lorlr from Chicago fifteen years
&@u.
Inmates of Sing Sing halted Mt first
on the lines, My country. It's of thee,
sweet land of liberty" hut sang il with
VIII after Mrs. Ballngton Booth had
explained that there was a liberty of
soul into which all might enter. There
were 100 charter members ON the prison
league rolls when Mrs, Balington Booth
et the Volunteers Of America organized
1t at Sing Sing. There are now %. 600
ineh IN the organization in the United
States. aud the country is a debtor la
Mrs. Booth for thousands once sinh.
merged who have been reclaimed Mrs
Booth spoke ot 2O,OOU members i'm nri~np
and cut who belonged To branches OF The
league. and read dispatches of cuugrata.
ll8t'on from Joliet and other prisons Ia
the west
Three thousand prompt hooks. many
OF which are In the writing of such o,f.
as as Garrjck. Macready Forrest and
teoth. containing in themselves am In.
itmAte history of the English stage If
iNtaitutahic Importance, drr given IN thr
New York public library by .b, will of
ne hate lame, BeckS. veteran actor
Wlo died he athey day in 81. Louis.
/; was the iuteuiou OF the ,a>tafor
who made the ana>>iua of I'M. conr'.,,a,
q NE work. that the volumes should he
placed whore they might bp freely con
>uLcd by the dramatic profession. He
was once persuaded ia offer the rnIls,.-
ton for sale to Yale university and hn
was clad when the negotiations failed
Ter he feared that if il were SO p|acei
thar II would not be of much benefit ia 81
profession 10 which it should be- of fh,
moSt use. \ nominal valuation of $40.
zoo Was placed upon it at that tim, Inn,
i Is believed that mn examination hv ey.
periS will show that it is of far greater
yaluc.
Elizabeth r. Greenbough of New
York. widow of Benjamin T. Gre.n-
hough. has brought suit against Henry
IL. Rogers of the Standard oil company
and the executors of Charles Pratt. ono.
Mr.. Rogers partner for $4,000 600. II
is the biggest suit ever brought In Mas.
SachuscttS. One quarter Of cent %