Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-06-28
BRIEF NOTES OF
GENERAL INTEREST

| Because of the report that an astrolo-
ger had predicted disaster to Sunday
school excursions this summer, about
400 persons who had bought tickets
failed to go on the outing of Scott
church school of Wilmington, Del, TO
! Woodland beach by the steamer Thomas
| Clyde.
A jury i'll justice court at Cherry
Box, Mo, has acquitted Joseph Loft of
the charge of assault and battery pre-
| ferred by Ed Rhodes. suiIor for the hand
of Lofts daughter The decision in effect
| is that the father had the right to give
the young man a beating, because the
youth drove by the Loft home, with the
! intention of coaHing away the daughter
for a ride.
A swarm of bees settled in Lexington
! street near Howard. in the center of the
retail district of Baltimore, and inter-
rupted traffic for a time. The insects at
tached themselves to an awning, forming
solid mass about a foot in thickness,
which hung over the middle of the side
walk. Finally a stallkeeper from Lex
lngton market near by climbed upon a
step ladder and brushed the bulk OF them
| into a box with his bare hand.
Miss Copeland H. Rowlett of Rich
mond, Va, was dressed in her wedding
gown, the guests had assembled, the min
lister was present and everything was in
readiness for the tying of the nuptial
knot when the bridegroom telephoned to
the church that he had decided not to
get married. The young man was at the
home of the bride-to-be an hour before
| the ceremony was to have been per-
formed. No excuse was offered by the
young man other than that he had
changed his mind.
The discharge of Amanda Delaplaine,
| the cook, by Mrs. Benjamin Walters
was the browning act of family troubles
that Immediately preceded the suicide of
Benjamin Walters well-to-do merchant
at Madison, Ill. Twenty minutes before
his death Mrs. Delaplaine says Walters
begged the cook to disregard his wife's
authority and retain her position in the
household. Overhearing a quarrel be-
tween Mr.. and Mrs. Walters, Mrs. Della
| plaine says she reconsidered her inten-
ton to yield to Mr.. Walters request and
| left the place.
G. w. Thomas. business man of
Jefferson City, Mo-, unexpectedly got the
| benefit of the 2-cent rate law by riding
free on the Missouri Pacific railroad
| from st. Louis. He said to the conduc-
| tor:
II tender you in the presence of these
witnesses the fare from st. Louis to
Jefferson City at the rate of 2 cents a
mile. You can accept it or put me off.
The conductor, not wishing to enter
| into a possible legal ENHANCEMENT, per-
mitted Thomas to ride the 125 miles free.
| Failing from a fourth floor porch,
| 2-year-old Vera Moose of Chicago es-
capped uninjured because her S-year-old
sister, at the risk of her own life,
rushed beneath the falling child and
| caught her in her arms.
Il caught her just like basketball, .
Gladys calmly explained after she had
picked herself up unhurt from the ground
! on which she and the rescued baby had
rolled. ''Some of us girls saw bas-
| ket ball game over in the park the other
day and we try to play it now.
Il just ran under her and held out my
| arms like this. When she struck |
| thought [ was gone, but l came to all
right in minute
DIR. Thomas Jefferson Jackson See,
the famous astronomer of the United
States naval observatory at Mare is
land, Cal, has given out a remarkable
interview.
He says he has discovered the one
| common cause of the six great classes OF
natural phenomena-the secular leakage
of the ocean bottom which gives rise
to the development of steam beneath the
earth's crust owing to the earth's in
ternal heat.
| He also points out that the chief dan
ger of these agitations is along the sea
coast, and, while serving useful pur-
pose, it is we'll to be prepared for their
visitation, to prevent great destruction
of life and property. as has often nap
pened, owing to lack of understanding OF
| natural laws.
Will the increase in the price of
dressed meats in the United States bring
about conditions which now prevail i'll
| Germany, where, due to the scarcity of
| beef. the people have accustomed them
selves to eating horse and dog flesh !:
i In Germany about $4,000 horses and
| 1000 dogs are slaughtered annually for
food Horse flesh is very generally adj
vertised in the German newspapers, and
most cities in the empire have at least
one market which makes it a speciality,
claiming for it higher percentage of
nourishment than beef, veal, mutton or
pork Consular reports received at the
state department say that advertise
ments appear regularly III the German
newspapers for dogs to be slaughtered,
and often when the available supply
runs low valuable animals are stolen
/ to be converted into food.
| Bees. hilarious and made proud with
wine. have aroused the fashionable resi-
dents of Pasadena, Cal, by their mirth-
full and singing pranks and the majesty
of the law has been appealed to in the
hope of suppressing their gaiety.
| District Attorney Fredericks has been
visited by several residents of Pasadena,
including a few owners of small apiaries,
who complained to him that the bees
and flies of the Crown City are making
nuisances of themselves by becoming in
toxicated upon fermented orange juice.
| The residents allege that the proprietors
of the Disbrow Nursery have a large
force of japanese employed extracting
seeds from partially rotted oranges, and
in the process Of squeezing the seeds
| from the oranges small stream of
orange juice flows from the place, which
attracts millions of flies and bees. which
become incorporate. The nursery uses
the seeds for planting.
William Michael of Lawton, o. T., ar
rived at the Union station at st. Louis
to meet Miss Bertha Schleuter of Ash
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