The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-10-16
MISCELLANEOUN.

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The savings bank at Lexington, Mass,
is being closed up. There will be no loss to
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The First National bank at Tamaqua,
Pa, has suspended Assets $3.50, 900. Liabili-
ties not known. - .a4
A Constantinople correspondent of the
Political Correspondents, while confirming the
statement that official circles value the main.
tenance of good relations with Austria says,
nevertheless, both in the palace and else.
where, agitation is kept up against Austria.
A Constantinople dispatch says the
Porte has received information that the Rus.
rianople, presumably from the north. All
foreign military attaches have left Constanti-
nople to verify this intelligence. -.
Old Indians, squaws and pappooses of
the Bannock.. tribe, have been maintained on
the reservation this summer, while the young
Indians have been on the war path. That Is
beautiful Indian policy" arms and equips
the savages, and supports their squaws on the
reservation, while the "bands" are on the war
path, numbering frontier settlers. ere
Heugh Balfour & Co.. of Manchester,
Eng. have failed. Liabilities estimated between
one million and two million sterling. The
firm Of Heugh Be flour & Co., was one of the
Oldest eastern shipping houses in Manchester
100000 of their liabilities fall chiefly on
Manchester cloth and yarn agents The fail
ure was announced at the close of business
and caused immense excitement. Their fail
ure will affect several small firms. as ...,.
A courier from Spotted Tail reports
that a band of Indians crossed Wounded Knee
creek going in the direction of the new Red
Cloud agency. From information gathered
from couriers, ETC., no less than four parties
of hostile Cheyennes are said to have crossed
between Camp Robinson and Wounded Knee
going north, and the belief is these Indians
have been aided in evading troops by runners
from Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies.
The CSoiS and MILITARY Gazette states
that General Sir Frederick Paul Haines,
commander in. chief of the British force in
India will assume command at Peshawur,
where $4,000 troops are already concentrated
Reinforcements for the British army continue
to arrive, and war is considered inevitable.
The Afghans are practicing with heavy guns
in Khyber Pass, and it is believed Ali Musiid
had been strengthened and armed with heavy
siege guns. ,:.%-
Great Indignation is expressed at the
ineficiency and laundering action of Thorn
burgh's command in letting the Indians on
the South Platte river escape. Even a court
martial is talked of. A Leavenworth, Kansas,
telegram says, the number of white settlers.
ranchmen and herders killed by the reds dur
ing their sweep through the northwestern
part Of that State is estimated at at least
seventy-fve and probably more, many being
killed who will doubtless never by heard from.
Some twenty-five or thirty women were out
ragged and murdered. ~ 5.'."
The steamer Belgise arrived at San
Francisco with Hong Kong dates to Sept 10Th
and Yokohama dates to 2nd. The difficulties
between the foreign Christian missions and
native fanatics continue in the province of
Fa Kien. Churches and schools were burned
down by the rioters. Dangerous mobs have
occurred in the district of Chusan in conse-
thousand peasants threaten to rise at Negpo
The officials have only $4,000 troops in the
neighborho cd. Several lives are already los
in dissultorY conflicts.
The yellow fever continues distressing.
ly severe at the South. A new element O
trouble is being developed. A Vicksburg,
Miss, telegram reads as follows: The reli,
problem is assuming very unsatisfactory
phase. The Senegambian wards of the nation
are all allying in body uuder the tocsin Of
government rations. They are leaving corr
unpicked on the stocks, and the cotton in the
balls, to flock to every point where relief is
dispensed. They have carried the fever from
the river inland for $50 miles, carrying more
woe and restitution than ever did Sherman's
bummers or rebel gurrillas. There is plenty
OF work for every mothers son of them on
the plantations, levee and river, but thew have
abandoned the former, and the latter are in
consequence idle and deserted
At Mount Vernon, Indiana, seven
negroes entered house of illfame and BY
threats and violence succeeded in rayishine
five white women living there. Four of the
negroes were arrested, Deputy sheriff Thomas
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rison, father of one of theithree missing ones
to make an arrest of his son.s Dan Harrison re.
sisted their entrance to the house and shot
Deputy Thomas killing him instantly
Deputy Hayes shot the old man, shatterinp
his arm. The news spread rapidly, and soon
mob of several hundred men surrounded
the jail where the old man Harrison had
been taken to keep company with the fou,
previously incarcerated. The jail is very in
secure, and the mob surro unded it to prevent
the prisoners beng taken to Evansville TO,
safe keeping. Hearing that militia had been
ordered from Evansville the 900 A. M. train
was stopped by the mob mile before reach.
ing Mt. Vernon and searched. Finding NO
soldiers, the train was permitted to pass on,
The crowd around the jail increased in pro.
portion toward night. The telegraph opera.
tor was run out Of his Office at $50 P. NJ.
About 100 men in long black masks proceed.
ed to the jail at O'Clock, took the four pris.
oners arrested Tuesday and hung them in the
Jail yard. The old man Harrison was cut to
pieces and thrown down a privy vault. After
perpetratlng the horrible deed the mob dis.
persed. The bodies of the, four negroes
hung all day from the branches of the locust
trees IN the courtyard. At 5 o'clock they
were cut down and buried. The town is still
in state of tremen dous excitement over the
aHalr: Merry half score of persons have lost