The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-09-04

ed: GOV. Gear ttelegraphed prominent officials
i atWashington for advice, and it was strongly
recommended to him to call an. extra session
of the legislature to provide a,sinsle .clectior
! of all officers in November. This is known
to be the Judgment Of Secretary McCpary
who is recognized % authority on the, subject
| There is no doubt that Gov Gear will call the
Legislature together soon.
MORAL CHARACTER OF pCGNa4ksAY
A Salt Lake Mormon with two wives
| took them before the Third district court .e1
that city asking for naturalization papers foi
! the second wife. She answered in the affirm.
alive to the question whether she was living
| in polygamy, whereupon the district attorney
objected thai she was not of good moral
| character, and the objection was sustained.
! The Euening Ns,os, Mormon church organ,
advices polygamous wives hereafter, on any
matter which the law of the land is concern,
cd, to call themselves by their maiden names
and in any court to take the position of un-
married women. -.1 .et.
HANIFAX AWARD. ed.
In recent conversation on the sub
| ject Of the Halifax award, Secretary Evarts
expressed his himself in way that plainly
shows no propositioe has been made in cor.
rcspondence with the British government
| looking to renewal~of principles Of recipro-
! city between the Dominion and United States.
| According to Englishuiews as expressed in
the London press, the real object of MIR.
Evarts in opening up correspondence with
| the British, foreign office in relation to the
Halifax award, is to put the award and the
new reciprocity treaty together, so as to OBJ
tain negotiations for thestter at the time the
| former is liquidated.
KILLED.
A Cheyenne telegram says, the removal
of the spikes and 6sh plates drom rail two
miles east of Medicine Bow, near o deep ra-
| vine, gave rise to suspicion that it had been
done With a view 60 wreck and rob train.
| Deputy Sheriff Weddowfield and another
named Vincent started on what was believed
| to be the Trail of the would-be robbers, and
| not returning, a large party started in search
| of them. One of the party has returned and
| states that the bodies ct Weddowfeld and
| Vincent were found in a narrow canon OF Blk
mountain, where they probably met the gang
of robbers and were killed, the former receiv-
| ing two bullets in the neck and the latter four
| in the chest.
EXPLOSION.
A terrific explosion of the boiler OF a
steam thresher occurred Oh the farm of Mr. C.
Fritz, two miles from Lewiston, Winona Co.,
| Mimi, on the Goth ult, killing August
Schnialling,a neighboring farmer, Otto Fritz
boy of IA, and three strangers named Mike
Neimire, George Lawrance, and Charles
! schmidter. A stranger named G. Wnderline
| was severely injured, but not fatally. Work
had been stopped to change the sieves and
| he engineer neglected to shut the hampers
The steam rose very rapidly and the explo-
sion occurred while tie engineer had gone to
| the separator. The engineer was not hurt.
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
At Clear Lake, Ind, August %, the
! third annual session of the Sunday schools of
the Northwest closed triumphantly The
closing addresses were made by E. w.
Allen, Jr., R. Berry, Mrs. J. Ellen Foster,
A. A. Abbott, and others. Superintendent
Warden was unanimously and enthusiastical-
ly reelected for next year. The deficiency
occasioned by the false and slanderous reports
set aaoat was subscribed by members and
friends present, and to-day over $4,000 have
been pledged by citizens Of Clear Lake and
vicinity to guarantee all expenses Of the next
assembly not met by its regular income
Paiso, vending and other popular speakers
are already promised for next year.
FIRE AT PUT-N-BAY. >.-f@- =
A Ere at Putin Bay Island, few days
ago, destroyed the Putin Bay House and six
other buildings. The fire occurred in the
cupola of the hotel. The guests, $50 in mum.
Der, were promptly warned; and the rooms
were speedily emptied of clothes and valu'
ables. There was great deal of confusion
for time, but all property was saved except
the hotel building, a frame structure about
700 feet long and three stories high, which
cost $4,000 It was completely destroyed.
Insured for it's value, though, perhaps not for
| its cost. The furniture was all saved. There
were some several hundred dollars in money
collected for fever sufferers, which was in
charge of the ladies who had collected it.
There was no loss of life and no one hurt ex-
! cept Col. Sweeney, one OF the managers oil
the hotel, who was slightly bruised.
INCENDIARY FIRE.
An ilcendiary fire occurred in St. Paul
Mimi, on the night of August 80, commencing
in the barn OF John Norris, 81 Norris street
The, flames leapt up with wonderful vigor
and succeeded in totally destroying thu
structure in which they originated. Adjoin
ing the barn was the workshop of Charlie.
Bishop, maker up of furs, which was alst
ignited, as was the barn of Mr.. Nicholas or
the west. Ryan's barn contained an ice ches
and other various household goods, the valu,
OF which he dould not estimate, but all wa
fully insured. Bishops workshop was fillet
with furs belonging to various wholesale
houses in the city, and the damage on tn,
goods he placed at between 5000 and $500
There is an insurance of 5000 on Bishops owl
materials. The Nicholas property was onl,
damaged by an exterior scorching, and is ais,
covered by insurance.
THE QUINCY ILLINOIS BANK.
The following notice was posted OF
the doors of the First National and Quinc,
Savings Banks, on the morning of Aug. 19
. In order to do equal justice to all parties an
to insure the full and speedy payment OF al
, their creditors at the earliest possibl