The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-12-25
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There is more snow on the Vurgas than
the oldest inhabtant remembers
Three boys were drowned in Cam
| bridge, Mass, Dec 2lst, while skating.
The returns OF the Union workhouse in
the east of London show widespread poverty
and distress.
There was heavy snow storm, Dec.
to railroad trains.
At Sheffield 1900 children and 5000
adults received beds last week The mayors
relief fund amounts to $4,000.
The Touring mill of White, Nash &
Co., of Lanesboro, Mimi, was destroyed by
fire, Dec. Goth. Loss, $4,000
At Oakland Park, Cal, Dec. 21st,
Rarus trotted the first heat in a:l4; the second
heat with running mate in 2:1411a.
A statue to Charles Sumner was un-
yelled in Boston, Dec. 2sd, by the governor.
The statue is in the public garden.
In New York city, December f17th,
gold sold at par, the first time since the sus-
pension of specie payment in 1862. ~
At Cahoes, N. Y, Patrick Bourke and
| house on the night Of December 18th
Great excitement has been caused III
Cincinnati by the failure of the banking house
of c. F. Adae & Co. Liabilities $6sO,0OO.
A Liverpool dispatch says it is many
| years since the working classes endured
such distress and priyation as at the present
| time.
Reports from large number Of places
represent the distress as very great and in.
creasing among the better class of mechanics
! and working men. ........a
There was $4,000 fire occurred at
| Oxford, Miss, on a late morning. BY the
collision Of two freight trains in Trevton,
| Ontario, two brakemen were killed.
! A great fall of snow is reported in
England and throughout the continent. All
! railways in the north of Scotland are block
| AIDED. Seventeen trains are showed up. Il.
At StOctOn the distress is increasing.
Hundreds Of families of iron workers are des-
titule, and all influential committee is can
wasting for subscriptions and contributions.
At Treichlero, Pa, December 10Th, the
clothing OF q child of Mrs. Mench was acct
| dentally set on fire, and in an attempt to ex-
| tinguish the flames the mother and child were
| burned to death.
At the 23d annual dinner of the New
England Society in New York city, Dec %,
Secretary Evarts, Secretary Sherman, Senator
Blaine and many other distinguished gentle
men were present and spoke.
| Advices from Stockholm state that an
other firm, ]. Hirsch, has failed, with 100000
crowns liabilities, its difficulties having arisen
| through the fall in the price of iron. and also
from improbable speculations in buildings
and lands
The secretary OF the treasury has issued
a circular to customs officers authorizing
them to receive, after the LIST of January,
United States notes as we'll as gold coin and
standared silver dollars in payment of duti es
on importations.
The Illinois & St. Louis bridge has
been sold under a decree Of court, foreclosing
the first and second mortgage bonds It was
purchased in the name of Anthony J. Thomas,
Of New York, who paid $4,000 gold as earnst
money The price paid is 100000
Ar Bennington a meeting, convened
by the mayor, has been held to consider the
best means to relieve the distress which is de-
clare0 to be exceptionally severe and increas
ing daily. The mayor was requested to Or
ganize means for raising and distributing re-
lief
The secretary Of the treasury has issued
a circular to collectors of the several ports
| that they are authorized to cause an inspec
ton to be made of cattle proposed to be ship
ped to Gr-'t Britain, and to give shippers a
certificate that the cattle shipped are free
1om disease.
John Green and team, at St. Paul, Min
nesota, Dec. 18th, were run over by gravel
train at the crossing of the st. Paul & Pa
citic railroad track, near the city mill Both
of his legs were crushed, and if he lives which
! is doubtful, one will have to be amputated
lie also received other injuries.
The Anti-MonopolIst newspaper,
established at st. Paul, Minnesota, five years
ago by Hon. Ignatius Donnelly, from the pub
LEGATION and control of which he retired last
November, has been suspended. The publ
cation will not be resumed. Mr.. Donnelly
announces that he will protect subscribers,
who have paid in advance, also, advertising
| contracts. .. -a ~.
| "~~S~t&''SA IOlus llGlu On
the Grand Rapids & Indiana railway struck
a cutter containing John McLntire his wife
and three children, at Hunts crossing near
Plainvlle, Mich. McIntire was Instantly
killed, and his wife and one child fatally in
jured. The train was stopped and the dead
taken to Pla;nville, where medical aid was
summoned.
A Topeka, Kan, dispatch says: In re-
Spouse to the demand made by the governor
of Kansas the authorities at Washington have
ordered the captured Cheyenne Indians to
Fort Leavenworth, with view to identifying
those guilty of outrages in the States, that
such may be turned over to the civil authori-
ties of Kansas for trial, and the remainder
returned to their agency in the Indian terri
tory.
A Portland, Oregon dispatch says, Gov.
Terry of Washington Territory, has been
closeted with Gen. Howard in that city, con-
sidering the alarming state Of affairs in the
eastern part of the territory, and the suspicious
attitude of Chief Moses and his band. STEPS
have been taken to secure the safety Of settlers
Two companies Of infantry and two of cavalry
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