The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-11-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK
oRTMEs AND UH1MIN41s !.

abscended with $4,000.
Il. w. Tompkins, treasurer of Bots,
county, Idaho, has committed suicide. Caus
unknown.
| A Deficit Of $4,000 has been found j,
the Louisville, Ky, agency, Of the Hartford
Connecticut, Mutual Life Insurance company
At Newcastle, Del, the other day, nine
convicts, six blacks and three whites wer,
publicly whipped, five being, also, pilloried
Patrick Coffee, an ex.convict at Still.
water, Minnesota, publishes q narrative Of nj
| legged brutal and inhuman treatment at thai
institution, +.. .sHs .gs.ss
An incendiary fire destroyed the
Manchester paper mills in Duchess county
N. Y, lately. Loss ST., 200. panic ensue(
but all escaped. -,.-g .e-. sx5. s:..s...-s
w. w. Bramham, of New Haven, Conn
accused of trying to drown his brother in tn.
Sound, to thereby increase his inheritance
has been bound in bonds of $4,000.
A dispatch from Sophia says couriers
bring reports that the Turkish Redifs have
mastered 800 inhabitants in the Bulgarian
village of Chresnitra, in Macedonia.
The Melbourn Argus gives an account
from the Island of New Britain of the massacre
OF three native Wesleyan missionaries, and the
roasting and eating of their bodies by noun.
tain cannibal tribes
During celebration in Pisa, Italy, of
Queen Margaret's birth day, bomb was
thrown into the crowd, but without serious
results. The person supposed to have thrown
the missile was arrested. ...a
Etheridge, the St. Paul, Minnesota,
absconding swindler it is believed has been
spotted" in San Francisco, and that he will
soon be returned to st. Paul. the scene OF his
v1llanies, and have justice melted out to him.
A man went over the bridge at ST..
Paul, Minnesota, Sunday about midnight,
The report of pistol, splash in the river.
and cry for help was heard, a prompt in
vestigation was made, but the man could not
be found
c. Reed Whipple, for fifteen years
clerk to the secretary OF the treasury of the
Union League club, Philadelphia, Pa, has
disappeared, leaving behind him letter in
which he confesses to an appropriation Of
$500 belonging to the club
Great excitement continues in italy. in
regard to the attempted assassination of the
King. There have been 800, arrests in Ma
pies. Its stated that the government has
proof OF the existence of vast association.
the object OF which is to kill the King
Joseph Toothman, an employee of the
freight office Of the Missouri Pacific railroad.
Sedalia, Mo-, and John Cornley, car repairer,
were arresthd in that city charged with steal
ing three bars Of bullion valued at s. 900 from
cars between that place and Kansas City tie
early part OF this month.
An ocean telegram has been received
at Chicago, by Geo. W. Pullman, from the
American consul at Lisbon, Portugal, stating
that Chas. W. Angel, the defaultinc secre-
Eary OF the Pullman Palace Car company, has
been arrested there, and that $4,000 of the
money taken by him has been found on his
person 1t is believed there will be little
1lf1lculty in securing his >extradition.
The Paris lAon5teur reports that preyi-
JUS to the arrival of King Humbert at Rome
NOV. n the police seized placards threatening
1eath to all Who joined in the ovation to him.
ne report has been in circulation, and ap-
bears to be confirmed, that dynamite was
ound on the rails shortly before the PASSAGE
u the royal train to Rome. Socialists hsye
been arrested at Padua and San Sepalcro.
Whalen and Burke, arrested for al|eoed
completely in the Stewart grave robbery, were
'ralgned before Justice Morgan, in the Jetfer-
on market police court New York on the
9th inst Capt. Byrnes made formal COM
'lalnt against the men, and counsel for the
PRISONERS began to cross-examine him. The
aptaln refused to give the name of the party
II partes who gave him the information
galnst the accused, and the counsel refused
proceed any further. The judge held the
prisoners in $4,000 to answer.
Eustace Knight, desperate character
vas shot and dangerously wounded on the |
otn INST, at Bellaire, Ohio, by Marsha, !
lrcher. The marshal understood to arrest
I'm 1or shooting a policeman named Creswell. !
oout Two weeks ago, when Knight fred at
I'm "hen only fifteen feet distant, and missed J
IN. Archer returned the fire, and his hall |
ook effect in Knights back knight ran half |
mile after he was shot, when he fell to the
round and gave himself up. The doctor.
0 OK "Sa1ust Ills recovery.
9 o. PERSONAL IND k.suITICAx
The English parliament will meet !
Zee. 5. s-. e.. .,.., ..... .>5s.. -,I~|
Louis Internationally, the Polish gener-
], is dead. ILL.,: :. -. ~;tse : : |
Congress will assemble in annual ses-
ion December I'd. -.}@ ..--r
Inc Democratic caucus, 1T Montgomery,
la, nominated Coy. George 8. Houston for
'nlted States Senator.
Edward Pierrepont, ex. United States
1lnlster to England, has resumed the prac-
ce OF law in New York city @%@ 1~'
AN order is to be issued for an inyesti-
alton at Chicago, Of the conduct of Major
emo, at the time Of the Custer massacre