The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-04-09
CASUALTIES.

A disastrous fire occurred in St. Louis
on the night of April 18th.
A man and four horses were burned ii
stable, in Brooklyn, N. Y. April.
The Pope's brother, Thomas Pecci will
be created cardinal at the Easter consistory
There was a $4,000 incendiary fire a,
Niverville, on the Hudson river, near Hudson
N. Y, March 31st.
Judge James R. Stewart of Boltinlore
member of the 35th and Seth Congresses
died April 4, aged II years.
In the Rhode Island State election
April 3, the vote was, Republican 971S
Democratic 5,515, majority S72.
A Berlin telegram of March 2, saws,
the Emperor William is steadily improving
and is expected out of doors soon.
Bismarck has received many birth day
congratulations. Even the liberal papers
publish complimentary articles.
At the municipal election in Wells
burg, W. Va, April Srd, the anti-license ticket
was elected by a handsome majority.
A famine prevails in upper Egypt.
An English commission sent to investigate
report several thousand deaths from starva.
ton.
The two st. Louis firemen, killed on
Friday night, the 18th of April, were buried
on Sunday, April 9th, with imposing cere-
mony.
David T. Corbin of South Carolina,
who unsuccessfully contested the seat of SEN
ator Butler has been appointed by the Presi-
dent chief justice of the supreme court of
Utah.
A landslide on the Lehigh Valley rail-
road, near Pittstown, Pa, March 81, threw the
locomotive of the New York passenger train
from the track, killing the engineer, and seri-
ously injuring the fireman.
A large Norwegian church, five miles
from Eden, Iowa, was burned by the late
prairie fire. In the same neighborhood a
child was fatally burned, and the father was
terribly burned in trying to save the child.
Three lives were also lost near Beloit.
On the MI ht of March 31st, fire was
discovered at Minneapolis, Mimi, in the feed
store of Day & Gilmore, at 9O3 Washington
avenue south. A delay of ten minutes in
sounding the alarm, the inflamable material
with which the store was stocked, caused the
fire to make rapid Roadway, and when the
hremen reached the scene the building and
the one adjoining, 200 Washington avenue,
were all ablaze. In few seconds the build
ing on the south side, 905, caught fire. The
brisk wind which prevailed, caused the fire to
burn fiercely, but the firemen worked with q
will and in an hours time had it under con-
troll. The three buildings named were con-
sumed. The fire caught from stove in Day
& Gilmores feed store. Loss about $4,000,
Insurance $4,000.
The Sioux City, Iowa, Journal has
startling reports Of the ravages OF the de-
structive prairie fires up the Big Sioux Val
ley and throughout Southern Dakota. The
fires on Saturday were of unusual force and
destructive beyond precedent. Poles on the
telegraph line on the Sioux City & Pembina
abroad were urned, so the lines have been
down, and reports from that quarter are not
full. merchant of Eden, in Sioux City Mon
day, tells narrowing tales of losses in that
quarter March Doth. From his store door,
the town occupying an elevated position, he
counted thirteen farmhouses in flames, and
he says more than forty farmers in that vicin-
lty have lost every thing, houses, barns, hay,
seed grain, etc. The flames travelled with
such rapidity that the people were unable to
save anything. The stricken people are
dazed by the terrible blow that has fallen on
them. Loss of life is also reported.