The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-01-29
NEWS OBJ TN me- WEEK
enyasR!s Two GR1strN LIZ.

Sidney Nebraska for the Sand Hill country
south OF Snake river in search of stolen ponies
run of hy Indians. The party is we'll armed.
Daniel NJ Morley, postmaster at Nor
ley, Barron county Wis, was arrested and
confined In Jail at Chippewa Falls, january
Saith, for raping his own daughter last
August. Morley is As years old His daugh
Ter is held in custody by her bondsnen at
Barron, Wis. u
A report from Sitting Bulls camps is
to the effect that he is, apparently, extremely
anxious TO make peace with the whites and
return to the United States He says he has
had enough OF war, that he made q mistake
in warning upon The whites. BY so doing he
lost his country.
4 BelNidere. N. J., telegram says:
Convicted officials of this county have been
sentenced to terms in the State prison rang
ing from one TO Jour years-all to hard labor
The contractor involved in the conspiracy to
plumber the treasury was sentenced to six
months in the county Jail or to pay fine of
$780, 49, .
Friday Jan. cath, three negroes AT
Meriden, Mississippi, named Alexander and
three white men named Gamblin quarreled
about the possession OF some land in Wayne
county. and later, the negroes ambushed the
white men, killing one and wounding another
The fire was returned and two negroes were
killed. lha other fed. ~
Thursday night Jan. $50, a well-fo do
farmer nsmed 0, P Hall, residing near! the
village OF Nashville, Iowa. rose in the night,
and, with an axe, split open the head of his
Gi,4 oil
thereafter shot himself with pistol, with
fatal effect. No cause is know, as he was I'M
usually fond Of his family. a.- q
There were two incendiary fires in St.
Paul, Mimi, Sunday morning, January Goth.
In each case q small barn was fred, and before
the fire was extlp guished in one, it broke out
in the other some distance away. IN the
latter horse was burned. The wind was
blowing almost a gale, but by the We'll exerted
efforts Of the fremen, the FIRE was confined in
each case to the building in which it orig
inated.
In he United States curcuit court in
Jacksonville, Fiorioa, January %, Judge
Settler sentenced the Breyard county can
WASHING hoard convicted of making false re-
turns of the election. The Lee county clerk
Johns, sheriff and Justice respectively, to one
year each in the Albany penltentiary. Lee is
also Stale Senator from Breyard county; All
the other election cases have been continued
until the May term of court.
Al st. Louis, Mo-. January "A. John
T. Hickey, a restaurant waiter, about IL years
Of are stole q coat from the public school
library and attempted to escape through an
alley near by. He was pursued by Officer
Hamilton and ordered to halt, but paying no
attention to the command, Hamilton fired at
him, the ball taking effect in the back just
above the kidneys, passing through to the
front part of the abdomen, INJECTING mortal
wound. Hickey was taken to the hospital.
g.. PERSONAL 1aND eoniTIOAL.
Paul MORN. life Senator ana Republi-
can in France, is dead.
MIS-. Capt Daniel Dobbins died at Erie
Pa, Jau 90, in her 100 year.
The number Of cipher kilograms in
Gen. Buffers possession is 640
Gen. Butler says portion Of the cipher
kilograms have been destroyed.
The President has signed the bill pro-
riding for the payment of arrears of pensions.
The Senate comnitte On commerce
have decided to report adversely on the New
York custom house nominations. @
Mr. Potter SAYS a. subcommittee will
be sent to New York to take testimony in
The cipher dispatches investigation.
w. ". Armstrong, OF the Clveland
l'lata>1es1e, is mentioned as the next Demo
cratic candidate for Governor Of Ohio.
- Hon John Cad walader of Philadelphia
Judge OF the United States eastern district Of
Pennsylvania, died Jan. 26, aged ID years.
Jan. %, lewis p Cloner, a survivor Of
the Dartmoor massacre during the war OF
1872 died at Brooklyn, N. Y, aged 50 years.
In New York city, the jury in the libel
suit Of Wallace P Groom against Peter Coop
er, for $4,000 damages brought in a verdict
for the defendant.
Matt Carpenter was oyated on his ar
rival at Milwaukee. Go. the conquring hero
comesn seemed 10 be the sentiment OF his
trends.
The Senate committee on commerce
had long session, Jan. 23d, without dispos-
Ing of The New York custom house nomina
tions.
4. bill has been introduced in the Wis
q cousin Senate, prohibiting the sale Of liquors
within one mile Of any building used exclu-
sively for the confinement Of insane patients.
Rev. G. D. Birdsell, protestant mis-
sionary ut Aspinwall, died January 18th. He
was a graduate OF Baldwin University, Bereau,
Ohio, and had been on the 1sthmus only three
mouths. tA
Attorney General Devins has requested
the solicitor general to proceed to Alabama
for the purpose of defending federal officers
in that State recently arrested by the local
court of selma.
Ashland, Va, telegram: r. Il. Beal
conservative elected to the FortY-sixth Con
gress has been chosen to fill the vacancy
caused by the death OF Representative Doug
las The vote was small.
In file Senate OF Arkansas the rebe
spirit see ms not to be wholly laid, A rcsolr
ton was introduced to remove the portraits
of Lincoln and Grant, aud substitute thost
Il OF Lee and jackson. 1T WIS rejected Is TO O.
The Gen.tButler State central COMMITTEES
Of Massachusetts recently held meeting ane
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