The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-03-10

ton to select delegates to the Chicago conven-
ton will be held at Dss Moines, April 10
Horace Maynard, United States minis
ter at Constantinople, has sailed frou Smyrna
on three months tour in Syria and Egypt.
Surgeon General Maxwell Wood, U. s
n. died March lst at his residence, Owing's
Mills, Baltimore county, Maryland, aged 70
years.
The Greenback, congressional election
at Sheibyyille, Indiana, March 4, nominated
Gilbert De La Martyr, present member for re-
election
Joseph Hardy, who was fatally injured
in Hastings, MINI, March 4, by railroad &C.
cident, was buried in St. Paul on Sunday,
March 7.
Tie congressional House committee on
| commerce have authorized favorable report
| upon the bill making st. Vincent, MINI a
port of entry.
Gen. Ntyes, American minister at Par
! is returned March O. from his tour to East
! Africa and Spain, and has resumed the func-
| tons of his office.
The committee on appropriations have
ecided to incorporate in the special deficien :
(! cy bill an item of 100000 to complete the
| Chicago custom house.
The President has withdrawn the name
of P. 8. B. Pinchback (colored) as naval officer
! of New Orleans, thus leaving Lewis (colored)
the incumbent undisturbed.
Secretary Sherman was in New York
March 3, and accepted proposals for s25l6OOO
of skies 1S8O-8l, at 104 for the former, and
los, IS to 1O5S714EE for the latter.
The House committee on ways and
means, on the morning Of March 2, virtually
decided against a revision of the tariff laws
the present session by vote Of to 6.
The committee on elections, Represen
tative Weaver alone dissenting, adopted the
majority report in favor of slemens, sitting
member, and against Bradley, contestant.
The president nominated March 8,
Charles A. Galloway, for collector of internal
revenue of Third District of Wisconsin, and
Henry T. French for postmaster at Mortified
Minnesota.
Grissell, who was arrested during the
last session of the English parliament for de-
claring he was able to bribe parliament, was
March 3, brought to the bar of the House of
Commons. He read humble apology and
then, on motion Of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, was committed to Newgate
In the House, March 5, Mr.. LeFevre,
from the committee on military affairs, OBJ
tanned unanimous consent and reported bill
for the relief of Father Gillen, of Indiana, for
services rendered as chaplain in the army OF
the Potomac. The bill passed without aay
objection.
The Republican members of the Maine
legislature met on the evening of March 5 and
chose the following delegates to Chicogo ma
tioual convention: Eugene Hale, Jos. R. Bod
we'll, E. T. Gill and Almond Strout. Alternates
Orville d. Baker friedrich N. Dow, VIM, H.
Simpson, A G. Hamlin. Resolutions were
adopted reafiirming the principles of the party
and urging the nomination of Blaine.
At Cleveland, OHIO, at 90 minutes past
l o'clock on the morning of March 5, a gale
accompanied by thunder and lightning, that
had been blowing thirty three miles, suddenly
raised to velocity 48, shifting southwest to
southeast, and continued five minutes. It did
great damage to chimneys fences and signs,
and trees were blown down. A brick wall two
feet thick on Broadway was thrown over, and
several small frame buildings were wrecked.
The headlight OF Doan's tirJh works was
thrown against and set fire to gasoline tank
entailiLg damage Of $50. Three hundred dol
lars worth of plate glass in the front of Odd
Fellows block On Pearl street were ruined.
The Cleveland female seminary, Woodland
avenue, was half unroofed and part of the up
per west wall was torn of. About 70 young
ladies were sleep ng in the building, but none
were injured. The roof of the new b,ick wire
mill OF the Cleveland Rollining Mill Co, in
the eighteenth ward was uplifted and one end
was blown in on the workmen killing Julius
Brown and iniuring several others.