The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-12-02
NEWS BREYITIEs.

The official gazette declares Berlin and
nelghboring towns in a state of siege for an
other year.
The steamship Hessing. which called from
Havre Saturday for New York, brings 1900 Goo
francs in specie.
ed the rivers about New York and navigation
has been resumed.
The foundry of Lennox 4 Co.. at Mattoon,
Illinois, was burned Saturday night, Loss
$4,000; insurance $4,000.
The commander and six of the crew of 81,
n. schooner Sand Fly, have been murdered by
the natives of the Solomon Islands.
The hoisting works Of the Wales Oonsoli.
dated mine at Eureka, New. burned Saturday
night. The miners escaped by another outlet.
The Penobscot river, Maine. closed earlier
this season than any year since 1842. The ice
u nowsi inches thick and SIX vessels are frozen
in.
The European, American & Canadian cable
government for an act of incorporation. It
promises an independent and competing cable
line.
The recent earthquake shocks in British Co.
lumbia were very violent. Glaciers were split
from base to Summit and great masses cast in
to the valleys and creeks, completely filing
them up.
0Onuon u1spaicn says danlau mas Issued
. challenge to Laycock, Offering to row him
for E4OO side, the match to be made at once
else Hanlan will sail Dec. I'd.
Cadet Midshipman B. J. Pierce, of Illinois,
died at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Sun
day, of pleurisy, aggravated by erysipelas--
the third cadet who has died there this month.
A broken rail on the Denver & Bio Grande
railroad, between Pueblo and Colorado Springs,
threw locomotive from the track Sunday and
0oN k6n o.
the fireman.
OF dependency on account of unrequited love-
threw herself in front of q passenger train in
Fairmont. Illinois, Saturday, and was in
stantly killed.
Joseph Craig. who was the Democratic candi-
date for Congress in the St. Joseph, (Mo. dist
riot has withdrawn his contest and the certificate
of election will probably be given to Nicholas
Ford, the Repubican-Gr eenback candidate.
An immigration society for Missouri, of
which Thomas W. Fisk General Sherman's
son-in-law) is president, is to be incorporated
this week and proposes to spare no effort to
turn immigration to Missouri the coming
spring.
In the Hungarian diet Saturday the for
midable competition of America in grain and
Hour was urged as pressing reason for pro-
viding cheap transportation through the in
terror of Hungary by improving river and
canal navigation.
Gen. Geo. B. Crittenden, eldest son of the
late John G. Crittenden, died at his home in
Danville, KY, Saturday. He was graduate of
West Point and served in the regular and con-
federate armies with distinction. He will be
buried at Frankfort.
A boiler explosion in Andrew Moore's foun.
dry at Charlotte, Mich, Saturday afternoon,
entirely demolished the building, killed Geo.
Moore, son of the proprietor, and another man
whose name is not given, and dangerously
scalded four others.
The survivors Of Farragut's feet and Porter's
mortar fleet, will petition Congress for an APP
preparation of $l43, 464 to pay them arrears of
prize money which the supreme court has ruled
belongs to the combined fleets for the destruc-
ton Of the enemy's vessels in April, 1862.
A fire broke ont Sunday evening in the base
ment of the Cannon Street NJ. E. church,
Poughkeepsie, N. T., which was fortunately
discovered in time to dismiss the congregation
without panic, when the fire was extingaished.
Had the flames gained Roadway the congrega-
ton would have been penned in the building