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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03
Queer Facts About Mo
From the Washington Critic.

From the Washing on Critic.
How many people know how
1 there is in this country of wha
1ple call Hmoney" how much /.
land silver coin and how muchin
backs and other paper cur
bearing the stamp ofthe Uniteds
government. Very few. Inqui
1.-THE treasury department. disc
the fact that there is, all told,
little over 100000, 900,
tween $50 and 40 apiece for {
man, woman and child in the u
States. OF this a little over one
is in gold and silver coin, and a
less than one-half in paper of val
kinds. OF the metal money al
two-thirds are in gold, and one-t
in silver. Of the paper about
third is in United States note,
greenbacks, oEe-fourth in silver G
ficates, one-fifth in natural bankn
and the remainder in various den
nations.
But the $4,000 900, 900 Of On
States currency are not all in eli
lating among the people. More II
one third is locked up in the trea $
building, and that's the normal st
OF things. One-half OF all the Q
and three-fourths of all the siIve
locked upin the treasury. The eli
latlon medium in use among the .
plei three.fourths paper, the lare
volume being in greenbacks, with
yer certificates next, then natio
bank notes, then gold certifica-
But we would not be doing gold
tice if we did not say that there
more gold in circulation than
one kind OF paper.
What a disproportion between
amount of wealth and the amo1
OF money in the United States!
the money in the country, includ
what is locked up in the treasu
would not be sufficient to buy
real estate and the personal prope
in the city of Washington.
Americans are not in the habit
carrying all their wealth in til
pockets, and that is why Americ
money is worth cent per cent. all !,
world over.
The largest greenback extant
worth $4,000, and there is only (
such note in existence. Of S.
notes there are seven; and when y
come down to the ordinary, eve
day 1000 note ''there's millions
it..
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03
MINOR ACCIDENTS.

Wli&On ASSIDENlSs
Fire in Milwaukee destroyed the factory OF
the Island Sash and Door company. Loss
about $25 900: light insurance.
The entire business portion of Cerrillos, N.
NJ, ffty miles north of Albuquerque, has
been destroyed by fire. Loss about $780,
900.
A passenger train on tho Wabash was
wrecked near Silver City, Iowa. Several per-
sons were injured, but only two tatally-the
engineer and fireman.
Three distinct shocks of earthquake were
felt at Santa Rosa, Cal. They were quite
severe. People were awakened from their
slumber. The vibrations we're from north to
south.
AS passenger train on the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific railroad was nearing the
station at Joliet ILL.,, one coach, the chair
car, sleeper and dinner took another track
and overturned. Mrs. Annie Severson,
widow, OF Morris, ILL.,. and Mrs. A. Pratt of
Joliet We're instantly killed and seven other
passengers were injured, butnot seriously.
At Sheffield, station nine miles north
east of Huron, S. D., on the Manitoba road,
a small cyclone must have occurred. The
large grain elevator belonging to John Blair
was blown down. 1t contained 300 bush
els of wheat belonging to Mr.. Blair, 600 be.
longing to Mr.. Berger and 800 belonging to
Mr.. Fckhart. All this grain had been
bought within the last three weeks. But
little OF the grain can be saved
The Missouri Pacific passenger train was
wrecked five miles from Nevada, No. by the
spreading of the rails on sharp curve
Three of their coaches were precipitated
down an embank1fe and two people atal-
" and twenty seven m ore or less dangerous
ly hurt. A special train bearing surgeons
went to their rele'. Those fatally hurt
were Conductor Sam Jones and a child of
W. H. Marvin's both of Kansas CITY,
About twenty Others were seriously injured
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03

off alone an hour later. The three colored
men all confessed their crimes, and showed
no signs OF fear on the gnlloWs. Brennish
was under the influence Of liquor when led on
to the scaffold,
Arguments in the Baker case were finished
& at Ashland, Wis, and the case given to the
jury, which returned in q little over an hour
with verdict of guilty. One OF the most
Interested spectators was Phelps Perrin.
Baker never moved a muscle Lennon, his
attorney, moved for new trial Baker
was charged with the larceny of $4,000
from the Iron Exchange Bank Of Hurley.
Sept 20, 1889. The verdict was q surprise
as disagreement was looked for.
mob offorty persons gathered at the
house of Watt squires, about twelve miles
northwest of Cameron, Mo-, to tar and
feather his son Bud, who, it is claimed, ruined
young lady of the neighborhood. About
forty shots were exchanged Old man
Squires was shot IN the stomach but not
fatally wounded Will holland, in the crowd.
was also shot in the stomach and probably
fatally wounded. .
George L. Hicks, grocery at West
Superior, Wis, became aware Of an attempt
to turn the key OF the front door to the
dwelling ofwhich he is q roomer. Providing
himself with rveolyer he stationed himself
at the head OF the stairs. The door softly
opened and two men entered Hicks opened
fire, shooting one Patrick Mahoney, through
the right lung and his partner, Frank Hop.
kins, in che right leg. Both men went some
distance before falling They were removed
to St. Francis hospital where theyIay in 8.
precarious condition. 1t is said that Hopkins
cannot live. Both men are professional
crooks, well known to the authorities of the
Northwest. y s
In drunken fury and urged on by mag
mary wrongs, u B. Meyers went to the
house Of his wife's uncle, Benjamin v an Horn
q well known Kansas City man. and attempt
ed to kill his wife with revolver. Mr. Van
Horn, in shielding his niece from the bullet
fired by Meyers. received probable fatal
wound in the abdomen. Ascend shot struck
Miss Carrie Van Horn and entered her back.
She will probably die. Meyers was not cap
tured until he had turned and fired at his
pursuers. The bullet hit Nelson Gleason in
the leg. As soon as he was arrested and
taken to the station he fell to the floor in a
drunken stupor. Domestic difficulties caused
The tragedy.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03

The fact that the average boy will
make pair of pantaloons look an.
tiquated in day, is accounted for by
the Burlington, Vt, Free Press on
the ground that "there is nothing
new under the son.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03
The twentY-six letters Of the

The twenty-six letters OF the AL
phabet may be transposed 62O,448,-
4o1, 1888, 239, 800, 900 times. All the
inhabitants Of the globe, on a rough
calculation, could not in thousand
millions Of years write out all the
transpositions Of the twenty-six let.
tiers, even supposing that each wrote
forty pages daily, each Of which
pages contained forty different trans
portations Of the letters.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03

OF the 700 grammar school boys
in New York city who passed the
competitive examination for adnlis-
sion to the free college last week, a
great part are Jewish. The number
of Jewish boys who succeeded is out
of all proportion to the others, con
sidering the relative numbers in the
community.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03

A TRAMP who has stolen about
twenty thousand miles of free rides
on freight trains in this country says
that he hopes congress will do some
thing to insure safety on freight
cars. ...
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03

SOME statistician has figured out
that for the annual nourishment of
100000 cows and 100000
horses there are needed 80, 100000
tons Of hay, 9o,0OO,oO0 bushels of
cornmeal, the same OF oatmeal, 275,-
100000 bushels Of oats, 100000
OF bran, and 100000 bushels Of
corn, at a cost Of $3.50, 900, 900.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03

Two gamblers met on the streets
of St. Paul, when one of them named
Schaffer pulled out a revolver and
fired three shots, one which entered
the other mans pantaloon pocket,
where the ball struck two poker chips,
which undoubtedly saved his life.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03
FROM FOREIGN SHORES


The sultan of Turkey, has pardoned all
prisoners convicted under the comm on law
in the island Of Crete, whose sentences do
not exceed three years
The French budget committee has passed
Finance Minister Rouver's bill for loan OF
100000, 900 francs in 8 per cent perpetual
rentes.
Lord Salisbury has informed M Wadding-
ton. French ambassador to England, that
England will not oppose the annexation of
Syria by France.
Herdes of famished wolves are overrunnine
Austrian Galicia destroying thousands Of
sheep and many larger animals In num-
Der OF eases men have been attacked and de-
voured by the ferocious beasts. 4
Signs Of an early collapse of the Salisbury
government are increasing on all sides in
England. The ministry have undoubtedly
become alarmed and are planninga new deal
which they hope will strengthen the cabinet
and restore the popularity of the government
with m any who have become Disguised with
it's regeneration and decision and are ripe
for revolt against the Conservative party
when an opportunity a rrives.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03

Hon. PROCTOR KNOTT says.
"Women in the olden days were not
allowed to drink wine, and to prove
that they had not been drinking it
they kissed everybody they met.
This would be better than prohibi.
tion."
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03

THE man who permits his mother
to go to the poor-house before he
goes himself makes argument to the
world of total depravity and of
future condition of unquenchable
fire.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03
THE MARKETS.
The Latest Quotations from West
ern Markets.

, r 4
CHICAGO.
WHEAr-No. 2 spring, 90 to 921ac; No. 8
CoRN--No. 2, 33ssc.
OATs-No. 2. 26a4c.
RYE-No. 2, 53c.
BARLEY-No. 2, nominal
Flax SEED-No. /, $1.45
EcGs-12 to 1214c.
ST. PAUL.
. WHEAr-No o. ], hard, 90 to Ole; No. !,
Northern 50 to 90c.; No. 2, Northern, sc to
SIC. . -4
CORN No. 8, sic.
to 291ac.; No. 8 white, %; to 29t.
45c. 80
RYE-No. 2. SIC.
GROUND FEED-No i, $13.25 to 1850.
BRAN---Bulk, $3.50 to 10.
, B ss HAY--No. ], upland prairie, 50; No.
BUTTER creamery, frst; IA to 15c., ,sairy:
first, 10 to 12c.
MINNEAPOLIS.
q WHEAT-No. /, hard. S9e.: No. 1, North.
ern, 8s1ac.; No. 2, Northern. seize
B flour Patents, sucks to local dealers,
SIS. Is to S. So; bakers here, So. IS to 4; Ri
dog sacks, $1.2O to 100. R
CoRN-Good yellow 321lc.
Oars Good white, . 7s1ac,;;l fair mixed. 26c5
q BARLEY--3O to SIC. M
FLAx-$1. 80 to 1.4O
FEED-$13 to 1880 5
n BuTTER-F air to fancy creamery, 9to 14c.;
daires, to l4c
8sI s85 MILWAUKEE.
!, WaEAT--N No 2 Spring, ss1s TO ssc.; No. /,
Northern, 05c
q CoRs---N %, 33c.
h JATS--N %. 2, white. 81 1ac. ,sez 5
i Rye aa44c. B. II
Il BARLEy--N o. 9, &c. s,
EGGs- lresh, 4 1c.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03

ONE hundred boys and girls OF
Woodland, CAL, whose ages range
from II to 10 years, have formed q
cooperative Fruit Canning and
Drying Union.'
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03

CHICAGO gazed in awe, the other
day, at the chief justice of the United
States supreme court going shop
ping with his wife and carrying her
parcels for her.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03
The Uncertainties of Jurie:

A clerk in Chicago was tried
larceny. He was acquitted. VIII
upon he said: well, if you Jul
can't convict a man when lie I
fesses heis guilty I don't know u
you can do. We saw as,Hal.
jury acquit &; man who pleaded IL
slaughter and whose lawyers as
for such a verdict. Whining
Az. G. Messenger.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03

JOHN TRACY, arrested at Kansas
City for horse thieving, was inter
rupted in writing his autobiography.
He says he had stolen over fifty
horses and was never caught but
once before, and he thought he ought
to write book.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03

AT Macon a woman stopped to tie
her shoe while walking in East Ma
con. She laid a pocket-book con-
tanning about $25 on bridge while
doing this, and left it there. When
she went back for it she could not
find it.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03

A CENSUS enumeration in Hannibal,
after asking a woman in that city all
he could think of about her family of
seven boys and girls, finally asked if
they were all white. She replied:
They generally are when their faces
are clean"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03

YOUNG men are said to be so scarce
in the village of North Waldoboro,
Me-, thata girl II years old has been
employed to help run a machine in a
stave mill.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03

EZRA LEEcH, a farmer of Newton
County Mississippi, discovered $1O,-
600 in gold while ditching in his
field a few days ago.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03
THE NEWS DIGEST.
Interesting News Of the Week
Boiled Down and
Classified.
PEOPLE oFNoTE.

j. Z. Soules OF North Of Muskegon, Mich
and Samuel Smith OF lewiston, N Y, have
made oil necessary arrangements to swim
the whirlpool rapids OF Niagara Falls July A.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03
R. G. DUNN. Publisher.

If the pension bill OF this country
is large, it is we'll to remember that
the union army has contained over
2,7Oo.OOO names.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-11-27
A LITTLE NONSENSE.

Visitor-"Isn't your mother afraid
Willie, of catching cold in those slip
pers ?'' Willie-"Huh! guess you
don't know them slippers. Ma uses
them to warm the whole family
with. . American Grocer.
Kind Lady-"If you need clothin
l can supply you with an old suit O.
my husbands, but they will be about
four sizes too big for you" Tramp
Never mind, mum; I'll wear 'em
I'd rather be mistook for an anglo
maniac than freeze. . New York
Weekly.
New C1erk-'I should like to know
something about these stocks, sir
Wholesale Clothing Merchant-"Cer-
tainly. The goods on this floor are
trousers for the New York and Bos
ton trade. On the floor above are
the pantaloons for the Philadelphia
and Baltimore trade. The third
floor is filled with pants for the
Western trade. - [Good News.
The editor of Pennsylvania week.
ly paper paid a fellow $75 for a
manuscript exposing the secrets Of
Free Masonry. He could have got
all the degrees in blue lodge in his
own town for $50, and thus discov-
cred the secrets for himself Such
economy as that is what makes Gus
toners for the Washington hand
press NOrristown Herald.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-11-27

about as bright intellects as any
leaders among the Sioux and they
reject the new religion and declare it
to be unwise for their people to make
trouble on account of it. Yet they
look atit seriously and Gall is quoted
as speaking of it in the following
language:
l listen. Since the excitement has
come upon my people l sit and listen and
wonder if these things can be possible.
When they tell me that the buffalos are
coming back and that there is to be a
resurrection of our fathers | shake my
head. They tell me that the Messiah
can make spring wagons with the motion
of his hand, and think this cannot be,
but sometimes think of the wonderful
things which the white men believe in
their religion, and | am not so sure that
these Indians are wrong. | went once
to the office of your paper and talked
through a machine to some one long
way off, and since then | cannot say
that anything is impossible Your peo-
pie believe that in the beginning of the
world wonderful things were done by
men, the Indians believe that in the
future wonderful things may be done by
men. 1t seems to me that the Indians
crazy for believing that what has hap
pened once may happen again, particu-
larly as wonderful things are growing
more common each day. L listen. 1t is
not for me to say that the Indians are
crazy now, for if | did l should have to
believe that the whites have always been
crazy. take no part in the dance, and
do not lend my sanction to it; my family
are all members of the Episcopalian
church, yet | cannot say to the Indians
you are wrong for if the Christian
religion is true, then the new religion
may also be true.
Apparently the form the new re-
ligion takes among the Sioux is not
SO peaceable and reassuring as that
reported by Porcupine.
The close imitation which the In
dams have adopted of the early
Hebrew prophecies of the coming of
Christ, make an interesting study in
the working of the Indian mind
The outcome of the propaganda can
not fail to be of interest
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-11-27
THE ALLIANCE PLATFORM.

This from the Farmers Advocate,
official organ of the Farmers Alli-
ance of Kansas is suggestive as
giving some idea of the spirit moving
that organization:
1--WE shall at once commence to
marshal the hosts of the people for
the conflict of 1892 In this great
work there are many prejudices to
be overcome Sectional lines must
be abolished interests which are
"a ltical must be brought together
the combined forces of the agri-
cultural and laboring classes must
be consolidated against the forces of
the corporations, monopolies, trusts,
syndicates and moneyed aristocrats
who have for years fastened upon
the substance of the people When
we say these forces are to be mar
shaded against the oppressors of the
people we do not mean that the in
justice which has characterized the
corporate power of America is to be
returned in kind. The people simply
ask for justice, that alone, and that,
by the eternal they will have. The
coming contest therefore will not
take place between the Northern and
Southern sections of our country.
The interests of the people of the
West and South are identical and
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-11-27
Special Notices.

An honest Swede tells his story in plain but
unmistakabe language for the benefit of the
public. lone of my children took severe
cold and got the Group. 1 gave her tea
spoonful of Chamberlains Cough Remedy,
and in five minutes later gaveh her one more.
BY this time she had to cough up the gather
ing in her throat. Then she went to sleep
and slept good for fifteen minutes. Then she
got up and vomited; then she went back to
bed again and slept good for the remainder
of the night. She got the Group the second
night and l gave the same remedy with the
same good results. l write this because
thought there might be some one in the same
need and not know the true merits of this
wonderful medicine" CHARLES A. THoMP-
SEEN, Des Moines, Iowa. SO cent bottles for
sale by Flint Bros.
Many old soldiers, who contracted chronic
diarrhoea while in the service. have since been
permanently cured of it by Chamber1ain's
Colo, Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy. For
sale by Flint Bros.
For lame back there is nothing better than
to saturate a flannel cloth with Chamber
1ain's Pain Balm and bind it the affected
parts. Try it and you will be surprised at
the prompt relief it affords. The treat
ment will cure rheuma tism. For sale by
Flint Bros.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-11-27

their political forces must be con-
solidated against the power of cor
porate creed.
We may as we'll recognize this fact
now as to permit our prejudices to
postpone the day of its recognition.
The professional politicians of both
parties both North and South who
have devoted their lives so assidu-
Ously to the promotion of corporate
interests recognize that this union
of the two sections is the great dam
ger that threa tens the power of
monopoly, and they therefore con-
stantly aim to keep alive the preju-
dices that have estranged them only
to prey upon them and to maintain
political supremacy by their alien
alton. 1t has been and is the holy
mission of the Farmers Alliance to
subdue this sectional prejudice. 1t is
full time for this nation to become
united. Did the hosts of the army
in blue face shot and shell to main
tain and perpetuate more perfect
union or to divide the nation into
contending sections? If the former
let us see to it that those who fell did
not perish in vain. Let us see to it
that those of their comrades who
survive may live to see a country
redeemed and its liberties restored.
Down with all sectional lines. Away
with all sectional prejudices. Let
fires of pa triotism that still burn in
the hearts of the people consume the
prejudices of the past. Let one flag
float over us and one spirit so per-
fectly pervade our hearts that we
shall be able and willing to stand
shoulder to shoulder in the great
army that must make lasting con-
quest of the hosts of corporate greed
that are fattening upon the stolen
substance of the people"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-11-27
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1891
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