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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04
ROW ON A RAFTER.
A Roustabout Sues Pilot for Personal
Damages,


Damages.
CLINTON, Iowa, Special Telegram, Aug.
29.-Wednesday night shortly after the
steamer J. W. Van SAINT left the village of
lie Claire, Iowa, for the north, John O. Con-
nors, second pilot of the boat, it is alleged
made murderous assault upon Francis
Mcmahon, roustabout, using him up bad
ly. OConnors fired several shots at McMa-
hon, who made his escape from the boat
and made his way to his home at Fulton,
ILL.,, where he has been confined to his bed
since. The affair has been carefully sup
pressed until to-day, when McMahon
through his attorneys at Lyons, commenced
suit against O'Connors for $40, 600 damages.
O,Connors is said to be wealthy It is al
legged that the crew of the Van SAINT on the
evening in question were intoxicated, with
the exception of Mcmahon, who does not
drink. The latter is reported very i'll, in
fact it is doubtful if he RECEIVERS. Should he
live and the case come to trial, some sensa-
tional features will be developed.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04

The United States was one of the
first nations to set example of Gre
ating public holidays which had
direct reference to the people s
achievements in their own behalf. The
observance of the Fourth OF July
dates from it's first anniversary, and
has never been interrupted since the
establishment otthe republic.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04

The number of vessels employed
in the mercantile service of the Unite d
States stands second, although a
long way behind Great Britain.
Counting steam and sailing vess els
Great Britain's tonnage is 1885,
while that of the United States is O.
1874. Norway ranks next to us
with Germany, Italy, France, Russia,
Spain, and Sweden following in this
order.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04
Political Movemants

The Republicans Of South Dakota have
nominated the following ticket: Congress-
men-Maj John A. Picker and John R.
Gamble. Governor Arthur C. Mellette.
Lieutenant Governor-Geo. A. Hoffman.
Secretary of State-A. o. Ringsrud. Treasure
er-W. w. Tayl or. Attorney General Rob.
ert Dollard. Superintendent of Public In.
struction- (,ortez Salmon. Commission of
Schools and Public Lands Thorn as Fl. Ruth.
Commissioner of Labor and statistics- "A.
Smith. 9@
The Wisconsin democratic nominees are
these: George w. Peck, for governor:
Thomas Cunningham, of Chippewa Falls sor,
secretary Of state: John Hummer Of Eau
Claire, forstate treasurer, and j. i. O'Con.
ner, Of Madison, for attorney general. o, %.
Wells, of Kaukauna, for superintendent Of
public instruction. VIM. Root, 81 sheboy-.
gan, for insurance commissioner by acclama-
ton, and Thomas Thompson, of Eau Claire.
Tor railroad commissioners.
For member Of congress, Capt w. H, Har.
RES OF Houston county. This is the way
the ballot of the democratic voters of the
First congressional district Of Minnesota
will read at the coming election, that gentle
man having been selected to run against
Mark II. Dnnnell s
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04
WAYS OF THE WICKED.

Seven Aldermen of Biddetord, Me-, have
been arrested charged with election frauds in
a recent local election.
Laura shrope, fourteen years old. has been
arrested at Jersey City, N. j., and confesses
to have robbed her employer of money and
jewelry at Des Moines.
Near Goshen, Ind, Sam Wilson. d negro,
shot and killed Mrs. Mather, q widow, who
had refused to marry him He then shot
and fatally wounded himself
Henry Smith, aged twenty-tour five time
murderer, died Of consumption in the Alaba-
ma penitentiary, where he was awaiting the
result OF an appeal from the death sentence.
DR.. Bahnson of Crookston is shot aud killed
by Horace Russell at Fisher. Russell accuses
the doctor OF criminal intimacy with Mrs
Russell.
Near Decatur, ILL.,, William Crawford killed
Mrs Cal Mathies, a married woman with
whom ne was in love- and then cut his thr oat
with a razor. He cannot recover
Scott Shoemaker, one Of the best known
men in Western Pennsylvania, committed
suicide by shooting while talking with a party
Of friends at Scranton. 1t is thought there
was woman in the case.
A. c. Delano, the protector Of the Octavia
AhScsOmehV, 1mprOVemeHG ana insurance
company o. St. Louis, is missing, and it is
said a number of business men have been
victimized.
Ace Madison, q farmernear Bowling Green.
KY. shot and killed his sixteen- year. old
daughter. He had previously ATTEMPTED
her life. No cause for the deed is known. He
may be lynched.
The burgomaster Of Osterwoerck has been
convicted offorging an official document and
sentenced to long term of imprison ment
For an esteemed functionary to be convic ted
OF a crime is so rare in Germany that the in
cident attracts much attention
Charles s. Rainey, civil engineer formerly
of Plttsburg. is illegally imprisoned in sor-
RADIO, State of Chapel Mexico. Some months
ago hehad q dispute with some Mexicans and
he, in self-defense, drew a revolver, He has
since been in solitary confinement
At picnic near Weatheriord, Texas.
Henry Erwin, these and main support of
wid ow, was set upon by the three drunken
Browley brothers and SO badly beaten and
stabbed that he died the next day The
murderers escaped.
j. 9. Schwass, patient in the Sacred
Heart hospital at Spokane Falls, Wash.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04
CUT HIS vICTIM's THROAT.
Horrible Butchery of an Old Man in
Missouri

Horrible Butchery of an Old Man in
Missouri.
H1GeINsv1LLE, Mo-, Aug. pa horrible
murder occurred here tonight that will
probably result in the lynching of the MUIR
derer. S. A. Higgins, aged eighty, mem
Der of the family alter which this town was
named, was stabbed to death by William
Feltz. Mr.. Higgins was gatekeeper at the
fair to-day and had some difficulty with
Feltz, who was driver for Dooley & Sons
livery stable. Higgins had Feltz elected
from the grounds. Feltz went to Higgins
boarding house and renewed the quarre!
with him.. During the affray that followed
Feltz used a knife and stabbed Higgins four
times in the breast. After the latter had
fallen to the ground MORALLY wounded
Feltz completed the butchery by cutting
his victims throat from ear to ear. He es-
capped. posse was formed to capture him
and is still engaged in the search g # the
lynched.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04
Pork and Art.

PARIS, Aug. 29.-Le Paris prints the fol
lowing:
The negotiations between France and the
United States relative to the American tariff are
approaching favorable conclusion. The Wash
ington government will remove the duty on
works Of French art and France will remove the
prohibition against American pork.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-Members Of the
senate finance committee know nothing
about the negotiations alluded to by lie
Paris. Mr.. Sherman stated that the finance
committee would probably recommend
that the duty be removed from works Of art
from all foreign countries, but would have
no relation to the action of the French gov
eminent against American pork.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04

Miss HATTIE HESTER, not yet 20
years old, has a 40 mile mail route
through one of the most sparsely
settled regions Of Georgia, and is
said to be as punctual as the sun in
all weathers. She also manages a
farm between times, and seems to be
the right kind of a girl for Uncle Sam
to have among his mails.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04

The only state that has been alb
solutely uniform in it's congressional
representation is Rhode Island. Tt
had two members under the first
census and the same number ev er
since. 1t is bound to remain in the
same category another ten years.
It's population in 18SOwas 276, 531,
and it is now $4,000.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04
ALLIANCE MAN CHOSEN.

Farmers, Aided by Democrats, Control
the Oklahoma Legislature.
GUTHRIE. I. T., Aug. 29.-The Farmers
alliance and Democrats, aided by three
Republicans from Oklahoma City, succeed
ed to-day in organizing both branches OF
the legislature. Hr. Gardenpire, an alli-
ance member from Saltwater, was made
president of the council, and w. A. DAN
iels, an alliance member from Canadian
county, and former resident of Iowa, was
selected speaker of the house.
The Oklahoma City Republicans who
voted for the alliance men and gave them
cause Of promises to favor Oklahoma City
as the capital in exchange for votes for
speaker.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04
ONE MAN MANl1I1E.D
Fatal Accident to a Cable
Train in a Chicago
Tunnel.
Frank Netzger Of st. Paul
Wnunder the Wheels
and Mangled.

CHICAGO, Aug. GA life was lost in a
cable car accidentin the Washington street
tunnel to-day. Many people had narrow
escapes from instant death and had it not
been for the heroism Of several male pass
engers three or four women would have
been killed or, mangled against, the Jagged
sides of the tunnel. The accident was
caused by the gripman plunging his train
headlong into runaway train that was
coming at full speed down the opposite in
cline. Frank: Netzger, an express agent Of
st. Paul. was,.with his wife, on the grip
and, as everybody who could jumpea;to es-
cape the impending danger, Netzger was
thrown under the wheels Of the train and
mangled to death. Other persons were
more or less hurt and shaken up and halt
dozen women tainted. This was the last of
four accidents. that occurred on the Yerkes
system during the day, and the council is
to be appealedito to pass such restrictions
as will ensune safety on the line or tie up
the system untillits running arrangements
are perfected.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04
Construction Stopped.

WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, Aug. %.
"A telegram was received to-day from
Agent Schiller at the White Earth agency
that the Duluth & Winnipeg had stopped
.bagoshish reservation. The company, it is
said, would hasten to file maps showing
precisely what lands were wanted for right
of way and station purposes, that the sec
rotary of the interior might fix the COM
pensation to be paid. The secretary has
requested the bureau officers who will have
charge of details here to attend to the work
as soon as possible, that the company's
men may not remain idle longer than is
necessary in carrying out the law.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04
KILLED BY THE CURRENT.
Instant Death of Two Men Who Steppe,
On nm Elacxric Iinl,A Wire

Instant Death of Two Men Who stepped
on an Electric Light Wire.
WHEELING, w. Va, Aug 29.-To-night
a colored man named Joe Solomon, en-
ployed in the Wheeling Terminal Railway
company's tunnel, now in course of con-
struction, stepped on the wire which sup
plies the current to the arc electric lights
used in the tunnel headings and was in
stantly killed. An Italian, who is known
only by his contract number, stepped on
the same wire just as Solomon fell and was
also instadtly killed. Two other men were
shocked in taking the corpses from the
wire. Both men wore thick-soled leather
boots and neither body was burned nor
mangled in any way.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04
HERE AND THERE,

Mr.. Burlingame, the Farmers alliance
candidate for attorney general of Minnesota
withdraws.
Advices from Samoa state that the consuls
at Apia have issued a proclamation in which
they warn the natives against entering into
any intrigues to replace King Mataafa
The deputy minister of agriculture Of
Canada declares that Asiatic cholera will
certainly visit Canada next year. he will
establish quaranstine station.
Representative Jones' a prominent builder
and railroad contractor of Knoxville, Tenn,
has assigned His liabilities are 100000
and assets $500 90.
Proprietors of Fall River, MASS print
mills have signed an agreement not to sell
print cloths under 8 SIG cents during Sep
TENDER. The price advanced rapidly to tina t
point
Robert T. Lincoln, United States minister
to Great Britain, emphatically denies the
truth ofthose reports which represent him
as contemplating the rendering of his rcsig-
nation.
The military maneuvers at Montichiari,
Italy, with smokeess powder, we're y great
success. The batteries of artillery fired halt
an hour without their presence being dis
covered
Advices from the New Hebrides island state
that the natives Of Amba island .massacred
the crew OF a German labor vessel, A French
war ship subsequently sheIled the village on
the island
The announcement has been made that
Baron Largerelt, vice president OF the Jeffer-
son Iron works at Steu benville, Ohio, has
issued and sold fraudulent stock certificates of
the company to the amount of 500, 900 or
more. The baron was German vice consul
at Pittsburg.
DR.. Joel E. Justin made another expert
ment of firing dynamite shells from com
mon cannon at Cyracuse N. Y, resulting
like a previous experiment-the cannon,
Weighing 10000 pounds, being blown to
pieces. Fifty people we're within twenty
yards of the gun, but no one was injured.
The cholera, which the farmers of Iowa had
hopes would not againinfes their hogs, has
broken out in the south part of Cerro Gordo
county and during past few days William
Winter has lost over $1,000 worth. Those
who know say it is the genuine cholera, the
same which has before proved such loss to
the farmers of Northern Iowa.
One OF the most unique conventions ever
held in New York, is now in session. 1t was
a gathering for mutual benefits and discus
sion OF instructors of deaf mutes, represent
ing seventy-three institutions scattered
throughout the country. France, Italy,
Spain and other countries were represented
by proxy.
Inspector General Dumont has received the
report of Local Inspectors Knapp and Yea
ger, who investigated the case of the steamer
Sea Wing, which capsized in Lake Pepin in
July with such fatal results. After survey.
ing the evidence, they say that they are sat.
isfed that nothing could have been done to
save tho steamer after the squall struck her,
owing to it's sudden and violent character.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04

The Rochester, N. Y, Herald con.
tributes a new idea to the talk on
pensions. 1t objects to paying union
soldiers for ''the time they spent lux
uriously in rebel prisons"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04

ATTORNEY GENERAL MILLER is the
only one of the eight cabinet officers
who has no secretary at all. Mr..
Miller has not been in the habit of
confding in anybody. He attends
personally to all his business, an d
trusts in other people just as little as
possible.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04

WILLIAM GREEN, who was part
ner Of Abraham Lincoln in a grocery
store fifty or sixty years ago, and is
said to have taught Lincoln his
grammar, is living at Tallala, Ill. !,
hale at the age of nearly eighty
years.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04
HARVARD VS.. YALE.
The Blue to the Front in the National
Tennis Tournament. .-

Tennis Tournament.
NEWPORT, R. l., Aug. 29.-There was a
large attendance at the national lawn ten
mis- tournament to-day. The matches for
the day were those of the second round
G. Hobart met NJ. G.. Chace, Hobart win
ming three sets and Chace taking nine
games. W. II. Knapp and M. D. Smith
were brought together in this round. Knapp
needed but three sets to win, and the last of
these he took love. Of the matches that
between P. S. Sears and B. P. Huntington,
Jr., attracted the most interest. The game
was stubbornly contested. The score went
up slowly to all, then to all, and finally
to 5 all. In the last game the points went
from deuce to vantage and back again sey-
eral times. Huntington's victory was
greeted with applause. H. G. Hall de-
feated Hugh Tailant after playing three
sets. The scores were low.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04

A LONDON bookseller recently re-
ceived an order from New Zealand
for $4,000 worth of books for the
use of the native police. Boston
isn't the only place northumberland
cops can be found.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04
Caswell Retired.

MILWAUKEE, Aug. 29.-The deadlock in
the First congressional district Republican
convention at Clinton Junction ended to-
day on the eighty-tirst ballot in the nom
nation Of 81. "A. Cooper OF Racine. This
retires Representative Caswell, who has
been in congress fourteen years.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04

The CATTLE interests of Montan a
are something immense. This years
shipments will reach 100000 head.
1t is am increase ot:3O, 900 over last
year. ~.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04
R. 6. DUNN. Publisher.
If THIS cool weather continues, the
watermelon will have to go South
for the the benefit of its health.

GERMANY has one doctor to $500
of population; France one to 3,167;
the United Kingdom one to 1884;
but the United States 600.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04

THEY are not "illfberaP' down in
Kentucky The other day 200 in
dictments were found. The court
was held in a tent and:w guarded
by two companies, of soldiers.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04

THE form of reasestate deeds has
been reduced from three pages to one
in New York, and the cost of record
ing from SITS to so cents and 81
each.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04
No Republican Convention.

Z OcALA, Fla, Aug. %. There will be no
convention of Florida Republicans this
year. The state central committee yester-
day put in nomination for controller T.. ID.
Bal, and for supreme court Judge ]. r
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04
THE NEWS DIGEST.
Interesting News ofathe Week
Boiled Down and
classified.
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

The Wisconsin, Democratsnoninat George
". Peck for governor.
Mark H. Dunnell was renominnted Tor con-
gress by the Republicans of the first district
OF Minnesota on the first ballot securing 81
~etestol3 for A.. D. Gray of Fillmore County.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04
PossrBnY FRANK ,NrTzERl

N, =, :, O,saiot31 p f"hNh NFIAEHJ
The st: Paul directory gives no such name ag
Frank Metzger, nor any one named Metzger en-
gagged IN the railway express business. There is,
however, q Fraok 3. Netzer, who is a messenger
1 ior the American Express company. and runs
he is the one meant by the foregoing message.
He resided with his family at 2O5 East Four
teenth street until recently. 1t could not be
learned last night where he had removed to.
Mr.. Netzer has worked off end on for the
American Express company for the past six
teen years. For three years or more and up to
eral commission merchant in Saltwater
He is well known in st. Paul, Saltwater. Mime
apolis Fargo, and generally throughout Mime
five years past, has g wife, and a daughter ten
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04

threw himself ,from third. story window,
and dieds fifteen minutes later. He entered
the hospital recently, and apparently his
only trouble was slight artack Of fever.
He was rational, and showed no signs Of be.
ing delirious. During the night when, the
night watohman passed thr ough the ward he
was sleeping, but soon after they heard the
fall.
Mrs Josephine Gurley, who abducted Annie
Redmond, at Chicago, for which she was sent
to the penitentiary for five years, now gives
the public a confession wherein she says she
stole the child at the bidding of her husband,
who, in turn, wished to further vndictive
plan of one Mrs Annie Allen, n woman of
observation-disclosures Gurley is bigamist.
and is now serving term in the Wisconsin
penitentiary. Mrs. Gurley says John Red
mond, the blacksmith, the fsather Of the child,
was en- intimate terms with several women,
including Mrs. Allen. A bill for wines con-
tracted at Mrs. Aliens house remained
unpaid and Mrs. Allen becoming spiteful,
girls abduction,
FROM FOREIGN SHORES.
Russia hos presented vessel Of 200 tons
to Montenegro.
Spnin Thirteen cases and five deaths are
reported.
Lord Salisbury, replying to the porte's
note, says that the time is not ripe to evacu-
ate Egypt.
The number pfcoal miners on a strike in
the Rorinage district France, is 16, 700, and
the movement IL still spreading. The srrik
ers are becomingvery disorderly.
Despite the foreign protests on the subject
the anti-Jewish edicts will be promulgated in
Russia in October, with a supplement justi-
flying the measure of repressive severity. The
latter is Intended to. satisfy foreign opinion
Many cases Of ordinary cholera and of low
forms OF fever are reported in the districts of
Ireland affected by the failure of the potato
crop. The medical officer of Clonakilty re-
ports 5000 cases in which starvation will
occur unless relief speedily arrives.
A big socialist conspiracy has been un-
earthed in Rome. Concealed in thehouses of
workingmen the police have found bombs
charged with powder and dynamite, as well
as republican flags and correspondence of a
dangerous character with foreign socialists.
The British newspapers have taken advan-
tage of the passage of the meat inspection
bill at Washington to renew the clamor
against American beef The new measure is
denounced as an unwise land ungracious
attempt to torce exports. 1T is declared that
the inspection provided for will not be ac-
copied as satisfactory. and the prediction is
made that had results will certainly follow
The British, war ship Buzzard arrived at
Halifax from Jamaica with yellow fever on
board, having been ordered to Halifax on
account of the fever breaking out among
the crew. There were nineteen cases on
board at one time, and one of the vic
Tins died at Port Royal and was buried
there. All the Others have recovered except
five.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04
stThe Same.

Clothier and Furnisher: Mr.. Ssheers- What
size OF q pistol pocket in these trousers?
Mr.. Tanque- Same as usual-a quart
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-29
ENDED IN A FREE FIGHT.
An Attempt to Discuss Politics at
Walker County, Ala, Barbecue.

An Attempt to Discuss Politics at "a
Walker County, Ala, Barbecue.
New YORK, July 29.-The Sun has
the following special from Birmingham,
Ala: At political barbecue at Days
Gap, Walker county, on Saturday, a
fight occurred, in which thirty shots
were fired and several people were
wounded A terrible riot was narrowly
avoided. 1t was Democratic meeting,
the speakers being Congressman Bank
head, several lawyers from the city, and
the county candidates.
b. NJ. Long. republican candidate for
governor, was present with other Re
publican speakers, and they were invit-
ed to "a joint discussion. A dispute arose
about the division of time and as to who
should speak last, the result of which
was "a free fight. |. l.. Long, Demo
cratic candidate for the legislature, and
a son of the Republican candidate for
governor, was struck on the head with
a base ball bat and badly hurt. Several
others were slightly wounded, but no
one was killed. The Republican speak
ers took no part in the discussion after
the fight,
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-29
pannlInr I.lentrlcal FreaL.

New FLORENCE, Mo-, July GA sin
gular electrical phenomenon Is reported
from Americus, sixteen miles distant
from this place. From q small cloud in
an otherwise clear sky a single vivid
flash of lightning descended, striking
two men standing against barbed wire
fence, instantly killing one and paralyz-
the other from the waist downward. A
number of horses were hitched to the
fence. and one was killed and several
injured. The shock was felt all over
the yiiiage, several persons being
stunned, while a boy in house some
distance from the point where the bolt
struck, was knocked down.