The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-07-16
FOREIGN,

THE Dutch cabinet has resigned.
GUATEMALA is arranging for a reciproit
treaty with the United States.
AT a conference at Lumburg, Austria.
was decided to direct the tide of Jewi,
emigration toward the Argentine Republic
The Russian governm ent is taking meas
ures to provide against a famine in tn,
event Of a failure of the crops. =
THE London Telegraph advocates thai
murderers condemned to electrical execu.
ton be chloroformed. -
The princess Of Walcs's appeals in be-
half of Mrs. Grimwood has been coldlv
received. 49,. -,
NJ. DE QUERCY, a prominent actor of the
Bouffes ~Parisiennes, has committed suicide
at Paris. ..... e.
The motion to place binding Irvine on
the free list raised a big debate in the Cana.
dian house of On division. it
was defeated by 100 to 50. ,
The French chamber Of deputies will
set until it passes the tariff bill, although it
may be compelled to carry the session into
August. - !
The third international peace congress
will be held in Rome in November. Prince
Ruspoli is president Of the executive COM
mittee. r..
sdispatch says the state has bought
one of the pictures exhibited at the Champ
de Mars by Miss Lee Robbins, the ONLY
American thus honored this year. ~,
WHILE a party of soldiers were practic-
ing the construction near Solerue, Switzer-
land, the structure upon which they were
at work capsized and Is Of the party were
drowned.
A SERIES Of bloody battles were fought
on the upper Congo and Aruimi rivers in
January and February last between the
state troops and the Arab slave traders. The
slavers were routed everywhere and are sui
ing for peace. n"
HE Austrian emperor has issued orders
to the effect that work on the proposed
tortihcation on the island of Highland shall
be begun. The work will be supervised by
the officers who had charge Of the fortitica-
tions at Metz.
The Brazilian cabinet has been reorgan-
lied with Lucena as minister Of the treas
ury. The appointment ofLucena as minister
who was minister Of agriculture, is received
with universal satisfaction.
A SENSATION has been caused in Cologne
by the discovery of a number of child
murders at a baby farm kept by a woman
named Scholz. The death of six babies has
been traced to hamilton. "
EDWARD WILKINSON, a London clerk, has
confessed that he was instrumental in steal
ing the countess of Dudley's Jewels, which
were stolen at Euston Station four years
ago. Wilkinson says that he had two &C
complies, n ofwhom is dead. Wilkinson
received $40, 600 as his share.
In the suit for damages brought by Mr..
Healy against the proprietors of the Free
mans Journal, on the ground that the
newspaper referred to accused him of SELL
ing his clients for English gold, the Jury
found for Mr.. Healy, but they disagreed as
to the amount OF damages.
The Sultan isin a fair way to lose all
Arabia. The Wahabees, who had been
dormant for anumber of years, have Joined
the insurgents and threaten to drive the
Turks into the sea, The Wahabees have a
long score of wrongs to avenge upon the
Turks, and could find no better opportu-
nifty than the present.
THE "Gaulois," the Figaro" and other
French papers are pleading for the aband.
onment Of the prosecutions of M. de Les
seps on the grounds that he accomplished
his scheme of piercing the Isthmus Of Suez
with a canal; that he wears the cross OF the
legion of honor, aud that he is an academi.
clan and a grand Francois" generally.