The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-01-15
IN CENERAY.

bill for an Australian ballot law, mode.
ed after the Minnesota statute, will be intro.
duced in the Illinois legislature.
Gov-elect Boyd ofNebraska, replying to
the attack on his citizenship, says that he
has been q citizen for many years and ex.
poets to be seated.
The annual charity ball in New York
was mado society event. Gilmore's
band of seventy pieces furnished the music.
The receipts were about $4,000.
About twelve hundred employees of the
Westinghouse Electric Light Company of
Pittsburg will probably agree to work for
half:pay for awhile to help Westinghouse out
of his financial difficulties.
]. N. Archbold of Ridge Farm, Ill.,, has in
vented magazine gun. The weapon is six
TOUR foot rifle barrels, and is fed by chain
belt. The number of shots that can be fred
in succession is practically unlimited.
"A heavy snow storm, accompanied by a
strong wind, is raging throughout Northern
Kansas. Freight trains have bsen abandon
ed. There ha been no trains on the Central
branch of the Union Pacific for eight days.
number of barbed wire manufacturers
are in session in Chicago to either organize q
general revolt of the manufacturers from the
control of the Washburne.Moen patent mo-
nopoly, or to organize a trust including all
the wire factories in the West.
The manufacturers Record of Baltimore
publishes letters from manufacturers in Chi
cago, St. Louis, Cleveland, Pittsburg and
Demmler, Pa. and BROOKLYN, N. Y, who
are either making tin plate or preparing to
do so. When all are in full operation their
weekly output will be Is, 900 boxes.
1t is reported in New York that Gould has
surely got control of the Atchison and SAINT q
Fe. The story is that Earrings of London
recently disposed of their Santa Fe holdings
aud that Gould was the purchaser. Neither
Jay Gould, his son Or President Marvel, of
the Atchison, would affirm or deny the re-
port.
The investigation Of a careful man sent
from Seattle to Victoria shows more
than twenty opium refneries in full blast, be-
side many small Chinese establishments
which fry out small amounts For the three
months ended Sept. 80, 4S,369 pounds of
crude opium were landed at Vancouver from
China steamships. OF this amount, 5,479
pounds were forwarded to New Westminster,
l,56l pounds remained at Vancouver, and
Al, 1929 pounds were sent to Victoria, where
it was refined and struggled over the Ameri-
can line
An Annapolis special to the Times says:
Comment is aroused among navy officers
over the series of orders emanating from the
navy department within the past few weeks,
directing the commissioning of war ships at
San Francisco and the ordering of various
other cruisers to Pacific waters. Under the
present orders, no less than eleven war ships
and five revenue cutters will soon be in COM
mission in the Pacific and ready for duty.
If in addition the rumored chartering and
arming of seven steamers for revenue cutter
duty in Behring sea proves correct, the Unit
ed States navy force will number twenty
three ships, against the five British gunboats
and one armored vessel at present protect
ing Great Britain's interests in the North
Pacific.