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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-04-06

The tracks of the great Atlantic liners
between the United States and Great
Britain are as accurately made out
and followed as if they We're built on
land, the winter track being some dis
lance south of the summer track be-
cause Of icebergs. Over these watery
roads the ocean greyhounds travel at
the speed Of moderately fast railway
trains, the maximum attained by the
American liner Paris being about TWEEN
ty-three miles an hour.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-04-06
General News,

The New York home rule meeting
netted $4,000. .5
The sash, door and blind trust has
made a per cent advance in prices. 4
Miss. Matilda Greenfield has recovered
$4,000 damages at New York for breach
Of promise against Charles J. Weiseman.
The Michigan assembly passed a bill
providing for the use Of voting machines
at elections.
Brooks & Co., furniture dealers at
Boston, have assigned, owing $1OO, 600
and with $4,000 assets.
Mrs. Seligman gets $4,000 alimony
at Saginaw in the suit for divorce
brought by her husband, he receiving
the decree.
The Western Union Telegraph com
parry has bought out the Edison Mu-
tual, with $50 miles of line and head
quarters at Fort Wayne, Ind.
Several members of the family of
Henry Byrd, in Prince George county,
Va, drank from well in which poison
had been placed by unknown parties
and all died.
w. M. Speer has bought half the stock
of the Albany, N. Y, Argus. It is be.
lieyed Editor Manning will be retired
and the paper become a state Democracy
organ instead of a Cleveland organ.
The parsonage at Swedesboro, n. j.
occupied by Father Tracy, the priest who
rebelled against Mgr Satolli and wht
was accommodated, has been stripped
Of furniture. S e
The A. Z. Tribble company, dealers il
| wrapping paper, twines, etc, at Boston
| have assigned to John G. Chandler. Th.
! liabilities amount to $4,000, and nom
| inal assets about the same.
| Ward McA1lister suggests that New
York city shall give in the Madison
Square Garden Monday, Oct. %, gran.
| Columbian ball in honor of the distin
| guished Europeans visiting the exhibi
i ton. s EFSl 3s tsyES
i The health officer at Cincinnati ha
i found case of malignant typhus feve
] in q Front street boarding house. TIL
i patient is James Riley, a roustabou'
who worked on steamer at New Or
Leans and other Southern places.
A movement is on foot to raise 5000
to be applied to the endowment Of i
chair in Knox college at Galesburg, I'll
to be known as the Bateman. professo,
i ship in honor OF DR.. Newton BateY1aI
for so many years the president Of th
college. ..I
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-04-06

A figure tiend has been at pains to
draw up a list of all the lyrical works
of women composers from 1876 down
ward. He has succeeded in compiling
catalogue of 153 dramatic works
operas, operattas and oratorios), which
are distributed among the various ma
tionalities as follows: Eighty-seven are
by French composers, 81 by Italians,
8 90 by Germans, Z by English, 2 by
Dutch and 1 each by Russian, Spanish
and Swedish.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-04-06
TIE WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST
EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK
IN "a CONDENSED FORM.
The Latest and Most Important
News OF the World, Culled
From the Telegraph Re-
ports OF the Press 81
Associations.
The Capital.

ss45 Inc Caplt8l. i53S
Secretary Herbert has decided to name
the torpedo boat No. 2, being built by
the Dubuque Iron works, the Ericsson.
Indications point to the selection Of
Col William p. Carlin, Fourth infantry,
for the vacant brigadier generalship in
the army. AS a &
The resignation of 9. p. Childs, the
chief clerk Of the census bureau, has
been requested and job. Wardle the
present assistant chief clerk has been
promoted to the vacancy.
Owing to the almost unprecedented ac-
emulation Of applications and other pa
pers in the postof6ce department bearing
upon pending appointments, the entire
clerical force of the departmnt, number
ing about 400, has been ordered to do ex-
ira duty between 4 and o'clock each
day, briefing and filing them for action.
The government of Costa Rica has APP
pointed Senior Don Manuel M. Peralta,
who is the representative of his govern
ment at several of the European courts,
envoy extraordinary and minister pleni-
potentiary to the Unitd States, on a
special mission of congratulations and
good wishes on the part of Costa RIGA
to the president of the United States.
Minister Egan cabled the department
of state that the president of Chile had
appointed Domingo Gano envoy extraor-
binary and minister plenipotentiary to
the United States. Mr.. Gano will also
act as arbitrator for Chile on the COM
mission provided for by the recent treaty
to settle the claims of citizens Of either
country against the government of the
other. F" s.s f. ~ +
The enforcement of the Chinese ex-
clusion act causes the treasury officials
| much trouble, as the Celestial proves
himself to be a very slippery person.
He is now engaged in turning himself
into. merchant from laborer 10 such
an extent is this the case that Assistant
Secretary Spaulding has written letter
to collectors on the Pacific coast to stop
| the fraud. .r--ssa :
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-04-06

with her alone Neighbors hearing
screams rushed in and found that Long
had cut his wife's throat with a PEN
knife and then gashed his own. Both
were fatally hurt. s8i1 5Ss
& Daniel Sweerenger, wealthy stock
breeder, aged fifty, living near Lima,
Ohio, was murdered by highwaymen re-
Gently. Sweerenger's body was found
in a thicket near the roadside His skull
had been crushed by heavy blow from
behind and his throat cut from ear to
ear. Sweerenger's watch and $l,2OO
which he had when he left home We're
taken BY the highWaymen.
Ignacio Galvan, a young Spaniard,
who came to Mexico from New orleans,
has been arrested and put in Seem
prison on q charge Of swindling. He had
realized profit Of several Thousand dol
he brought with him a large
quantity Of Confederate bills which
he had secured in New Orleans.
He found no difficulty in palming these
off on the smaller shopkeepers Of the city
as American currency, and received the
| change in Mexican coin. u III
| The French senate elected M. Chaile-
| mel Iacour, the well known statesman
dlu sWIlLoI anu SeudtOTG 1IOm 10VuCAcS
du Rhone, president of the senate in
place Of Jules Fer ], deceased. The cleo
ton is very satisfactory to President
Carnot and the supporters of the, gov
eminent, and is all the more popular on
account of the recent election Of M.
| Challemel Lacour to Remains seat in the
French academy.
Frank Pendry, ten years Of age, was
arrested at Chicago charged with high
way robbery. When taken into custody
he wore black mask and carried two re-
volvers. He acknowledged that he had
robbed several people and had shot one
man through the hand because he resist
ed. He said that he was the son Of J.
D. Pendry, a tea merchant at Fifth
and Walnut streets in Cleveland, Ohio,
and declared that he was wanted in
Cleveland on several charges of robbery
and bribery. He was held to the Grim
inal court in bonds Of $4,000.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-04-06

A fitting seat for bicycles by which
the rider may adjust it at any angle
by his own weight is a new invention.
New Orleans people maintain the
most independent attitude toward the
dictates of fashion Of any city in the
land.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-04-06

There is a lake in the State of Mary
land, near Chestertown, that is known
as Still Pond. because it has never been
known to be ruf1ed by the most vio-
lent storms. Another popularity Of
this lake is that even during the re-
cent cold weather there was not a skim
Of ice on it's surface, and it is not
known ever to have been frozen.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-04-06

In the sixteenth century there was
O curious enactment in England where
by street hawkers were forbidden to
sell plums and apples for the reason
that servants and apprentices were I'M
able to resist the sight of them, and
were consequently tempted to steal
their employers money in order to EN-
JOY the costly delicacies.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-04-06

A report from one of the Kongo State
expeditions states that they have dis
covered the point where the Llkuga
river, the outlet of Lake Tanganyik;l,
joins the Lualaba river. This discovery
gives the solution to an interesting
geographical problem, for the junction
of these headwaters on the kongo is
the beginning of the true Kongo.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-04-06

Thirteen torpedo-boat destroyers are
to be added to the British navy, to be
$50 feet long, about 24O tons displace-
ment and Of 3,4OO horsepower. Their
armament will consist of one T.
FOUNDER and three 6-pounder quick
firing guns and five 1S-inch torpedoes
for use in bow tube, and two reyoly'
ing tubes amidships.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-04-06

For short period, under the West
Saxon kings Of England, Croydon was
the capital and London mere provin-
cial town. Norwood, if it were now
named afresh, would be South Wood,
since it is south of London; but, when
it was christened, it lay in the north of
Croydon, which was the more import
ant place Of the two.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-04-06
SlnfulfDoinps.

fsr F7s
Burglars secured 500 from the safe
of the Swift Chicago Beef company at
Sommerville, N. J.
c.. E. Hughes, under sentence Of thir-
teen years for murder, six of which he
has served, was pardoned out of the Iowa
penitentiary.
The sum Of $4,000 was secured on
the forged whisky warehouse receipts
negotiated at Louisville, Ky, by "a. r.
Sutton.
A bill is before the New York le,-::sla-
ture providing for an appeal in murder
cases where new trial has been refused.
The measure is intended to save the life
of Carlyle Harris.
Frank Long, gas filter of Cincin-
natl, twenty-eight years of age, who
had not been living with his wife for the
past six months, went to her home il
Covington, where he had an interview
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-04-06

On the farm of M. J. Mock, near
Waycross, Ga, is a marshy basin which
is seven miles long. The basin is filled
with water from natural springs, and
the water is always in motion. The
motion of the water forms a run, and
the run is divided into two streams,
which run parallel with each other but
in opposite directions.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-04-06

The Mansion house relief funds are a
special feature of London's help for
distress in any part of the world. Dur
ing the past twenty years $lO,5OO,OOO
have been received for such purposes
by different lord mayors.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-04-06

A few Milwaukee bachelors started
a home for themselves on the co-opera-
tive housekeeping plan, but it was a
dismal failure, one of them getting
married to drown his misery and the
others taking refuge in ordinary board
ing houses where ladies presided over
the soup tureen.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-04-06
Willing to Shield Him.

Seedy Stranger insinuating to the
5barkeeperD Do you know who T am III? #
Barkeeper shortly No, I don
Seedy Stranger (proudly) I'm the
real author Of Beautiful Snow.
Barkeeper Ssh! Take the back door.
and run for it. m throw the people
on the scent and give you ten minutes
start
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-04-06
Labor Items,

The long threatened strike of 500
carriage and wagon workers of Boston
for a nine-hour day with ten hours pay
was formally inaugurated the other day.
The United Brotherhood of Switchmen
met in Philadelphia The sentiment is
in favor Of a strike during the worlds
fair. E--" ~
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-04-06

Mrs. Stevenson, wife Of the vice
president, pleads guilty to being ull-
able to make speech. Mr.. Stevenson
is to be congratulated. Silence IS
golden. ...
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-04-06

: Fire at Grirnell recently burned tive
small business houses. ,--
A Seymour special says: The farmers
of this county have organized an asso-
citation for the purpose of buying land on
a large scale. Thy contemplate turning
their farms into a common fund and DO
ing all their business on the cooperative
plan. .9
81 At a fire at Spencer, Frank Osborn
while helping the fremen and saving
property, was injured. He died from the
effects last night.
s Charles Voss, young farmer living
near Zama, suicided by shooting himself.
Pecuniary difficulties was the, cause. He.
was unmarried. -
{ Helmer johnson, ffteen-year-eld
boy, while riding on the tender of loco.
motive, fell off and was run over and
killed in the railway yard at Calmar.
Actress Irene Worrell Holton of Chi
cago Of the once famous Worrell sisters,
gets $1,000 damages for falling down the
opera house starirs at Dubuque
Comisky Bros, proprietors of a large,
department store at Creston, failed to-
day. Chattel mortgages aggregating
$4,000 were fled There are other I'M
known liabilities. Th assets are small.
The Iowa college for the blind is ar
ranging for an elaborate exhibit at the
worlds fair. Space has been assigned
in the Iowa building j. w. Sarnagor.
member Of the Columbia committee, was
here to-day assisting the arrangements
A number Of prominent liquor sellers
were convicted in the district court at
Creston and the saloon element Of Ores
ton is greatly discouraged. States At
torney Bull announces his intention of
making clean sweep both by prosecu-
tons and injunctions. IS
Rev. James Hill, Baptist minister Of
Cascade, has received from ths var de-
partment a medal Of honor for an act of
distinguished bravery at the battle Of
Champion Hill, before Vicksburg, in
capturing single handed three of the.
enemy's pickets and bringing them into.
| camp. He was at the time first lieuten-
| ant Of Company i Twenty first Iowa in
| fantry
G. E. Waters Of Sioux City committed
suicide by shooting himslf at Ackley.
He left letters, the contents of which are
| not known. He had been in Ackley 3
little more than one day, and was noticed
letters, consulting a justice Of the peace
4 and talking strangely and finally ending
his life on the porch of the hotel. It is
thought he was insane.
| The floor Of the second story of Inter
kircher's new building gave way and a
section sixty feet wide by eighty long,
laden with bricks and mortar, dropped
down, carrying with it six laborers and
seven brick masons. One brick mason
named Hampton was severely injured.
His leg is broken, and he sustained In
ternal injuries. Another named Wrenn
was badly bruised about the head and
body, while the others are bleeding from
scratches and bruises
Burglars entered the residences of r.
/ w. Powers, Frank Koht and IL. Miller
at Reinbeck recently. DR.. Bowers was
awakened BY the providers and arose
from his bed to reach his revolver which
was IN the bureau drawer. He was
struck, by one of the men with blunt
wearon and badly injured. The burglars
made their escape, taking all the money
they could find, together with some
watches and several suits Of clothes.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-04-06
Little Rhode Island comes to the
front again. She starts the first crino-
line factory in the country.

Two Englishmen intend walking from
I Portland, Or, to New York. They ex--.
pect to cover the distance in 16O days.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-04-06

Miss Nellie Hamilton Of Grand Is orke
issa candidate for notary under the new
law. 55 5i5 81.
a special from Mandan says that no
trouble is feared from high water at that
point. 5g}
Ct "a new suit over the possession of a
four year-old lamb was recently tried
at Northwood. It cost the man who lost.
$75. 5 s
@SH atton citizens have called meeting
to secure subscriptions Of stock for the
erection Of customs Touring mills at that
place. III
Charles Herbert Of Mayville is the
proud possessor Of a couple of ewes,
each of which became mother Of trip
lets recently. .55i 1s Nj }s
Thomas McDonna had his left arm
blown off \ by dynamite while breaking
the ice blockade on the line Of the North
ern Pacific, west of Dickinson. #.
Mimic has large election sensat ton.
Twenty-Five illegal voters have been
identified, bribery is charged and a con-
test is possible. 35
| Larimore and Dunseith have filed APP
plications for the necessary instruments,
! to establish and paintain voluntary
weather signals. .@tS 81
] w. B. Hench Of Hope, arrested and
placed under $500 bond for selling IL
quor,. has vamoosed for parts unknown,
! and several bondsmen mourn.
Col. Lounsberry, having served out his.
term as special agent of the land office,
has been notified by secretary Smith that
| his services are dispensed with. Il.
/ Temperance women raided blind pig
! run by Lindsay Bush at Rolla recently.
/ Mrs. Charles Scott was struck by Bush
/ He was arrested. =. d, :., 5...:G i
! S. Winegardner was on trial at Fargo
| recently before Judge Barnett on COM
plant of his married daughter, Mrs
| Cynthia Anderson, charging him with
/ criminal assault on his daughter, less
than ten years Of age. There is much
| excitement amongst a certain class Of
! people over the case.
The Grand Forks Typographical union
by a majority of one vote elected =. A.
/ J. Tudhope delegate to attend the meet
ing of the International Typographical
union to be held in Chicago next June.
Tudhope has resided here for the past
| six years, and stands at the head OF the
! printers craft. His election is the re-
suit Of weeks spirited canvass. His
opponent was w. @. Strandberg.
2 An article in recent issue of Grand
Forks paper, signed by P. O.. Sullivan
and D. Quincy, charged Marshal Will
lam Hurst with taking them into blind
pig and drinking with them till all were
pretty full and that Hurst arrested them
and made them pay $40 each. They
also charged city officials with having
I an interest in blind pigs and that the
main street has eight running in full
/ blast and thirty-nine others more or less.
public Hurst has Quincy and sullivan
in Jail charged with criminal libel Tor
publishing the article.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-04-06

NortI, Dakota.
Oscar Kreutz, = Grand Forks phar-
macist, is dead. 88 . \
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-11

Mrs Ella Bentley, of the Donald
sonville (La.) Chief. strikes ont thus:
I'm close proximity to the south side
of the Chiidren's building the glass
roof of Horticultural hall catches the
suns rays and throws them back in a
thousand glittering facets. What a
touch of poetry the exposition manage
ment displayed when they grouped to-
gether women. children and flowers.
an earthly trinity bestowed upon man
TO reconcile him to the loss of para
disc"
Mrs. Campbell Wilson. a prosper
pus florist OF Cleveland. O.. started with
a cash capital of fifteen cents and au
indebtedness of something over one
hundred dollars. BY going out and So
Letting orders and personally deliver
ing the plants and flowers, she cleared
OFF the debt on her small esta blishmeut
in one season. In the fall she erected
s. larger one at a cost Of three hun
tired and fifty dollars. which she
rleared of debt by the same means in
Two years. Her business rules are as
follows: Advertise thoroughly. Carry
the best stock. Sell at small profits
Improve every opportunity to increase
trade"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-11
.Tolstoi, the Russian novelist, takes

-Tolstoi, the Russian novelist, takes
the ground that work makes man, as
well as the busy ant, cruel. 1t is, he
declares. the characteristic of Grim
inals; and to make virtue of work
such as lola has attempted to do is as
monstrous as to make q virtue of the
act OF feeding.
Henry NJ. Stanley has made a col
lection of nineteen legends that were
related to him during his African
travels. and they are to be published
by the Scribners under the title: "My
Dark Companions and Their Strange
Stories" Henry's stock of legends is
said to be inexhaustible.
Judge Barker, of the supreme jul
dicial court of Massachusetts,, has SUR
prised the lawyers not less than the
newspaper men by issuing an order
forbidding the newspapers to publish
reports of a breach of promise of mar
riage suit on trial before him, or to
make comments thereon.
DR. Frederick A. Cook, who was
with the last Peary expedition, and has
Juol DCCi OOIAib cS p1OId-
ton in Greenland on his own account,
anticipates great results from Peary's
present journey. He thinks it will add
many miles to the northern limit of ex-
ploration, and that it is quite possible
the pole will be reached.
Louis Kossuth writes to friend in
Hungary: II am weighed down by the
burden of years, and my eyesight grows
dim. / now see only outlines and not
details | can not read, and when writ
ing only gness at the characters which
] trace. Nevertheless, impeled by a
sense of duty, I completed the third
volume of my memoirs a few days ago"
Prof. Elliott Coues, of Washington,
is in Montana gathering material for
new volume of the history of the 'ex-
pioring expedition of Lewis and Clarke
In the preparation of the four volumes
of the work already published he says
he has handled over three thousand
manuscripts. He will go from Mon
tana to Idaho TO continue his investi-
cations.
The description of Zola's personal
appearance given by G. A. Sala is in
teresting, According to that keen and
unprecedented observer, the French nov
elist is a noticeable little man, with a
high forehead, rather a Thacl1erayan
nose, abundant black hair. black mus
tache and be ard just trimmed with sill
yer. He is a marvellous conversation
alist. bright, alert, often eloquent al
ways fascinating, occasionally para
doxical."
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-11
1t Was = Lesson.

There is no profession which does not
require certain amount of tact. There
is popular impression that all a dem
fist has to do is to go ahead and hurt
people. But this is not the sole condi-
ton en- which his success depends. A
Washington man has just opened a
dental parlor. After much waiting q
customer came along. 1t was an old
friend, but he did not act sociable. The
dentist felt it was his duty to be affa-
BILE, and he said:
Good morning; you are looking ex-
ceedingly well to-day
The visitor put his hand to his jaw
and glared.
II look exceedingly-well to-day"
"Yes-that is to say-you-" but be-
fore he could think of anything the
customer had grabbed his hat and
slammed the door.
Then the dentist murmured: 81 have
learned one thing to-day. Nothing
rouses the indignation of man with a
toothache so much as to tell him he is
looking we'll"
And he got some red ink and . stub
pen and wrote it down so that he would
never forget it.-Washington Star.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-11

whe- she WIS a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she clrug TO Castoria.
UaG sha had Children, she gave them Castoris
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-11
HUMOROUS.

"A few million years hence the sun
will give out no more heat" well.
most of Us won't be IN need of heat. -
Life.
-Mamma-"Harry, / want You to
rome in now and amuse the baby"
Harry Jagged 5l-"You'll have to excuse
me. mother: I'm not in the low-comedv
line. Boston Transcript.
-She-"What swell turnouts Maud's
new beau always has" He-''Yes. l
have just found ont about them-he
gets three dollars a day for exercising
the horses Detroit Tribune.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-11
Needed Experience.

Fond Wife-You are always praising
your mothers cooking and saying how
much better she was than !. In ali
probability. YOUR own son will be tell
ing the same story 20 his wife. tsren-
Is years from now.
Loving Husband VERY likely iou
viii have hal practice enough 70 de-
serve il by that ti,-lc Brooklyn Life