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Accidental Happenings.

An incendiary fire destroyed the Tiiton-
vile, Ohio, pottery. Loss, $4,000.
Mrs. Hugh Harding used coal oil to
light fire at Norwalk, Ohio, and was
burned to death.
Five persons were injured by the de-
railing of passenger train on the Ar
kansas Pass road at Spring Branch,
Tex. ....--'
The Rev. w. M. Graham and wife
were killed by train on the Central
road at Miner, Ga, while on their way
home from church.
The Wylie crevasse in the Mississippi
levee is now $500 feet wide. The large
residence of Judge w. G. Wylie, situ-
ated near the crevasse, caved into the
river and not a vestige remains of the
structure.
A fire in the Menomonee Valley lumber
district at Milwaukee destroyed the G.
A. Beck planning mill and large quantity
of lumber, causing a loss Of $75, 600,
which is nearly covered by. insurance.
The Milwaukee Lumber company suf-
fered a loss Of $4,000.
Reports from points east of Athens,
Ga, state that severe storm swept that
section, and many houses were blown
down. At Gillsville James insley was
killed and his wife badly injured, and
in Banks county George Dowd was
killed.
The Burlington Chicago flyer was
wrecked in the yards at Denver. As
the train was passing the rounhouse an
engine suddenly started up for no ap-
parent reason and ran directly into the
passenger train, striking it at tangent.
Three persons were injured.
Mrs. John Montee, the wife of farm
er of Columbus, Wis, was shot and
killed by her young son recently. She
was riding with her son and husband
across the farm when the Earring of the
wagon caused the discharge Of a shot
gun which the son was carrying The
mother received nearly the full charge Of
the gun and was instantly killed.
While 10000 people looked on, Aero
naut Purcell Thomas stepped from the
pinnacle of the Parade house roof at
Buffalo with an ordinary umbrella in
! one hand, and shot like a rock to the
stone pavement below. His wife, who was
| to jump next, drew back in horror at
| the sight of her husbands mangled body
stretched below. The skull of the aero
naut was crushed, his back, legs and
arms broken and he died as he was being
carried into the hospital
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-06-08

M. Jules Simon has discovered the
secret Of old age, and he has formulat-
ed the recipe in two words intellectual
work. Nothing, he declares, helps SO
materially to conserve physical strength
as mental employment, and in proof Of
this theory he points out that the
French institute is a perfect congrega-
ton Of hale and hearty octogenarians.
In the Academy Of Moral Sciences alone
there are Barthelemy, Saint Hilaire,
Vacherot, Franck, Duruy, Larombiere,
Ravaisson and Boulder, al living their
eighth decade through laborious and
productive days.
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Family Ties.


A foreign exchange brings us the.
story Of a rather vulgar parsonage,
only a few months a marquis, who man
aged to get himself invited to a court
ball. The new-dedged marquis could
not contain himself for JOY, and ex-.a
hailed proud satisfaction at every pore.
Casting an Olympian glance around
the room, he Glanced to spy amongst
the ladies the tall, angular figure of
an elderly matrpn, with pressed lips,
as though afraid Of wasting her breath,
and as lean as a lath. She was taking
the arm Of a young gentleman.
e. Who is that nanny-goat r. said the
noble lord to a gentleman standing be-
side him. 51 N 5sa
81 With a knowing smile came the reply
That nanny goat is the ambassadress
OF S - the mother Of the kid who is
giving her his arm, and the wife Of the
old buck who has the honor of speaking
with your excellency. Z
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GIRLS DROWNED.

Detroit, Mich, June ). III" sad,lest
drowning accident that m, been rccorda.l
in some time occurred III The River Rouge
at Dearborn, few niles south If De-
troit. The victims are Lotto Dios.mans,
the thirteen-year-old ia lighter nf Peter
Dingemans, the well lnGw.l sash and
blind manufacturer, anl Clara Wagner
his five-year-old grand daughter, whose
father, Charles Wagner, is Il lr:,,ninco:
brickmaker at Dearborn. 1t is thought
that Clara fell in accidentally anil Little
while trying to rescue ler was also ear
ried away by the swift c,lrra.,t and bo:h
drowned ,@tg- zt- f.
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SATURDAY, June 3.

Mitchell & McCirre's tug Savage was.
destroyed by fire at the company s dock
at West Duluth last night. Loss. $1,000.
G. w. Westerson purchased the Ennis
roller mill and surrounding property at
Hastings. some twenty-four and q half
acres, form J. "A. Ennis to-day for
$40, 800.
William Scar, aged twenty-five, q single
man, was found dead in the town of
Milford, near Sleepy Eye, last evening.
He went hunting and accidently shot
himself through the head.
Incendiaries fired the granary belonging
to Emil Peterson, three miles east of
Heron Lake, and burned 300 bushels of
grain. Warrants are out for the sus-
pected p. rites. There was 70 insuran &c
on the building nor contents.
There is quite sensation at Pelican
Rapids over the disappearance of Alice
Smith, foLrteen-year-old child who has
been living with Mrs. M. j. Blaisdell for
the last five years. She went to bed Sun
day night and Mrs. Blaisdell found her
gone in the morning. Some one has abb
Quoted her.
It is reported at Saltwater on good au-
thority that Thomas O. Conner, the life
convict released from prison some weeks
ago, has not given up the intention OF
bringing heavy suit against ex-Gov.
Merriam for false imprisonment, but that
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he has secured an attorney and that the
papers are being prepared il d Hudson,
Wis, where g Conner now resides. He
will demand damages in the sum Of
$4,000. z5.s
SUNDAY, june 4.

a span of large horses, harness, a
light wagon and three blankets were
stolen from Peter Lawson, Of Bath town
ship, near Albert Lea.
Game Warden Farnham brought to
Fergus Falls three Finlanders and thirty
nets to-day. The Finlanders, who were
netting in Rush Lake, were held to the
grand jury. 555
A. Kohner. a barber Of Frazee City,
was arrested and brought to Detroit.
charged with indecent assault on the
eight-year-old girl Of T. Mahlen. He
gave bonds for his appearance at the
June term of court. 81.
Gus Heintz, laborer, while walking
home after drunken spree at Rochester,
was run over by the west-bound freight
at 4 o'clock this morning east Of the in
sane hospital. The top Of his skull was
almost cut away. He was forty years
old and unmarried.
Wednesday Hugh O'Donnell, a farmer
living few miles east of Rushford,
while engaged with his son in driving
posts, was accidently struck on the head
with a sledge hammer and suffered
fracture of the skull. He is uncon-
scious and is fatally injured.
Eddie Myers, who six months ago re
ceived sentence of thirty days in the
county Jail at Winona for attempting to
cut the throat of Mrs. J.. 6. Schneider,
attempted last night to kill Mr.. Schneider,
using brick for weapon. He had been
arrested, and being insane, will. probably
be sent to Rochester.
A boy fourteen years old, by the name
of Charlie Quist, Two miles southeast of
Cannon Falls, was burning brush on some
new breaking near the road when a
tramp came along and asked the boys
name, and when told he walked up to the
boy, took hold of him and threw him
head first into the fire. He afterwards
took to the woods. The boy is reported
badly burned and is in danger of losing
his life. A posse of men were organized
here who have started to hunt up the
tramp. sat
Edward Rooney went to sleep in the
waiting room of the st. Paul & Duluth
depot Carleton while waiting for train,
James Conley, assisted by James Garden
er and William Douprey, went through
him and stole his watch, all his money,
his baggage checks and his keys. The
watch was recovered and the men were
arrested. examined and held to the dis
trict court. Rooney lives at Cakes,
N. ID.
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The body Of Miss Fannie Wykoff was
found in the river near Hudson, n. ST.
The girl had been murdered.
Indiana grand juries will inquire into
the banking methods Of Zinvri Dwig-
gins.
Duncan Bentley, leader Of q gang Of
house-breakers at Lansing, Mich, was
sentenced to the penitentiary for fifteen
years. HI 63 .55
"a negro assaulted the wife Of III. b.
Dills, farmer living near Decatur, Ill.
There is talk of lynching If the negro
is caught.
The residence Of NJ. 6. Lemeke Of
st. Louis, Mo-, was entered by burglars
and the entire family chloroformed. Only
$40 in money was secured.
Isaac Mann, a farmer Of Bryan, Ohio,
was the victim Of confidence men in
the sum of So, 600 recently at Lima, Ohio.
One Of the men was afterWard arrested
and the entire sum recovered.
Gov. Altgeld pardoned John 81. u.
Isham, sentenced to the penitentiary
for thirteen years from Hardin county,
Ill. The pardon is granted because the
governor doubts 1sham's guilt.
Curtis Perdue, treasurer of the East
Liverpool, Ohio, lodge Of the knights
of Maccabees, has disappeared, together
with all the funds of the order, amount
ing to several hundred dollars.
Col J. Albert Mills, late in command
of the Eighth regiment, Massachusetts,
militia, and accused of embezzling the.
funds Of the Victoria mills at Newbury-
port, Mass, has jumped his bail and
fled to Canada.
While tearing down and clearing away
the old Star hotel at Center Point, Ind,
the workmen found an old box a short
distance under ground. The box was
opened and a human skeleton was
brought to view. The citizens believe it
to be the bones of some one who was
murdered many years ago.
In battle with moonlighters, Deputy
United States Marshal Harris was killed
in Hope county, Ark. A party OF
moonshiners had been arrested in New
ton county and were being conveyed to
Fort Smith by revenue officers. When
passing through Bull Frog Valley, in
Martin township, the officers were fired
upon from ambush by the moonshiners
sympathizers.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-06-08
Miscellaneous Items.

Union printers of Illinois met at Peoria
to form a state association.
Charles Fosters creditors met and
agreed to accept SO cents on the dollar.
Four cases of small pox were discov-
cred in Bohemian boarding house in
New York.
&. Chauncey NJ. Depew was re-eleeted
president of the New York Society of
the Sons of the American Revolution.
Officers from Russian and Austrian
warships participated in the Memorial
day exercises at Philadelphia.
e. Nelson Blake of Massachusetts was
elected president, Of the Baptist Home
Missionary society.
David r. jenkins Of Wales, said to
be one Of the best authorities on tin plate
in the world, is in Pittsburg, penniless
and denented.
The mills Of the Bethlehem, Pa, Iron
company have been shut down. About
], 800 men are thrown out of employment.
Lack of orders caused the closing.
Formal charges of tyranny, incompe-
tence, disobedience and violation Of the
Baltimore decree have been filed against
Bishop Bonacum, of the Lincoln, Neb.,
district. s
The report of the Indiana board of
charities on the investigation Of the in
stitutien for the predetermined exoner-
ates the matron and trustees, but con
dennis Supt. Blake.
Negotiations are now under way for
the conversion Of the Allan Steamship
company into joint stock company.
The Allan line is one of the greatest
ocean vessel lines in the world.
Kansas bankers who have adopted the
rule of. the Kansas City Clearing House
association in reference TO charges on
checks and drafts will be proceeded
against for forming trust.
At q meeting of the directors of the
North American company the resigna-
ton of Henry Willard as president was
presented and accepted. G. W.. Wet
more, chairman of the executive commit
tee, was elected to succeed Mr.. Willard.
In the June number Of the North Amer
lean Review appears long article by
Andrew Carnegie, predicting the union
Of all the parts Of the English speaking
world and setting forth the advantages
which would result from it. Mr.. Car
negie draws a glowing picture of the
powers and influence which would be ex-
erted upon the world at large BY an Ar.
glo-American combination.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-06-08
ROBBED WHILE ASLEEP.

Carlton, Mimi, June 5.--Edward Room
ey went to sleep in the waiting room of
the st. Paul & Duluth depot while wait
ing for a train. James Conley, assisted
by James Gardner and William Douprey,
went through him and stole his watch.
all his money, his baggage check and his
keys. The watch was recovered and the
men were arrested, examined and held
to the district court. Rooney lives at
Cakes. N, d, g..
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CRUEL, DEED

Cannon Falls, Mimi, June ga boy
fourteen years old by the name of Charlie
Quist, two miles southeast Of here, was
burning brush on some new breaking
near the road when a tramp came along
and asked the boys name, and when
told he walked up to the boy, took hold
of him and threw him head first into the
fire. He afterwards took to the woods.
The boy is reported badly burned and is
in danger of losing his life A posse Of
men was organized here who have started
to hunt up the tramp.
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From Other Shores.

Insurance companies lost $500, 1000 by
fire in Santiago, Chile.
The car laid the corner stone of the
monument to Alexander II. in Moscow.
He was enthusiastically cheered.
Five deaths from diphtheria occurred
on the steamer Oregon, Liverpool for
Quebec, and the vessel is detained in
quarantine at Crosse Isle.
Herman Hesslein & Co., an old bank
ing firm of Bamberg, Bavaria, have
failed. One of the partners attempted
suicide, while another has fed.
The grand jury has found a true bill
against William Townsend, the individ-
ual arrested recently on suspicion of in
tending to kill Mr.. Gladstone.
Countess Marie Reischach, wife of an
army officer, has been arrested at Buda
Pesth for conspiring to murder her six
year-old twins. She had the children by
her first husband, Count Plotenyi.
The Brazilian congress has refused to
appoint an Intervention to settle the
troubles in the State Of Rio Grande do
Sui. This refusal is based on the ground
that the national army should be used
to suppress the rebellion So. 0
r
inter, was released from Portland prison
on May 80. DAILY and Egan were con-
victed at Birmingham in 1885 of having
been engaged in conspiracy to destroy
property with dynamite. Egan was re-
leased in October last.
It is calculated that the recent visit of
the German sovereign to Rome has cost
King Humbert more than 100000
francs. The breakfast at Pompeii cost
10000 francs, and 100000 francs was
spent in preparing apartments for the
imperial visitors.
The official statement of the Russian
minister of interior regarding cholera is
the most encouraging yet issued. 1t
states that the Volga and Ural districts
are now free from the disease, while in
the Province of Saratoff, which suffered
the most in 1892, $4,000 persons dying
there are only few isolated cases.
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A miller ninety-f0ur yea

A miller ninety-feur years old is
living near Versailles, KY, in an
old water mill that he has been
running continually for upwards
of eighty years. He started it be-
fore the war Of 1913, and re-
manned by it all through the civil war,
scarce knowing war was in progress
about him, the place is SO secluded.
He is hale and hearty, can shoulder a
sack Of grain or flour with ease, and
his mind is clear and his life smooth
running as the creek he has lived by
and listened to for four score years.
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Some 1000 members of the British
volunteer forces have served, contin-
uously and efficiently, from periods
Of from twenty to thirty-three years,
and it is proposed to bestow a medal
or badge on them for long service and
good conduct. Z.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-06-08

In Queens county, Ireland, right in
the center of level tract Of country,
there stands single rock in solitary
grandeur. 1t is the rock Of Dunamasse,
covered from base to summit With
the ruins of an ancient fortress.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-06-08

In Australia, it is said, telephone mes
sages have been successfully transmit
ted over wire fences. The man who
thought Of this device utilized the top
wire of the fence and carried the wire
across the road on poles.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-06-08

The researches of a Munich profess
sor convince him that in ancient
Egypt the bellies used large quantities
Of face paints as complexion improvers.
To this complexion did they come at
last, as the hand-painted mummies
clearly show.
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WRECKED:

Isl st: Louis, June 5.--The south-bound
cannon ball train on the Iron Mountain,
which left this city at 8 p. m. last night
switch at Leeper's station, about four
miles from Poplar Bluff, Mo-, and 135.
miles from this city. Seven passengers
were injured, only one Of them seriously.
None of the train crew were injured.
All traffic was delayed for twelve or four
teen hours.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-06-08

Helen Kellar, the blind little prodigy
from Boston, asked one of the justices
of the supreme court in Washington
If he knew a certain Boston lawyer,
and upon his replying in the negative
retorted, brightly: "Why, are you not
brothers-in-law? s.-4'a
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-06-08

Earl Ringquoist, veteran shoe
maker of Deckertown, N. T., says he
remembers when Christine Nilsson
sang to the accompaniment of her
brothers violin for the pennies of the
country folk Of the district near the
town Of Holmstadt, Sweden, and that
even then she had a fascinating voice.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-06-08

A Detroit doctor, who undertook to
pull a dislocated ankle into place, dis
located the knee joint of his patient.
Their relations became somewhat
strained, and the patient now wants
$4,000 damages, exclusive of those
already sustained.
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m CSC DE a TEL In "A NINE
TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE IN N
MEXICAN NINE.
Tsventy-six Miners Are Caught by
Fire ind Burned to Denth-As
Many Others succeed IN Making
Il Their Escape.

s
Eagle Pass, Tex, June s. "A fire was,
started in the Fuente coal mines, situated
in Mexico four miles from here. Sixty
men were in the mines About one-half
the miners were working near the main
tunnel, and these made their escape,
leaving twenty-six Of their number to-
perish from the heat and smoke and from
the poisonous gases which spread like
lightning to every portion of the mines
When it was seen that all efforts were
useless to rescue the imprisoned miners
every energy was directed to saving the
property from destruction. A hand pump
was placed in position on the Escondido
river, pipes were laid into the mine as
far as any work could be done and hose
attached and water poured On to the
burning timbers. A portable engine was
speedily obtained from Pierdras Negras
and in three hours the fire .vas Under
control. There are tWenty-six ebanters
in the mine, and the dead miners are sup
posed to be well to the front Of The nlne.
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Under South Cardinals new dispen-
sary laws an applicant who cannot write
can make a cross in his application
for liquor. The price has been fxed
at So a gallon, and it is surmised there
will be crosses enough in it to go
round. .., .l e.
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FATAL QUARREL.

Omaha, June 5.-Annie Brown and
Belinda Arnold, colored inmates Of a
house of i'll fame, quarreled, and Brown
struck Arnold over the head with
lighted lamp. The lamp burst and haz-
ing oil flowed over the unfortunate
woman, literally cooking her. The sr,wn
woman is in jail Arnold died at the hos
pital in awful agony.
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Here is the sworn statement Of Mrs.
Anna Potter's expenses as a candidate
for mayor of Kansas City: Juvenile
colered band, $50; band wagon, SIS;
another band wagon, So; band, $24;
tickets, $3.50; four banners, 50; total,
$3.50. This is offset by the receipt Of
Just 20 votes.
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BURGLARS IN A CHURCH.

st. Petersburg, June 5.-It transpirel
yesterday that while the car was in
Moscow recently the church of the
sChudov monastery, within the Krcnlliil,
was plundered of a vast amount If plate
and money. The loss i, estimated at
between 100000 and 5000, 200 rouhles.
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ASSETS SUFFICIENT.

johnson City, Tenn, June 5. The
Carnegie Land company and Carnegie
Iron company has made an assignment
to j. w Cure. The liabilities, due large
IL to Eastern md Northern parties, are
placed at SIPS 600, and the assets, con-
$sisting Of new blast furnace, hotel,
lands and town lots and notes, are ssti-
mated at $500, 600.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-06-08

To form some idea of the .largeness
of this earth one may look upon the
landscape from the top of an ordinary
church steeple and then bear in mind
that one must view 100000 similar
landscapes to get an approximately
correct idea Of the size Of the earth.
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The editors Of morning papers in Ger
many leave their Offices at 8 o'clock
and the papers are on the press at IL
o'clock. BY II o'clock even the print
ers have gone home, and when Gen.
Won. Moltke died at II o'clock at night
there was only one Berlin newspaper
that had line about it in it's issue next
morning.
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Terms:-2.00 per year in advance.

The city Of Montreal was visited by
three steamships on Thursday. The
cargo Of one was gin, Of another lem
ons, and the third sugar. The ship
ping industry, at that rate, is bound to
become popular in that city.
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Sam Worcester, a wreck Of human
fly, is still abroad. For the last forty
years he has tramped over two counties
in Michigan. At one time he was
wealthy lawyer, but a disappointment
In love drove him to the flowing bowl
and made q wreck of him. Ft-
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SUNDAY AT THE FAIR.

Chicago, June 5.-What the attendance
at the worlds fair might have been Sun
day had it not rained no one will ever
know. But it rained and it rained hard
total number Of paid admissions was less
than 10000. "A decision on the Sunday
opening question will be rendered Thurs
day.