The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-10-18
Foreign Gossip.

Foreign Gossip.
A dispatch from Buenos Ayres says
there isfno truth in the report that ia,
The British steamship Ell Friday was
beached at the mouth of the Brazos
river.
The public debt of the Dominion of
Canada is $244, 723,56O, an increase
over last year.
Every county in Ireland was repre-
sented in the monster procession at
Dublin in commemoration Of the death
Of Parneu.
Near the volcano of Purace, in the
Andes mountains, the ruins of a pre-.
historic city covering hundreds of acres
have been found. H..
The Hungarian House Of Magnates
rejected by a vote Of 100 to 1O3 the bill
for legal recognition Of the Hebrew re-
igion. ~
The semi-official Cologne Gazette
states that the powers have agreed
not to oppose Japanese advance on
Pekin.
A dispatch to the Pail Mall Gazette
from Buenos Ayres says there is no
truth in the report that Jabez Balfour
has escaped from custody. .
The French budget committee has
rejected the proposal Of Gen. MERCER,
minister of war, for provisional bud:
get to allow of the increase of the army
by $4,000 men. 49,.
A parliamentary return shows that
during the nine months ending with
q 81
land en- route for America against 49,.
361 during the corresponding period in
1898.
It is understoon that if the car de-
cides, as it is fully expected that he
| will, upon a form Of regency during
his absence from Russia, the czarevitch
will not be appointed regent, but will
| be entrusted, by a special declaration
Of the car, with the direction of state
affairs.
Otherwise.
The Lick school in California will be
opened for pupils July Z, 1896.
A battery of dynamite guns has been
ordered placed at San Frascisco harbor.
The supreme convention Of the
Catholic Mutual Benefit association is
in session at Philadelphia, Pa.
The single-tax people of Illinois have
induced Henry George to take part in
the campaign.
| The Republican convention Of the
Fourth S. c.. district to-day nominated
Lawson D. Melton white, for congress.
! Joseph r. Perrault, a .deposed priest,
has brought suit for $4,000 against
Bishop Stanley Of North Dakota.
Investigation Of the Illinois Building
and Loan association by a committee
of stockholders shows it's affairs to be
in bad shape.
Mrs A. McC. Kimbrough Of Jack
son, Miss, has published an appeal
| for funds to repair the home Of Jeffer
son Davis at Beauvoir.
An angry woman, aided by the
/ sheriff, prevented the marriage Of Mar:
tin Burr and Mrs. Harriet Harrison
/ at Princeton, III.
George Evans, Of the Illinois state
board of mine examiners, has resigned
w. j. Whitaker Of Collinsville has
been appoited to the vacancy.
At mass meeting Of the citizens OF
! Hiawatha, Kan, the $4,000 stocl
1 asked for by the Pullman club was
| raised President Meyer Of the Pull
/ man club informed the citizens that be
would nave thirty mechanics leave
/ Pullman for HiaWatha Immediately.
The suit of Mrs. Martha Jones t.
recover $1,000 from the Fidelity MI
tual Life association on a policy on the
life Of her husband was brought to 9
4 remarkable and abrupt termination al
Pittsburg. The defense produced II
court a deposition and photograph Of
/ the supposedly dead man showing BIZ
/ is now living in England.