The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-16

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tary Herbert's instructions that the
ship be allowed to proceed.
Personal Mention.
Col. James Young, king Of the Penn
sylvania farmers, is dead.
The first president Of the st. Louis
cotton exchange, Maj. Lee r. Shryock,
is dead.
President Cleveland's portrait has
been painted by Percy Ives Of Michi-
gan.
Hubbard Hunt, one of the pioneer
bankers and merchants Of Valparaiso,
Ind, is dead.
Capt. John B. Lester, a veteran of
the late war, died at his home in Ran
toul, Ill.
DR.. Henry M. Hurd, of Johns Hop
king university, has been elected pres
ident of the Academy of Medicine.
Pope Leo XIII. does not wear the
real tiara on solemn occasions, but a
paper-mache imitation, as the tiara it.
self is much too heavy.
Mrs. Belva Lockwood will not be
permitted to practice before the Vir-
ginia supreme court. Masculine tyran-
ny seems to cling to the Old Dominion.
Mrs. Eliza M. Allen, the mother of
Mayor-elect William NJ. Allen of Peo-
ria, ILL.,, died at the home of her son
at the age Of eighty years.
The wife Of Leslie Stephen, M. A.,
the well known author of the Die
tionary Of National Biography" is
dead.
Prof. Lawrence McLouth will leave
Ann Arbor university. He will be-
come a full professor in German in
the University Of the City of New
York.
Mrs. Sarah M. Moffett, the richest
woman in Quincy, ILL.,, is dead. She
was seventy years Of age, and leaves
an estate Of nearly $1,O00,000, consist
ing largely Of property in Western
Park, Chicago.
Robert Halstead, a son Of Murat
Halstead, has been appointed man
aging editor Of the Fourth Estate, Mr..
Birmingham's lively newspaper for
newspaper men," in place of F. II.
Lancaster, resigned. 81
DR.. A. Conan Doyle is living at the
Belvidere hotel, Davos Platz, SWitZer-
land. He declined a tempting offer for
another season here, his principal rea-
son being that American railway cars
are 80 unendurably hot.
John Rogers, the sculptor, has pre-
sented to the city of Manchester, N.
H., a statue Of Abraham Lincoln. 1t
Is a seated figure Of plaster larger than
life, and was upon exhibition at the
worlds fair, where 1t took a prize.
Vice Chancellor and ex-Gov. Robert
S. Green died at Elizabeth, N. j., in
his sixty-hfth year.. He was a dele
gate to the national Democratic con-
vention in 1860 which nominated Ste
phen A. Douglas for the presidency.
Unfortunate Events.
A severe rainstorm did much damage
at CORN, Mo.
James H. Brine and wife were killed
in a runaway accident at Hockvale,
Col.
John Gehrig and Alex Struben were
drowned while trying to ford Wood
river, Id.
An unknown man was killed at Jack
sonville, ILL.,, while trying to board a
train. The initials ~. c." were tat
tooed on his arm.
Peter Haronson, his wife and daugh-
ter of New Orleans were drowned In
Denton creek while attempting-to cross
In a wagon.
Clarence Hough of Sandwich, ILL.,,
was killed by being kicked over the
dashboard by the horse he was driv.
Ing.
A telegram from Newton, Kan, SAYS
that twenty-five families, rendered
homeless by the cyclone, are badly In
need of help.
During a causeless panic on a street
car at Allegheny, Pa, a young woman
who is as yet unidentified, jumped off
and was killed by striking her head or
a curbstone.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Baugh end
Frank Connolly and Frank Moriarity
were drowned in the Detroit river
The Baughs tried to change positions
In the boat.
A cloudburst deluged Dayton, Tenn
Frank Hitchcock, Jr., died in Peoria
ILL.,, from the effects of injuries receiv.
ed In a runaway last winter. He was
twenty-six years of age.
The British ship Earnscliffe, Manila
to Hong Kong, thence to San Fran.
cisco, is a total wreck on Princess isl
and, off the coast Of China. The crew
was saved. The loss will be 5000, 900
The little historic chcrch built by
Gen. Andrew Jackson and his wife
near the Hermitage, Nashville, Tenn.
In 1923 was badly damaged by a storm
A tree WAS blown m If cr,1clino IL