The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-12-26
PeOnle in Print.


A monument to the late Bishop
Wayman, colored, will be erected III
Baltimore.
Mr.. Cleveland will lack fourteen
DAYS Of being sixty years old when ne
retires from the presidency.
CONGRESSMAN William A. Smith OF
Michigan began his career as a news
Loy and street popcorn seller.
iCharles Mayne, a pioneer capitalist
and millionaire banker of San Fran
cisco is dead.
Ian MacLaren says that every man
who will not work should be COM
pelled to do so at the point. OF the
bayonet.
In the now home of.the new duchess
Of Marlborough there are said to DE
twenty staircases leading from the
main floor to the second.
John S. Wheeler, aged forty years,
retired merchant of Warrensburg, MO-,
dropped dead in the Methodist Epls-
copal church during services.
Cardinal Paul Melchers is dead in
Rome He was German, porn III
1913, and was created cardlnal III
1885.
Mrs. Della s. Parnell, the mother OF
the late Charles Stuart Parnell, IS SUN
in Trinity hospital, New York city.
She is improving daily, and expects TO
sail for Ireland before New Years.
Mrs, P. W. X. Schimer Ct Mount
Carroll, ILL.,, has signitied her Intention
Of turning over to the University OF
chicago and the Mount Carroll semi
nary property valued at $lO0,00o.
A section of Thomas Paine's brain
is on exhibition in London. The Pail
Mall Gazette says that it is quite
black and clocks like chunk OF iron
pyrites.'
Critic Edmund Clarence Stedman
has declined the Billings chair OF
English literature at Yale on the
ground that lit is best to put young
blood in the place."
Lorenzo Turner, who left his home
in Brazil, Ind, at the close OF the war
to make his fortune in the West, has
lust returned to his old home. He is
now a very wealthy cattle dealer Of
South Dakota.
Rev. DR.. Rocker, private secretary
to Mgr. Satolli, went to New York to
meet Marquis Sacripanti, the pope's
noble guard, who is bringing to Wash
ington the consistoral letter and the
red cap signifying the elevation OF
Mgr. Satolli to the cardinalate.
Mrs. Bradley, wife Of Kentucky's
governor, will feel at home as the
mistress of the gubernatorial mansion
in Frankfort The wife of old Gov.
Robert p. Letcher was her great-aunt
and bequeathed to her the silver serv-
ice that graced the mansion during
Gov. Letcher's term. 1t was a superb
service, and will be used by the gov
ernor's wife while she. as the wife of
Gov. Letcher's brilliant successor, dis
penses the hospitality of the mansion.
Casualties.
The steamer India was badly dam
aged by collision.
George Merr Of Sharon Center,
Iowa, was found overcome by gas in
his room in Reuters hotel, New York.
His recovery is improbable.
The Atlantic & Pacific express on
the Southern Pacific was wrecked
near Towels, CAL, injuring several
passengers, but none fatally.
Rosa Carrier of Salina, Kas., eleven
years old, was burned TO death by the
explosion Of a lamp which she had
tipped over. ,.. l.
The fish house Of Trask & Co., in
ST.. Louis, was practically destroyed.
It's estimated that the total damage
to stock and building will exceed $780,
OOO Well insured.
In an Illinois Central freight train
collision at Jackson, Tenn, Fireman
Moses Hill, colored, was killed, ard
Engineer Jack Kennedy was severely
scalded. 49,
Joseph Koehler Of Salem Ohio, load
ed shotgun and placed it on table,
His four-year-old child, while playing,
knocked it off, and Mr.. Koehler re-
ceived the entire contents in his
ankles. Amputation may be neces-
sary.
'.h - Crimes and Criminals
Curtis, the bigamous editor of Ana
mosa, Iowa, who has four wives to his
e credit, was sentenced to five years in
the penitentiary.