The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-11-05


coming from Chicago where she was
stopping with friends.
From Foreign Shores.
The officials on duty at the admir-
atty In London denied the reports ca
bled from Halifax Of the increase in
the strength Of the British fleet in
American waters. ~
The Madrid impartial has opened a
subscription in aid OF the Spanish SOL
diers wounded in Cuba. The queen re-
gent has contributed 10000 pesetas to
the fund.
Emperor William has addressed an
autograph letter to Emperor Francis
Joseph fully explaining the Russo
German neutrality treaty which exist
ed prior to 1880.
The French cabinet meeting held re-
Gently decided to instruct the consul
general Of France at New York to
make a special study of the interna-
tional financial situation.
There is good reason to believe that
a tribunal similar to the Boring sea
commission, with Sir Richard Webster.
the attorney general, representing Eng
land, will be appointed to solve the
Venezuelan boundary.
A conspiracy has been discovered in
the Sulu archipelago, a portion Of the
Spanish colony of the Philippine ISL
ands. Eight soldiers have already
been killed in the attempt to suppress
the uprising. ..
While Mgr. Bartelomeos, the locum
tenens of the Armenian patriarchate,
was entering his carriage at CONSTANT
nople four men made an attempt to
assassinate him, but they were seized
by the prelate's escort.
The leaders of the young Turkish
party have rejected the sultan's pro-
posal to grant reforms, including a
general amnesty and the appointment
of a responsible ministry as the price
Of the cessation Of thei ragitation.
A Sepoy belonging to the British In
dian troops stationed at Fort Sande-
man, India, ran amuck and killed
Lieut.. Yeates Of the Royal Engineers,
Lieut.. Downes of the Bombay Lancers
and two private soldiers, besides
wounding Lieut.. MacLachlan, before
he was overcome.
People bought tickets for Irvings
first performance Of "Cymbeline''
months before the night on which it
took place, and the audience part
Of it with no reserved seats-began to
gather in the theater at o'clock in
the morning, provided with luncheons
and reading matter.
Ex-Pope Tolstoi Of the Russian
| church, who was recently deposed
from the priests functions because he
had refused to clear himself of an &C.
cusation that he had been converted
to Catholicism, has been arrested at
Moscow and taken to Mini, where he
was condemned by a church tribunal
to seven years. Punishment from St..
Petersburg and Moscow, and was for
hidden to hold any state Office for
twenty years.
! Otherwise.
A well attended meeting was held at
the Academy of Music, Philadelphia,
to protest against ill-treatment of Irish
political prisoners in English prisons.
Monmouth township, Warren county,
Illinois, has completed 5000 feet Of
brick pavement, the first hard country
road ever put down in the United
States.
Rev. e. H. D. Capon, president of
Tufts collage, Cambridge, Mass, has
filed a voluntary petition for in
solvency. The collage is in no way
affected. Too liberal endorsement Of
paper Of friends was the cause
Two firms assigned at Honston, Tex,
Brown Bros, dry goods, for $685. 800,
and Saper Bros, gents furnishings
and clothing, for $4,000. Subsequent
attachments were made on Brown
Bros. The creditors are chiefly in the
| North and East,
At the Empire Athletic club in Buff
falo, N. Y, Stanton Abbott of Eng
land and Matt Matthews of New
York came together for a fifteen
round bout, but it took only seven
minutes for Matthews to get away
with the Englishman.
The monument to the memory of
Maryland citizens who fought in the
navy during the Civil war, erected in
the National Cemetery, in London
Park, Baltimore, will be dedicated on
Thanksgiving day. Louis and Victor
Bennett, sons of Capt. Bennett Of Bal.
timore, will unveil the monument.
G. A. Henty for two months dictated
literary notes to photograph. At the
end Of that period, when he wished to
put his work in manuscript, the ma
| $AaAAO was IAAOAouEAAJ OuI VI OAuSAS taAO
the too-trustful author had to mourn
the waste Of the entire two months
time and eloquence.
A year ago the New York World
published an article on Dr. Ashton
Buchanan Talbot Of Philadelphia, in
which it was stated the physician had
penchant for marrying ''old ladies
and riches" For the latter statement
DR.. Talbot brought suit for libel
circuit courtagainst the World in the
United States circuit court, asking
$4,000 damages. The jury rendered
a verdict in favor Of the World.
The Chanler Paris art scholarship.
consisting of a fve-years' course in the
art schools of Europe, has been award
ed to Lawton Parker, a student of the
Students Art league of New York.
Twenty-seyen students participated in
the preliminary competition. Of these.
thirteen were selected for second
trial, and, by unanimous vote, the
judges awarded the prize to Mr. Park
/ err He is twentv-pir]t wears old and