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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08
GETTING TOGETHER.
America and England ON Very
58g s5t5E Friendly Terms s5s5s5 81

Friendly Terms.
Washington, Get. Secretary Oh
ney has returned to Washington from
his summer home at Falmouth, Mass,
and has resumed the duties of his Of
flee. He brought with him a mass Of
papers relating to official business
which has engaged his attention dur
ing his absence from the city, and
spent the morning principally in CON
2 sultatlon with the assistant secretaries
and other officials Of the state depart
ment touching the public business.
81 Matters are said to be in better shape.
than usual at the department at the
beginning of the winter session. there
being fewer issues Of great Importance
pending, and these are in less acute
stages than is generally the case. The
venezuelan controversy has pro-
crossed slowly, but in the main salts
.factorily during the past summer, and
a couple of notes have been exchanged
between Secretary Olney and Lord
SALISBURY since the publication of the
last batch of correspondence. They
are understood to be purely argu:nenta-
tive IN tone, and. while they do not
by any means zeal Of themselves bring the
negotiations up to the closing point.
.-'~' AAt t'.A I'LL p1OSieoS lOWdiu cledr-e
ing away mutual MISUNDERSTANDING
and tend to simplify the efforts max
ing on both sides, not only to adjust
the Venezuelan issue itself satisfac-
torily, but to effect an agreement at
least upon general set of principles
that shall govern the settlement Of
future disputes between the United
States and Great Britain by means Of
arbitration
The other open issue before the de-
.partment is the Cuban question, but
so far as can be gathered the admins
tration as yet has found no reason to
change the attitude it has adopted to-
ward the contestants in the island,
though it is admitted that it's policy
is subject to alteration according to
the development Of the campaign.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08
miscellaneous.

At AmeSbury, Mass, the Hamilton
wooden mills, employing 800 operatives,
started up permanently after an alter
nate shutdown, aggregating five
weeks.
The budget for 1897 was presented in
the lower house of the Austrian reichs-
rath. 1t provides for expenditures to
the amount of 692, 161, 1873 forms. The
estimated revenue is 692, 7O3, $50 forms.
The convention Of the Carriagemak-
ers' National association, which was
to have been held in St. Louis week
after next, will be postponed until next
year.
The announcement of the failure of
the big wholesale dry goods firm of
Wolf & Bro. created a sensation with
the general public at Little Rock, Ark.
The firms assets, including stock, good
accounts, equities in real estate, stocks,
securities, etc, are estimated at. about
100000.
The steamer Hope, which brought
the Peary party to Sydney, G. b.,
brought the news Of the death Of Capt.
Clisby, in chargesof the American whal-
ing station at Singnula point, Cape
Haven, and Capt Hall of the Scotch
station at Black Lead island, August
IL
The junk Alta has arrived at San
Diego, Cal, from Lower California with
Prof. -. "a. Anthony, who went there
in the interests of the Smithsonian in
stitute. He brings back great guam
tity of shells, moss, sea fora and natur-
al history specimens, many Of them en-
tirely new to naturalists.
Arthur j. King, executive head of
the firm of r. Ct. Dun & Co., of New
York City, died at his home i'll Bloom
field, n. :, aged 20 years. He had
been connected with the firm Of r..
g. Dun s. Co. for forty-seyen years,
entering the employ of the New York
office as q clerk, and being promoted
until he became one Of the firm.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08
Bur1ington,s Ri. nIovyon+

Burlington, Iowa, Oct. To-day is
Republican day at the semi-centennial
celebration, and the crowds are the
largest the city has ever known. Many
marching clubs from all over the state
are present. and bands, drum corps
and other clubs make the air ring with.
patriotic tunes. Senator Foraker adj
dressed 10000 people in the coliseum
at Grape Park on Republican princi-
pies. He made a strong argument for
the gold standard and protection to
American industries, and was repeat
eddy cheered. A number Of other ,ad-
dresses were made
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08
JUST AN ACCIDENT.
No Attempt Made to Wreck the
-. Cars Train

NO Attempt Made to Wreck the
Cars Train
London, Oct. I. "a great deal has
been made out Of little or nothing by
the report circulated in the United
States that a large block Of wood was
found lying across the railroad track
at Garstang, some distance south Of
Lancaster, an hour before the cars
train passed there yesterday morning
on it's way from Ballater to Ports
mouth. The Inference evidently in
tended to be drawn from the message
was that an attempt had been made
to wreck the imperial train Such is
not the case. The obstruction was
quite a natural one in the high wind
prevailing. A mile post was blown
Down by the wind on the opposite rail
way track to the one upon which the
car travelled, and it was removed half
an hour before the imperial train
passed by tie plate layers whose work
it was to watch the tracks during the
stormy weather.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08
EVIL DOinEs.

At Westminster, Nd, a young woman
committed suicide by taking poison.
A prominent Houghton (Mich) man
was shot and seriously injured by his
coachman, who committed suicide.
The Empress Of China brings news
of the robbery at Shanghai of the pay
master of the United States cruiser
Boston of $1,000, by two seamen
DR.. George Henry, who was shot by
Dr.. Johnson at Duncannon, Pa. died
recently The injuries of Mrs. John
son are not serious.
AT, Cairo, ILL.,, Mrs. frazer, a bride of
four days, shot herself through the
heart, dying instantly. The young cou-
pie were prominent.
Patrick Keller, an inmate at the in
sane asylum at Middleton, Conn. to-
day murderously assaulted Keeper
Brown, rendering him unconscious, and
then made his escape.
Thomas NeWkirk and Henry. Asho-
raft fought a duel with Winchesters on
the Long Fork of Shelby county, Ky.
They were both suitors of Mary Dean.
Both We're killed.
J. G. Kassebaum of Meridian, Miss.
who, rather than place himself In the
hands of the officers and undergo trial
for the murder of "A. S. Barnes, fired a
pistol ball into his head 81
Near Iiushton, La, Edward Beatty
had the top Of his head literally blown
off by load of buckshot fred from a
shotgun while he was eating supper at
his home with his family.
Samuel G. Decoursey, president Of
the Western New York & Pennsylya-
MIA company, was indicted by the fed
eral grand jury for criminal violation
Of the Interstate commerce laws.
The appeal Of Scott jackson, CON
demned to be hung for the murder Of
Pearl Bryan, was heard BY the court
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08
Bald Il the Chnmnion

Washington Oct. z. washington
entered the list Of national circuit biz
cycle cities to-day and upward OF Z, 600
persons saw the pick Of the seasons
cracks struggle for the title Of cham
pion Of 1896. The meet was at the
Internal ional Athletic Park under the
auspices Of the White Flyer club and
closed the national circuit races for
1896. The result OF: to-day's races
gives Eddy Bald the championship for
the season Of 1895, yet the Laurel
wreath grazed the head Of Tom Cooper.
by just two points. sf
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08
Nylrtinciii Arrives

New York, Oct. 6. Archbishop Mar
tinelli, successor to CARDINAL Satolli as
papaF representative in the United
States, was on board the steamer
Oampania. He is q short, dark man. DIR
MartinelH said he had had a rough
and disagrecable trip, but that he was
a fairly good sailor, and had not been
confined to his ROOM.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08

1t Miss Frances e. Willard and the
other women of America could get a
good hold on the sultan Of Turkey he
would soon think that the hairs of his
head were numbered and somebody
was doing the counting.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08

1t has just come to light that a horse
in Kansas made mile last summer
in less than one minute. He didn't
tot or pace it, though. He was stand
ing in the stable yard and cyclone
came along and did the rest
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08
The Nation,s CaDitaI.

The state department. has received
official information from Consul G en-
eral Lee at Havana that Samuel q.
zIolon, who was taken into custody by
the Spanish authorities in Cuba Sept.
4, has been released.
The postoffice department has award
ed contract for carrying the mail
from Juneau to Circle City, Alaska.
The distance is 1893 miles, and the con-
tractors are to make four trips be
tween Nov. 1, 1896, and May 81, 1897.
They receive $1,7O0 for each trip.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08

Having succeeded in making a fly
ing. machine which will fly beautifully
for a short distance and upon paper,
the flying machine men have invented
another machine which is to fly beau
tifully across the entire continent. The
time at which it is to accomplish its
remarkable feat is set at a distance
far in the future, possibly in order that
the people may forget all about it.
That is to say that even the latest fly
ing machine flies only on paper, too.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08

Apropos of Explorer Peary's new
plan to reach the pole, we can all hope,
whether we believe in polar exploration
OF not, that he will include in it some
means of returning after he fails
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08

Evidently the police authorities be-
ieve that Corbett and Fitzsimmons
really intend to fight The general
impression is that they intend, as usual
to take it out in calling each other
names.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08

Perhaps, although we are not fully
of that, the flying machine
fellows would be able to make their
machines fly if they could make some
arrangements to hitch their machines
to q star. -
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08

Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, NJ P,
who defends the Turks and condemns
the press, must feel the need of pub
licity, even if he attains it at the ex-
pense Of making himself notorious.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08

The sentence claimed to have been
uttered by Napoleon which may be
read either backward or forward, and
remain the same, is cable was ere
[ saw Elba."
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08

In Hicksville, Ohio, recently, q we'd
ding party was stormed by tramps,
who locked the groom in the smoke
house, ate the wedding supper and stole
the marriage license.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08
Ore stolen

Victor, Colo, Oct. THE ore house
on the celebrated Maybelle mine on
Straub mountain was broken into last
night and sixty-fve sacks Of ore. worth
about $1,000, stolen. There is no clue.
Every workman about the property
was to-day discharged.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08
People In Print.

w. Fl. Mallock is to edit new Lon
don weekly, modelled after the Spectat-
or, but is to be sold for half it's price.
Rudyard Kipling is now at Torquay,
Eng, on the Devonshire coast, with
his family. He has taken a house at
Maidencombe, one Of Torquay's most
beautiful surbubs
Andrew Lang has come under the
ban Of the congregation of the Index,
which has caused a translation of his
Myths, Creeds and Religion" to be
placed in the Index Prohibitorium Lii
broum. The book was translated by
M. Leon Marillier.
English judges here receive more in
pounds sterling for salaries than the
Canadian judges do in dollars, and yet
Lord Chief Justice Russell said in a
speech on his recent visit to Montreal
that the average English judge made q
great sacrifice in income in taking q
seat on the bench.
Alexander Mcdonald Of Virginia.
United States minister to Persia, who
arrived at Southampton from this
country on board the American line
steamship New York, was dangerously
i'll with bronchitis during the voyage,
and he is now lying at the Southwest
ern hotel under the care of a physician.
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland has
conferred upon Judge Stetlsetee Of
Grand Rapids, the rank Of Knight Of
Orange of Nassau, and it is claimed
that he is the only citizen Of the United
States to whom the degree has ever
been given. He is the Holland vice
consul Of Michigan, and it is in recog-
milton of his services as such that he
has been so hOnored
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08
CHSnHlfieS

Six children persisted at Natalie, Pa,
in a fire resulting from the storm.
A ferry boat while crossing the River
Tyne, near Shields, Eng. sank and
seven persons were drowned e
The famous hotel at Coney Island,
N. Y, known as 'The Elephant, was
destroyed by fire.
During the recent storm en- the
French coast two fishing boats belong:
ing to Guilvency We're lost and seven
fishermen drowned.
The NJ, K. & T. train was wrecked
at Wilton, eighty-six miles east If Sc
dalia. Mo. Fireman d, AXE was crush
ed to death under the locomotive.
The building at 1913 Madison avenue,
in course Of construction at New York,
collapsed, killing one man instantly,
and injuring ten others more OF less
severely.
At Freeport, Ill, young woman
placed can of oil on the stove, which
boiled over, setting the house on fire
and burning the girl SO badly that she
died in q few hours.
yoke College, a famous young ladies'
OCuOOl, Was UuI LEU, IuC ulull DulluluS
being entirely destroyed, with a loss
of $15O,O00.
On the Philadelphia & Reading rail
road, near Hilton, Pa, an empty en-
CINE and tender collided with a coal
train, throwing eleven cars off the
track and burying the engineer and
fireman beneath the ruins. Both were
killed.
Miss Ruffin Of Sardis, Ala. playfully
pointed a pistol at August Gilchrist Of
CORTLAND and killed him. She was
visiting Mr.. Gilchrist's sister, and ex-
pected to be her bridesmaid next week.
Miss Ruffin was engaged to Gilchrist's
brother. The people are prominent So
cially.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08

A would-be poet, in describing his
love sensations, says: 81 kiss the stars;
It clasp the Skies" The "old man"
must have got in some good work
when he kicked that sutton down the
front steps.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08

The most recently organized society
in Atchison, Kas, is one among the
girls, wherein each member is COM
PEELED to take an oath that she will not
hers
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08

George Crocker of San Francisco, by
abstaining from liquor for five years,
comes into a fortune Of $5OO,OOO. Some
people wouldn't quit drinking even for
that.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08

A cure for lockjaw is said to have
been found. But nothing has yet been
discovered that will stop professional
pugilist's jaw from wagging.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08

Eldorado, Kas., is a good place to
pick up money. A youth wrote thence
to New York address, inclosing 81
for a fire escape Came back this re
ply: stop fishing on Sunday"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08

Bessie Bellwood, the noted English
variety actress, is dead of heart dis
ease. The strain she was accustomed
to put upon that organ makes it a
ago.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08

Somebody told an Ohio man that ar
senic would cure dyspepsia, and he
tried it, and the doctors now hope he
hasn't taken enough to effect a perma-
nent cure.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08
Passengers Shaken u

Hazleton, Pa, Oct. 7.--While trying
to make a flying switch near here to-
day a Lehigh Valley passenger train
crashed into locomotive on a siding,
smashing in the end of the baggage
car and disabling the passenger loco
motive. All the passengers were SEE.
verely shaken up /:
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08

A typewriter has been invented that
can be carried in the vest pocket, but
will it be as popular as the kind that
can be held in the lap?
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08
When the sultan OF Turkey starts In
to kill people, earthquakes and floods
are nowhere iI their destructiveness.

According to the latest cables the
cars nerves are weak. He should try
some of the tonic the sultan of Turkey
has been using.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08

Madrid newspapers are clamoring for
Harsh measures in Weyler's treat
men ment of the Cubans. AS Weyler has
butchered inoffensiye old men and wo-
men and burned children to death, it
would seem that he must draw on his
Spanish ingenuity to satisfy the jour
nalistic demand for "harshness.''
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08
Killed His Enther

Mansion, Wis, Oct. 6. Pc George S.
Kainie. Jr.. of Neca dab is in Jail here.
charged with tie murder Of his father.
Father and son quarreled Sept. 8, and
the old man received blow on the
head from which he never recovered.
his death occurring two weeks after
ward. The elder Keinie was known
as the inventor of a steam log roller.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08

Miss Hashagan, a. New York artist,
has married her redskin model, Thun-
der Cloud. If he is good Indian why
in the thunder shouldn't he make a
model husband?
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08
THE NEWS RESUIM
DIGEST OF THE NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE WORLD.

Comprehensive Review Of the
Important happenings of the
Past Week Called From the Tel
egraph Reports-The Notable
Events at Home and Abroad Tint
Have Attracted Attention.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08
Foreign Gossip.

IL. 1.
Canadian Pacific telegraphers and
train dlspatchers strike.
Both Sir Francis and Lady Jeune. are
enthusiastic bicyclists.
It is reported that Princess Victoria,
Wales only unmarried daughter, is to
enter a convent.
Able Proult's visit to Rome is said
to be in the interest of securing q pap
able obligate for Canada.
Paul Ikalilgan, a celebrated jurist
and at one time a minister Of the gov
eminent, is dead at Athens, Greece.
The Russian commercial fleet trading
with China, Japan and Corea, will
shortly be increased by five large
steamers.
The London Times announces that
Gen Meredith Reads daughter, Coun-
tess de Foras, has given birth to Il
daughter at the Chateau Marclaz at
Thanon.
Alderman George f. Phillips, sheriff
Of the county Of London, and brother
in-law Of Sir Edward Lawson, the
principal 5proprietor<of the Daily Tele-
graph, was elected lord mayor of Lon
don to succeed Sir Walter Wilkin
f The Gear and Czarina, Queen Vic
toria, the Prince and Princess of Wales
and other members of the royal family
attended, service at Crathie church,
near Balmoral castle.
The Dowagar Czarina with her chill
dren, who has been visiting her parents
the king and quen of Denmark, has
started for Libau on board the i'm
neriaI Yacht Pola,. Star
The Sultan has acceeded to the re
quest contained in an Armenian adj
dress praying for authority to convoke
the national assembly to elect a new
patriarch in place of Matteo Ismirlan,
resigned.
A special court-martial at Cape Town
has acquitted Maj Watts, who was
tried with reference to the summary
execution of the Matabele chief Max
oni within twenty-four hours of his
capture.
Following the example of McGill
university of Montreal, the Toronto
university authorities have decided not
to accept American money at par from
the students from across the border in
payment of their fees.
The Third brigade of the Egyptian
expedition is now proceeding south and
up the Nile to garrison MeroWi, Eel
Debbeh and Ell Khandak. Merowi is
between 175 and 200 miles up the river
from Dongola, and is nearly one-half
the distance to Berber by the river.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08
Gold for the Reser

Gold for the Reserve.
New York. Oct q -Lazard Freeres &.
Go. have deposited at the subtreasury
5000 200 gold received on the La
4 BourgogEe.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08

s William Morris, the singer, poet ana
author. who Of late years ba~s pro-
claimed himself a socialist, is dead III
london.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-08
of appeals at Frank fort, Nv, ON

of appeals at Frankfort, Ky ON q
petition for a new trial The decision
was reserved.
Prank NIcCarty William Harrison
and E. Creelman, desperate criminals,
dug a tunnel under the walls Of the
Sacramento, Cal, county Jail and
escaped. ss#
81 Mrs. Addie Way, ticket agent for the
Illinois Central railroad at the Midway
Plaisance, the old worlds fair station,
was robbed and beaten by a negro as
she was opening her Office recently,
& her injuries being SO severe that she
Will probably die.
At Backsyille, Logan county, XIV,
Harry Allison, a fourteen-year-ol
boy, stabbed and killed j. Draper at a
political meeting at which Congress-
man w. G. Hunter spoke Tie boy
hurrahed for Hunter and Draper
struck him, Whereupon the boy drew a
knife and killed his assailant.
Maguire's opera house at Butte.
Mont. erected at a cost of $4,000 and
opened to the public only seven years
ago. is a mass of ruins as The result
of a disagreement among the stock
holders, and the city, with a population
OF OF 70, 900, is without a place of alnuse
ment. ia
Harris Boone, scolored, was shot to
death by a party of citizens at Sparta,
Ga. Boone had first raised a disturb
ance, and when Town Marshal Bowen
ordered him to desist he shot the Off
Ger. Citizens, enraged at the assas-
sination Of Lavid Silver, a few hours
before by a negro, riddled Boone's
body with bullets. Parties are scour-
ing the country for the assassin Of
Silver.
Thomas Kidd, aged fourteen, sonSof
w. x. Kidd Of Cleveland, was muir
5dered at Dalton, O., by Carl IcIlhiney.
aged seven. The Kidd boy, who was 4
cripple, was visiting at the Mckinney
house. The boys We're last together
while the McIlhineys We're at church,
and they quarrelled. Young Kidd
struck Carl with his crutch The lat
ter then went into an adjoining room,
procured his fathers gun and shot
Kidd, blowing off the top of his head.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-05-19
DR.. Hume I'm Washington,

The Tarheel. University of North Ca
rolina. has the following complimentary
notice OF the Rev. DR.. Hume, which will
be gratifying to his many friends In
Norfolk and Portsmouth. 1t says: "Dr.
Hume returned this week from Wash
ington. where he has been to attend the
Congress of the National Society of Re-
iigious Education. He was among the
brilliant speakers Of the programme
which numbered over thirty speakers.
His subject was of great interest, coming
from of such eloquence as DIR. Hume.
He dealt with education of the people
through the influence of home, showing
the relation around the Christian fire.
side, OF husband to wife, brother to sis
ter, and parent to child. He showed too
as was admitted by all present, that the
higher social life of the South, was due
TO their home influence. His address was
much complimented. the President of the
congress pronouncing 1t to philoso-
phical, profound. and artistic In form
and style"