The Princeton union., 1896-01-02

seNluenlly Dy al lncenQlary.,sL Loss,
$40. 900. 4
Charles Motz of Dows, Iowa, twen.
ty-one years Of age and disapp pointed
in love, threw himself under train
and was decapitated. &
Near Georgetown, Ind, Mrs. Nc.
Dow ell, a widow sixty-four years old,
was probably fatally beaten by her
thirty-year-old son. The son is a vic.
ious rowdy. AZ
w. r. Bright, president of the City
National bank and also Of the Texas
Loan agency of Corsicana, Tex, com.
mitted suicide by shooting. Domestic
and financial troubles the cause.
Investigation following the murder
Of Hester Curtis, an aged, woman Of
Lafayette, Ind, develops the :'ather
remarkable fact that she had been the
mother Of twenty-five children, includ.
ing seven pairs of twins. 3:
In running fight between police
officers and thugs at st. Joseph, Mo-,
a man named Charles Smith was shot
the officers and the thugs, and it is
not known who fired the fatal shot. f
The execution of the death sentence
at St. Louis on James Fitzgerald for
the murder Of his sweetheart, Annie
Naessend, has been postponed until
JAN q, to give the governor time to
examine the case. X
Clifford Carson secured judgment
for $3.50 against Marshal Hill and the
village of Galesburg, Mich, for false
imprisonment. He was arrested fol
giving the high school yell on the
street there, while celebrating foot
ball victory, but was never tried. q
A highwayman tried to rob Miss
May Grier, a teacher in the public
school of Duluth. He made his es:
cape with at least one bullet in him.
and possibly more, as the plucky wo.
man fired four shots, and blood was
found on the snow over which the fel.
low passed. 49,. Is
Hester Curtis, ar aged widow, living
alone in her residence at Lafayette.
Ind, was fc.Ind dead at her home, sit.
ting upright in a chair. Her skull was
crushed, and she still held a blood-be.
scattered bank book in her llfeless
hand. Th emotive of the murder was
robbery.
Coroner Parks interrupted the funer.
Darling, at Tacoma, Wash. Darling
died of blood-poisoning, and the sur.
geon claimed he would not have died
: If his wife had permitted his leg to be
samputated and had not relied on
Christian science to heal him. S.
Aubrey G. c.. C.,Newton, alias Densil
Del Carstairs, a we'll dressed English.
man, was arrested at New York fol-
attempting to borrow money from
Henry Irving, the actor, upon the
strength of a forged letter of introduc.
tion purporting to have been written
by Sir Edward Clarke, the distiH
guished English lawyer. z
Foreign Gossip.
The editors will be Rev. A. e. Brooke.
of Kings, and N. Mclean, OF Chrlst'sI
The first volume will be ready, 1t Is
hoped, in five years. :s..ss2as~ s~sss "a.
Dispatches have been received al.
Havana confirming the announcement
that the famous Cuban insurgent leads
er Mirabel has been killed. It appears:
that he led the attack upon the village
of Vueltas. which was held by few
Spanish soldiers. ~ -'s+- -3
Sir Augustus William Lawson Hem.
ming, K. G. NJ. e., principal clerk In
the colonial Office, has been appointed
governor and commander-in-chief OF
British Guiana, in succession to 81!
Charles Cameron Lees, X. G. M. G..
recalled when the Venezuelan ques'
ton began to assume an acute stage.
. A manuscript of "Der-neuwen Zeit'
ung aus Presillglandt," found recently
in the library Of the Princes Fugger,
who were merchant princes when
America was discovered, shows that
the-sRio de la Plata was discovered
1.-two Portuguese, Nino Manuel and
!, ChristObal de HarO, who sailed as far
as 40 degrees south and returned to
MADEIRA in October, 1914, and not by
the Spaniards. as has been believed
The manuscript also states that the
Fuggers ordered a map Of the. world
from Sebastian Cabot and paid for it.
but never received it. An account of
the discovery is given in the Zeits.
chrift of the Berlin Geographical soci'
ETY.. p. -
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