The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-13

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sented to Jefferson by Washington
and afterward returned to the donor.
People in Print.
Judge Taintor Of Hartford, Conn,
a prominent candidate for command
er-in-chief of the Grand Army, has
withdrawn.
In the death Of Bishop Atticus G..
Haygood the colored people of the
South have lost one of their Wisest
and most helpful friends.
Rev. Milton Bradley, aged eighty
eight, for over fifty years pastor Of
the Presbyterian church at Richland,
Mich, is dead.
The report cabled London that Rev.
John A. Brooks of Memphis, Tenn.
had been called to the passionate Of
Surgeons tabernacle is not correct.
Spencer W. Coe, one of the most
prominent Of the older New York
merchants. is dead at his country
home in Winsted Conn.,, at the age
Of sixty nine.
Gov. Hastings of Pennsylvania, who
has been in Hot Springs, Ark, for
some time on account Of illness, has
returned to Harrisburg with his
health fully restored.
Shadrack Inman, father of John II.
1nman, the prominent New York bank
er, and Of Samuel M. and Hugh 7. In
man, we'll known capitalists Of Allan
ia, is dying at his home in that city.
Col. David S. Turner, aged ninety
two years, veteran during the late
war, and grandfather of Prof. N. L.
Britton, Of Columbia college, New
York, died at New Dorp, Staten ISL
and. .;..,
R. Mckay, aged eighty-three, died
suddenly in Bruce, Mich He was one
Of the original abolitionists, casting
his vote for that party in 1912, when it
had hardly two anti-slavery votes in
the town.
Fl. M. Sherman, an artist, formerly
employed by Chicago newspapers, is
dead at Kansas City, Mo. He was
nephew of Thomas Shearman, the at
torney whose work for the defense
was conspicuous IN the Beecher-Tilton
trial. |'. ~ f.. ...
Miss Marie Jaeger, twenty-five
years old, Of New York, a guest at the
charity ball given in honor of the uni,
fcation of Germany, was taken sud-
denly ill at the Metropolitan opera
house. She died before medical as
sistance could be summoned.
Lieut.. Commander Robert T. Car
mody, Of the navy, died suddenly at
his home in Georgetown, D. G. He
was appointed to the navy from New
York on Sept. %, 1860, and received
the rank of lieutenant commander on
Feb. %, 1890. He was retired June 6,
1895. a.. aisf.s-...s
G. Egbert Borchbrevink, the Norwe-
gian explorer, has arrived in New
York. Borchbrevink has taught the
world pretty much all it knows about
the great continent which lies in South
polar seas, and if his plans, as now ar
ranged, are carried out, he will be able
to tell much more after he gets back
from an EXPEDITION which he is to
undertake next winter.
CAsaaIties
John G. Hale, a medical student at
Fostoria, Onion, took aconite liniment,
by mistake, and died within an hour.
The Congregational church at Au-
burn, Mass, built in 1776, was totally
destroyed by fire.
The steamship Caracas, Of the Red
D line, went ashore on Governors
island, and was foated several hours
later. She proceeded to sea at once.
The superintendent of the line said
the vessel was little the worse for her
running on the rocks.
An explosion of tanks containing
compressed air for sewer construction
at Lawrence, Mass, wrecked the en-
CINE house and killed John Lee, the
engineer, and Alexander Gordon. the
fireman. A subsequent explosion in
the sewer sent paving blocks flying all
over the street.
The ship Louis Walsh, from Callao.
brought to Port Townsend two Of the
crew, Stewart Chase and Cook Mitch
ell, from the ship Parthia, which
burned at sea, 300 miles southwest Of
Juan Fernandez island. The Parthia
was coal-laden from Liverpool to San
Francisco
A piano blazing furiously in room
which did not contain a fire and
which had not been entered for sever
al days, came near destroying the
home Of Andrew Smith, at Blooming
ton, Iowa. How the piano came to be
on fire is a deep mystery. Not anoth-
er article of furniture was damaged.
Peter Rosselot, an electric lamp
trimmer, met with a terrible death at
Fort Wayne, Ind. He was going up
the elevator in an iron tower, when
the weight on the top loosened and
fell, striking him on the head and
crushing it to pulp. His body hung
in the air twenty-five feet above the
ground two hours before the coroner
arrived, and hundreds Of people
viewed tas it swung to and fro.
When the Old Liberty Bell arrived
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