The Princeton union., 1896-10-29
From Foreien Shores.


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H From Foreign Shores
German capitalists invested heavily
in Venezuela. T.. -
The rebellion of the PHILIPPINES grows
more serious for Spain.
Salisbury says England can do moth
ing with Turkey in connection with the
Armenians. -.
Ii Hung Chang has arrived at Pekin
and will shortly present his report to
the emperor. ;,
DR.. Hager of Zurich has discovered
an unpublished concert overture by
Wagner.
The Emperor and Empress of Ger
many will visit the Czar and Czarina
Of Russia next summer.
Gen. Bolin, the Panama canal di-
rector, has returned TO Colon, Colon
bia, from Paris. He brought with him
from the West Indies $50 laborers to
work upon the canal.
Emperor William and Empress Au-
g1lsta received an enthusiastic greet
ing at Port Westphalia, where he went
to attend the unveiling of the monu-
William I.
Councillor Levy, one of the best
known lawyers in Berlin, Germany,
was stabbed to death in his bed by two
burglars, and Lis wife was so badly in
jured that she had to be sent to hos
pital. The murderers escaped.
Fire completely wiped out the big
drug establishment of Scott & Brown,
at Belleville Ont. L. w. Yoemans the
proprietor, and one of the best known
business men in Eastern Ontario, was
burned to death.
Mustapha Tahsin Bey, the new Turk.
ish minister, arrived at Washington and
was met by Mavroyeni Bey, the retir-
ing minister. and the officials of the
legation.
Prince Lobanoff, before he became
premier of Russia, it is said, had no
great liking for work, but he became
consumed with passion for industry
on his appointment, and when he had a
great object in view he was tireless
The marriage of Ugo Blondi, the
young Florentine dramatic artist, and
Miss Gertrude Bial, niece Of Manager
Albert Bial Of New York, has been post
poned for two weeks. Some papers
that are to be sigEed have not vet ar
rived from Italy.
The Portuguese bark Venus. Can't.
Pinto, hailing from Lisbon, foundered
in a gale Of Oct. 9, off Skomer island.
Twenty persons were drowned. The
Venus was bark of CAT tons register
and was built in 1862 at LIVERPOOL. Her
owners were Rodriguez and Rosa.
The Havana police have arrested
three men said to be delegates from the
1nsurgent junta in New York charged
with conspiring to blow up buildings
by the use of dynamite in order to Gre
ate panic and plunder the city. There
are said to be thirty-two men engaged
in the plot. .,.,.>...>
The grand jury at London found a
true bill against Lady Scott, mother
ln-law Of Earl Russell, who is charged
by the latter with criminal libel, in con-
junction with two young men, who
were arrested with her OH the same
charge.
The London Daily News has Berlin
dispatch which says that batch of Al.
sation recruits who were travelling on
the railway mutinied and wrecked the
railroad carriages and shouted give la
France" This is supposed to indicate
revival of Chauvinlsm since the Cars
visit.
Simon Duck Of Victoria, b. c., is a.
seventh son Of a seventh son. In 1867
he left London in the seventh month,
on the seventh day of the week, and
arrived in this country on the 7th of
the following month. When seeking
election to the colonial parliament he
was elected on the 7th Of the seventh
month by majority of seven. In the
following election he was defeated by
the same myhmical number.
Otherwise.
Coon Bros, wholesale cheese deal
ers, doing business in Philadelphia,
made an assignment for the benefit
| Of their creditors. -.
E. +. Clark, SOL of a wholesale gro
Ger in New York city, is under deten-
ton at San Francisco awaiting the set
tlement of draft of $3.50 drawn on
his father and refused payment by
him. -.
John H. McNeeley died suddenly at
Evanston, Ind. He was proprietor of
| the Evansville Journal, and was an
old newspaper man. An only son sur
! wives him, e. II. McNeely Of the Jour
nal. -.
a large school of whales, swimming
less than a mile from shore, afforded
the residents Of Sea Isle City, N. J.,
and the neighboring resorts rare
treat. The huge mammals were from
forty to sixty feet long. .
A reduction in wages varying from
5 to per cent went into effect in the
mills of the Salmon Falls IN H \ man