The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-04-09
Foreign Gossip.

Foreign Gossip.
Another earthquake shock has been
felt in the province Of Calabria, Italy,
causing panics there.
Austria will oppose the desires of
the Balkan states in regard to fedora
ton.
Elizabeth Charles, author of many
historical novels characterized by a
deep religious feeling, is dead in Lon
don.
Sir William Stuart, brother of Baron
Blantyre, and late British envoy to
the King of the Netherlands, is dead in
London. He was born in 1924.
The Negus Menelik has ordered the
massacre of a number Of prisoners and
sick persons who have fallen into the
hands of his forces during the present
campaign in Abyssinia.
The prince Of Wales, attended by
Seymour Fortesque, was James Cor
don Benefits guard on the Riviera on
board the latters steam yacht, the Ma
mOuna. $500,
The London Times says: ''The ru-
nor that the government has decided
upon the gradual release of the dynam-
tiers is unfounded. sMcUllagh has re-
Gently been liberated, but it was only
on account Of his health
In an address at New York. city, Ed
ward j. Phelps, eX-miniSter to Great
Britain, said he didn't believe bound
airy line between Venezuela and Brit
ish Guiana had ever existed 1t was a
question for arbitration, he said.
There is much excitement in Irish
circles over the election Of james
Burke Roche, brother Of Lord Fermey,
to parliament, as the Home rule can
didate for Killarney, in East Kerry,
the opposition being based on a di-
vOrce scandal.
Dr.. Montague, the Canadian minister
of agriculture, had prOtracted con-
ference at London with Walter Long,
president of the board of agriculture,
in regard to the latter's bill providing
for the permanent exclusion of foreign
cattle from Great Britain.
The suit of the London Times
against the Central News company. a
concern which supplies a certain ugen-
cy in the United States, was opened in
the Queens bench division of the high
court Of justice. Faxed Japanese war
dispatches form the basis of the suit
Otherwise.
A bridge across the bay from San
Francisco to Oakland is contemplated
A Chicago man has perfected a
process by which natural eolors can be.
photographed.
The garment workers of Baltimore,
who have been out on strike for the
last five weeks, have declared the
strike off.
By decree issued from the superior
court of Chicago, the doors Of the Rich
ellen hotel will be closed and the prop
erty sold in it's entirety, after the e1-
piration of three weeks.
The Washington Republican state
central committee has fixed May Is, at
Everett. as the time and place Of hold
ing a state convention to elect dele
gates to the st. Louis convention.
William Brewster, secretary and
treasurer Of the Erie & Pittsburg rail
way, was stricken with apoplexy
while at his office at Erie. Pa His
physician thinks he will not recover.
Probate Judge Robert G.. Pike Of
Stafford county has been appointed
associate, justice Of the New Hamp-
! Carpenter, who bias been appointed
chief justice.
| Mrs. w. D. Sabin, leading expo
| nent of the doctrine of Christian sci
ence, was stricken down with paraly-
sis while addressing company of
ladies at her home in Lansing upon
the subject Of the cure of ills by faith.
The closing down of the two great
Eagle and Phoenix cotton mills for an
indefinite period, and the consequent
| throwing over 1,5OO people out oil en-
] ploymcnt, has produced q serious STU
alton at Columbus, Ohio.
The board of directors Of the Colora-
/ do Mining stock exchange announce
/ that Broker ]. j. Rover, having failed
1 to account satisfactorily for his connec-
ton with the Blue Jay deal, has been
expelled from the exchange. s' 4
; The American schooner George w.
Whitford, Capt. Foote, was seized by
the Colombian gunboat Cordova while
leaving Porto Bello, department OF
/ Panama. The charge against the yes
sci is not made known, but it is be.
/ ieyed she carried contraband goods.
/ Notwithstanding the statements thai
but three signatures were needed te
the uniform rate agreement to bind 9E
per cent of the railroad coal operators
4 of the Pittsburg district to. pay the
7O-cent rate, the prospects are now tina
the attempt to secure true uniformi
81 ty'' will fail.
Passengers who arrived at Porr
. Townsend, Wash, on the steamer CITY
B Of Topeka, from Alaska, say on TIT
day before the steamer left Juneau,
s middle-aged man, who refused to Civ,
q his name, arrived at Juneau from tn,
a Yukon mining region with eighty tW.
8 pounds Of gold dust.
Capt Andrew ]. Briscoe died a
8 Jeffersonyille, Ind, Of paralysis, aget
5 L 81 years. Sixty years ago he becam
a licensed pilot on steamboats, plyin,
& the Ohio, Mississippi, Cumberland
!. Tennessee and Wabash rivers. III
! was owner at one time OF the JUL,
. Dean, a noted river steamer In ante
: libellum days.