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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07
Crimes and Criminals.

Train WreckerS operate in North Car
DINA and blood hounds are after them.
Letters containing large sums of
money were rifled Of their contents in
New York and thrown into the bay.
Isaac Sucker, convicted in New York
of arson in the first degree, was SEN
fenced to thirty-six years in prison.
The maximum penalty is forty years.
William NJ. Whitley and wife, poor
but respected citizens of Sewer coun-
ty, Tenn, were shot down in cold
blood by two men who broke into their
home. VS.
Christof Schona OF Kewanee, ILL.,,
was murdered by unknown persons
who laid his body on the railroad
track, where a freight train passed
over it.
A passenger train on an Alabama
railroad falls a hundred feet from
trestle and is burned. About twenty
two lives are reported lost. It is the
work of train Wreckers. ,- --5
Newton Widner shot and instantly
killed his brother-in-law at Newtown,
Mo-, thus ending an old family feud
Widner is in Jail at Princeton. Excite
ment is high and a lynching is feared. .
A warrant has been issued at
Osceola, Iowa, for the arrest Of Joseph
Wilverton, son of a local physician.
He is charged with having been con-
nected with the death of Mrs. Mary
Gillfllan. -a, -,
Tie San Francisco police are salts
fed that they have succeeded in trac-
ing Robert J. Mueller, young medical
student into suicides grave The
parents of the young man reside in
! Philadelphia.
The case of Frank X. Atkins Of the
defnnct Colorado Savings bank, has
begun in the district court in Denver.
There are ten indictments against him
and an equal number against his
brother, c.. 0. Atkins.
George w Gilmore, a wealthy ranch
man in RaWley county. Kan, was as
sassinated, being shot as he sat at his
supper table by some one unknown
who fired a load of buckshot through
the window.
Isaac Fucker, a wealthy real estate
owner and manufa cturer at New ORR,
was convicted Of arson in the first de-
gree in causing his Division street
store to be set afire and himself aiding
in the arrangements for igniting it.
Edward Rosa, who made his home
with his brother, Gale Rosa, a well
known granchman near Forest City, S.
d., shat and killed his sweetheart,
MisS Mary Brehl, at the home Of her
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07
People Talked About.

John Bigelow, ex-minister to France,
was slightly injured in railway acct
dent at Highland Falls, N. Y.
Jesse Scott, one of Iowa's pioneers,
died at his home in Competing, Wa
pello county. He went to Wapello
county in 1912 with a party which set
tied before daylight on the land which
the Indians left at midnight.
Edward Avery, widely known as a
jurist and lawyer, died at his home
in Boston. He had been sick about
a year. He leaves wife, a son and
two daughters. He was born in Marble
head, Mass, March II, 1928, OF stock
that was prominent in the wars Of
the revolution and 1872.
Col. Mapleson, late impressario Of
the Imperial Opera company, and all
who took part in the Mapleson benefit
at the theater Sunday night, have been
summoned into the municipal count
at Boston to answer a charge Of vio-
lating the Sunday concert law. A num-
YER of the audience have also been in
Guided in the charge.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07
Otherwise,

Six branch canals instead of one big
one will be built at Sault Ste. Marie.
1t has been accidentally discovered
in Mexico that honey and water will
cure smallpox.
In a speech at Omaha. Neb., Senator
Thurston said he would welcome war
with Spain. 1T would clear up the
atmosphere" lie added.
The Academy Of Medicine at New
York adopted a resolution that leprosy,
while possibly infectious, is not con-
tagious in this climate.
Kid Mccoy, the American middle
weight, defeated Billy DoEerty of Aus
tralia, at Johannesburg i'll nine rounds,
for the niddleweight championship Of
the world. So
Gov Morton has appointed Col. Ash
ley Cole, his private secretary and a
former. New York city newspaper man,
a member of the New York State rail-
road commission.
Tie Lehigh cotton mills at Easton,
Pa, lave shut down, ard will probab-
~ remain idle indefinitely. The owners
state that the mills may open about
May /.
ENeIClL IOlSl, Olle VI Tie O1uCSl i1At
best known establishments of it's kind
in New York, was closed to-day. Its
proprietor, Samuel II. Everett, has
been in financial trouble for some
| time.
The Southern Paper and Wood Man
ufacturing Company of Memphis,
Tenn, is operated independently OF the
| Van Nortwicks or Western Paper Bag
Company, and is in no way afflicted by
| their failure.
A railway man, formerly Of st. Jo-
seph, but now OF Chicago, is authority
for the statement that the Pennsylva-
MIA railroad is prepared to spring a
| surprise the first Of the year in the
form Of new express company. :
Passed Assistant Surgeon =. II. Bly-
ant, attached to the training ship Con-
stellation. now at Newport, r. l.. died
while sitting at the table on board ship,
Of cerebral hemorrhage. He was alp
pointed III 1883.
The director of the Butler & Pitts
burg railroad met 1T Pittsburg and
passed resolution in favor Of amalGa.
mating with the Pittsburg, Shenango
& Lake Erie. to form the Pittsburg
Bessemer & Lake Erie road The com
bination will have capital of $40, O00,'
600.
For ten days Miss Annie N. Stephens
stepdaughter of J. l.. Hodges, deputy
county clerk Of Denver has been lying
81 eechless ard paralyzed. The opinion
of physicians, supported by circunl-
stances of the case, indicate that the
young lady was sandbagged as she was
entering her home
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07
Duffy Dead.

New York. Jan. 6.-James Duffy, the
Boston pugilist who collapsed at the
conclusion Of q ten-round boxing con-
test with George Justus at the Broad
way Athletic club, died to-day without
having regained consciousness. JUS
tus. Dick Roche, who acted as referee,
and Tom O'Rourke, manager Of the
club, are under arrest. The physicians
who attended Duffy found no fracture
or indentation Of the skull, hut trepan-
ming disclosed meningeal heHlorrhage.
which may have been occasioled by
a jarring Of the head by q blow Of
the fist or fall
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07
Accidental Happenings.

The Wilson line steamship Volo is
total loss at Wingu, off the coast OF
Sweden. The crew and passengers
were saved.
There was a landslid at Ratsmore,
Eng. A laborer's house was over
whelmed, and the man, his wife and
seven children were buried.
The double-decked ferry boat New
Brunswick, owned by the Pennsylvania
Railway company, was burned to the
waters edge at New York. Loss about
$120, 900.
and Alonzo Johnson, colored, seriously
fountain in burning building at Mia
mi, Fla.
Gregor Kerchbaum and his wife were
burned~to death in their home at Johns
ton, r. 7. The building was practical
ly consumed by the fire, which resulted
from the explosion of lamp.
Charles Pfeffer, a wealthy laundry
man with interests in Allegheny City
and Chicago shot himself while hunting
near Ligonier, Pa, and died before
his compani9ns could reach him.
A hand slip has entirely destroyed
the village of Santa Ana de Pel&gO,
Italy, demolishing 11S houses and rem
dering $50 families homeless. There
was no loss Of life.
Forty-four families were driven out
of their homes when the temperature
was II to IA degrees above zero by a
fire, which started on the third floor
Of an apartment house in West Fiji
teenth street, New York.
The large furniture house of Julius
Lansburg on New York avenue at
Washington was burned. Loss on
building, stock and adjacent structures
damaged will amount to about 100000
The Burr mansion, where tradition
says that Edgar Allen Poe wrote 1.-THE
Roven." is separated from the furniture
establishment only by an alley, but
was saved .r<
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07

It is all well enough for the marin
ers to wipe the island of Juan Fernan-
DEE off the map, and declare that it
has been swallowed up by an earth
quake or a volcanic eruption. But no
amount of marine story telling or even
of cold fact will affect the existence Of
the island in the hearts and affections
of the young. Ships may sail all over
the site of the island, but 1t will still
live with childhood. and the touching
story of Robinson Crusoe and his man
Friday will charm juvenile readers SO
long as literature shall endure.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07
Five Miners Killed.

South McAlester. Ind. r., Jan. 6. -
Five miners, Martin Royan, Joe Cox,
Tom Curry, William Bishop and ST.
mon Pity, were instantly killed in
mine explosion at Anderson this morn
ing. The explosion is supposed to
have been caused by the fire. boss
screwing his safety lamp, which ig-
nited the gas. No damage was done
TO the nronertY ".
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07

The melancholy fact that physician
cannot cure himself is apparently bal
anced by the discovery that a lawyer
cannot make his own will. So able and
renowned a lawyer as Samuel !. Til
den was unable to make his last will
and testament a sound document, and
the splendid library requests that he
left to New York and to some smaller
of legal defect.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07
Train Robber Confcaxes.

Kansas City, Jan. 6.-Detectives to-
day arrested another one of the Blue
Cut train robbers and procured a con,
fession from him. The officers gave
out the suspects name as Jim Film.
Finn is thirty-seven years old and a
farmer. He has lived in the vicinity
of Blue Cut for the last fifteen years.
Finn implicated Kennedy and anoth-
er man, also a resident Of the Blue Cut
locality, and the last Of the robbers
will soon be III custody
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07

A Dunkard colony to be founded IN
Indiana will have neither jail nor court
house. The members seem to think the
existence of the latter renders neces-
sary that of the former.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07

The vast mahogany forests Of Near
aqua are almost wholly controlled by
Boston firms by ccr tract with the Mic
ara guam government. The export trade
in the expensive wood has become
very extensive, it having reached o.
100000 feet in 1898
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07

"a Bachelor wrote to ask why 1t is
that girl, when she goes to sleep on
the sofa, always curls her arm around
one OF the sofa cushions. We would
like to know how a bachelor found out
that she does. -.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07

The Lagong bridge, built over an:
arm of the China sea, is five miles long,
with 300 arches of stone, seventy feet
high and seventy feet broad, each pillar
supporting marble lion twenty-one
feet in length. The cost Of the bridge
is unknown.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07

Cremation does not seem to be max
ing much Roadway in Scotland. At the
annual meeting Of the Scottish Buritl
Reform and Cremation Society in Glas-
gov It was stated thar. only eight bod
les had been incinerated during the
past year.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07

Sandow has recommended a Whole
lot of exercising machines, but he will
have some new views on show to de-
velop muscle" by the time he has
walked the floor a few nights with that
new eighteen-pound baby.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07

Greater New York is to have one
capital innovation if the proposed
charter goes through. Perpetual fran
chises are to be done away with, and
after the lapse of a specified time all
corporate privileges now in existence
under grant from the city are to re-
vert to the municipal corporation. If
New York will make such a provision
and stick to it the city will be greater
than its name. Millions Of dollars
have been thrown away by the lesser
city in franchises.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07

The sultan Of Turkey needs no nerve
tonic. His invitation to the Armenian
patriarch to sign statement that the
Armenians were personally responsible
for the recent slaughters will rank as
the most impudent proposition OF the
year.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07

There is said to be danger that the
supply of rubber will give out before,
many years owing, mainly, to the ex-
traordinary demands Of the bicycle:
trade. The same principles, however,
apply to the conservation of this prod
Ict as to other st: pies. Eccnotny and
systematic cultivation should az ert the
threatened result.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07

succi, the famous Italian faster, has
tasted himself into insanity somewhat
faster than any one anticipated. 1t is
certainly noteworthy that feasting and
fasting should so often lead to the
same end.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07
Foreign Gossip.

Il. # El =
Floods have occurred in the Layidia
district Of Greece. They have been ac-
companied by some loss of life.
The Brazilian cruiser Friadentes was
on fire at Rio Janeiro. The crew eX-
tingushed the fire before serious dam
age was done. One officer was injured.
A Spanish court in Cuba sentences
Julio Sanguilly, the American citizen,
to- eight years Imprisonment for. con-
spiracy against the Spanish govern
ment.
Two of the mon convicted of the
murder of Stambollloff, premier OF
Bulgaria, were sentenced to short
terms Of imprisonment and another ac-
quilted. ''.'..5as RI +
" Ex-Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii has
left the Parker house at Boston, where
she has been staying during her visit
there, and during the remainder of the
stay she will occupy a house in Brook
line.
The Epoca of Madrid, the organ Of
the Conservative party, now in power,
SAYS: american intervention in Cuba
is perfectly logical on the grounds Of
material interests and national Senti-
ment."
The arrlored cruiser. Rossia, 1870
tons displacement, the largest vessel in
the Russian navy, which ran on a sand
bank near Cronstadt in the beginning
of November and has been frozen in
ever since, has been refoated.
There was a large meeting at the
Mansion house, the lord mayor pre-
siding, to protest against the overtax-
alton of Ireland as disclosed by the
royal commission on the financial rela-
tons between England and Ireland.
The report showed that Ireland is now
overtaxed to the amount Of f2,750,OO0
annually.
Details have been received Of a mas
sacre by Spanish guirillas under Pie
nonto at small hamlet near Pinar
del Rio, Cuba. The inhabitants were
searched for valua bles, and two young
women were numerically dashed for
resisting the soldiers advances. About
twenty men and women and two chill
dren were killed in a volley following
an attack by the inha bitants after the
whipping Of the women.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07

Weston, the veteran pedestrian, wept
because at the age of fifty eight he
walked only 1O3 miles in twenty-four
hours. against the 112 he made when
he was man Of thirty. The second
record is more remarkable than the
first, but Weston seems to have dis
covered in it an intimation that by the
time he is seventy he will not be able
to accomplish even 100 miles day.
Premier Canoyas declares that no
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07

And now comes the announcement OF
a suspected irregularity in the accounts
of Sing Sing prison. Holy smoke.
where next!
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07

sister, Mrs Stewart in Forest City.
After killing the girl Rosa blew out his
own brains. They had been to a dance
Christmas, and Rosa believed he had
not been given proper attention by the
girl. 1
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07
After !, Long Shut Down.

Boston, Jan. 6.-The Standard Cord
age company started up to-day after
a shutdown of nearly three fears.
This will will give employment YIN to 400
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07

If Gen. Weyler were as successful IN
Strengthening insurgents as he IS IN
killing peaceful citizens, Cuba WOULD
have been conquered months ago.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07
Will Contest Settled.

Milwaukee, Jan. 6. A final settle
ment Of all interests under the will Of
George Hiles, who died about a year
ago, was made to-day. All litigation
has been dropped and an agreement
reached between all the persons inter
ested for a distribution Of the proper
ty. The settlement disposes Of all
claims. The estate is valued at be-
tween three and four million dollors. d
Extraordinary efforts are being
made to reorganize the Panama canal
company.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07
The Nations Capital

Washington.
Cuban sympathizers in New York
have sent to Secretary Olney formal
appeal that the state department. exert
it's influence in behalf OF DR.. Gasparda
Betanicourt, arrested in Havana on
suspicion Of being an agent Of the Gu
ban junta in New York.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07
THE NEWS RESUME.
DIGEST OF THE NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE WORLD.

\ Comprehensive Review of tho
Important Happenings Of the
Past Week Culled From the Tel
egraph Reports-The Notable
Events at Home and Abroad That
Have Attracted Attention
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07
Terms;-2eo per year in advance.

Like his predecessor, the present Ar,
menian patriarch refuses to join in
withdrawing the sultan. He will lose
his position, but he will gain in honor.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07

Des Moines, Jan. 6. - The State of
Iowa is in the tolls Of a fierce blizzard.
To-day the temperature has been fall
ing and the loose STOW is drifting and
threatens to Interfere with railway
travel. Owing to sleet many Of the
telegraph and telephone wires are
down. ' .s IT, r
Rock Island Argus., 1897-05-12
WORK OF ILLINOIS soloMa

Uniform Text Book Bill Passed - The
Fight Against Humphreys Measures.
Springfield May 1.-THE governor
sent the following appointments to the
senate yesterday: Member Of state
board Of arbitration, Edward Ridgely,
Springfield; public guardian for Cook
county, Mary n. Bartelme. Chicago;
public administrator Of Adams county,
John Q. Brown. Quincy. They were
all confirmed. The bill to prevent the
illegal use Of streets for railway pur-
poses was postponed for q week. Bills
were passed: Authorizing corporations
engaged in the mining or the manufac-
ture Of articles the cast Of which is
made up mainly Of wages to combine to
maintain wages; prohibiting the own
ers Of warehouses from dealing in grain.
The house advanced the grocers' gar
nishee bill to third reading. Bills were
passed: To provide for the establish
ment Of manual training departments
In high schools; the uniform text book
bill introduced by Hammers. A number
Of unimportant bills were advanced to
third reading. An investigation of the
Hamilton -Garrard affair was ordered.
There was a hot fight waged during
the day against the Humphrey street
railway bills. The antis declared they
can count upon eighty-four votes sure
and will be satisfied with nothing but
the complete defeat Of the bills in any
shane
Rock Island Argus., 1897-05-12
solons Not to BE Coerced.

Lansing, Mich. May Ex-Governor
Pingree's threat to keep the legislature
here all summer unless the members
pass some of his railroad bills, has not
had the effect evidently desired by the
governor when he made it. Most of the
members here say they will not be
coerced into voting for any bill by the
governor or any other power, and the
general impression is that the threat has
weakened rather than strengthened the
bills. The principal fight will be made
for the bill making a fiat 2-cent passen-
ger fare on roads operating in the lower
peninsula, but there is not much hope
that it will pass
Rock Island Argus., 1897-05-12
Luck In Old Shoes,

The Chinese value pair Of old boots
which have been worn by an upright
magistrate, and the custom of wishing a
friend a "happy foot" is still observed
all through Europe. The casual putting
on the left shoe on the right foot, put
ting it on uneven or crosswise, bursting
the latch or tie, lacing it wrong and
losing button are all bad signs. A
Yorkshire man will spit in his right
shoe before putting it on, when going
out on important business, to bring luck,
and many an English girl has been
known to hang her boots outside of the
window on st. Valentines night for
love luck.
Professor Black tells us Of q singular
superstition existing in England, which
insists that if the youngest daughter of
a family marries first her sisters must
dance at the wedding without shoes, so
as to insure husbands for themselves.
Old shoe throwing is done for many
purposes. In Ireland the election of a
person to almost any Office is concluded
by throwing an old shoe over his head
The gypsies say:
Hurle after an old shoe.
III be merry what here do.
In the isle Of Man an old shoe IL al
ways thrown after the bride, as we'll as
the groom, when leaving their homes,
and in the south the Oldest person on
the plantation, white or black, always
throws a shoe after any one starting on
long journey. 1t is said that Mime.
Patti and other women of high standing
on the stage preserve most carefully the
boots they wore at their debut, which
they consider lucky to wear ON the first
nights of engagements forever after
Newark Standard.
Rock Island Argus., 1897-05-12
Charitable Chinese.

The Chinese are a charitable people,
all of whom give freely up to their af-
fording. Almost every well to do China
man is a member of some charitable
body. During the terrible plague which
fell upon Hongkong some years ago
hundreds of coffins were gratuitously
provided by the richer of the native
merchant class. But not one Of those
Hongkong Samaritans thought Of send
ing medical aid to his stricken coun-
trymen. Often in China you will see
some old grave broken open. Those who
cared for it and worshiped about it are
dead or gone to Australia or California.
Usually those broken graves display q
heavy coffin. Sometimes through the
cracks OF mortar or earth we see large
jar OF clay, painted green, blue or red.
Such urns contain the bones and ashes
OF poor Cinnamon who have died fa-
from home.
Rock Island Argus., 1897-05-12
HUNDREDS KEPT OUT OF WORK,
Illinois Steel Company's Plant Closes Dowr
Making $500 Employee Idle.

Illinois Steel Company's Plant Closes Down
Making $500 Employees Idle.
Chicago, May 12.-An Bridgeport Is in
gloom over the permanent closing of the
Illinois Steel company's works at Archer
and Ashland avenues. For the last
three years the $500 former employees
OF the works and their families have
been living in the hope that the mills
would soon reopen. The works have
been running occa sionally for a month
or so at a time, only to close down
again. Promises have been made that
they would open up again-perhaps this
week. But disappointment has come
again. Workmen are now engaged in
boarding up the works for their indef-
inite closure.
Second Vice President William p.
Palmer, the highest official Of the cor
poration now in the city, refused to
make any statement as to the cause for
this or as to the prospect for reopen
ing. He consented, however, to send
out the following typewriter Interview
in answer to the question so vital to the
thousands dependent on the steel mills
for their livelihood: 1.-THE prospects in
the iron and steel line are improving. We
are getting considerable business. Have
purchased a satisfactory amount Of ore,
but do not care to make public the
tonnage. Nothing new in armor; this
rests with congress-