The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-03-04
Foreign Go.sip.


Foreign Gossip
Count Lefevre de Haine, formerly
French ambassador at the Vatican, is
dead, aged 68 years.
One death from yellow fever has &C.
Cured at Payta, Peru, and one per-
son has been attacked by the fever in
Lima.
Minister Rodriguez, of the Greater
Republic of Central America, has no
fear Of any serious consequences as a
result Of riotous proceedings reported
in recent advices from MaDagua.
A dispatch to the London Daily
Mail from Bombay says it is reported
that thirty people suffering from bu-
bonic plague were discovered on the
trains at Poona on Saturday.
The Inauguration Of the eight-hour
labor day, moved by the Social Demo-
Gratis, has been rejected by the Ger
man reichstag. On motion Of the Cent
.rists it was resolved, first, to order a
date for discussion as to the advisable
| ity of the measure.
The election Of the Manitoba legts-
lature, held in st. Boniface district, was
carried by the Conservatives, and sep
arate school party, Lauon, their candi-
date, being returned by 200 majority.
The seat was formerly Liberal, and is
a gain in the legislature for the separ-
ate school advocates.
The princess Of Hohenlohe. wife or
the German chancellor, is preparing to
leave Berlin for her vast estates in
Russia, to enjoy a hunt for bears and
other rather dangerous game. The Ho-
henlohes only few days ago, celebrat-
! ed their golden wedding, the princess
being now sixty-nine years old.
/ w. S. Alley, of the New York stock
/ exchange, has failed. -
John T. Rater, a well-to-do farmer
living in Davis county, Iowa, has
been sued by Miss Emma Rimes Of
South OttumWa for $4,000 for breach
of promise. III iii
The Olympic Club Of London offers
a purse Of $1,000 for fight between
Eddie Connolly Of st. Johns, N. b.,
and Kid Lavigne Of Saginaw, Mich,
in April or May.
At meeting of the consolidated
bondholders Of the Kansas Pacific it
was unanimously decided to accept
the Union Pacific revised plan of re-
organization.
Venezuelan Consul Herman Mein.
hard is authority for the statement
that the Illinois Central railroad is
considering the Adjustment Of
steamship line between New Orleans
and Venezuelan ports.
A complication has arisen at Web
ster City, Iowa, over the question of
whether women will be allowed ito
vote at the coming municipal election
on a tax for library purposes. The
judges are undecided what to do.
The mid-winter meeting Of the
j American Paper Manufacturers asso-
/ citation was held at the Waldorf hotel
at New York. The association is
composed of papermakers from all
sections of the country.
w. A. Gamo, a business man well
known in Chicago and the East, has
been granted a divorce at Kansas
City from his wife, Grace Gamo of
New York, and given the custody Of
i their two children. II
Rev. Father Fidells, James Kentstone
Of St Joseph's monestary, Baltimore.
preached in Appleton chaple at Harv-
ard IN response to an invitation from
the university faculty. This Is the third
time that Roman Catholic has preach
ed in the Harvard chapel. "
Charles Burkman, a Keokuk, Iowa,
barber, had just finished having Gus
toner when he went violently insane.
He still had the razor in his hands.
and attempted to assault several per-
sons, but was at last overpowered and
b n In hoe 80 cse :
children.
The liner Spree reached her pier in
i Hoboken after a rough voyage. She
left Bremen on, February 9th and
/ SOUTHAMPTON the next day. Before
reaching the Needles she ran into a
i dense fog and had to anchor. The seas
pounded her decks, Shaving a life-boat
to pieces, tearing out section Of rail
and inf1icting other damages.
4 Ten city lots worth 100000 have
been given under conditions to the st.
James Protestant Episcopal mission in
4 New York by J.. S. Rhinelander. The
conditions are that in five years the
mission must accomplish enough tangi-
bic good to satisfy the donor, when the
4 lots Will become its absolute properly.
The annual report of Director Clin-
j ton Kurdish, of the bureau of Ameri-
can republics, shows that such prog
reSs has been made in the compilation
Of the code of commercial nomencla-
d ture as to make it possible to print
4 the second volume in Spanish, Portu-
guese and English within q few
d months, the entire work being in type.
4 James De Traford Blackstone. 4
wealthy Norwich, Conn, man who WAS
4 divorced from his first wife twenty
years ago, will be remarked to her Il,
New York city. Since they were sonar
4 ated Mrs. Blackstone has been married
twice and divorced twice. She has
made tour of the world, studied arr.
in Paris, and made q reputation and q
small fortune. Mr. Blackstone has
been married again and has buried his
Il second wife.