The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-06-24
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A formidable movement is en- foot TO
GUST Russell Sage from the presidency
of the Iowa Central railway.
S. II. H. Clarke, one of the Union
Pacic receivers, is seriously i'll at st.
Louis.
Peter Maher, the pugilist, has made
application at Philadelphia for a Ii
cense to marry Miss Agnes Torphey of
that city.
The Ohio WESLEYAN university has
conferred the degree Of doctor of the
ology upon Rev. Dr.. William McAffee
Of Columbus.
The New York police commissioners,
at their meeting unanimously decided
that the so-called boxing contests in
the city should be stopped.
The government knows nothing of
any attempt Of Pine Ridge Sioux to
erect a monument, and doubts the
story.
The United States torpedo boat
Porter made the marvellous record of
mile in less than two minutes with
scarcely an effort at New York.
The Paine Shoe Company of Hol-
brook, Mass, has assigned. The COM
pany was one Of the largest in Hol-
brook.
The jury in the Wintersteen dyna-
mite conspiracy case at Bloomsbury,
Pa, has declared that it cannot agree
and asks to be discharged.
Within a short time three furnaces
in the Mahoning valley, Ohio, which
have been out of blast for some time,
will resume.
The New York Herald has started
fund for Mark Twain, the celebrated
American humorist, opening the list
with a subscription of $1,000
The directors Of the Dover, Del,
National bank have adopted a resolu-
ton favoring the reduction of the
capital stock of the bank from $780,.
600 to $4,000 as a result of the recent
defalcation of Teller Boggs.
The National Steam and Hot Water
Filters association began a three
days convention at New York. 1t is
a masters convention and the ninth
annual meeting. Over 300 delegates
are i'll attendance.
The chief Of police of Berlin has
prohibited meetings of the Independ-
ent Exchange which was started by
former members of the produce eX-
change as protest against the boerse
law.
The Vose Edge Finishing company,
manufacturers Of shoe machinery and
wood working tools of Lynn, Mass,
has made an assignment. The assets
are unknown but the liabilities are
placed at 100000. =.
The two commissions representing
the United States and the Cherokee ma
ton have adjourned without coming
to an agreement The Dawes COM
mission told the Cherokees that no fur
Their attempt would be made and that
congress would now act.
At the end of seven days investiga-
ticn at Chicago Of the alleged cutting
Of grain Ia ties the interstate commerce
commission has practically acknowl-
edged its failure to secure any evi.
dence and adjourn ed to a date not
fixed.
The Lake Shore Railway company
has filed a mortgage at Adrian, Mich,
for S5OOOO,OOO running to the United
States Trust Company of New York
The mortgage provides ) ID per cent
interest, payable semiannually in gold,
present standard.
All combinations in the cavalry are
held up by the senate committee on
military affairs, awaiting the action of
the committee on the nomination of
Lieut.. Col. Noyes, who has been pro-
NOTED to be colonel, and to whom OBJ
jections are made which are being in.
vestigated.
Mrs. Marion Kelly, handsome
young widow from San Francisco, has
brought suit at Butte, Mont, for S1O,.
600 damages for breach of promise
against Oscar Bell, mining engineer.
and to get title to $4,000 worth OF
property which he had promised her
and which she is now in possession of.
The compilation of statistics of coal
production in the United States in
1896, which has just been completed
ny the geological surveys, shows that
during that year Iowa produced g..
954'O2S short tons, valued at $685.
O22: North Dakota, 7S,O5O tons, valued
at $S4,9OS. The other Northwestern
states produced no coal at all.
Rev. Father Alberto has been elected
abbot OF the New Melloray monastery
traIp]st at Dubuque, and Archbishop
ilcnnessey will soon consecrate him.
New Melloray has been heretofore
ruled by prior from Mount Melloray,.
Ireland, but has acquired independ.
ence by acquiring certain number of
members.
New York capitalists have pur.
chased the San Xavier mines near.
tucson Ariz., from the Boston owners.
The group comprises seven mines ex-
tenslvely developed. They were
warked forty years ago, and are con-
sldered to contain the largest deposits
OF "copper" silver and lead ores in
Southern Arizona. =.
The joint committee appointed to in.
vestlgate the condition of the miners
IN the anthracite coal regions has
made it's report to the Pennsylvania
senate and the report was adopted.
The report shows a deplorable condi-
ton OF affairs, and recommends a law
abolishing company stores, and the
enactment of a compulsory semi.
monthly pay law; also the restriction
OF foreign immigration.
The statement that Julia Marlowo
and her husband, Robert Tabor, viii
star separate next season ic +r,,