The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-06-17
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Tommy Ryan announces that he is
prepared to go to San Francisco to
meet George Green
John Ryan of North Milwaukee, the
largest carpenter contractor in Wis
consin, and heavy dealer in coal and
lumber, has assigned
The annual convention of the Sioux
City District Epworth League has
opened at Sioux City, Iowa. Five hun
dred delegates are present.
The German Baptist annual meet
ing, in session at Frederick, Md, has
adjourned and will meet next year in
the Northern district Of Illinois.
Earthquakes were experienced in the
State of OaXaco, Mex, and some dam
age was done on the Isthmus Of Te-
huantepec, where slightly constructed
houses were cracked.
The eighteenth annual convention of
the Hotel Mems Mutual Benefit asso-
citation was held at Boston. President
George w. Lynch of California pre-"
sided.
The strike Of the street railway en-
ployeS which has involved all the lines
in Vienna, has been settled. the COM
panies making large concessions to the
strikers. n -
Commissioner Fricke of Wisconsin
has revoked the license Of the Schuyl-
kill Insurance Company Of Philadel-
phia for writing insurance in Wiscon-
sin through nonresident agents.
The board of directors of the Oregon
Railway and Navigation company has
| declared a quarterly dividend of 1 per
| cent On preferred stock, payable July
1. This is the first dividend the COM
pany has paid in several years.
The president has nominated NJ. D.
| O'Connell of Iowa to be solicitor of the
treasury and William NJ. Griffith Of
Arizona to be marshal for the Terri
| tory Of Arizona.
At the annual election of the New
York produce exchange the following
officers were chosen for the ensuing
year: President, Frank Brainerd; vice
president, e. T. Barrows; treasurer, E.
G. Rice.
Word has been received at Pittsburg
that Rev. DR.. Methery, senior mission
airy of the reformed Presbyterian
church, died at Mensine, Syria, June 4.
The deceased was we'll known through
out the country 49,.
The annual meeting of the Coe Col
lege Alumni association at Cedar Rap
ids, Iowa, elected the following: S. NJ.
Hall, president; J. w. Wood, vice pres
ident; Francis 'romlinson, secretary;
w: N. Moffett, treasurer.
The Wilcox & White Organ company
| Of Meriden, Conn, one of the largest
manufacturers of organs in the United
States, has made an assignment. The
company was organized in 1876 and
established many branch houses
throughout the country. :, <-... (.
An incendiary fire on the farm Of
Sheriff Frank Wheelock, near Stevens
Point, Wis, destroyed four barns and
all their contents, causing loss Of
about $4,000, with $4,000 insurance. An
hour afterward another incendiary
fire destroyed an unoccupied dwelling.
The Iowa State League of Wholesale
Flour Jobbers met to secure better
understanding. They will also try for
better terms with the mil1ers. The fol-
lowing officers were elected: S. Shoe
craft Clinton, president; A. W. Blu.
chanan, Ottumwa, vice president; A.
S. Palmer, Burlington, secretary; w.
S. Dennis treasurer
At the final session Of the seven,
teenth annual convention of the Amer!
lean Water Works association at Den.
yer, officers were elected as follows:
President, John Caulfield, st. Paul
first vice president, Joseph A. Bond
Wilmington, Del; secretary treasurer
Peter Min, New York. 1t was decided
to have the next convention at Buffalo
N. Y.
The steamer Windward started from
London for Franz Josef Land in or.
der to bring back from the Arctic re.
. gions the members Of the jackson
\ Harmsworth expedition who have nov
spent three winters at their little Are
tic settlement, Elmwood, near, Cane
Flora, where they erected an obserya
/ tory 1000 feet above the sea level.
Prof William Libbey,. ,Jr., Of Prince
ton university, will leave for Albu
querque, n. M, early in July with !
: party of six explorers. Their plan is t.
attempt to scale tableland SHAPED
s like a figure s with perpendicular
sides 100 feet high. The outcropping,
B of red sandstone project from til,
face Of the walls, making it almost in
accessible There are Indications q,
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