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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-11
Casualties,

John Iurney, a prominent farmer,
was killed at Salt Fork, o. T., by a run
away team.
John Martin "a young farmer living
near Mound City, Mo-, was kicked over
the heart by horse and almost instant
ly killed.
The Congregational academy of Per-
ry,. 0. IT,, was destroyed by fire. The
building cost $4,000, and the insurance
is only $4,000. The fire, it is thought
was incendiary.
-Four men of Perth Amboy, n. J., who
We're in a wagon, were struck. by Il
train and killed. Their names were
Joseph Totyi, George Azare, Joseph
Bartfoi and Andrew Klein.
The American ship Commodore, Capt.
Davidson, from Honolulu, August 20,
for New York, was wrecked on Maiden
island, on the Pacific coast. about lati-
tude 1853 south and longitude 1.55 west
There were no lives lost and eight
members of the crew have been landed
at LaunceStCn.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-11
Personal Mention.

w. w. Smith, a physician of Peabody,
is the oldest Odd Fellow in Kansas.
He has belonged to the order for fifty
five years.
Morris Mckinley of Minneapolis, one
of the oldest logging operators of the
upper Mississippi river and wealthy.
died at Iron River, near Duluth. of
appendicitis. He was sixty-three years
of age.
Nine. Calve has arrived in Paris and
has gone actively to work on the re-
hearsals from Massenet's new opera,
"Sappho," at the Opera Ccmique, where
she is to create the title role before
long.
United States Snator Harris is going
into the raising of fine sheep, and gets
$50 head from Minnesota this week.
A scientific sheep man will be put in
charge by him. He is also adding to his
Shorthom herd. He will leave for
Washington Nov. 3.
John II. Ward Of New Haven, Conn.,,
a lawyer who year ago created a SEN
sation by his infatuation for Nine.
Calve, died suddenly of heart disease.
Ward fell in love with Nine. Calve
when she was in New Haven, and after
writing her letters telling Of his devo-
ton, tried to force his way into her
apartments. He was then arrested, but
released at her request.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-11
Criminal.

Luetgert says he has not changed
his lawyers.
Grace Willard Of Los Angeles, CAL,
drank two ounces of carbolic acid with
suicidal intent at Warrensburg, Mo.
She had had trouble with her lover.
Her life was saved.
Miss Mamie Loker, a st: Louis So
ciety girl, was walking alone past q
church in an unfrequented thorough
fare soon after dark, when Il footpad
snatched at her pocketbook. She land
ed a chest and two head blows and he
ran.
LIE Cecil and Joe Copeland, two we'll
known young farmers of Platte county,
Mo-, became involved in a quarrel at
Stillingsville. Cecil struck Copeland
over the head with a heavy club, rem
dering him unconscious Physicians
say that Copeland is in a precarious
condition, with chances against his re-
coyery.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-11
NEW WRINKLES IN SHIPS.
A Big Royal Yard-Steel Yards ana
Masts-Vessels Without Royals.

Masts-Vessels Without Royals.
A man not familiar with ships, who
saw the royal yard lying on Il South
street wharf the other day, might have
mistaken it for Il mainyard, it looked
SO big. 1t was a new spar for an
American wooden ship of 1900 tons,
lying alongside the wharf, and was
forty-seven feet long. The mainyard
Of the ship measured about eighty-nine
feet in length. The royal yard was of
spruce, the main Of Oregon pine. On
a ship built nowadays the lower yard
would be Of steel.
Ships masts were formerly made
with the several parts each solid
stick. When big timber became scarce
and more costly, the lower masts we: +
built up Of 4 number Of pieces OF woOu
and banded with iron hoops. When
ships began to be built of iron, the low
er masts were made of iron, and also
the lower yards; !rand. when the build
ing Of steel ships was began, the lower
masts and the lower yards were made
of steel. There are ships now that
carry steel yards up to and including
the top-gallant sails.
There are built nowadays ships that
carry no royals. The other yards are
made longer, so that the ship spreads
the same amount of canvas, which is,
however, carried lower. With less
weight aloft there is less leverage Oh
the masts, and the ship stands up bet
ter. Fewer yards are required and
less rigging. The low rig is in line
! with the common modern endeavor to-
ward greater economy Of operation
New York Sun. +
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-11
Foreign Notes.

General Won Bulow, brother Of Baron
Won Bulow, the German secretary Of
state for foreign affairs, died in Berlin
yesterday, as result Of injuries which
he sustained by being thrown from his
horse while out riding.
Great excitement has been caused in
Caracas by the discovery Of a plot to.
start revolution in Venezuela IN order
to prevent the meeting of congress,
Five hundred arrests have been made
by order of the government.
The Prince of Wales has sold lis
yacht Britannia, but the name Of the
purchaser has not been made known
An insurance society to be called In
austria is being formed by employers
throughout Germany to insure against
loss arising from strikes. The society
will have a capital of 100000 marks.
A paragraph appeared in the London
papers this week calling attention to
the neglect Of Thackeray's grave in
Kensal Green cemetery. It is oyerrun
with ivy, which obliterates the inscrip-
ton.
Miss Norah Meiggs, daughter Of John
G. Meiggs, a well-known American,
who has long been a resident Of Lon
don, was married at st. Paurs church,
Knights bridge, to Herbert Allfrey,
who belongs to well-krown English
family.
The Pail Mall Gazette, comm enting
upon the threatened strike Of the cot
ton operatives throughout the north of
England, says the lockout will affect
100000 persons and adds that the strike
| will last for months. entail loss Of
| #f70, 100000 and mean the ruin Of the
cotton industry.
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STARVATION KILLS THOUSANDS OF
CUBANS.
The Reason the Cubans Are Dying
on Like sheep-Blanco Decides to
Issue Rations TO thespying-wey-.
ler's Awful Work Checked Too
Late In Many Cases-Dead Lying
Unburied In the Cemeteries
Frightful SufRcrinss Of the I'm
fOrtunates s-,. =

New York, Nov 10. - The Worlds
special from Havana says that since
WeylerS proclamation driving the
country people into the towns was is
sued, half the rural population of
Western Cuba has died. Half of those
who survive are so week, so ENACT
ated, that the Pickering spark Of life
in them will surely be extinguished.
They cannot survive, although Mar
shall Rlanco has ordered that service
rations be issued lamentations such
as his soldiers get.
The lives of the other half Of the
survivors Blanco will save. HE has
acted promptly, but such has been the
fatal effect of Weyler's savagery that
Blanco cannot undo or counteract it.
Starvation is killing the ''concentra-
dos" by tens of thousands. Hunger is
doing what Spain's 100000 soldiers
cannot accomplish.
Women and children, the weak, the
old. are dying like sheep; the rural
population concentrate" in the towns
has filled the graveyards and it's dead
lie unburied. The frightful sutferings
OF those who survive cry out to the
mercy Of the civilized world. The
physicians Of Havana are now forbid
ueu ~ give StdrVaIlCn (lnanlc1On') as
a cause of death. Women and chill
dren starve and the reports Of their
deaths are falsifed. A correspondent
in the town Of San Domingo writes in
the Diario de la Marina:
"A multitude of sick fall dying upon
garbage in the streets here, and there
they lie until, after having served as
ignominious spectacles for some hours,
they are collected and hauled away in
the OK carts used for garbage to the
dumping grounds. If the bodies are
| admitted to the cemetery they reach
there only in this unseemly manner.
| The church cemeteries are full So
| most Of the bodies are thrown into the
| fields to be eaten by the birds and
dogs"
The birds" of which the correspond
ent writes are vultures. The vultures
are gorged; the dogs can eat no more.
Both the newspapers which support
| cd Weyler and those who opposed him
are now forced to tell half the truth
| about the starving ''concentrados.'
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-11
NlNEIEENDROWNE ED
STEAMER 1LAFlO FOUNDERS IN
LAKE ERIE.
only Two OF the Grew OF Twenty
one Were Saved 49, Their Rescue
81 Involved the Greatest Possible
e. Danser-ihc Captain and Eight
cen Men Find Watery Gravcs--The
Steamer Had Become Helpless.
Daring a Terrible Gale.

Buffalo. n. Y, Nov S.-rhe steamer
Idaho, of the Western Transit line
(New York CentraD, founderetl in
eight fathoms Of water Off Long Point
on Lake Erie. This point juts out into
the lake from the Canadian shore
about sixty-fiye miles west of buffalo,
and it's vicinity has been the scene Of
many disasters.
The Idaho. commanded by Capt.
William Gillies of Buffalo, aud having
on board a crew of twenty-onc, left
Buffalo Friday afternoon laden with
package freight for Milwaukee, A
strong southwest gale was blowing at
the time and the weather Office had
storm signals up for the lake Capt.
Gillies thought he could weather the
gale and headed straight up the lake.
Shortly after posing Long Point he
discovered his mistake and tried to
run for shelter. The sea was running
very high at the time, and in turning
the Idaho shipped a big sea, which
quenched the fires in the engines, and
the boat was helpless in the trough Of
the sea. The captain and crew were
lowering the life boat when the steam
er gave lurch and went down Oh her
side, stern first. Two of the crew
managed to reach the top Of a single
spar tb~t stood above the water. There
they chung until eight hours later,
when they were discovered by the
lookout On the Mariposa, of the Min
nesota line. The effort Of those on
board the Mariposa to rescue the two
men involved the greatest possible.
danger. The sea was running very
high and lifeboats could not be,
launched. Lines were thrown to the,
men but their arms and legs had
stiffened around the spar and they
could do nothing to help themselves.
The Mariposa ran as close to the spar
us possible and efforts We're made to-
grasp the men while passing. This
was repeated several times, and at
last with success. The two survivors
were brought to Buffalo. Both were
In an exhausted state and unable to
give connected story of the wreck.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-11

The statistician of the Department
OF Agriculture has prepared report on
the wheat situation, which indicates
that there will be no material cheapen-
Ing of wheat until another crop is in
sight. During the past six years the
United States has exported annually an
average Of 166, OO0,0 900 bushels of wheat.
During the same period the European
product has averaged about 1 400 ,O0O,-
600 bushels. This year, according to
expert estimates, the European crop is
about 100,O00,000 bushels under that
average. To make up this deficiency
little help can come from India, Argen-
tina or Australasia, and Europe's in
creased imports must be drawn mainly
from the United States.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-11
General,

P1ttsburg PhiY' is credited with win
ming $25O,O0O on the turf this season,
but it might be cut in two and then
placed at a high mark.
The Houston hotel, at Neodesha,
Kas., which was burned several weeks
ago, is to be rebuilt When finished it
will be one of~the finest hotels in that
part Of the state.
A disgraceful row occurred at the
Kankakee Qll.) state asylum among
the attendants and medical staff Ten
people are in the hospital as a result
of the injuries received.
1t is. announced that st. Louis will
soon have magazine printed in
twelve different languages, and it will
be the only publication of the kind in
the world.
Martin Flaherty defeated Danny
Mcbride in fifteen rounds at Bridge
port, Conn. The fight was for a purse
Of 81 800. The men were clever and
fought hard.
Mrs. Mary A. Walker of Chillicothe,
Mo, aged seventy-six years, whose
home was in Kneeland, Wis, was
stricken with heart disease and died in
a few minutes, just as she was about
to enter a theater. ,-I.
Dion sGeraldine has resigned as SUI
Eerintendent of the department Of
buildings and grounds of the trans
Mississippi exposition. This is the end
Of a. fight that has been going on for
some time among the management Of
the exposition. .'.
The South Pennsylvania Oil company
has closed a deal for the purchase Of
the property of the Devonian, Emery
Il Matson Oil companies in the Brad
ford (Pa.) field. The deal includes 2O,-
600 acres Of land and 45O producing
wells. The consideration was 81 ,4OU,-
600 in cash.
BY the will of Mary J. Bradford Of
the probate court for Suffolk county, a
trust fund is created of $4,000, the in
come to be used for the care and sup
port Of a parrot owned by the test
ator. The bird is not to be put in any
public place or store on exhibition.
Charges against forty of Chief Kip
leys recent Star league appointees TO
the Chicago police department were
made before the civil service commits
sion, and are being investigated. The
accusations are being made by a news
paper reporter and include murder, as
sault, arson, burglary, larceny and re-
ceiving stolen property.
Dion Geralding, formerly a superin-
| tendent in the construction department
of the worlds fair, was married at
Chicago to Miss Ellen l.. Cochran of
| Chicago. They will reside at Omaha.
Mr.. Geralding was recently connected
with the trans mississippi exposition
at Omaha, but resigned his position
| last week.
| The property of the New Albany
| Qnd.) Wooden Mills company valued
at nearly 100000, the plant of which
has been closed down for three years
was ordered sold by Judge Herty
Judgment in a suit to foreclose the
first mortgage have been rendered
The company employed 700 operatives
and it is expected operations will be
resumed within sixty days.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-11
FORAKER DRAWS OUT.

Says He Will Not Cause a Fight
Among Republicans.
Cincinnati, Nov. 10. = Senator For
aker, in an interview, says: ''The
campaign of 1897 ended with me on
Tuesday. So long as we were fighting
the. common enemy I gave all my
time and strength to the cause A
supposed Republican legislature meant
the election of Senator Hanna, and,
Notwithstanding what I see in the
newspapers, I still think so. But if
there should be contest among the
Republicans, I will not have any
thing to do with it unless something
unforeseen should occur to change my
mind"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-11

An English journal says that our
navy is composed of a few modern
ships which cannot put to sea; that
our army is made up principally Of
generals and otherwise of a few negro
and Indian troops; that either Japan
or Spain could easily whip us; that
the Americans are but half civilized,
and that only small proportion of
them know how to read or write. Thus
we learn what dangerous thing lit
tie knowledge is; and the reader is I'M
doubtedly so indignant that he feels
almost persuaded to be iirgo.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-11

GRAIN IN EUROPE,

Tventy-seven Steamships Taking
On ,Cargoes at philadelphia.
Philadelphia, Nov. 10. = There are
twenty-seven steamships now in port
or under charter to load grain for Eu-
ropean ports. Most Of the grain will
be shipped in the next few weeks.
these steamers will carry an aggregate
of 3, 900 bushels of corn and wheat.
So far this year the shipments of corn
have aggregated nearly 23,OOO,OOO
bushels, against less than 100000 in
1896, and of wheat 1898, S99 bushels,
compared with 3,S40,616 last year.
The export petroleum. trade was also
unusually heavy last week, and to-day
shows a gain Of over 45,OOOO0O gal
Ions over last year.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-11
The Nations CAPITAL.

The receipts for customs during Oc-
tober amounted to $9,713,474, as COM
pared with $11,105 ,493 for October,
1896.
The government is building 100 new
houses at the Anadarko agency. These
houses are for the Kiowa and Com
anche Indians, who have promised to
live in houses instead Of in tepees.
Brig. Gen. James r. Wade at st. Paul
commanding the department. Of Dakota
recommends the abandonment Of Fort
Custer, Mont, as a military post. He
also suggests the abandonment OF Fort
Assinniboine, Mont, the most north
ern post in the United States, the neces
sity for which has now passed away.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-11
Town Girl Aired Her knowledge in
the Country. as

A girl from town is staying with her
country cousins who live on a farm.
On the night Of her arrival she finds,
to her modification, that she is igno
rant Of all sorts of things connected
with farm life, which, to her country
cousins, are matters OF everyday
knowledge She fancies they seem
amused at her ignorance. l
At breakfast the following morning,
she sees on the table dish Of fine hon
ey, whereupon she thinks she has
found an opportunity OF retrieving her
humiliating experience Of the night be.
fore, and Of showing her country cous-
ms that she knows something Of life,
after all. So, looking at the dish OF
honey, she says, carelessly:
"Ah! I see you keep a bee. Pear
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-11

A bachelor, writing to the Minneapo-
lis Times, gets very angry over the pro-
position to tax unmarried men. He
says there would be more marriage but
for our "damnable rotten society,"" as
to which he presents no method of re-
form; that the taxation proposed
would lead to bloodshed, and that
many bachelors would end their lives
IN almshouses rather than pay it. 1t
Is not well to get excited; but on the
other hand let us steer clear of the
danger of greater than any previous
civil war.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-11
Cotton Mills May Close.

Fall River, Mass. Nov. SIT is an
nounced here that all but one, or pos
sibly two, cotton manufacturing cor
porations have signed an agreement
to abide by the recommendations of a
special committee Of the manufactu
ers' association which has been ap-
pointed to take some step for the i'm
Drovemcnt of the conditions of the To-
cal cotton industry. 1t is expected that
a shutdown or n decided reduction in
wages will be advised. - ~
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-11
Will tr1Iftrnfa

Manchester, Nov. 8. - The crisis In
the cotton industry which was threat
ened through the action Of the opera
tivcs in instructing their delegates to
inform the employers that they would
not consent to a reduction in wages.
and the announcement of the employ
ers of their intention of making q 5
per cent reduction in the pay Of their
employees has been averted The en-
ployes will accept the reduction and
submit the matter to arbitration.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-11
CRUELTY AND STARVATION.

Captain of an American Ship Is
Charged With Starving His Men.
San Francisco, Nov. 1O.-A tale Of
cruelty and starvation on the high
seas was told in the Office Of United
States District Attorney NJ. S. Foote,
by four or five forlorn, weak and
scurvy-stricken sailors, members Of
the American ship John A. Briggs Of
San francisco. They swore to a COM
plant charging Capt. J. w. Badch
with having misused and starved his
men, while First Mate Johnson also
will be arrested for cruelty and beat.
ing and wounding sailors on the high
seas.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-11
Mysterious Suicide.

- Chicago, Nov. 10. - A handsomely
dressed and apparently refined woman
about twenty-five years old, commit
ted suicide in Lincoln Park by jump
ing from the high bridge to the lagoon,
q distance of about fifty feet. All pos
sible clues to Identification had been
carefully removed with the exception
CT small garnet ring.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-11

The instruction in Uruguay has
ended in the arrangement Of terms of
peace, which the insurgents have &C
cepted and both chambers Of the Uru-
guayan congress have unanimously rat
flied. One cause of the instruction was
a charge of fraud in connection with
the election of Senior Borda to the
presidency. The assassination of Pres
ident Borda last August seems to have
smoothed the way for the conclusion of
peace
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-11
TO DOWN HANNA.
Democrats WIN ofrer to SUPPORT

Democrats VIII Offer to Support
Bushnell for Senator.
Columbus, Nov. 1O.-A local Demo
cratic newspaper prints an interview
with G. Y. Harris, secretary Of the
Democratic state central committee,
in which the gentleman is quoted as
saying that at conference of Demo-
cratic leaders Of the state it was de-.
cided to pledge the votes Of as many
Democrats of the general assembly as
could be controlled to Gov. Bushnell
for United States senator on condi-
ton the governor would command
Republican votes to make his election
possible.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-11

The twenty-five Boston men and
women who have organized a society
to abolish marriage ought to join the
shakers Of Niskayuna; though perhaps
they propose to go to the other extreme
by living miscellaneously after the
manner Of the late Oneida community
On the whole, however, they will do
better if they dig twenty-five graves,
crawl into them and cover themselves
with the earth to which they more
naturally belong.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-11
] AUDIENCE WITH 4 4 THE POPE.

His Holiness to Publish an Encycli-@
cal to Canadians.
Rome, Nov. 10 The pope granted
lengthy audience to the archbishop
Of st. Louis, the Most Rev John ].
Kahn, and Montreal, the Most Rev.
Napoleon Bruscheci. His holiness in
formed the latter that he would short
" publish an encyclical addressed to.
the Canadian episcopate Of Manitoba,
on the school question, in order to.
yindicate the right of Catholics in that
province to religious teachings
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-11
The rating of Cook county lots as
farming lands is another evidence OF
Chicago's great agricultural expanse.

British landlords are said to own
100000 acres land in this country,
an area larger than that of Ireland.
1t is quite possible, too, that they are
bleeding this country just as Ireland
has been bled.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-11
Gold Standard for China.

London, Nov. 1O.-According to a
special from Shanghai the emperor of
China and the board Of revenue have
approved memorial presented in IA
yor Of establishing gold standard
and prohibiting the export Of gold. 1t
is doubtful, however, whether this
will have any practical result.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-11
Wnlls TO1exl>l<n Sill Lives

De Queen, Ark, Nov. s. - Advices
from Indian Territory have just been
received here stating that Walla
Tonehl<a. the famous Indian ball play
er, who was convicted of murder and
was to have been shot at Alikchl,
Wolfe county, Thursday, still lives.
He will have another trial and will
probably be acquitted.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-11
Resi.ned a. RectOrship.

Kansas City, Nov. 10. = The very
Rev. Dean Duffy has resigned his rec
torship of St. Paurs Episcopal church,
Kansas City, Kan, and is consider
ing calls from. New York and Brook
lyn. 1t is very probable that he will
accept one of the Eastern charges.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-11-11

New York. Nov. 1O.-The anarchists
of this city celebrated the tenth ami
versary of the execution of their COM
rades in Chicago by a public meeting
in Clarendon hall. There We're about
five hundred anarchists in the audi
ence. John Most presided and read
his speech from manuscript.