The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-07-29
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The gunboat Helena has been or.
dered to Shanghai.
The National Retail Jewelers. asso-
citation has gone to pieces.
All owners of good horses in Wash
ington expect an era of better prices.
The income from mutton from the
Missouri valley this year will amount
to over 100000.
At the steam shearing plant at Hill
lard, Who, recently, fifty men sheared
3,400 sheep in one day.
A great gas we'll has been struck
flowing 100000 cubic feet in twenty
four hours at Baldwinsville, N. Y.
The threatened strike Of telegraph
operators at London has been averted.
The operators are inclined to accept
compromise.
twenty-five seamen of the lost Brit
ish ship Kankora, who spent nearly
two months on the barren island Of
Clipperton, in the South sea, arrived at
San Francisco on the war ship Comus.
At the Putney boat races Black
static won the Wingfield SOULS, How
ell. the young American being among
the competitors and taking second
place at the finish. Blackstafe won
by two lengths.
The Indiana Farmers Savings and
Loan association, Fort Wayne, has
been placed in the hands Of a receiver.
Liabilities, 1914, 900; assets, $4,000. In
ability to raise funds to meet the with
drawals of stock caused the failure.
The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger says that
Capt Sverdrup will endeavor to get
around the northern end of Greenland.
He expects to be absent two years.
The party will take dogs with them as
| a precaution against being frozen up.
The natural gas strike in Sacramento
lis turning out an important matter.
Pour bodies of gas have been struck.
lying in different strata, and the total
supply from the well is estimated at
100000 feet daily.
Mountain lions are very numerous in
the neighborhood of White River COL
In Hub Gulch, near Salida, also, they
are making trouble for prospectors and
cattleemn, killing and carrying off
dogs as cats do mice.
The Campania Perlifera de la Baja
California Uower California Pearl
Fishing company has sold it's conces-
sions and other property in the Gulf of
California to an English syndicate for
$500 900.
The will of Mrs. Julia G. Maffit, re-
ruted to have been the richest woman
i'll st. Louis, has been filed for probate
The estate is Walt ed at $3,0OO,O 900, and
consists largely Of personal property.
It is to be apportioned among six chill
dren," share and share alike.
S. G. Carter, national secretary of
the Metal Polishers, Platers and Buff.
fetcrs' union, announces that the
eighteen months strike of the polish
ers employed by the Overman Wheel
company at Chicopee Falls, Mass, had
been settled.
A party of Deadwocdites is off on g
treasure-hunt far into the Bad Lands
where as yet few white men have trod
The mission is to locate the grave Of
Winding Hawk, once the head chief o.
the Sioux nation, wherein, according
to Ind an tradition, is buried $4,000 il
gold.
Contractors state that the Canadian
Pacific has issued an order that n,
United States citizen can be accepted
as contractor, subcOntractor, manager
superintendent or laborer on tn
Crows Nest Pass railroad, now abou
to be built by that road through For
, Steele mining country.
: Another immense gas well has bee
developed, one-half mile northeast O
: Baldwinsville, N. Y. It is by far tn
; most prolific well vet found. The vo
ume of gas flowing from it amounts t
over 100000 cubic feet every twenty
! four hours. The force of the gas Pre-
' ceeding from the boring is SO enormou
that it will lift weight of 200 or 30
pounds placed over the opening.
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