The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-21


ing farmer, in May, 1894. The murder
murder was committed by Thomas +.
Mcdonald, Gray's farm hand, Gray
having hypnotized McD and COM
PEELED him to do murder. On trial Nc
Donald was acquitted. < u
Foreign Gossip.
The Russian academy has elected as
honorary members Lord Kelvin. and
DR.. Simon Newcomb of Washington.
The Dominion Savings Bank of Var
mouth has been closed by order of the
I government.
Gen. Medarto Alfaro has been elect
ed constitutional president of the re-
public Of Ecuador by SO votes. III
The Lokal Anzeigher publishes ru-
NOR to the effect that the cZarina has
suffered from miscarriage @
The disabled steamer Durham City
has reached Halifax in tow Of tugs.
1 Her crank shaft is broken. .
/ A strong Healeyite meeting was held
4 in Dublin yesterday, which was vir-i
tually counter blast to John Dillon's
convention held last September. }
The Empress Dowager Asako is
dead. She was daughter Of the late
Kudjo Mao Tada, and she was born at
Toxic Jan. %, 1884. f
It is estimated that the Russian
budget for 1897 will show a deficit Of
4 81, 795,936 roubles, due to railway con-
struction. &8#
4 Directors of the American Cigarette
company, the Canadian branch Of the
tobacco trust at Montreal, have been
arrested for conspiracy. 'fi
4 The Queens hotel at Wallaceburg,
I Ont, was burned to the ground. "A
I man from Cleveland is supposed to
have perished III the flames 81 @
The lord mayors Indian famine fund
which William Waldorf Astor gave
$4,000. e. 49
The Mexican government has just
awarded the contract for the making
of a harbOr where ships may safely
anchor at MaZatian. 1t is calculated
that three years will be required to
z complete the undertaking.
The viceroy Of India presided at an
p influential meeting at Calcutta called
to promote private relief measures. He
begged the natives and Europeans to
stand side by side in relieving the
famine sufferers.
The French newspapers comment
hopefully upon the effects Of the arbi.
i tration treaty concluded between the
United States and Great Britain. but
there is nothing new in the tenor OF
their remarks.
The United States minister at Con
stantinople, at the request of the
missionaries at Biltis, has obtained tel
5 egraphic orders from tie court to re
: move the Turkish guard which has
S protected the American college for tn
] past year. Ri 5
Otherwise.
: The new Banigan rubber works a
! Olneyville, r. l., have started up, Civ
!. ing employment to about $50 hands.
t A Big -Four special made run iron
Il st. Louis to Cincinnati,' a distance o
5S4 miles, in 675 minutes. The actua
running time was 6O4 minutes.
At the annual meeting of the Amer
It can Geographical society at New York
a gold medal was awarded Lieut.
is Peary
An autopsy on the body of 8WilliaI
4 III. Sinclair, the railway promoter an
contractor of New York and Galveston
. who died suddenly at Rochester, \
q Y, shows that his death was cause
: by apoplexy. o "a.
Col William A. Harris introduced
"a bill in the Kansas senate which, if i
= becomes a law, will cause revolutio
in the manner of organizing and mai
q aging corporations in the State {
= Kansas. g5.s
:, Supt. Hall, of the United State
= Leather company, has arrived at Stal
ley, Wis, and held conference wit
the striking beam hands. Part of tt
VI men returned to work and men will L
10 brought in to fill the places of the OF
~ ,ers. S S sSss
Z The committee of the Academy Z
q, Fine Arts at Philadelphia, appointe
ls to award the best figure painting by q
p American citizen in the annual eXhit
ton, has decided that the prize shou
of go to Albert Herter, for his picture e
of titled lie Soir''
~ "A small copper box, containing Z
ashes Of Kate Field, the writer, WI
rit buried at Mount Auburn cemetery, 4
tn Cambridge. The box was placed in
"a, grave beside the remains Of her mot
fes er. There was no ceremony. The on
rig person present at the interment was
ed relative, George Riddle of Cambride
oh The committee on Judiciary Of Il
constitutional convention of Delawa
or decided to recommend the abolishme
,u- of the whipping post as q mode OF pu
list ishment Of petty criminals. and +
He convention will take action in a fe
days. The whipping post has been
use in Delaware for more than 4
~ years.
40 The work on the battle ships at t
m shipyard at Newport News, Va, b
.1r been temporarily suspended on accou
- of an order that all plates used MI
of and transverse 1 tests Several hnndr
op- men have been laid off on account
MS, fhis order. and others win follow 4
g less it is revoked BY the navy depa
mant-