The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-02-25
miscellaneous.

The battleship Texas has arrived at
Galveston, Tex. "A silver service will
be presented by the citizens.
Senator George Of Mississippi has
recovered sufficiently to be taken to
his home.
The fight in Kansas for resubmis-
sion Of the liquor question is apparent
~ lost in the stae legislature.
BY unanimous vote the athletic coun-
Gil of Cornell agreed to allow Yale to
enter Cornell's race with Harvard. u, 81
The controller Of the currency has
given authority for the organization Of
the First National Bank Of Newport,
Ark.
Kid Lorraine, who lately went to
Rochester, N. Y, from the Pacific
coast, was Knocked out in the fifth
round by Jack Med onough Of st. Paul.
The Burns & Hunt Hardware com
pany, a large retail house at Sioux
City, Iowa, has failed with liabilities
Of $4,000. Assets are ample. d
The lower house Of the Kansas state
legislature has killed the bill giving
women the right to vote for presiden-
tial electors.
The Greater New York commission
has adopted the charter prepared for
the consolidated municipality as a
whole.
The Office Of l.. w. Tynell, a dealer
in farm machinery at Riceyille, Iowa,
was broken into by burglars, who
drilled the safe and attempted to blow
it open, but failed. They escaped.
Judge Daley has appointed Peyton
B. Harrison general receiver for the
Auburn Wagon works at Martinsburg,
W.. Va. The liabilities are $40, 900
and the assets $4,000. +
| Without a dissenting vote the New
York senate has passed bill providing
| that persons convicted Of placing OBJ
| structions on railroad tracks shall be
guilty of murder in the first degree.
| The statement that the refunding
bonds Of Dubuque, Iowa, to the
amount Of 100000, had been repudi-
ated by the purchaser turns out to be
untrue.
Navigation on the great lakes will
open at an unusually early date this
1 year. The steamer State of Michigan
/ will begin making regular trips be-
i tween Cleveland and Detroit next Mon
day. #
Quantity large; quality poor, is the
summary of the German Rhine wine
crop of 1896 as reported to the state
i department by the United States con-
sui at Mayence. 81 a
i The executive committee of the
i church Of the Protestant Episcopa
church met at the Bible house, New
4 York, and voted to hold it's next con
gress at New Orleans in November
d 1897.
j The Columbia, Pa, silk mill has an
j nounced that it would put 100 extra
men at work at once, and upon the
8 completion of an addition this spring
will employ 200 more 1t now gives
employment to 700 hands.
The wooden mill at Oak Valley, 4. L.
Il will resume operations in few weeks
a after having been idle for sixtee1
& months. The other wooden mills In thai
section of the state are nearly all run
ming. 5y ss
The Ohio Steel Company OF Youngs
town has commenced active operations
E toward the construction Of ten new
I. open-hearth furnaces The plant Il
now running double time in all de
partments with a good outlook for
Il still greater increase in business.
: The American Federation Of Labo
and the unions attached to 1T through
out the country are making arrange
{ ments to begin the agitation for ger
4 eral eight hour workday by serie
( of mass meetings on Washington
/, birthday. A circular urging ali til
], labor organizations to join III til
movement has been Issued ~ Sanue
q GomperS president of the federafiou