The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-02-10

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Casualties.
A baby, the child Of John Wiegert,
| Melissa, Tex, has died from the poison
Of spiders bite. .. = =. Pc >.
While curling sher hair, Miss Ella
lIDetterling, of Lancaster, Pa, sacci-
dentally thrust the hot iron into her
:eye, and destroyed her sight.
George and James Van Dycke, aged
mine and eleven years, were drowned
while skating on THE pond at their
home near Sedalia, Mo. The bodies
were recovered.
The first Presbyterian church, the
largest in New Albany, Ind, was to-
tally destroyed by fire. The total loss
VIII be $4,000. It was insured for
f2O,OOO. The fire was caused by de-
| fective fue.
Second Officer Tobias Torresen, of
the steamer Vigilancia, was missing
when that vessel reached quarantine
at New York from Tampico and Ha-
vana. 1t is believed he was carried
overheard from the bridge in the storm
that prevailed.
Miss Jennie Barnard, school
teacher near Oberlin, Kas.. was badly
burned about the face and hands by
the explosion Of a coffee pot she was
lifting from the stove. The lid Of the
pot was tight and held the steam till
pressure enough was generated to blow
it off.
Nicholas Baekus, keeper of the
waterworks crib at Cleveland, started
to walk ashore on the ice, when the
wind shifted and the ice began NOV
ing out into the lake. Backus was on
a cake about twelve feet square. Two
fishermen finally saw him and he was
rescued when about a mile and a half
from shore.
Criminal.
The Canton (Mass.) postofice was
broken into. Blowing open the safe,
the robbers carried off over $4,000
worth Of stamps. There is no clue to
the burglars.
Theron Dean, forty years old, and
father Of a family, who eloped with
his twelve-year-old adopted daughter
from Canaan, Conn.,, last week, has
been captured and taken back. The
girl refuses to be separated from him.
Henry Goettel, young German bak-
er, after making a confession to the
sheriff at st. Augustine to the effect
| that Herman BreetZ and himself
wrecked passenger train near Ri
vera, on the Florida East coast Tues
day night, committed suicide by hang
ing himself with a towel in the jail.
Foreign Notes.
The health of Prince Bismarck is
improving. There has been a marked
diminution in his pain and his in
| somnia.
Owing to a shortage Of the potato
crop in Germany 1900 barrels of
sprouts have just been ordered from
eoria, ILL.,, to be shipped to Hamburg.
Heavy storms visited Como, Lom-
hardy, and vicinity. A spinning mill
| at Oggiono, thirteen miles from here,
collapsed, killing eight persons and
burying eight others in the ruins.
A man named Francis Carroll, de-
| scribed as an actor, was remanded at
London on the charge of threatening
to murder Miss Florence st. John, the
actress.
AAC dStlOA VI tuc ItfCuuc
| ties against Prince Macmillan Won
Fuerstenberg for the recovery of sew
| er millions of marks in legacy duty
has resulted in q verdict for the plain
| tiffs.
People Talked About.
Mrs. Augusta Tilghman, widow of
Gen. Lloyd Tilghman, died in New
York, aged sixty years.
Gus J. Heege, the actor known the
country over as ''Yon Yonson," died
| at. his home in Cleveland. He was
| thirty-six years Of age.
Secretary Ayers family are now
confident that he will be able to leave
Washington within few days, as he
| continues to gain slowly.
It is rumored that Della Fox will
| the baritone in Miss Fox's company
last year. :.
Beauchamp Henry John Scott, sixth
| earl of Clonmell, is dead. He was
born in 1847 and was formerly a cap
tain in the Scot Guards. .,.. -,
Mrs. Louise Francis Hamilton. wife
| Of Gen. Schuyler Hamilton, and whose
death at Roosevelt hospital, New York,
Is announced, was married three times.
Rev. Mr.. M. X. George, of Sheldon,
! Mo-, who had been minister in the
Christian church for over sixty years,
| died after short illness.
Hon. Elwood Evans, the oldest prac-
i ticing lawyer in the state, dropped
dead from heart disease on the street
at Tacoma, Wash. He was seventy
years Of age.
Mrs. Mary Holton died at the resi-
dence of her son, ex-Congressman
Holton at Baltimore. Mrs. Holton was
IN her ninetyfourth year, and was a
cousin Of President James X. Polk.
! Daniel Lawrence Braine, rear ad-
miral Of the United States navy, re-
tired, died at his home in Braaklyn
. from heart failure, following an al-
Jack OF Rheumatism.