The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-01-27

Lincoln, aged twenty-five, was instant
| ~ Killed at New York in collision
With pedestrian, Julius Hirschberg.
Hlrschberg was so badly injured that
he was removed to his home in an I'm.
conscious condition.
| General.
| Armor plate lis now quoted at $500 q.
Jabez White, the English bantam. is
preparing for visit to America.
| A 100000 fire destroyed thirty
buildings at Randsburg, Colo.
The referee has filed "a report at New
! York recommending that Mrs. Nat g.
Goodwin be given divorce on statu-
tory grounds and SIS a week alimony.
a call has been issued for a. pure
food and drug congress to meet at the
National hotel in Washington Wednes-
day, March 20.
The Virginia senate committee on
public institutions has decided to re-
| port adversely the McCune anti-tiirta-
ton bill.
Fire destroyed Waters & Dennis
flour and feed store and Dickinson's
paper box factory at Dubuque, Iowa.
The estimated loss is $4,000.
The Washington Central railroad
has been sold at Spokane, Wash, for
100000 by Master in Chancery Wake
field. Thomas r. Sheppard of Seattle
| DID 1t in for the Eas' I bondholders.
D. M. Hough & c. shoe manufac-
turers of Rochester, n. Y, have made
| an assignment to G.. A.. Hollister. 1t
is said that the liabilities will reach
$4,000; assets estimated at $4,000.
The Androscoggin cotton mills at
Lewiston, Me-, have shut down all de-
owing to the strike Of a portion of the
operatives.
The directors of the Lake Erie &
| Western Railroad company have de-
c]ared the regular quarterly dividend
of IA per cent on the preferred stock,
payable Feb. Is.
The Harvard club Of New York city
! has donated $4,000 for the erection
OF a new boat house for the Harvard
crew. Extensive improvements are
also to be made to Soldiers Field,
Boston,
Preparations for the golden jubilee
of California-the fftieth anniversary
of the discovery of the yellow metal
are making rapid Roadway. The eel
ebration will begin on Monday next
and continue during the week. *5&f
Notices were posted in the Alice
rubber mill at Woonsocket, r. l., an
nouncing a shutdown for two weeks.
This mill is owned by the United
States Rubber company and employees
1000 hands. t. -@1. g..
Henry Cyril Paget, earl of Uxbridge
and Miss Lillian Florence Maud Chef
wind, eldest daughter Of Sir George
| Chetwind, Bart, were married. The
ceremony took place in the Roman
; Catholic church at st. Marys, London.
J. A. Klinkert has disposed of his
| interest in the Klinkert brewery at
! West. Superior to L. Reuping and
Mayor Earhart Of Fond du Lac. Gen.
Bragg was here with the purchasers
as their attorney. 49,
Hon. J. D. Vandeman was appointed
! receiver for the Electrict street rail-
way company of Delaware, Ohio, and
! at once gave bond in the sum of $780,
600. The road will be- appraised at
once and offered for sale.
| Some of the admirers of John Brown
! are. urging the national association
which has charge of the John Brown
statue to have it made by Elmorna
Lewis, the colored sculptor now re-
siding in Rome. sal. -.
The Milwaukee Manufacturing COM
pany, a corporation engaged in the
manufacture of bicycles at North
Milwaukee, has made a voluntary as
signment to Jesse B. Whitnall. His
bond was fixed at $4,000. ,#g
William G.. Won Mier, an ex-lieuten-
ant in the German army and nephew
or retired Admiral William WenZel, of
the German navy, is accused at San
Francisco of petty larceny by Leon
Lemos, a Market street tailor.
| Tommy White and Billy Whistler
have signed articles to box twenty
rounds at Toronto next month. When
the pair met before the verdict was a
draw. White is getting into shape for
the mill at Coney Island.
1t is rumored at Trenton, N. J., that
a syndicate of New York capitalists
has secured an option of about 80 per
! cent OF the general ware pOtteries in
that city and East Liverpool, Ohio.
the two principal pottery centers Of
the country.
Frank A. Leach superintendent Of
! the mint at San Francisco, has been
elected by the Oakland (Cal) board Of
trade as it's delegate to the monetary
convention to be held in Indianapolis
| on Jan. rs. Mr.. Leach is now in
| Washington ID
At a meeting at Pittsburg of coal
4 operators favorable to true uniform
ity" conditions a committee of five
was appointed to nominate a uniform
ity committee, after which the meeting
adjourned to assemble again at the
call of the committee.
Joe Choynski has been appointed
boxing instructor of the new Ameri-
can Athletic association of Chicago.
|gr@ MysteriOus Billy Smith wants to
box Dan Creedon, and is willing ia
! make a match for ten or twenty
| rounds
Henry Brakeman secretary Of the
Holland Home for the Aged at Grand
Rapids, Mich, recently wrote to Queen
| Wilhelmina, telling her the objects Of
the home. He has just received an
acknowledgment of his letter. and
/ with it 100 guilders (about $4O) to
/ holm the work aI0no