The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1899-02-16

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delegates present. y
The lower house of the Kansas legis
lature has passed joint resolution
commencing Senators Harris and Baker
| for their votes for the ratification Of the
| peace treaty.
Thursday, Feb. 8.
CONGRESS: Senate-Executive legisla
tive and judicial bill taken up House
Sundry civil bill under consideration.
Governor McLaurin of Mississippi, is
critically ill Of pneumonia.
The United States cruiser Marble.
head has left Boston for Havana. ..
Brigadier General John H. Patterson
has been placed on the retired list.
The 6Sth ballot for United States sen.
ator in California shows no change in
the senatorial deadlock -
Mrs. Pamphilia Wolcott, sister of Ed.
win M. Stanton, secretary of war in
Lincoln's cabinet, is dead at Akron, O.
The controller of the currency has is.
sued call for reports of condition of all
national banks at the close of business
Feb. 4.
The credentials Of Brigham H. Rob
erts of Utah as member of the Fifty
sixth congress have been received by
Chief Clerk Mcdowell of the house of
representatives and placed on file.
Friday, Feb. 10.
dicial appropriation considered House
Lebate and sundry civil bill continued.
The French cabinet is likely to be de-
feated on the Dreyfus question.
1t is now claimed that Aguinaldo is
not the real head of the Filipinos, being
mere tool Of others.
All the South Dakota national guard
will be mustered out except one battery
because the state senate refuses to vote
an appropriation.
President Mckinley has appointed a
court of inquiry to investigate General
Miles charges. It consists of Generals
Wade and Davis and Colonel Gillespie.
The supreme military court of Spain,
which has had under consideration the
loss Of the Spanish squadron at San
tiago, has decided to prosecute Admiral
Cervera and Commander Moreau. for
mer captain of the destroyed cruiser
Cristobal Colon.
Saturday, Feb. IL.
CON:iREs'; Senate Legislative, execu-
tive and judicial bill passed. Agreement
to vote on McEnery resolution Tuesday.
House -Dingley eulogies pronounced
President Mckinley, it is said, will
call an extra session If the present con-
gress fails to pass the army bill.
Canadians arrested two American
customs officers in Alaska. The trouble
arose over a disputed boundary line.
George M Curtis of Iowa has been an.
pointed third member Of the 'colonial
cabinet" in place of Colonel Guild, who
declined to serve.
The French chamber of deputie.
passed the trial revision bill by 100 ma.
jority, Notwithstanding the adverse re-
port of the committee. 49,
Chairman Cannon of the house COM
mittee on appropriations, says it would
be useless for congress to consider the
Nicaragua canal and shipping subsidy
propositions, as the revenues would not
permit either. .''t.: -''t.
Monday, Feb. ID.
CONGRESS: Senate-Bill making Dewey
an admiral passed. House-Sundry civil
bill considered
The naval appropriation bill as re.
ported carries $44, 15S, $685. -
Horace A. Taylor of Wisconsin is tc
be assistant secretary Of the treasury.
The department of agriculture will
have beef investigation on it's own &C.
count -" ,. .r.. .~
Spain has decided not to sell the Car
oline islands, according to dispatch
from Madrid. ''' ..,. I"
A. c., McClurg & Co., the Chicago
publishers, have been burned out, the
loss being $650,0OO. '~s-. - *:
An avalanche in Colorado is thought
to have killed "a people. Eleven bodies
have been recovered. " 4 IT,
! +. Inc STOCKHOLDERS OF the American
Cereal company have accepted (: thu
proposition Of the new cereal food trsus
for the absorption of the American ani
about 10 other cereal food companies.
Tuesday, Fob. II. H.. H..
The Keokuk and Western road ha
been absorbed by the Burlington. 4.
It is II dogs. warmer at Medicine Hat
| N. w. T., than in Jacksonville, Fla. !.
| The steamer Bulgaria is thought t,
have been lost at sea with .116 people.
A resolution looking to a constitu
tional amendment for the election 0
senators by direct vote Of the people ha
been introduced in the United State
senate. ~ iit&
| Prince Napoleon Charles Gregoir
Jacques Philippe Bonaparte, third SO,
Of Prince Lucian Bonaparte, prince 8
4 Canine and chief Of the older branch 8
the Bonaparte family, died at Rom,
Sunday.