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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-04-24
MISSIONARY CLAIMS.
State Department Taking Steps to Sc.
~ cure Their Settlement

Washington, April 23.-The state de.
partment is taking steps toward settle.
ment of the claims of the missionaries
and other Americans who suffered
from the Boxer uprising in China in
1900. To this end a commission has
oeen created composed of United
states Minister Conger, Secretary of
Legation cambridge and Consul Rags.
dale, Tien Tsin, to ascertain as near
as may be, the exact damage sustained
by each individual claimant. Copies of
claims thus far submitted to the de.
partment will be forwarded to this
commission, and the members will Wis.
1t personally the scenes of outrage
consuming about six months, it is ex.
pected, in the task. The results of the
inquiry will be transmitted to the
state department where the final pay.
ments will be made, on the basis of
the commissions report, from the first
slnstallment of the Chinese indemnity,
which falls due in June next. The
claims thus far filed number $50, az.
gregating in amount $2,OOO,OOO.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-04-24
WANTED IN MINNESOTA,
Montana Man Arrested for Murde,
Committed in 1874,

Helena, Mon, April 23.-James Moo
nan, who has lived in Helena Is or 20
years, has been arrested on the charge
OF having committed murder in Pres
ton township, Fillmore county, Minn.,
Oct. IS, 1874.
1t is charged that Noonan, known in
Minnesota as Patrick Noonan, killed
John Simmer. The authorities had
given up ever finding the murderer
until recently when there arrived in
Preston man from Montana, a for
mer resident of the township, who had
been working here. He told of having
met man named Noonan who CORE
sponded in appearance with the Pat
rick Noonan who killed Simmer. The
grand jury soon afterward met and the
man from Montana was called before
the jury. An indictment was returned
April 9 charging murder in the first de-
gree.
Noonan is about 81 years of age and
is well known. Noonan denies his
guilt and says q mistake has been
made
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-04-24

President, Attorney General and 9th.
ers Discuss Crowder's Report

President, Attorney General and 9th
ers Discuss Crowder's Report.
Washington, April 23.-There was a
conference at the White House for the
consideration of Colonel Crowder's re-
port. Attorney General Knox, Colonel
Sanger, assistant secretary of war;
Adjutant General Corbin and Colonel
Crowder. attended it. No announce
ment OF the result of the conference
was made, those present refusing to
discuss the question. It is said the
report of the attorney general giving
his views as to whether the mainte-
nance of the camp at Port Chalmette,
etc., is a violation of the neutrality
laws, has not been completed. Some
announcement from the president,
however, is expected very soon. He is
anxious that the matter shall have the
fullest consideration before a decision
is made, as the questions involved are
of far-reaching consequence, not alone
at this time, but as affecting similar
expectations in the future.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-04-24
TORNADO IN WISCONSIN.
Blows Down Two Barns and Kills a
Farmer and Six Cattle.

Blows Down Two Barns and Kills a
Farmer and Six Cattle.
Hebron, Wis.,, April ga tornado
passed over this village at o'clock p.
M, blowing down two barns and kill
ing Gillett Reed, a farmer, and six
head OF cattle. The barns were owned
by Adm Reymonds and William Pot
ter and Reed was in the Potter barn
when it was blown down. The cattle
were killed at the same place.
Johnsons Creek, Wis.,, April ga
tornado swept over this place during
the afternoon, demolishing barn, in
juring seriously but not fatally, Mary
Pertisch, aged Is years., and topping
over a dozen tombstones in the local
cemetery and breaking off the branch
es of trees. ~-~~.
Milwaukee, April 23.-Specials from
various parts of the state tell of con-
siderable damage being done by high
winds, Oshkosh, Waukesha, Horizon,
Green Bay and other points report
small buildings being blown down,
trees uprooted and similar freaks of
the wind. At Cumberland, Wis, the
heavy rains put out forest fire which
threatened to do great damage. At
New Richmond, Arthur Roetger, aged
II years, was struck by lightning while
eating lunch in schoolhouse and in.
stantly killed.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-04-24
BRITISH CAMP TO REMAIN.
President Will Not Modest the Depot
at ChaLmette, La.

Washington, April 23.-The report
Of Colonel Crowder, who investigated
the shipment of horses and mules to
South Africa from the port of Chal-
mette, La, was laid before the cabinet
by the president. While the report is
incomplete it developed that the con-
clusion was reached by the president
from what he had seen of it that there
is not sufficient evidence to show past
or present violation of neutrality and
consequently there is no warrant for
intervention. Colonel Crowder will
make some additions to his report dur
ing the afternoon and later will go
over the matter very thoroughly with
the president and the attorney general.
In addition to Colonel Crowder's re-
port the cabinet disposed of a number
of departmental matters.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-04-24
WOOD PARDoNs REEVES.
One OF the Cuban Postoffice Conspira-
tors Set at Libertv

One OF the Cuban Postotfice Conspira-
tors Set at Liberty.
Havana, April Ex-Governor General
Wood has issued an order pardoning
w. H. Reeves, who was recently SEN
fenced to 10 years Imprisonment and
to pay fine of $685. for completely
In the Cuban postal frauds. Reeves
was liberated at once.
General Wood says he pardoned
Reeves because he was a witness for
the state. The order pardoning him
did not come as a surprise, for it has
been generally understood ever since
Estes G. Rathbone was first accused
of connection with the postal frauds
that Reeves had been promised i'm
munity by the military government.
This had been denied, as well as the
fact that the government had been u.s.
ing Reeves as witness for the state.
The matter was referred to by counsel
for Rathbone in summing up their
clients case. Rathbone's lawyers de-
clared that this promise of immunity
had Influenced Reeves to make
statements against Rathbone.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-04-24
CITY OF PITTsBURG FIRE.
Fifty-one Are Known to Be Dead and
Twenty Missinu,

Cairo, Ills, April 23.-The insurance
men, wrecking crew and others have
been investigating the ruins of the
burned steamer City of Pittsburg, but
owing to the heated condition of the
hull nothing special has developed and
very little has been done towards re-
covering bodies from the river. -
At the end of the third day those on
beard the steamer report that 80 are
known to be saved, 81 are known to
be lost. and over 20 are missing. 1t
Is believed that the death list will go
as high as 70. Word has been sent
mere for special efforts to find the
bodies OF L. L. Hunter and L. B. Ma
gill, both of Tidoute,' Pa. The former
leaves wife and four children and
the latter. a wife and two children.
Both have large interests in the South
as we'll as in Pennsylvania. Very
many kilograms have been received
concerning other victims, making in
qulries as to the recovery of bodies.
Quite number of people have arrived
in search of the remains Of their
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-04-24
IMPORTANT CONFERENCE.
Republican Senators Discuss Cuban
Reciprocity.

Washington, April 23-The question
of Cuban reciprocity formed the sub
ject of an important preliminary con-
ference on the part of majority of, the
Republican senators. The meeting
was called largely as the result of a
general exchange of ideas on the floor
OF the senate. In the main the sena
tors invited to participate were those
friendly to reciprocity legislation, but
some of the opposition Republican
members were present. d.
The result of the meeting may be
summed up as follows: There will be
an early meeting of the senate commit
tee on relations with Cuba to take up
the question on the basis of the house
bill, which is before the committee;
the Republican members of the COM
mittee will act together in formulating
a substitute for the house bill, and
none of them is to cooperate with the
Democratic members of the commit
tee; the bill thus agreed upon by the
Republican members is to be submit
ted to a Republican caucus of the SEN
ate and made party measure,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-04-24
LARGEST EVER AUTHORIZED.
Two MISUNDERSTANDING Decided on
by House Naval Committee.

by House Naval Committee.
, Washington, April 23.-The house
committee on naval affairs has COM
pleted the naval appropriation bill.
The most important item, as to new
ships, was left until the last and was
finally determined upon as follows:
Two battleships of about $4,000 tons
displacement, to cost exclusive of ar
NOR and armament, $4,212,OOO each;
two armored cruisers of about 14,5O0
tons displacement each, to cost ex-
elusive of armor and armament, 3d.
$4,000 each; two gunboats of 1000
tons each, to cost $3S2,OOO each.
Provision also is made for building
one of each class of ships on the Pa
cltlc coast, and that no contractor shall
build more than one battleship, cruiser
or gunboat.
The l6,000-ton battleships will be
the largest ever authorized for the
American navy and among the largest
Warships af1oat. The armored cruis-
ers will also be exceptionally large
Tor their class, considerably exceeding
the New York and Brooklyn in TOM
age: The amount carried by the bill
is slightly above $76,000,O0O.
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BIG IRON MINE SOLD.
Third Largest of the Mesabe Rance
Bought by Deering Company.

Duluth, April 2S.-The sale of the
Kinney, Hawkins, Crosby mine, q few
miles west of Hibbing, to the Deering
harvester works of Chicago has been
closed and $525,000 was paid to the
holders of the lease.
o. D. Kinney and Senator E. B.
Hawkins get $1S7,750 each, George HI
Crosby, real estate man of this city,
gets $150,000, and J. H. Pearce, a. min.
ing man, gets $52,5O0.
An option on the property a few
weeks ago was taken by the Eastern
Minnesota road, which was reported at
the mine to be representing the Deer.
ing company. The property is sup.
posed to contain 100000 tons of ore
and is the third largest mine on the
Messabe range.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-04-24
CONFEDERATE VETERANS.
Dallas, Tex, Thronged With Old
Southern Soldiers.

Dallas, Tex, April 23.-With the
Confederate reunion officially IL hours
old, it is estimated that there are
1880 visitors in Dallas. From morn
ing till late at night the streets were
thronged, and it is said by those in a
position to base close calculations that
there were $4,000 visitors in the camp
at the fair grounds alone. An addi-
tional influx of visitors is expected,
the attraction being the Kaliph's pa
rade. An immense crowd was present
at the ball given at the camp by the
Sons of Veterans.
Thousands of people lined the
streets during the afternoon and were
appreciative witnesses of the arrival
of Mustpha Ben Solim, the kaliph, d.
rect from Bagdad.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-04-24
CAPTURE OF BocAs DEL ToRo.
Liberals Take the Town From the
Colombian Troops.

Mobile, Ala, April 23.-The surren-
der of Bocas del Toro on April II has
been reported by cable. The fruit
steamers Hispania and Mount Vernon
bring news of the battle and also of the
unsuccessful effort to secure the re-
turn OF the American launches seized
by the Liberals.
The excitement the day before in
Bocas was intense, upon receipt of
the report that Liberals were march
ing upon the city in overwhelming
numbers. The American residents
were greatly alarmed and appealed to
the commander of the United States
gunboat Machias for protection. The
women and children were speedily
taken aboard the gunboat, but the men
preferred to remain and look after
their places of business.
At daybreak, the battle began with
the Liberals and for hours it ragged
without any signs of weakening. The
smoke could be seen from the deck of
the Mount Vernon and the rattle of
the musketry, even the cries of those
VINO were wounded we're heard. After
that the fire became scattering and the
conservatives were, in retreat. Before
the Mount Vernon left the battle was
over and but an occasional shot was
heard.
Liberals Attacked unexpectedly.
An incident that fastened the at
tack on Bocas was the attempt of the
Machias to recover the launches which
the Liberals had taken from the United
Fruit company. The Machias did not
get the launches. The Liberals were
on an island near the lagoon and re-
ceived the demand of the Machias with
great courtesy, but set forth that the
Liberal army was in desperate state,
located on the island and unable to es-
cape if the launches were given back.
The Conservatives would pounce upon
them, and not man would be left
alive. The request was made that the
launches might be returned to the
owner the next morning. 1t is said
that the commander of the Machias
consented. The Liberals embarked on
two flat boats towed by the launches,
but instead of moving away they de-
scended Immediately upon Bocas. It
is believed that the demand for the
launches caused the Liberals to at
tack Bocas sooner than was planned.
So far as known, the launches have
not yet been returned.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-04-24
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK EXCHANGE
ALLEGES UNJUST DIS
=: CRIMINATION.
FORMAL CHARGES, FILED
Attention Of the Interstate Commerce
Commission is Called to the Alleged
Unreasonable Tariffs on Live Stock
From the West by Twenty-six- Rail.
roads as Compared With Rates on
i've Stock Products.
Live Stock Products.

Chicago, April 23.-Formal com.
plant has been made by the Chicago
Live Stock Exchange charging the &c
railroads composing the Western
Trunk Line committee with making
unjust and discriminating rates on live
stock shipped from Iowa, Minnesota,
Missouri and Wisconsin to Chicago. "
The document has been filed with
the interstate commerce commission
and is signed by T. w. Tomlinson, Sec
rotary of the exchange. The commits
sion has sent copies of the complaint
to the traffic officials of the lines inter.
ested demanding answers under oath
to the questions asked. The answer
in nearly every case is essentially the
same and denies the allegations.
Summarized, the charges are that
the roads mentioned are making rates
on live stock to Chicago which are un.
reasonable and unjust when compared
with the rates published on live stock
products.
These rates, it is claimed, are in
violation of the Interstate commerce
act, which prohibits rate discrimina-
ton. 1t is further charged that the
rates complained of operate to the
Disadvantage and Prejudice
Of the live stock raisers in the states
named, when transporting from Kan
sas City, South st. Joseph, South Oma-
ha, Sioux City, South st. Paul and
other points to Chicago. Lastly, it is
charged that the rates now in force
initiate against the Chicago Live
Stock Exchange and against Chicago
as market for live stock. The prin-
cipal contended for by the Live Stock
Exchange, according to traffic Off
Gals, would become impossible of car
rying out if applied to the entire coun-
try. 1t is claimed by the exchange
that live stock coming to Chicago
should bear the same rate as the Chi
cago proportion of the through rate
on live stock destined for the seaboard.
For example, the rate on live stock
for Chicago from Missouri river points
is 231s cents. The proportion of the
through rate taken by Chicago roads
on live stock destined from Missouri
river points to the seaboard is 1872
cents. If the rates were made the same
it would mean that all through rates
would have to be combinations of the
local rates, and under such a regime
the seaboard rates would be prohibited
to all the country west of the Missouri
river.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-04-24
TELEGRAPHlC BREVITlES.

J. W. Murdoch, one of the most
prominent sporting men of the West
died at Clarkson hospital, Omaha, OF
paresis.
NJ. Vannovsky, the Russian minister
of education, has resigned his post be-
cause the car refused to sanction his
bill for the reform of the intermediate
schools.
The Rev. c. B. H. Martin, a promi.
nent Presbyterian minister and pro.
fessor of church history in the Louis.
vile Theological seminary, is dead,
aged Is.
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COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT SOL.
DIERS DEFEAT GENERAL
. -
uRIBE-URIBE.
BOCAS DEL TORO TAKEN
Details Have Just Been Received OF
the Capture of the Town by the
Liberal Forces-Gunboat Machias
Fails to Secure the Release of the
United. Fruit Company's Steam
Launches.

Washington, April 23.-The state de-
partment has received information by
cable to the effect that General Tribe
uribe, the insurreetionary leader, has
been completely overwhelmed by the
government troops at place called
Medina, and has been compelled to
beat retreat to Venezuelan territory.
1t is believed in Bogota that the war
is now practically over.
Colon, Colombia, April 23.-Three
hundred government troops, to rein
force the present garrison at Colon,
nave arrived here from Panama.
NO further news of conditions at b.
cas- del Toro has reached here. The
German steamer Hercynia, which left
here for Bocas two days ago with gov
eminent reinforcements on board, has
not yet returned.
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A FOUL oLlGARcHY.
Senator RawIins Discusses Results CT
the Philippine Bill.

0CudtOF ndWlI7S discusses Results CT
the Philippine Bill.
Washington, April 23-Formal dis
cussion of the bill temporarily to pro-
vide government for the Philippine
islands was begun in the senate, Mr..
Rawlins of Utah, the leading minority
member of the Philippine committee,
opening the debate. He denounced the
bill as an unwarranted imposition on
the Filipinos, declaring that it would
establish one of the foulest oligar-
chies in the history of the world. He
maintained that the Philippine COM
mission was given too great power
by the bill and asserted that under it's
provisions the islands would be ex-
plotted for private gain. While he
was speaking two efforts were made to
maintain a quorum, the second re-
sulting in lively tilt among several
senators, Mr.. Scott wv. Va.) intimat-
ing that argument could not influence
any senator.
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FIGHTING STILL CONTINUES.
Several Engagements Took Place In
South Africa Sunday.

London, April ga casualty list
made public here shows that the fight
ing in South Africa has not ceased.
Last Sunday two British officers were
killed near Ficksburg, in the south
eastern part of the Orange River Col
ony. One of the officers killed was
Captain Sir Thomas Fowler, the only
son of the late lord mayor of London.
Four men were killed and officers
and IA men wounded in an engagement
which took place in the eastern part
of the Transvaal. These losses were
also sustained last Sunday.
General Bruce Hamilton has con-
cluded another big drive in which sew
en- columns were engaged over a great
area of territory. The result of the
drive is not yet known.
Lord Miner, the British high COM
missioner in South Africa, is returning
to Cape Town. He has been in confer
ence with the Boer delegates at Pre-
'tOria.
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Tieup Continues Complete.

San Francisco, April 23.-The tieur
OF the street car system continues to
be complete, only the mail cars being
in operation. The United Railroads
company announced that it would at.
tempt to operate cars in some sections
OF the city and non-llnion men took
Two cars out of the Fillmore street
barns. They had not proceeded far,
however, before strikers, by peaceful
methods induced them to abandon the
cars. The strikers are ugly.
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Given a Fourteen-Year Term.

Carbondale, Ills, April 23.-Robert
Hadfeld was convicted in the Jackson
county circuit court, and given a H.
year sentence in the penitentiary for
the killing of James Jourgan, on board
the Alschuler special train during the
campaign for governor in 1900. Had
field, although only % years old, has
been tried for murder before. A SEN
sational feature of the present trial
was the testimony of Lem Shadowens,
who claimed to have done the killing
instead of Hadfeld
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-04-24
Utah Man for Eovptian Judoe.

Salt Lake, Utah, April 23.-William
G.. Van Horne, an attorney of Salt
Lake, has been appointed Judge of the
court of first instance at Cairo, Egypt,
according to The Telegram. The posi-
ton is life one. The court of first
instance is an international body,
maintained by the various maritime
governments, and passes upon ques.
tions arising out of the Suez canal
traffic and kindred matters.
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Iowa Temperance Worker Dead.

st. Joseph, Mo-, April 23-Relatives
in this city have received notice of the
death in Los Angeles, CAL, of State
Senator T. E. Clark of Clarinda, Ia.
Senator Clark was prominent in TEN
perance work in the United States
and had much to do with the first cru
SADIE in Iowa which drove out open sa-
looms through the enactment of the
prohibitory law. Quick consumption
caused his death.
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New CHICAGO Steel Mill,

Chicago, April 23.-Plans have been
made by the South Chicago Furnace
company for the erection of a steel
mill TO cost $2,000,000. The new mill
will be one of the best equipped of
its kind in the country and will give
employment to 1900 men. The out
put will be largely steel for the manu-
facture of agricultural implements.
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Arabian Rebellion Renewed,

London, April 23.-Cabling from
Constantiuople, the correspondent of
The Daily Chronicle says a renewal
of rebellion is reported from Yemen,
in the southwestern part of Arabia,
and that Marshal Abdullah's energies
are taxed to the utmost.
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Postmaster Short in His Accounts,

Ogden, Utah, April 23.-Charles
Meighan, postmaster of Ogden, has
been declared by postoft1ce inspectors
to be short in his accounts in the
amount of $780,. His bondsmen are
in charge of the Office.
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Mexican War Veteran Dead,

New York, April 23.-General Egg
bert L. Viele died suddenly at his home
in this city, aged rs years. General
Viele was graduated from West Point
in 1S47, served in the Mexican wal
and resigned from the army in 1850
General Viele served in the Civil wal
and was made brigadier general OF
volunteers in 1861. He was a member
of congress from 1885 to 1887.
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Chicago Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, April 22.-Wheat-ApriI,
74skc; May, 745sc; July, 75% @75%c;
Sept, 75kc; Dec, 76A @76%c. Corn
April, 62Ac; May, 62Ac; July, 63A
@63%c; Sept, 62Ac; Dec, 4S%c.
Oats-April, 43c; May, 43Ac; July,
35% @36c; Sept, 315s@31%c; Dec,
&c. Pork-April, $16.45; May, $16.45;
July, $16.67k; Sept, $16.75. Flax
Cash, Northwestern, $1.79; Southwest
ern, $1.6s; May, $1.69; Sept, $1.3s;
0 e9a Sl;s4: Bu ut@ec 2s@'
Poultry Chickens. 10kc; turkeys. 10
012hc.
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Chicago Union Stock Yards.

Chicago, April 22.-Cattle-Good to
prime steers, $6.S0@7.05; poor to me-
dunn, $4.00@6.40; stockers and feed
ers, $2.50@5.00; cows and heifers,
$1.4O@6.25; Texas steers, $5.25@6.25.
Hogs-Mixed and butchers, $6.75@
ITO; good to choice heavy, $7.10@
7.15; rough heavy, $6.8O@700; light,
$6.60@6.90; bulk of sales, $6.80@710.
Sheep-Good to choice, $5.5O@6.20;'
lambs, $4.75@6.60.