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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-10
THE LABOR QUESTION.

JANUARY.
l. Agreement reached between the Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy railroad and its striking
men.
Is. Street railroads tied up in Brooklyn, N. Y.
g. Street railroads tied up in New York.
FEBRUARY.
8. Street car tie up in New York declared off;
Brooklyn street car tie up ended next day.
10. French working men presented their griev-
anceS to the government.
MARCH.
II. G,oo weavers went on strike in Fall River,
q. Fall River strike declared OF.
APRIL
1. 1900 carpenters struck in St. Louis.
10. Street railroad tie up in Minneapolis.
MAY.
8. 10000 miners on strike in Westphalia.
IL. Rioting strikers ut Schleswig fired upon by
troops and 6persons killed. One hundred
thousand miners out,
II. Historic interview between Emperor William
and striking miners, wherein the emperor
says he will himself order soldiers to shoot
disorderly strikers
16. Emperor William spoke to mine owners and a
basis of settlement was reached.
q. Troops ordered to dispense striking miners
who have long been out at Braidwood, Ills.
JUNE.
20. Sixteen Pittsburg iron firms sign scale pro.
posed by the Amalgamated association.
AUGUST.
IS. London dock strikers numbered 10000 and
strike spread to other cities.
SEPTEMBER.
8. Liverpool dockmen joined in London lockers
strike.
L. A London decker was killed by police while he
was obstructing workingmen.
2. London dock companies agreed to pay ad-
vance demanded; the new rate to begin in
January, providing tho men resumed work
ut once; the men refused.
Z. Conference between dock directors and Cardi-
nal Manning.
1a. Agreement effected between the lockers and
the masters, London.
10. Most Of tho London strikers resumed work.
%. Stevedores Of the East India docks, London
struck for the second time.
q. Dock lnborers struck at Rotterdam.
OCTOBER
2. Rotterdam strike ended.
NOVEMBER
8. Demands Of coal miners in Scotland granted.
10. Bakers Of London boycotted the master
bakers.
q. $500 dockmen and lightermen on strike at Bris.
tol, England. (Settled the 29th.)
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-10
nlent troops, and a baseball player viii
pitched a grenades filed with dyna-
mite amonp the inSDrpents ~

ment troops, and a baseball player VIII,
pitched hand grcnades filed with dyna-
mite among the insurgents.
AUGUST.
10. The senate court found Boulanger, Henri
Rochefort and Count Dillon guilty of con-
spiracy and sentenced them to be deported
to some fortified place.
%. Ex-King Malietoa reported returned to Samoa.
q Legitime left Hayti, having accepted Hyppo-
lite's terms.
Revenue cutter Rush seized two sealers in the
Behring sea. % q
%. Split between the Parnelites and Radicals
caused by the government Irish university
scheme.
4. DR.. Peters recalled from Africa by the German
government He refused to obey the sum-
mons.
16. Malietoa returned to power in Samoa. Ger
man support withdrawn from Tamasese. ~
10. News of Navassa riots received. The Galena
of the United States navy ordered to protect
American lives and property on the island.
p French elections resulted in favor Of the Re-
publicans, but several new elections were
declared necessary. L
OCTOBER 20"
l. Reballots in France confirmed Republican VIC
tories.
q. Princess Sophie, Of Prussia, and the crown
prince of Greece, Constantine. married at
q. Marriage of Prince Hatzfeldt to Miss Clara
Huntington. -
NOVEMBER.
6. News Of the massacre of DR.. Peters and most
of his African exploring party received.
Close of the Paris exposition.
8. Prince Albert Victor arrived in India. Dr.
Is. Revolution in Brazil; a republic succeeded the
emperor and Dom Pedro sailed for Portugal
The Anti-slaveryc conference began its sessions
in Brussels. ~
70. Capt. Wissman sent word that Stanley arrived
at Mpwawa, $50 miles inland. Nov. 10.
%. Draft of an Irish bill submitted to a committee
of the English cabinet by Baffour and Lord
Ashburne.
DECEMBER.
8 The president of Nicaragua signed treaty of
union between the Central American repub-
lies; Costa RIGA alone remains lin the cold"
4 Henry NJ. Stanley and Emin Pasha arrived at
Bagamoyo on the East African coast.
& Emin Pasha fell from a window at Bagamoyo
and received serious injuries.
6. Henry NJ. Stanley arrived at Zanzibar.
2. Dom Pedro reached Lisbon.
400 employees Of the Louvre ill with fever; the
influenza epidemic spreads from St. Peters
burg to Berlin, Vienna and London.
10. Louis Ruchonnett elected president of Swift
zerland.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-10
SPORTING MATTERS OF NOTE,

MARCH.
50. Cambridge won the boat race with Oxford.
APRIL
s. The All-Anlerican Baseball players welcomed
in New York from their trip round the
world by a banquet at Delmonico's.
!. Lord Dunraven's yacht Valkyrie launched.
ID. Spokane outran Proctor Knott at Louisville.
JUNE.
8. Duke Of Portland's s-year-old Donovan won
the Derby.
% Harvard defeated by Yale in a boat race at
8. Sullivan defeated Kilrain at Richburg, Miss,
in a seventy1ive round fight.
16. John Fitzpatrick, referee in the Sullivan-Kl-
rain fight, surrendered to the authorities;
Rich, owner Of the place where the fight
took place, arrested; steps taken to forfeit
the charter Of the New Orleans and North.
eastern railroad.
AUGUST.
II. John L. Sullivan sentenced to twelve months.
imprisonment at Purvis, Miss, for prize
fighting; later his case was appealed and
this acted as q stay Of sentence.
SEPTEMBER.
y. OConnor, the oarsman, defeated by Searle on
Thames river, Eng, in a sculing match for
the worlds championship.
Is. w. G. Campbell swan the Niagara rapids in a
cork jacket.
q. Nelson won the $1O,O 900 trotting match for stall.
lions in Boston.
OCTOBER.
s. New York baseball team won the League
championship.
II. Axtell beat oil 3-year-old records at Terre
Haute, Ind, by t~rotting a mile in 2:12.
g. New York baseball club won the Worlds
championship.
NOVEMBER.
8. Sunol, Mr.. Stanfords 3year-old colt, trotted a
mile in 2:10H, breaking the three year rec
ord.
II. Robert Bonner bought Sunol.
"a Yale defeated Harvard at football at Spring.
field, Mass, by a score of 6 too.
%. Princeton defeated Yale at football in New
York, winning the championship.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-10
POLITICS IN THE UNITED STATES.

2. Congress reconvened after the HOLIDAYS,
IL. West Virginia supreme court quaShed a mo-
ton to prevent the legislature from declar-
ing O vote that elects Golf, Republican, on
the face of the returns.
Deadlock broken in house, MIR. Weaver having
made an agreement with the Democrats.
Is E. o. Wolcott elected to the United States SEN
ate by the legislature of Colorado; Anthony
Higgins by that Of Delaware, and Senators
Hoar, Of Massachusetts, and Frye, of Maine,
reelected.
10. Senator Henderson, of Nebraska, reelected.
q. Senators Mcpherson, of New Jersey, Cullom,
of Illinois, Ransom, of North Carolina, and
Coke, Of Texas, reelected.
In the senate the substitute for the Mills bill
passed by q party vote.
%. W.. D.. Washburn elected to United States SEN
ate by the Minnesota legislatures; Senators
Plumb, of Kansas, and Dolph, of Oregon, re-
elected to the United States senate.
90. Senator Berry reelected from Arkansas.
FEBRUARY.
/. British extradition treaty rejected by the SEN
Z. Consul General Sewell at Samoa dismissed.
8. President Cleveland unlimited to congress
Bismarck's proposal to renew the Samoan
conference and the protocols in the case.
o. Civil Service Commissioner A. P. Edgerton re-
moved by President Cleveland.
10. Harrison and Morton officially declared elected
president and vice president of the United
States.
a. House voted to eliminate New Mexico from
the territorial bill and to admit the two Da-
kotas, Washington and Montana.
Is Gilman Marston appointed United States SEN
ator from New Hampshire.
20. Commercial treaty between Japan and the
United States signed.
Fl. Senator Kenna reelected from West Virginia.
@ President Cleveland approved the bill creating
four new states.
MARCH.
4 President Harrison inaugurated.
IL. 7. W.. Palmer, Of Michigan, named United
States minister to Spain; J. F. Swift to
Japan; ID. Washburn, consul general to
Switzerland. r..
~. West Virginia supreme court decided that the
failure of the legislature to declare result of
late election rendered Office vacant and en-
titled Governor Wilson to the place till the
result be legally declared.
Prohibition defeated in New Hampshire.
Ex-Governor Porter, Of Indiana, appointed
United States minister to Italy; J. A. Enan-
der, of Illinois, minister to Denmark; A. G.
Mellette, governor Of Dakota.
ID Louis Wolaey made governor Of Arizona.
J.. s. Clarkson made first assistant postmaster
general.
J. A. Kasson, W. W. Phelps and George H.
Bates nominated commissioners to the Sa-
moan conference at Berlin.
16 Senator Chace Of Rhode Island resigned.
10. W. w. Thomas, Jr, Of Maine, namedf for min.
lister to Norway and Sweden; Samuel r.
Thayer. Of Minnesota, minister to the Meth
erlands; Charles E. Mitchell, Of Connecticut,
commissioner of patents, and ]. W. Mason,
of West Virginia, commissioner Of internal
revenue.
10. Whitelaw Reid nominated United States min
lister to France; Julius Goldsmith, of Wiscon-
sin. consul to Vienna. Nomination of Ed
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-17
A Trial BY jury.

A Hebrew was arrested in Houston.
Texas. some time ago and placed on trial
for murder. He had killed man in row.
but as the victim was mo good" nobody
seemed to care much about the mat
ter. The Hebrew, however, was fright
ened to death, especially as three fOurths of
the jury were IriShmen. The accused was
merchant-yOu know the Hebrews con-
troll about all the mercantile trade in the
SOuthwest-and there was but one of his
race on the jury. He was a man named
Cohen. don't care to mention the &C.
cused's name. as he is now most respected
and one of the wealthiest citizens of st.
John, AriZ. Although on trial for murder
the prisoner was admitted to bail and man
aged to get an interview with Cohen, in
which he said to him: DE choory, Chake,
vas all Irish; dey will hang me sure. Here
vas dwenty-fife hundert dollars-be sure
you stand out for manslaughter Und if
you get dot ferdict for manslaugter dere vas
dwenty- fife hundert dollars more for you
down at de store" The trial came on; it
lasted but one day, but the jury was out all
night. In the morning they rendered
verdict of manslaughter, and Cohen, arm
in arm with the prisoner marched to the lat
terS store. There he received the other
$4,000 promised him. Nov dell me, said
the accused, who was promptly let off with
fine, chow did dot choory stand?"
''Vell," replied Cohen, as he folded up the
bills and carefully tucked them away,
''dere vas on de furSt vote elefen for &C
quittal, but l insisted on manslaughter and
brought them around to vote my way about
4 o'clock in the morning. "-ChicagO Sat-
urday Blade.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-17
GEN. FREMONT DEAD.

General John c. Fremont died Sunday
afternoon at his residence in New York
city. His death was unexpected and re-
suited from an attack of peritonitis.
Gen. Fremont was born January 10,
1918, at Savannah, Ga, his father being a
French immigrant. He was graduated at
Charleston college. taught mathematics,
became an engineer in the government en-
ploy IN the West. received commission as
lieutenant of engineers. explored the Rocky
mountain region and gained great fame by
his successful penetration to the Pacific
coast through almost incredible hardships.
He took prominent part in the conquest
OF California, was elected as one of the
flrst United States senators from that
state C1S49-5D was the first Republican
candidate for president. in 1856, served in
the Union army as a major-general 1851
62); was nominated for the presidency by
the Cleveland convention in 1864, but de-
clined the nomination, and has not since
taken an active part in politics though he
was appointed governor of Arizona in 1878.
OF late years he has been engaged in pro.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-17
For The Mirror.
DriftwOOd.

Be very cautious in making your prom
Uses.
The flower that follows the sun does so
even in the dark.
Hate not the person, but the principle of
evil within him.
Individual effort is what accomplishes
the great Things in this world.
The sunshine of life is made up of very
little beams that are bright all the time.
God is above all. and moreover, it is His
special prerogative to bring good out of evil.
A single man who has health and brain,
and can't find livelihood in the world,
doesn't deserve to stay there.
Even the kindliest souls find it not easy
to show tenderness toward the hard, for
bearance toward the unfOrbearng, warmth
of heart toward the cold, and charity to-
wards the unchartable.
am worse than L thought was, but no
worse than He knew me to be, when He
undertook my case. Had He thought me
incurable He would have let me alone.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-17

Some one has said something that sounds
like reflection upon his immaculate integ-
rity. Up he jumps, strikes himself on his
protruded bosom. and with quick faltering
accents. defies any man. woman OF child on
Gods earth to come forward and say that
he had ever wronged human being by
word or deed, in character or pocket. His
whole frame quivers with agitation, and one
not acquainted with that phase of human
nature would be led to say. "Oh. but that
is conscientious man." But anyone who
knows human nature will say to himself,
"Canting hypocrite." No sensible person
ever trusts man of that kind.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-17

In the current number of Open Doors we
have the following given as characteristics
of the criminal class: '"Thelr purposes
change every moment; they have no plans.
Their eyes wander; their grasp is not firm;
their pull is feeble: their actual strength,
measure for measure, is less than that of
ordinary men and women, although some
desperate effort excites their utmost force,
and they do an act of terrific violence. But
that is all they can do. Persistent. steady
exercise of force is impossible to them.
They can neither work, nor fight. nor
think, nor pursue physical or mental labor
for any period. Their endurance is nil.
They have no stability"
II. however. by the terminal class" a
distinct part of the population, separated
from the respectable part by hard and
fast line is meant, the term is misleading.
The criminal class, as found in our prisons,
is really representative of all classes of the
community; and though the characteristics
quoted may apply to individuals, no prison
chaplain or thief retainer would accept
them as applicable to their constituents in
general. When thief chooses to become
honest and industrious he becomes very
much like other people. so much so that at
times employers little suspect the ante
cedentsof those they have under them
Selected.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-17
A VALUED ENDORSEMENT.

That wisdom, genius. and many of the
most sublime attributes are mixed in with
the conglOmerate of passion and viciousness
in human character. is truth little known
But few publications are doing better serv-
ice in bringing it to the attention of the
thinking world than the little journal edited
and printed by the convicts of Minnesota
state prison at Saltwater, THE PRISON MIR
ROR. 1t abounds with philosophy which
shows alike the defects of society and the
defects of the individual. That men with
the tenderest emotions and the most exalted
ideas of the object of our earthly existence
have to be, or, at least, are incarcerated
like dangerous beasts, should be a burning
light in the mind of every one to show him
the law and teach him to observe it. Yea,
more, since many innocent ones are con-
victed, to teach him to so conduct himself
as to be above suspicion, lest he be wrong
fully apprehended. THE PRISON MIRROR
is to-day the best publication for boys in the
country, because it's lessons on virtue here
comes to him impressed with the certain
punishment of wrong doing. Northwest
ern Odd Fellow Review.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-17

The wreck of the Sea Wing on Lake
Pepin Sunday night was one of the most
fatal disasters that ever occurred in the state,
and one of the saddest, for nearly all the
lost were women and children. There were
, about IT'S persons on the boat and it is
believed that one-half were lost. Nearly all
the excursionists were Red Wing people, and
that city is now in mourning. The storm
caused other deaths than those on Lake
Pepin. At Lake Jarvis near St. Paul
seven persons were killed and twenty-six
badly injured.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-17

1t is said that an effort will soon be made
to establish binding Irvine factory in the
penitentiary at Sioux Falls, S. OAK. We
believe that should these experiments in
Irvine making prove successful the states
would soon be compelled to abandon them
by the demand of private capital which
would be invested in like industries in the
states. We have heard it said that parties
in this state already contemplate starting a
Irvine factory and if they should do so. and
the state should start it's factory you would
hear fearful howl about convict labor
competition.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-17

about to be undertaken at this reformatOry
by the command of a new state law. Only
those persons who have been convicted of
felony. who are over twenty years old, are
to be measured. None of the measurements
will ever be made public or in any way ex-
posed to view, except for the purposes of
Identification. The system has valuable
protective features as we'll as detective feat
ures. Every innocent man has sure pro-
lection under the Bertillon system. There
can be no case of suffering under mistaken
Identification. The law especially forbids
giving the information to the police. Trav-
elers use the system for their protection in
foreign lands.--Our Paper Warnerville,
Mass.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-17
TO THE PUBLIC.

THE PRISON MIRROR is a weekly paper pub
lished in the Minnesota state prison. All matter
published in its columns is contributed by the
inmates. except that properly credited. Its sup
port must come from the outside as every inmate
is given paper without cost. 1t is published in
the interest Of the prison library and after paying
for the printing outfit. contributed $3.50 to the
library fund the first year. Its objects are to en-
courage individual intellectual effort, provide q
healthy journal for the inmates Of this and other
PRISONS and. above all. to acquaint the outside
world with the needs of the prison by rejecting
its inner life and thus aid the of moral adj
vancement and prison reform.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-17

him in the penitentiary. at least makes him
OF no use to his respectable allies; there
fore. of no use to his semi-criminal assOci-
ates; therefore. surprised, miserable, and
vindictive failure.-The Century Magazine.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-17

The governor of the jail at Canterbury,
Eng, says that of the %. 900 prisoners who
have passed through his hands he has not
discovered one teetOtaler.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-17
EDUCATE.

Inc Time is coming, though it may be a
long way off, when every penal institution,
whether for old or young criminals, will
have it's educational department., and no
man or boy will be released from such insti-
buttons until he has received practical edu-
cation. There are already many penal in
situations where young men are forced to
acquire practical education and these in
situations are only the first experiments by
which the public is to decide whether the
plan will pay. The experiments are prov
ing themselves successful beyond what was
expected. and if the system is not extended
to all institutions of the kind it will be be-
cause the public is blind to it's own best in
terests. If the public could see how small
is the proportion of educated men in every
hundred prisoners as compared to the edu-
Gated of like number outside of prison the
public would realize at once the power of
education to lift men above the commission
Of crime. The mental training most needed
to enable men to make an honorable success
of life is not grinding of the multipllca-
ton table and the rules of spelling into the
mind. but thorough knowledge of the sci
ence of economics. The cause that places
many men in prison is, they are deluded
into believing that disObedience to the
laws of society is shorter road to success.
Let the reasoning power and the will
power be cultivated so that men may see
the right and resist the wrong. The best
known plan for accomplishing this end is
that practiced at the Elmira reformatory in
n. Y. There, all the mental and physical
powers OF men are developed to the fullest
extent possible, and the result is that very
few of the men discharged from that insti-
tuition are ever found in prison again. The
Watertown IN. W Times commenting on
this system says:
How much better this is than the system
OF sentences for definite time under the idea
only OF punishment and with no stimulus
for reform. Beside this system of the FL
mira RefOrmatOry how backward and inef-
ficient appears the system of sending man
to jail for certain number of days for
mlsdemeanOr, only to return to plague the
community more than before. Why should
not this reformatory system be applied to
all the penal institutions of the state? Why
are old ways in operation when this new
way, based on the highest philosophy and
which has proved itself by turning IS per
cent OF those committed to it from lives of
sin to lives OF responsibility, has demon
strated that it is the right way and the old
way built upon the idea of punishment is
the wrong way and not worthy this enlight-
ened age? 1t would appear that the FL
mira RefOrmatOry has solved the prison
problem. Why is not the solution accepted
and the system of sentence without date
and reform instead of degradation made the
rule in the prison system of the state?
A pet doe at the Missouri nanitantia rr
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-17

A pet doe at the Missouri penitentiary
gave birth several days ago to twins. This
is said by those who are up in natural his
tory to be of very rare occurrence. -Ex.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-17

We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in
reality we suffer from self.love.-Landor.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-17

The first and only female convict in the
Bismarck. N. OAK. penitentiary was re-
ceived last week.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-17

noting Southern railroad enterprises His
wife, formerly Jessie Benton, daughter of
the famous Thomas Benton, of Missouri,
survives him.