The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-05-07
NEWS OF A WEEK.
APRIL 20.


Fire at Chattanooga. Tenn, burns over
twenty acres, causing lose of $3.50. 600.
The British ship Lansdown. which sailed
from Japan 1919 days ago for New York.
with crew of fifty-f five men, is given up
as lost.
''Old Hutch' meets with financial re-
verses, and it is believed that his mind is
unbalanced.
The annual banquet of the American
Republican Protective Tariff league is held
in Madison Square Garden. New York, and
500 guests were seated at the tables.
APRIL 80.
The jury disagrees in the trial of Plenty
Horse for the murder of Lieut.. Casey.
DR.. Joseph Leidy, the eminent American
physician scientist died in Philadelphia to-
day.
While showing at Tiffin. Ohio. Sells Bros
circus tent is blown down and many persons
are injured.
Henry Nj. Rice, cashier of the Minneap-
oils Flour Manufacturing company, died
suddenly while attending prayer meeting.
The man who was killed by jumping or
falling out of window of the st. Dennis
hotel, St. Paul. is identified as William
Whelan, we'll known logger of Saltwater.
One of the most destructive forest fires
on record is raging in the vicinity of Con-
OvertUwn and Port Republic. n. j. The
fire has burned over 700. 900 acres of timber.
Five thousand Pittsburg carpenters strike
on their demand for an eight hour day be-
ing refused, and this will cause 10, 900 other
workers to be thrown out of work in short
time.
MAY 1.
R;o,oo oIootiop RI tho hot ic COR.
tain.
The Northern Pacific and Great Northern
depOts at AnOka are burned.
M. r. Murnane. abstract clerk on trial in
St.. Paul for embezzling county funds. is
acquitted.
May Day is very generally observed by
the labOring classes throughout Europe and
the United States.
The steamer Brumburlie. bound from
Glasgow to Bombay. has foundered in the
Irish channel, and the captain and two stew
ards are drowned.
Messrs. E. Haggard Wells, A. B. Schanz
and Frank Price, members of the Arkell-
Harrison Alaskan exploration expedition
who were supposed to have been lost, re-
turn after enduring many hardships.
MAY 2.
AL QudIIy ulcu III tuC Nv. OlOuu QuoA-
rieS 20 out on strike.
The presidential party is visiting the
coast cities of California.
The Negroes and Cherokee Indians are at
war in the Indian Territory.
Armies of caterpiIars obstruct trains on
the railroads near Charlotte, N. c.
The Diamond 10 line steamer Pittsburg.
is the first boat up to st. Paul.
A. 81. Spury's stock barn, near Willmar,
Mimi, and nine horses burned too day.
Englands naval exhibition opened on the
Chelsea embankment to-day with imposing
ceremonies.
The town of Lyle, twelve miles south Of
Austin, Mimi. has 100000 fire. Every
business house in the place is burned.
MAY 8.
Hundreds of buildings in Paducah, KY,
are damaged by hurricane.
Destructive forest fires have been raging
along the line of the Philadelphia & Erie
railroad in Pennsylvania for several days.
1t is rumored that Justices Field and
Brady. of the United States supreme court.
will soon request to be placed upon the re-
tired list.
France is being disturbed by serious labor
troubles; the soldiers fired on a body Of
working people at FOurmies killing eight
men, six women and several children. and
wounding many.
MAY 4.
Frost in all parts of the state the past
three nights.
Chas. Pratt, vice. president OF the Stand
ard Oil company, died to-day of heart dis
ease.
The house of James Cole was burned in
Prince Georges county, Md, and his five
children perish in the flames.
At Troy, N. Y, seven large ngines in
the Breaker island blast furnace are de-
stroyed by the burning of the engine house.
Loss $3.50 900.
MAY 5.
Snow in New York and ice in Minnesota.
A beggar having $134.4O in his pockets
is arrested in Minneapolis.
The New Orleans grand jury reports no
indictments against the lynchers of the Ital-
ianS.
Geo. Boyd is ousted and Mr.. Thayer is
declared governor of Nebraska by the state
supreme court.