The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-08-20
NEWS OF A WEEK.
August IL.


James Russell Lowell is dead.
George Jones, editor of the New York Times is
dead.
Fourteen persons are killed by an accident
aboard excursion boat at Cold Springs har-
Dor. NY.
The mayor of Kansas City, Kan. is hanged in
efigy by enraged Taxpayers.
Van Dusen-Harrington Companys Star eleva.
tor at Fifth avenue north and First street. Mime.
apolis, collapsed
Rev. T. B. Wells, a prominent minister of Min
neapolis. dies in Japan
Gov. Northen of georgia signs the bill prohibit.
ing the sale of liquor within three miles of any
church or school, except in incorporated cities.
August Is.
The president has offered the Chinese mission,
to Senator Watson c. Squires OF Washington state.
The richest vein of silver found in Leadville
Co.. for years has been struck within one block of
the main street of that city.
Lee Hammond, who disappeared from Red
Wing about eight years ago with $500 of his EN-
ployers money. has written a letter from southern
Arizona. He left because he had lost the money!
in gambling.
mass meeting was held in st. Paul to discuss
the ACCESSIBILITY of calling an extra session of the
legislature to make additional appropriations for
the Worlds Fair exhibit. The session will be held
if two.thirds of the legislators favor it,
August IA.
Hon. John d. Gamble of South Dakota dies sud.
denly
The funerals of Editor George Jones and James
Russell Lowell take place.
Michael Mahon, farmer living near Slaytop
Mimi. is killed by lightning
One of the heaviest hail storms ever known in
the state occurs in Sherburn and Benton counties.
Mrs. James K. Polk, widow of the tenth presi.
dent of the United States, died at Nashville Tenn
aged IS years.
The state prison inspectors of Tennessee order
the removal of the convicts from the stockade at
the Bricevllle mines. This is owing to the bad con-
dtion of the quarters.
August Is.
wild day in the wheat market Wheat reach.
ed s1.1O in Chicago.
Monroe Nichols has been appointed register of
the general land office at Duluth.
Secretary Rusk witnesses the launching of a
whaleback steamer at West Superior, Wis
Rev. DR.. John Henry Hopkins. the distinguished
Episcopal clergyman. dies at Troy, N Y aged II
years.
Two Aeronauts, Annie Makes, and Johnson lose
their lives by falling, the former at Cincinnati.
Ohio, and the latter at Tacoma Wash
August 49,
The international labor congress opens in Brus.
sells.
Hon. Jerry Simpson refuses to speak at the.
Minnesota state fair.
Matsada Sorakich the noted japanese wrestler
dies in Chicago of consumption.
James Buckingham. aeronaut, is drowned
by falling from his balloon into lake near svra.
cuse, N. Y.
Monroe Evans and his son John are lynched at
Cuilmap Ala. for having shot and wounded a
man last May.
August II.
The Chicago Union Transfer company purchases
the Chicago Belt Line.
Enoch Holmes. an old and prominent business
man OF Minneapolis, died this morning
Returns show that the wheat yield in Minnesota
and the Dakotas exceeds all expectations.
Fourteen persons killed and many others
injured by railroad collision near Berne, Swift.
erland.
Mount Hood near Portland Oregon is Thought
to be in state of eruption, as smoke is seen issu.
ing from the old crater at its summit
At Grand Forks. N. D., Rev. w. D. Currie his
daughter Ruth. and Dora Van Kirk are drowned
while bathing in Red Lake river
August Is.
The eight war vessels which now COMPRISE the
White squadron leave Newport, R. l., for Boston,
Jacksonville. Fla has a 81 COT. 600 fire, and
at Forth Worht, Texas electric light wires cause
$500 600 fire.
President Harrison arrives at Bennington w.
where he will take part in the dedication of the.
soldiers monument.
AT Ashland, Pa. crowd of Hungarians get into
a row at a christening and four of the number
receive fatal injuries.
The orrietors of the Bricevlle Tenn mines
try to prevent the prison inspectors from remov.
ing the convicts from their wretched quarters
severe storm experienced along the Pacific
coast of Mexico Aug. did much damage At San
lose del Cado, in lower California. hundreds were
rendered homeless and two persons killed
The discovery is made in Duluth of the most
brutal case of maltreatment that ever came to
light in the state. An old blind man was found
'ooped In closet inhis son .in.law g house where
ne had lain in filth until his body was mass Of
corruption. He was wealthy at one time, but
~illed large part of his money to his n.snaw,s
children, and it is supposed that an effort was be-.