The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-11-05
NEWS OF A WEEK.
November l.

Policeman John Dahlgren. OF Minneapolis, com.
mits suicide
Carter Harrison becomes sole owner and mana.
ger of the Chicago Times.
The London residence of the prince of Wales is
almost totally destroyed by fire.
H. A. P. Carter, Hawaiian minester to the
United States. dies in New York City.
convict commits suicide on his arrival at the
prison of San Quintin. CAL. on fifteen years sen.
tence
The semi-centennial anniversary of the found.
ing of st. Pauls chapel is celebrated in the Catho-
lie churches of st. Paul.
November 2.
Snow interrupts threshing in North Dakota.
The prospects of a war with Chill are fading
away.
1t is feared that Mrs. Pranell will not survive
the illness caused by the shock of her husbands
death.
The Maverick National bank of Boston is found
to be short of funds to the amount of 81, 900 0OO
Three of the officials, including President Potter,
are under arrest.
Tennessee miners release 1856 convicts working
in the mines at Oliver Springs. This makes about
500 that have been released altogether. The gov.
ernor offers $25 piece for the recapture of the
convicts.
judgment in the suit against insurance associa-
ton is begun in Liverpool The appeal is to compel
the association to prove that she murdered her
husband.
November g.
The money for the Minnesota exhibit at the
Worlds Fair will be raised without difficulty.
The American Steel Barge company is to build
at West Superior the largest dry dock on the
lakes
Timothy Healy. the anti. Parnellte leader is
horsewhipped in Dublin by a nephew of the late
Charles Stewart Parnell for speak ing insultipgly
of Parnelrs widow.
State elections in Massachusetts, New York
New Jersey. Pennsylvania. Maryland. Virginia.
Mississippi, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, South Da.
kota and Michigan. Mckinley, Republican, is
elected governor of Ohio: Boise, Democrat, of
Iowa; Russell. Democrat. of Machusetts; Flower,
Democrat, of New York.
October 20.
The steel cruiser Baltimore is successfully
launched at Baltimore.
At Milwaukee Frank Ives and Eugene Carter
play billiards tor a stake of 81. 900. Ives won
George Winslow. a we'll to.do farmer, is killed
at Mazeppa, Minn.. by the turning over of his
wagon.
Joseph wilke is killed at Mankato, MIMI, BY
being struck On the back by the weight of pile
driver.
There has been terrible earthquake in Nippon,
the principal island of Japan. Several thousands
lives were lost.
1t has been decided to hold national encamp.
regular army soldiers in Chicago during the
Worlds Fair.
October 20.
Rice Lake, Wis. has $4,000 fire.
Lars Knudson, living Kensington, Mimi,
is run over by a wagon load of lumber and is
killed.
More roting in Cork between the Parnell,tes
and McCarthyites. The hospitals are full of the
injured.
The two little children of Jarrard Jensen wan.
der away from their home near Austin Mimi,
and are attacked by wolves the younger one be.
ing killed.
Engineer Chambers and tramp are killed in a
railway collision at the crossing OF the Kansas
City and milwaukee roads at Taopi about 80
miles from Austin. MINI.
The steamer Oliver Bierne burns at Milliken's
Bend. La. and twenty persons lose thier lives
The steamer took fire at night while at the land
ing, the fire started in the cargo of cotton
October 30.
Gustav Winter is suffocated by gas in a we'll
Charles o. Beardsley, Minneapolis motoneer
is run over and killed by his car.
Striking Tennessee miners release over 300 con.
victs from the mines at Bricevlle.
The annual state convention of the Christian
Endeavor socities convenes at Mankato. MINI.
Over 4O, 900 acres of land in Renville. Chippewa,
Swift, Big Stone, and Stevens counties are
thrown open to settlement.
A stone roadway which is thought to have been
built by the Aztecs or Tezcunons many centuries
ago is unearthed at Marseilles. Ill.
October 81.
The loss of life by the recent earthquake in
japan is estimated to be over 10000.
An unknown vessel has sunk in Chesapeake bay
and all on board are supposed to have persisted.
Bishop M. N Gilberts aged mother is killed by
falling from an upper story window Of the bishops
residence in st. Paul.
Erik Anderson Vaugen. of Brown county, s. D.,
is killed at Red Wing. Mimi, by falling between
the coaches Of q passenger train.
The secretary of war has reduced from thirty.
five to thirty years the maximum age at which
recruits will be accepted in the regular army.