The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-03
NEWS OF A WEEK.
November Is.

William ]. Bucknell, young business man. 10
drowned in Fountain Lake at Albert Lea. MINI.
nephew Of James G. Blaine is killed by jump
ing from the window of hospital at Tacoma,
Wash.
Secretary Blaine has promised that he will say
in December whether or not he will be a candidate
for the presidency.
Twenty-Five men are killed and many others in.
jured by a landslide the Northern Pacific at
Canyon station on Green River, Wash.
Another lot of Louisiana State Lottery men are
arrested at New Orleans indictments found
by the United States grand jury Of Sioux Falls.
Nd.
November 26.
Thanksgiving Day.
Yale beats Princeton at foot ball-19 tot
Martin G. Cooney. a brakeman, is killed by the
cars in st. Paul.
Two men drowned by the capsizng of q
yacht at Chicago.
1t is definitely stated that Gen. Lewis A. Grant,
Of Minnesota. will be appointed secretary of war.
A man dies in New York who is supposed to
have known what became of the lost Charlie Ross.
Another great German banking house goes to-
the wall. This time it is the Berlin Banking and
Exchange company.
November a.
France and Russia conclude a definite agree.
ment for exclusively defensive alliance
The child of Banker Beals which was kidnapped
few days ago. has been ransomed for $1,000.
British soldiers hang one of their officers at
Alderehot camp England, but he is resusticated.
Minneapolis people hold immense meeting
| to do honor to the delegates who secured the Re.
publican national convention for that city.
The firm of Field. Lindley Wechers & Co.,
leading bankers and brokers of New York City,
To tha 1vvt 1iahi If RI
At a meeting of the Trades and Labor assembly
held in st. Paul protest entered by the stone
cutters union against the employment of the St.
Cloud convicts in cutting stone for the new state
| capitol building
Bill Nye is seriously injured by fall at Jack
son, Miss.
The parties who kidnapped the Beals child at
Kansas City are in jail.
James G. wyman mayor of Allegheny. Pa, is
arrested for embezzlement.
Mortified says that if the capitol commission
will locate the capital there she will donate a
forty acre site and give 100000.
st. Paul has determined to make determined
effort to secure the national Democratic conven.
ton. and Minneapolis will help.
A railroad train runs from New York to Wash.
ington at the rate of ffty.seven miles per hour,
making part of the distance at a seventy-fve mile
rate.
November 20.
large portion Of the business part of Tracy.
Mimi, is burned.
The Worlds Fair commission will ask congress
for an additional appropriation of s5,OOO,OOO.
Terrible details reach London of the massacre
of the Belgian mission people at Takow. China.
The brig Tahita is found capsized in the Pacific
hundred arc
supposed to have persisted.
By an accident the Lake Shore road in
Toledo, Ohio, five persons lose their lives and
many are injured, some fatally.
The great public benefactor George Wheaton
Allen, known LAND Bill' Allen, dies in the
poor house of Franklin county, Ohio He origi.
mated the Homestead law.
November 30.
West Virginia man dies at the age of 159
years.
Archduke Henry of Austria is dead His wife
died yesterday.
More Louisiana Lottery officers are arrested on
United States warrants.
Sitting Bulls wives make affid av its that he was
murdered by the Indian police.
The grand jury in st. Paul makes report on
illegal liquor selling. fifty saloon keepers being
guilty.
Inc StralgnC university 1Or cOlOre0 people at
New Orleans is damaged to the amount of $500 600
by fire.
Seven lives are lost BY the collapse Of the Great
Northern railroad bridge across the Columbia
river at Columbia Falls. Montana.
The fftieth anniversary of the conservation Of
Archbishop Kenrick of st. Louis is celebrated.
1t is said that only event of the kind has ever
been known before.
December I.
1t is said that the Chinese revolutionists mum.
Der 100000
The fourth annual convention of Mississippi
river pilots begins at La Crosse, Wis.
English aristocracy is again shocked by a sensa.
tional and scandalous divorce case.
DR.. Henry scharegge of Henryville. MIMI.
prominent politician, dies at the age of seventy.
one years.
The agents of the Great Northern railroad are
serving notices of eviction on owners of odd.num.
bered sections within the twenty.mile indemnity
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