The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-10-22
NEWS OF A WEEK.
October IA.

October IA.
Many vessels are wrecked in a storm on the
coast Of Great Britain and several of the crews
are drowned.
The Hopkns-Searles will contest is compro.
missed, Timothy Hopkins getting between 49, O0O 900
and $1O, 1000. 900.
A locomotive boiler explodes at the Kansas.
City railroad shops at South St. Paul, and seri-
Ously Injuries eleven men.
The Minnesota Worlds Fair commissioners cali
for 800, 000 asking each county to contribute &C.
cording to its assessed valuation:
October Is.
large fly wheel bursts in mill at Manchester,
N. H., injuring many employees.
Gen. w. H. Lee, son OF Gen. R. E. Lee dies at
his home in Fairfax county, Va, aged "a.
The trial of State Treasurer Boyer and Auditor
General McCamant begins before the extra session
of the Pennsylvania legislature.
The United States steamship Atlanta is nearly
wrecked in a storm. The steamer is greatly
damaged and six Of her crew are injured by an ex.
plosion, two fatally.
Leonard Washburn. Fred W. Henry and j. w.
McAfferty. reporters for the Chicago Inter Ocean,
and Engineer James Clark are killed in railroad
accident at Crete Ill.
October. Is.
The execution of Rose took place at Redwood.
Falls, MINI.
There 2,135 patients in Minnesota's three
insane asylums.
1t has been decided that Chicago is to have a
Worlds Fair tower l12O feet high.
Nearly 100 delegates to the Woman's Christian,
Temperance union convention at Bradford. Pa.
are poisoned, but all will recover.
1t is said that hundreds Of Cinnamon steal
ing across the Minnesota and North Dakota 'front.'
iers from Canada into the United States
The brigatine Arctic arrives at Harbor Grace,
Newfoundland. from Bristol with nine of the
crew of the steamer Wolviston. which foundered
at sea Sept %. The rest of the crew, fourteen in
number, supposed to be lost.
October II.
Mrs. Allen G. Thurman dies.
st. Blase the stallion. is sold in New York for
500 1000.
James Parton. the eminent American author,
dies aged SO years.
At the Socialist congress at Erfurt. Germany,
| anarchists are denounced.
The corner stone of the new St. Luke's hospital,
St. Paul, is laid by Bishop M. N. Gilbert
The Fargo IN. d. Argus printing plant is sold
at auction and Maj. Shaw will take charge of the
paper.
American sailors and Chilians fight at valpa.
raiso one American being killed and five seriously
wounded.
Gen. Miles. in his annual report, proposes
| mobilization of militia and regulars during the
Worlds Fair.
October IS.
Henry George answers the encyclical of Pope
| Leo on the labor question.
The Italian cabinet decides to abolish the de-
| cree against American pork.
The bichloride of gold treatment. it is claimed,
will consumption well as dipsomania.
| woman in the Butte. Mont, pOorhOuse is said
to be heir English estate valued at 900.
A vast number Of the people of Dublin make
pilgrimage to the grave of Mr. Parnel at Glasnevin.
| Right Hon. Arthur j. Balfour, member of parlia.
ment for East Manchester and chief secretary for
Ireland, has been appointed first lord of the
| treasury to succeed the late Mr.. Smith.
| October 10.
Sir Henry Parks, premier of New South Wales.
has resigned.
Otto Rose is thrown from horse and dragged to
death near Moorhead, MINI.
| The revenue cutter Wolcott captures a large
gang of smugglers on San Juan Island.
Rev. Sam Small is arrested in Boston on q
charge of getting 1000 by false pretenses.
| An engine on the Philadelphia & Reading road
explodes near Pottsville. Pa. killing three men.
The famous Bacon will case involving and at
Sioux City, Iowa. valued at $1,000. 900. is decided
| against the heirs.
| The commercial congress Of the western states,
| interested in a deep water harbor the Gulf of
Mexico, opens at Omaha, Neb.
| October 20.
| Sunol trots a mile at Stockton Cal. in 2:0S4.
| Don Fernando Guzman. ex-president of the
| republic of Nicaragua, is dead.
The mayor and city council Of Louisville KY,
| are sent to Jail for contempt of court.
| The state board of corrections and charities
makes its thirty.fourth quarterly report.
| The notorious Parker divorce case comes to an
| end in Minneapolis. and Mrs. Parker gets her
| divorce.
Five passengers and the engineer reported
killed by accident on the Burlington road near
Galesburg Ill.
Ignatus Donnelly's 100000 libel suit against
the Pioneer Press is begun before Judge Hooker
in Minneapolis.
The Sun and Tribune of New York withdraw
from the associated press and organize q new as.
ISOLATION, entitled the National Associated Press.