The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-06-11
NEWS OF A WEEK.
JUNE 8.
The Little Falls roller mill burned to.da

Inc Peoples party nominated state
ticket in Iowa. j. A. Westfall is the NOM
inee for governor.
Henry Cregar and his son and Conrad
Haage were killed by the cyclone at Water
town. 5. Dak., yesterday.
The president has reduced the sentence
of Robert Sigel. son of Gen. Sigel. from six
years to two years and nine months.
The first twelve-inch steel gun made in
the United States has just been completed
at the Waterveliet Arsenal, New York.
A statue of Gen. Grant was unveiled at
Galena. ILL.,, to day. Chauncey Depew
was the orator of the day. and thousands
of people participated in the ceremony.
JUNE 4.
The historian. Benson j. Losing, died
to-day at Poughkeepsie. N. Y.
The schooners Lena Benin and c. l..
Feck and all unknown are wrecked by
heavy storm on Lake Michigan.
Gen. John M. Scofield. commander in
chief OF the United States army, is to marry
Miss Georgia Kilbourne at Keokuk, Iowa,
June IS.
The Itata surrendered to-day at Iquiq ne,
Chilli. to an American war ship lying at
that place. She surrendered the 5000 rifles
which she took from the United States.
A naval battle occurred in the harbor at
Valparaiso on the night of the 2Sth. An
insurgent vessel attacked three GILLIAN gov
eminent cruisers and defeated them. Over
one hundred men were killed.
JUNE
The census of London shows a popula-
ton 4,211. O56.
The most of four hundred Syrians that
landed at New York to-day will probably
be sent back.
Charles Shepherd and Christian Furst.
who murdered and robbed Carl Pulsifer.
were hanged at Fremont. Neb.
The directors of the Union theological
seminary have decided that DIR. Briggs
shall be retained in the chair of Biblical
theology.
JUNE 6.
Sir John Macdonald, premier of Canada,
died at 1915 o'clock to-day.
Archbishop Ireland denies the report that
he is to be the next cardinal.
Chauncey Vibbard. once the railroad king
of America, died to- day in his eighteth year.
Mayor Winston orders every gambling
house in Minneapolis to be closed for all
time.
The legislature of Florida makes the an
niversary of Jefferson Davis birthday a
legal holiday.
Gen. James B. Longstreet is in very
feeble health and has been compelled to
give up work on his history of the Confed.
eracv.
The steamer Kite sailed from Brooklyn
to- day on her expedition to ascertain
whether Greenland is a continent or an
island. The expedition is in charge of
Lieut.. r. E. Peary. of the navy, and Prof.
Angelo Heilprin. of the academy of nat
ural sciences of Philadelphia.
JUNE
The bus drivers of London 90 on strike.
The large store of Hard & Kuethe, at
Preston, Mimi, is DESTROYED by fire.
Capt. Geo. NJ. Chester. once city editor
of the St. Paul Press. died at Detroit, Mich
The cities of Verona and Mantau, Italy,
are badly shaken by earthquakes. The
whole of North Italy felt the shock.
Three brothers named Vanderberg, stock
men living near AtchisOn. Kan.. were Bit
ten by mad dog and two of them have
died of hydrOphobia and the other is not
expected to live.
JUNE 8.
Bishop Knight, of the Episcopal diocese
OF Milwaukee, is dead.
1t is reported that many outrages have
been perpetrated against foreign missiOna-
ries and other residents at Wusuch and Kin
Kiang. China.
City Treasurer Bardsley. of Philadelphia,
is indicted on seventeen counts. The max
imum penalty would be eighty. five years.
imprisonment.
JUNE 9.
The libel suit growing out of the baccarat
scandal is decided against Sir William Cor
don Cumming.
Bardsley. the defaulting city treasurer of
Philadelphia. pleads guilty to the seventeen
counts in the indictment.
August Demmer, teamster, is fatally
shot by Policeman Kukouski, at WinOna.
The policeman is accused Of numbering the
man.
Judge Phillips. of the United States SUI
preme court, has decided that accident in
surance companies are not liable when a
nOlicv holder dies Of cunStrOko