The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-10-15
NEWS OF A WEEK.
October Z.

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By an incendiary fire the court house at Wash.
ington. Davis county. Ind. together with all the
records, is destroyed.
At indianapolis, Ind, the Evangelical council
deposed Bishop Dubbs from his Office and expelled
him from the church.
bronze equestrian statue of General Grant is
unveiled in Lincoln Park. Chicago. Judge Walter
O. Gresham delivered the address. Nearly 1OO,.
600 people were present.
Charles Stewart Parnell. Ireland's great political
leader, died last night between the hours Of IL
O'Clock and midnight. Rheumatic fever was the
cause Of his DEATH He was forty.ive years of age.
October 8.
The Olympic theater. st. Paul. is destroyed by
fire.
Maj. Mckinley and Gov. Campbell meet in joint
debate at Ada. Ohio.
The resignation Of ex-senator Blair, as minister
to China, is accepted.
Gov. Campbell has brought two $4,000 libel
suits against the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Cleveland and Hill address large Democratic
m ass meeting in Cooper Union hall. New York
city.
Parker, Webb g. Co.. packing house, Detroit,
Mich, burns and man loses his life in the
flames.
The second annual convention of the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Blacksmiths adjourned at
st. Louis. Mo-. to-day. H. A. Prior of Indian
apolis was elected grand master.
October 9.
The Cleveland baby is to be named Ruth
The McCarthyites are threatened if they attend
Parnelrs funeral
Henry M. Stanley and wife leave London to
travel in Austria.
l. v. D. Heard. one of st. Pauls Oldest lawyers,
fails. owing 100000.
negro is lynched and white man is executed
by law, at Omaha, Neb.
Supt. Porter will draft a bill for the considera.
ton of congress to establish permanent census
bureau.
New York and Chicago merchants file briefs in
the United States supreme court attacking the
validity of the Mckinley bill.
October 10.
The National Prison congress opens at Pitts.
burg.
The Republican State League of Minnesota
opens the campaign at Buffalo, Wright Co.
Seven OF the men engaged in the lynching Of
the negro at Omaha yesterday have been arrested.
nephew of United States Senator Cameron is
given ten years in the Missouri penitentiary for
forgery.
The United States steamship Dispatch is
wrecked on the Assetague coast of Virginia. No
lives were lost.
The steamer Susan E. Peck, from Duluth to Buff.
falo, is sunk with 900 bushels Of wheat in the
Sault Ste. Marie canal.
The wife of prominent Chicago jeweler hangs
herself in her cell in the st. Louis Jail. She had
been arrested for petit larceny.
October IL.
Queen Victoria will raise to the peerage the
widow of Hon. William Henry Smith.
Judge White. at Yankton, declares the South
Dakota banking law unconstitutional.
Parnell is buried in Dublin. 1t was the most
stupendous demonstration witnessed in Ire
land.
William Davis. a millionaire iron merchant Of
Brooklyn, N Y, falls into the East river and 10
drowned.
Six striving in New York for $1,000
prize offered to whosoever can beat the forty.fve-
day fasting record of Succi.
October. y.
The Human Freedom league is organized in
Philadelphia.
The skeleton Of an unknown man is found near
Lake City. MINI.
An Indian shoots two men near Shell Lake,
Wis.,. one Of whom died almost Immediately.
The steamers Umbria and Augusta Victoria are
struck BY cyclone the Atlantic and many
passengers are injured.
The Parnellitis members of parliament issue
manifesto declaring that they will carry out the
plans of their dead leader and not affiliate with
the McCarthyites.
A reciprocity treaty between the United States
and Germany is concluded whereby American ce.
reals will be admitted in Germany under merely
nominal duty and German sugar will be admitted
to this country free.
October Is.
The Pennsylvania legislature begins its invests.
eating session.
Rev. DR.. Phillips Brooks will tomorrow be made
bishop Of Massachusetts,.
The Minnesota Agricultural society made over
$4,000 by the State Fair
President Hoey and vice-President spooner,
Of the Adams Express company. are dismissed for
maIfeasence.
Frank W. Boland. forger. when sentence to 10
years by Kansas City judge. drew q revolver
and shot himself dead in the CONT room