The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-10-29
NEWS OF A WEEK.
October 81.


South Park. st. Paul, is burned.
Pat Killen. the we'll known pugilist. dies in
Chicago from stomach troubles.
The sailing ship Helcs, from Japan to San Fran.
cisco, is lost with cargo of 1880 1000 pounds Of
merchandise.
A statue of the late Henry w. Grady is unveiled
at Atlanta. Ca. and Gov. Hill of New York de.
livers an Grafton.
Ramsey county Republicans appoint committee
of fifty to aid Minneapolis to secure the nationah
Republican convention.
Claus Spreckels. the Independent sugar refner.
has reduced the price of granulated sugar to
cents per pound, and now the trust is buying his
sugar
October %.
Floods in Spain. France and England cause much
loss of life and property.
Adelbert Goheen is hanged at Fergus Falls for
the murder of Rosa Bray.
A. c. Zimmerman is killed by being run over by
wagon at Rothsay, MINI.
Philip Herbert Carpenter, the distinguished
scientist. is dead in London.
Six men killed by the explosion of thresh-
ing machine engine near Mayvile, N D.
Edward Arnold. the English poet and journalist,
arrives in New York and is to lecture in this
try.
Eugene F. Garcin paying teller of the Louisiana
State bank of New Orleans. is defaulter to the
sum of $4,000. The money was lost at the card
table, so he says.
October %.
The verdict of the coroner's jury, in the case Of
the negro Smith lynched at Omaha. that he
was frightene to death.
The Pacific Short Line is sold to representatives
of the Manhattan Trust company, in the interest
of the Great Northern.
The Omaha lands in the Ashland, Wis, district,
again declared open to settlement. Nov. 2, is
set as the day for filing upon lands.
In fight between Indians and Canadian
mounted police near Assinaboine. Mont. two of
the former and one of the latter were killed.
Brakemen M. R. Hayden and Geo. Stein are killed
and Engineers Collins and McAllister fatally in
jured in railway collision at Lake City, Iowa.
The officers and directors of the Louisiana lot
terry indicted by the U. s. grand jury at Sioux
Falls. 8. d. for transmitting their advertisements
through the mails.
October "a.
The Hopkins-searles will is sustained against
the suit of Timothy Hopkins.
Rev. o. H. Tiffany. the distinguished Methodist
clergyman, dies in Minneapolis.
The great libel case of DOnnelly VS.. The Pioneer
Press ends in favor of the complainant.
In game of foot ball between the Minnesota
and Wisconsin University teams the Minnesotians,
are victorious.
1t is said that Prince Bismarck has determined
to take his seat in the German reichstag. which
| assemblies Nov. II.
A portion of the Fort AssinibOne reservation in
Montana is transferred to the interior department
| to throw open for settlement.
October rs.
Berlin Germany, has Jack the Ripper
churches.
rev olutionists.
Mereingen, popular resort in the canton of
Berne, Switzerland, is destroyed by fire.
young negro boy in Texas kills the wife and
child of his employer and throws the bodies in
we'll. He has been captured and burned at the.
| stake.
October 26.
Four men are killed by a premature explosion
on the Northern Pacific extension near Great
| Falls Mont.
A terrible railroad accident happens in France
| between Lyons and Grenoble by which about
| twenty persons are killed and fifty injured.
| Proposals for supplying the contemplated in.
crease in the ocean mail service are opened in
Washington. Some forty vessels will be
added to the service.
| The body of George Heidecker is exhumed after
having been buried two weeks at Erri Pae. and the
horrible discovery is made. that he had come back
| to consciousness in his coffin.
october ~.
| It is rumored that Steve Elkins is to be made
| secretary of war.
| Col. Hewitt, the last surviving officer of the
| battle of Waterloo, is dead in London.
| A collision occurs the 500 line at Thorson.
MIMI, whereby five men crushed to death.
The Chinese government pays the missionaries
the full value OF their property destroyed in the
recent riots.
Parnellites and McCarthyites indulge in a fight
in Cork. Sticks. stones. shovels and fists were the
| favorte weapons.
The crew of the whaler Grampus abuse native
women and a result massacred by the
| mems husbands and friends.
The will of the late Samuel ]. Tilden is declared
void by the New York court of appeals and
! 100000 will now be divided among the heirs.