The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-10-01
NEWS OF A WEEK.
September %.

September %.
Forest fires rage around Hinckley MIMI, doing
great damage. Two men are burned to death.
Ex.Gov. Albert P. Morehouse. of Missouri, com.
mitted suicide to-day by cutting his throat while
suffering from a sunstroke.
The president has pardoned Robert seigel. son
of Gen. Seigel of New York. sentenced to six
years imprisonment for forgery
Miss Mary Lowry, eldest daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Lowry, and Harry P Robinson are
| married at st. Marks church, Minneapolis.
The Minneapolis harvest festival parade ex.
celled anything of the kind ever had in the North.
west 1t took the procession of floats three hours
to pass a given point.
September "a.
A rich discovery of iron ore is made near Tower
MINI.
At Quincy. KY. John Car kills his wife. mother
in.law. sister-in-law and himself.
At Newark. N. j., four persons killed and
seventeen wounded by premature explosion
| of dynamite.
Six men killed and many more are injured
| on work train on the Pittsburg & Western rail-
road near Zelienople, Pa.
The thinks of sending the Jews to Siberia
in large numbers. They to receive lands
and be forbidden to return.
Minneapolis has destructive fire in which
twenty-five fremen injured. The fire started
in the large warehouse at the corner of Ninth
avenue and Third street.
September rs.
Ten negroes are sentenced to hang at Laurels,
S. c., for the murder of another negro
Rev. Dr. Samuel D. Burchard of Rum, Roman
ism and Rebellion" fame, dies at Saratoga, NJ Y.
At Sioux City, Iowa, test is made of a storage
hoff oil otrio Sfroo md ~ h>
a success.
Quite a sensation is caused by the ejectment of
W. P. Brown. correspondent of the Minneapolis
Tribune. from the White Earth Indian reserva.
tion.
Strong efforts by influential people of this coun-
try are being made to secure the pardon of Mrs.
Maybrick an American woman serving a life sen.
tence in an English prison for the murder of her
husband. 1t is said they will not be successful.
September 26.
Hon. John D. Howard. millionaire pio-
neer at the head of the lakes. dies at Duluth.
st. Bell. the 500. 900 stallion owned by
Miller & Leslie, of Franklin. Pa, dies of
collie.
An earthquake shock is felt in Iowa, ILL.
nois, Missouri. Indiana, Kentucky and Ten
nessee.
1t is reported that the famine is so severe
in some parts of Russia that the pesantry are
eating their children.
Twenty. five persons at social gathering
in Connecticut are poisoned by coffee in
which some person had put crOtOn oil.
James O'Neil killed Michael Collins, seri.
Ously wounded one of the latters sons, stab
bed another son and was stabbed himself in
a fight over a well near Henderson, MINI.
September u.
Major j. Henneman of Spartanburg, S.
g.. is murdered.
Ex-State Treasurer VIM. H. Kemble of
Pennsylvania dies of heart disease
James S. Sinclair, farmer living near
LakOta. Nelson county, n. d.. inherits the
title of earl of Caithness and the belonging
estates in England.
The emperor of Germany approves the
proposition to reduce the term of mill tary
service to two years.
A fire that started in the storage room of
the Plant Milling company at the foot of
ChOuteau avenue, st. Louis, deStrOyeS
5000, 900 worth property.
At Buffalo twenty miles west of Fargo.
on the Northern Pacific. Engineer John c.
Curtis, Fireman w. G. Dodge are burned to
death in tlre caused by a collision with a
car of OIL Sixteen cars of stock were
burned.
September 20.
A negro murderer and his female accom-
plice are hanged by mob at HollendaIe,
Miss.
The statue of Pope Leo XIII. is I'M
yelled at the Catholic university in Washing
ton, d. G.
1t is reported that American citizens are
being maltreated by the provisional gov IL.
eminent in Chill.
DR.. A. C. Ramsey, of st. Cloud. Mimi,
dies from the effect of having bursted a
blood vessel in his head.
An Oklahoma judge decides that Indian
children cannot be kept in school against
the wishes of their parents.
A tremendous storm passes over the
northern part of the state leveling whole
townships of fine pine forests.
September 20.
The Massachusetts Democrats renOminate
Gov. Russell.
A dispatch from the City of Mexico says
that Guatemala is in state of revolution.
Many are said to have been killed in the
rush attending the opening of the town site