The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-09-03
NEWS OF A WEEK.
August 26.

August 26.
The Minneapolis exposition opens.
The president spends the day in Montpelier
Vermont.
The fifth international congress of biologists
opens in Washington. D. c.
Sixty.one bodies were taken out of the wreck Of
the building in Park place New York.
Gen. Whichcote. the only surviving officer of
the battle of Waterloo, dies in London.
The Tennessee Coal and Iron company has 80.
cured injunction to prevent the state Fl re-
moving the convicts from the Briceville mines.
August IT,
Two men are killed and one is fatally wounded,
in a shooting ARRAY at Georgetown, KY.
The entire police force Of Middlesborough. KY,
is on trial for having lynched innocent man.
Hon. S. G. Pomeroy, ex.United States senator
from Kansas, dies at his home in Worcester, Mass.
The Gillian insurgents defeat the government
forces and capture Valparaiso. Balmaceda is q
fugitive.
Mrs. Clara Mattson, mother of ex.secretary of
state Hans Mattson died to-day in her eighty.
eighth year.
Captain Andrews. who left Boston some time
ago to cross the Atlantic in sail boat was picked
up by steamer the other day in q dying condi.
ton.
Over twenty persons killed in a wreck on
the Western North Carolina road near Statewide,
N c. The passenger train fell through trestle:
sixty feet.
August 20.
The population Of Canada has increased half q
million in ten years.
Twenty.six people drowned by the sinking
of a ship at Melbourne, Australia.
Mrs. Camp. wife of Maj. Geo. A. Camp OF Mime.
apOliS, commits suicide in Lake MinnotOnka
Rensselaer, county, New York. is deluged by q,
cloud burst and great damage is done property.
Teller Albertson of the Fidelity Trust company's.
bank at Tacoma, WASH, absconds with S1O9, 900.
Queen Victoria makes known her desire to have
her dominions fully represented at the Worlds
Fair.
1t is rumored that Gen. William Wells of Bur.
lngton, VT, will be the successor of Proctor as
secretary of war.
August 29.
Hon. o. I. Converse Of Jerauld county, s. d.
commits suicide.
Geo. Hogan, aeronaut. fell 1000 feet at Detroit,
Mich, and was killed.
Jay Gould is succeeded in the control of the
Union Pacific road by the Vanderbilts.
Two freight trains are demolished and four men
killed by collision on the st. Louis & San Fran.
cisco road at Brush Creek, Mo.
miles of farming country forty miles west of Aber-
deem. s. D. Many farmers lost everything.
August 80.
Monticello. Mimi. has sl6 900 fire.
1t is said that the empress of Austria has be-.
come insane.
President Balmaceda of Chilli resigns in favor of
Gen. Rasquedano.
The Hungarian government estimates the
worlds wheat harvest at 725, 900 to 736.OO0OO0
hectoliters.
German syndicate has purchased large body
of land in Washington county, Ala, and will es.
tablish an extensive German colony.
The natives of the Bahama islands attempt to
plumber the American steamship Eldorado while
beached to repair damages caused by striking
rock not down on the charts.
August 81.
Mexico is threatened with a revolution.
The Southern Minnesota fair at Rochester
opened to-day.
Wheat advances nearly five cents in the Chicago
market, the latest quotation being s1O4
DR.. August Brodda and his niece are in Jail at
New Ulm. MIMI, for having starved a child to
death.
The Gillian war is ended and Gen. Rasquedano
has been recognized as president ad interim of
the republic.
The Turkish government allows q Russia war
ship to pass through the Dardanelles, thing here.
tofore forbidden all nations.
mixed train on the Louisville, New Albany &
st. Louis railway Is wrecked between Tell City and
Troy, Ind. and four persons killed and sixteen
injured. The wreck took fire and the whole train
was consumed.
September 1.
Lieut. Gov. Schultz of Manitoba is charged with
corrupt practices.
1t is reported that Balma ceda was killed while
trying to escape out of Chilli.
Wheat is yielding fifty and rye seventy-fve
bushels to the acre in Ramsey county, N. D.
1t is announced that Lieut.. Gov Jones will be
an independent candidate for the governorship of
New York.
Europe is excited over the fact that Turkey
permitted Russian ship to pass through the
Dardanenes.
According to the census bureau reports the
exact population of the United States on June 1,
1890. was 81, 622290.
The 500 railway is to build extension to
the North Dakota.Canadian boundary. and there
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