The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-03-05
NEWS OF A WEEK.
FEBRUARY 25.

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FEBRUARY 25.
The prohibition amendment bill before
the Minnesota legislature is indefinitely
postponed.
The congressional silver pool committee
makes its report generating the congress-
men charged with being connected with the
pool.
The fast train between Chicago and Gin
cinnati on the Pan Handle railroad is de-
rallied near HagerstOwn, Ind, and three
persons are killed and many injured.
FEBRUARY 26.
Anna Dickinson Is reported insane
Geo. c. Ingham. the brilliant Chicago
lawyer, dies suddenly.
The bill to abolish capital punishment is
defeated in the Minnesota House.
Minneapolis has a large fire. Fire broke
out in the five story building at Nos ID and
18 Fifth street South and spread from there
to the Lumber Exchange. The old part of
the Exchange building was badly damaged.
The total loss is $24S. 200.
FEBRUARY q.
The last horse disappears from the street
car service of st. Paul.
Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, is ap-
pointed Minister to China
Yuma. Ariz., is swept away by a food.
Every building in the town except a hotel
and the penitentiary were DESTROYED.
A Lehigh Valley fast passenger train col
lides with freight train at East Buffalo,
n. Y, and one man is killed and several
are badly injured.
Frederick De Haas one of the managers,
Of 10 lin sEn
st. Paul, dies of gunshOt wound inflicted.
by his own hand yesterday.
The U. S. senate passes the house immi-
grafton bill without amendment. The bill
provides for the exclusion from this country
some diseases, criminals, contract laborers,
and all undesirable persons. The terms Of
the bill are very stringent.
FEBRUARY %.
The anti-Pinkerton bill fails to pass in.
the Minnesota House.
Senator Hearst, of California, dies in.
Washington after long and painful ILL
ness.
Ex-GOv. john S. Pillsbury is chosen
president of the board of regents of the
State University of Minnesota.
MARCH 1.
The village of Herman. N. Y, is de.
stroyed by an incendiary fire.
Senator Henderson. of Nebraska, is Sc
lected to succeed Senator Ingalls, as presi-
dent pro tempore of the U. S. Senate.
Hundreds of lives are reported lost and
property to the value of millions of dollars
is destroyed by the floods in Arizona.
An exodus of Mormons from Utah to
Mexico is taking place. 1t is estimated that
1900 families will leave the state this sum-
mer.
Col. W. w. Gates the oldest journalist
in Tennessee and last of the celebrated lead
ers of the Wing party in the South, dies at
jackson. aged rs years.
MARCH 2.
Thousands of negroes who were deluded
into immigrating to Oklahoma are starving.
The fine pottery works of Blackhust
Bros, at Brownsville is destroyed by fire.
A bill reducing the legal and contract
rates of interest to and per cent passes.
the Minnesota House.
The Nebraska House has passed the alien
land ownership bill. Land owned by aliens
and not disposed of within seven years will
revert to the state.
MARCH 3.
IH0 muTuoror vi Alu. w llllam w nalon In
Chicago has been sentenced to life i'm
prisOnment.
Striking car workers at Pullman, ILL.,, in
dulge in riot, and many of them are ar
rested.
The labor leaders among the strikers in
the coke regions of Pennsylvania have been
arrested which may result in a serious out
break
Stevens and Beaudet plead guilty to the
charges of fraud in connection with the
Minneapolis census frauds, and will be
fined. Dickey is acquitted.
An Unvarnished Epithet.
Rowne de Bout: So. Tom Knox was talk
ing about me, was he? l suppose he said
was somewhat of debauchee. Ell?
Epson Downes: No; he said you were