The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-11-12
NEWS OF A WEEK,
November 4.

November 4.
The pententiary at Waupun. Wis, narrowly
escapes disastrous fire.
Two hundred Of Tennessee's liberated convicts
are captured in Kentucky.
The trial of Rev. Charles A. Briggs for heresy.
before the New York presbytery results in his &C.
quittal.
Seventy thousand acres of land on the Fort
Assinaboine reservation in Montana are opened
to settlement.
A terrible accident happened in the Anaconda
mines at Butte. Mont, causing the death Of nine
men. They fell down the shaft 600 feet.
The commission on the Minnesota capitol meets
in ST. Paul and decides to recommend that the
state build new capitol of granite upon the site
of the present building. to cost not more than
So. 600 900.
November 5.
A man 1874 years old and woman 81 are married
in Georgia.
The great banking house of Hrschfed & Wolff,
Berlin. Germany fails.
The remains of jefferson Davis are to be inter-
red in Hollywood cemetery. Richmond. Va.
The election returns show that the Iowa Demo.
Gratis have elected all the state officers and ma
jority of the senate. The Republicans have ma.
jority in the house.
Musgrave, the man who insured his life for
$4,000, placed skeleton in his Indiana cabin,
set the building on fire and then disappeared, was
captured in st. Paul.
November 6.
J. Gregory Smith, vermont's war governor, dies
at St. Adams.
Corcoran. Fulton, distlllers of Louisville, KY,
makes assignment
Two farmers are burned to death in a prairie
fire near White Lake, s. D.
The Parnelltes are defeated in the election for
member of parliament from Cork.
Work is to begin at once on new bridge to
span the Mississippi river at Alton Ill.
young woman near North st. Paul is shot
dead by rejected sutton who afterwards kills
himself.
The powers give China a month in which to re.
spond to the demand for the punishment of the
leaders in the recent outrages.
A jury has awarded Thomas Fortune, the colored
editor of the New York Age 1925 damages against
the proprietor of Sixth avenue hotel for being
assaulted and refused drink because of his color.
November Z.
A revival of Feniansm is expected in England.
A disease nearly as fatal Asiatic cholera ap.
pears in Indiana. 1t is thought to be what is
known the Asiatc black tongue.
Another great German bank of Berlin fails. 1t
was the INSTITUTION OF FrolQldnQ u SOmmornelQ.
sommerfield and his son both commit suicide.
Commanderin chief Palmer. of the G. A. R.. is
order denouncing the participation of
members of that body in demonstrations at which
the Confederate flag is displayed.
A good deal of excitement is occasioned by q
rumor that the United States ship Baltimore
had been blown up and SO sailors killed by the
Chilians. The proved groundless.
November g
Six men instantly killed by explosion in
a coal mine at Nanticoke Pa.
The most active operations known since the war
going on in the Navy yards
Rev. Charles Woodward, of the oldest
clergymen in Minnesota. dies at Kalmar, near
Rochester Hon. c. F. Rogers is buried at Lake
City.
Nels johnson, of Minneapolis. stopping at
hotel in Hudson, Wis.,. becomes crazed with drink
sets his room on fire and then kills himself by
jumping out OF the window.
A great coal pile the Northwestern Fuel
company's docks at Duluth has been burning for
several days. and the loss will probably amount to
several hundreds of thousands Of dollars.
November 9.
Eighty per cent of the wheat crop in North Da-
kota is threshed.
The liabilities of the Maverick bank of Boston
are only q little less than SlU,UUU,UuO.
Four men are suffocated and thirty.four horses
are cremated by the burning of livery stable in
Denver, Colorado.
officers of the Irish National League of Amer
lea issue address advising Irishmen to stop
fighting and do a little work for the cause.
Charles Barnum, son of NJ T. Barnum, is dis
embowled by wagon tongue at Pennington.
MINI. He died within few minutes of the acct
dent.
The case of the Canadian sealer Sayward, in
volving the rights of this country to exclusive
control of the Behring seal fisheries is argued
in the United States supreme court.
November 10.
The Gillian war cloud has about blown over.
1t is said that the Republic of Brazil is about to
60 to pieces.
Comanche the horse that survived the Custer
massacre, dies of old age at Fort Riley Kan.
The United States and Great Britain reach an
agreement to submit the Behrnig sea controversy
to arbitration.
Gross irregularities are said to have been dis
covered at the Cheyenne Indian agency. The
agent and others are charged with being the per.