The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-10-08

your paper, kindly sent me. that inclose $l0O
for year. Nothing is impossible to true zeal.''
The old baskets from which we used to take
our daily bread moons and evenings have been
supplanted by long box. This is good improve
ment as it enables three or four persons to take
bread at the same time.
The Board of Managers last week decided to
put in another binding Irvine plant. to cost about
1000 and to employ about IS convcts. 1t will be
long fiber working plant so that with the present
short fiber plant all kinds Of material may be
used.
The bolt shop is being vacated in preparation
for its destruction. The FORCES have been taken
out of the northeast corner of the blacksmith shop
to give place to the bolt making machinery. 1t has
not been learned whether this is to be the perma-
nent location of the bolt shop or not.
Mr.. j. H. Alcott, who has been guard in this
institution for a number Of years handed in his
resignation on the 1st inst. This done by
the advice of his physician His health had been
failing for some time. Mr. Alcott is q years of
age and is a veteran of the civil war.
Foreman Carlgren's men have been at work
the past few days putting in new stone window
stills where those in the dollhouse windows are
crumbliDg away from the effects Of the fires that
have damaged the building in past years. Some
of the old stills were almost crumbled to pieces
To new arrivals: You are permitted to send
your copy of THE MIRROR to your home or
friends. Write the address plainly on the margin
over the head of the paper and then place it in
your door Friday evening. 1t will be taken up,
put in a wrapper and mailed. There must not be
other writing than the address.
The old frame structure used as an eng
setting.up shop has got to 60 and give place to a
new building. The new building is to be 1913 feet
long by 100 feet wide and one story high 1t will
be OF brick. The lines for the foundations have
already been staked off and work will probably be-
gin at once. The building will occupy all the space
now covered by the old shops and considerable
more. 1t will be divided into three rooms which
will be used for setting.up shop, paint shop and
bolt shop. 1t has long been predicted that that old
frame shed would be the cause of the whole
prison burning up some day, but it now seems no
one is to have the satisfaction of saying Il told
you So"
ALI those who were here under the late
Warden Randall will be sorry to hear that his
widowed daughter. Mrs. Rhoda ]. Brink, is dead
She died at San Jose, Cal. September so. The
Winona Republican of the End inst. says: Mrs.
Brink was the only surviving daughter of the late
John J. Randall. and spent the larger portion of
her life in this city She the wife of the late
Vincent A. Brink, we'll known young business
man of this city, who predeceased her by some
years. Mrs. Brink went to California for her
health, but although she received temporary
relief, her disease consumption had taken too
strong hold upon her to be overcome by climatic
influences. She leaves two children-a son and
daughter. Mrs. Brink was attended by her mother
and brother. mir. c. S. Randall at the time of her
death. The remains will be brought to Winona
for burial in the family lot in woodlawn ceme.
terry"
1T is said that Foreman Bronson has been en-
joying good practical joke the past week. The
story goes something like this: A certain one of
the office clerks found old telegraphic order
for certain pieces of machinery to be sent in haste
This wicked clerk wrote across the back of the
telegram. Mr. Bronson. Sir: Why hasn't this
order been attended to? Please give reason at
once for the neglect and carried the missive
to Mr. B. Mr.. B. read the note. examined the
order. then smote himself and exclaimed Con.
found the luck. forgot the thing completely. Ny
memory amt worth a cent any more etc., etc. 1t
Gliding himself at spare moments for week. un.
til his friends began to fear mental arrangement
when his confidential man gradually revealed to
him the awful truth. 1t feared at first that he
would not survive the shock but he did, and it is
said that he is now devoting his whole mental
energy to devising a scheme of revenge.
There was man pardoned last week that
everyone was glad to see get his liberty. He was
an old man. and seventeen or eighteen years ago
WAS prosperous citizen Of the state. He was ar.
rested for counterfeiting and sent to this prison
for five years. His case was appealed and he was
temporarily released on bonds. He did not ap.
pear when his sentence was affirmed The next
heard OF him he was serving long sentence in
the prison at Joliet. Ill. When he had served his
time there he was rearrested at the gate and
to Nebraska where he was imprisoned three years.
When released from this second term, he returned
TO his former home in this state an old broken
down man. His old bond.men caused him to be
arrested and sent here to serve out the sentence
to this prison that had been pronounced fifteen
years before This seemed especially hard as he
had left more than sufficient property to reim
burse his bondsmen. The old man had become
very feeble. and it was a great mercy to forgive