The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-07-16
NEWS OF A WEEK.
July s.

Engineer Knight was instantly killed in a coils.
ion near Des Mones Iowa.
The health of Rev. Charles H. Sturgeon. the
great London preacher, does not improve and he
! is in very low condition.
The large fur house of A. E. Burkhardt g. Co.,
Cincinnati. o., and adjoining business houses, are
destroyed by fire. Loss about sl.25OOOO.
The Third United States infantry stationed at
Fort Smelling takes the field for its annual long
march. The regiment will go to Camp Douglass.
Wis, and return.
July 9.
Supt Bartlett is exonerated from all blame in
the Northrop case
About 10 900 delegates are present at the open
ing of the Christian Endeavor convention in Min
neapolis.
Isaiah Gpe, lineman for the st. Paul street
railway, is killed by coming in contact with
trolley wire
woman living near Newton. Mo-. shoots three
members of band of regulators who were about
to whip her husband.
July 10.
two-headed child is born in Saltwater, MINI.
Patrick Sullivan. the prominent sporting man
of Minneapolis, is dead.
During the first half of the present year 1.72s
miles of railroad we're built.
1t is purposed to build an electric railway be-
tween Milwaukee and Chicago
pleasure boat capsizes in Lake Erie and four
Cleveland people are drowned.
July II.
Colorado and Kansas threatened with
serious grasshopper plague.
Forest fires raging in Chippewa county
Mich. and the Canadian territory north of it,
The National Federation of America issues an
antiParnell address to the friends of Ireland.
Gen. Miles is Investigating the alleged abuses
practiced by Indian agents along the upper Mis-
souri,.
A threshng engine exploded at Bruceville
Ind. killing one and fatally wounding several
others.
Ex.State Treasurer holland of Missouri has been,
found guilty of embezzlement and sentenced to
two years. in the penitentiary.
July IL.
A passenger train on the Northern Pacific ran
into landslide near Missoula, Mont. and two
out of eight truck passengers we're killed.
The report has just been received from Mana
imo, B. c., that forty Indians and one white
woman were killed in an avalanche at the North
ern Pacific cannery on the sheena river June 6.
A terrible railroad accident occurred near AS
pen, Colo Seven persons we're scalded to death
by steam from broken check valve of locomo-
tive that ran along side of the passenger coach.
July 49,
The st. Louis hotel at Duluth burned at early
honr this morning
A lunatic shoots at President Carnot Of France
but does not injure him.
Discoveries have been made duplicating some
of Canada's high officials in wholesale bride tax
ing.
Godfried walthers was buried forty feet under
Oh;
Wis.
One of the famous Hanlon brothers is killed by
the breaking of trapeze bar in Forepaugh's cir
Gus at Lyons, Iowa.
The Union Theological seminary is in danger of
losing it's endowment because of the action of the
directors in the DR.. Briggs controversy.
The eight principal glucose factories of the
United States have been sold to an English Syndi-
cate. The property is valued at about s16,O0OOOO.
In piano STOOL which owned by Lena
Weinberg, who committed suicide at Winona,
MIMI, about two years ago, has been found S12.-
900. She had been housekeeper of the old Huff
house for about thirty years, and at the time of
her death about sl2. 900 was found in her trunk.
1t is mystery how she came by so much money.
for her salary was never large.
July IA.
The National Editorial Association convention
opens in St. Paul.
1t is proposed to build electric railroad be-
tween Minneapolis an Minnetonka.
1t is rumored that the Standard Oil company
has bought the Southern Pacific railroad.
Robbers fendishly murder an old lady and her
three little grandchildren near Joshua. Texas.
It is reported sheriff's posse has been massa-
| cred near Flagstaff, Ariz., by Navajo Indians.
The Gillian insurgents are reported to have
badly defeated the government in a naval battle.
The Chic Democratic convention will open to.
morrow, and it is believed that Gov. Campbell
will be renominated.
Canadian sealing vessels met in Behring
Sea by O. S. cruisers and are ordered to lose no
time in getting out of the fishing grounds.
freight train went through trestle on the
Northern Pacific road near Spokane Falls, WASH,
killing the fireman and two car loads of horses
and cattle.
1t is declared that United States minister
Egan will be expelled from Chilli. should the
government be overthrow, for having favored
Balmaeeda.