The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-04-09
NEWS OF A WEEK.
APRIL 1.

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APRIL 1.
Prince Bismarck celebrates his seventy.
sixth birthday.
The Minnesota House passes a bill ap-
propriating $50. 900 for Worlds Fair ex-
hibit.
Capt. Hugh L. White, one of the oldest
and best known Mississippi river men, died
in st. Louis to-day.
The rapid rising of the Missouri river
causes several blocks of ElwoOd, Kan, op-
pOsite ST. joseph, Mo-, to fall into the river.
Thirty more bodies are recovered from
the wreck OF the steamship Utopia. making
the total number recovered up to the pres
ent time 422.
APRIL 2.
Gov. Merriam vetoes the Minneapolis
charter bill.
John G. Gluck, pioneer resident of
Minnesota. and retired capitalist, dies sud-
denly in Minneapolis.
Gen. Albert Pike, prominent as a Mason
and poet, died at his home in Washington
to-day, aged eighty two years.
Striking coke burners attempt to wreck
the Norwood plant at Mount Pleasant,
Pa, and nine of them are killed and many
wounded by deputy sheriffs.
APRIL 3.
Whileman & Keith's large shoe factory at
BrocktOn, Mass, is destroyed by fire.
The bill requiring signatures to newspa-
per articles is killed in the Minnesota SEN
ate.
Clifton Holden, who was to have been
executed to-day. has been reprieved for 80
days by Gov. Merriam.
David Taylor, associate justice OF the SUI
preme court of Wisconsin, died at the supper
table to- day in Madison.
President Harrison. by proclamation, sets
apart large territory of land in Wyoming
as public forest reservation.
APRIL 4.
Senator Washburn is in Washington
making preparations to depart for Europe.
The Windsor hotel at Howard Lake,
MIMI, is destroyed by fire early this morn
ing.
Dan M. Parker, city clerk of Anoka,
dropped dead of heart disease in the engine
house to- day.
The steel cruiser Charleston is ordered to,
Honolulu to protect the interests of the
United States.
OO1. OeuOOus lOI uduy years WdIUOu Ok
the Manitoba penitentiary. has been super
animated and placed on the retired list Of
Canadian government officials.
APRIL 5.
Snow all over northern Alabama to. day.
1t is announced that Gen. Ruger will
succeed Gen. GibbOn in command of the di-
vision of the Pacific.
The East German conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church voted in Balti-
mOre-41 to l. against admitting woman,
as delegates to the general conference.
APRIL 6.
The designs on all the silver coins are to
be changed.
1t is rumOred that Mr.. Parnell has been
married, but to whom is not known.
The cornicemakers of st. Paul. go out on,
strike for higher wages and shorter hours.
The Senate State Prison Investigating
Committee makes it's report to the Mime
sofa senate
John Thompson, a sewing machine
agent. commits suicide in st. Paul by jump
ing off the Smith avenue bridge into the
Mississippi river.
Phineas T. Barnum. the great Snowman.
died to-day. aged 81 years.
Hampstead Washburne is elected mayor
of Chicago. There were five candidates in
the field.
Lorenzo Crounz, of Nebraska. has been
appointed assistant secretary of the U. S.
treasury.
Mrs. Rachel johnson. wife of Gen. r.
w. johnson. dies at her home in st. Paul
after short illness.
Senator Edmunds. of Vermont. resigns
his seat in the United States senate, the res
ignatiOn to take effect the 1st day of No
vember next Mr.. Edmunds has been in,
the senate almost continuously since 1885,.