The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-07-02
NEWS OF A WEEK.
June "a.


statue of Henry Ward Beecher is unveiled in
front of the city hall. Brooklyn.
Gov. Boies. of Iowa. is renominated by acclama-
ton in the Democratic convention.
The grand jury at Window has found a large
number of indictments against persons for arson.
The indictments against the high officials OF thu
New York & New Haven railroad for causing the
death of several persons in the tunnel accident,
that occurred in New York city some time ago,
have been dismissed.
Mr. Tom Lowry has entered into contract with
the government for the carrying of the mail be-
tween st. Paul and Minneapolis. By the new ar.
rangement there will be mail between the two
cities every half hour.
Northwestern Iowa is devastated by unprece.
dented floods. Hundreds of families are made
destitute, from ten to twenty lives are lost, and
millions of dollars worth of damage is done to
crops railroads, buildings and other property.
June rs.
Mr.. Parnell and Mrs OShea were married this
morning.
Thousands of the butchers, bakers and grocers
of Paris go strike.
Five prominent citizens of Riverside, Ohio.
drowned in the Ohio river.
Chief Postmaster Inspector Rathbone has
signed and will be appointed fourth assistant post
master general.
The body of Joseph Thelen was found in the
river at st. Cloud with a piece of railroad iron
tied about his waist.
1t has been discovered by the Wisconsin state
land commissioners that thousands of acres of
pine lands in the northwestern part of the state
have been denuded of timber without authority.
June g.
A cyclone wrecks coal breaker at Mount Car
mel, Pa. killing six men.
The government has decided to recon the trade
dollars into standard silver dollars.
Three powder magazines we're exploded at Gal.
weston. Texas. by bolt of lightning great deal
of damage resulted from the conclusion.
A spark from burner set fire to the sheds of
the c. N. Nelson Lumber company at Cloquet.
Mimi, and r. 000 900 feet of lumber destroyed.
Collector of Port Phelps has made discovery
connecting the United States consul at Shanghai
with scheme to aid unlawful entry of Chinese in
this country.
Jay Ewing. American consul at Vancouver. B. c.,
has resigned. He gained the i'll will of the public
there by refusing to respond to the toast Queen
Victoria and President HARRISON because the
president was not mentioned first.
A sleeper attached to Northern Pacific train
jumped the track near Rosebud, Mont. and rolled
into the Yellowstone river. All the passengers
were rescued before the car went entirely under
water.
June 81
Prince George of Greecess in the United States.
The North Dakota Alliance joins forces with the
Peoples party.
The Seventy-ir regiment armory in New York,
valued at 100000, burned early this morning.
Three drunken young men place distractions
upon the Great Northern track Lockhart,
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They were arrested.
The board of managers of the Worlds Fair for
Minnesota visit Chicago to make preliminary ar.
rangements for Minnesotas exhibit. The mana
gers secured desirable site for building.
June %.
The mills of the Diamond State Iron company
Wilmington, Del, are burned. Loss 100000.
Col. Bob Ingersoll is said to be the promoter of
a cable between the United States and Brazil
Mrs. Mckee and Mrs. Russell Harrison pre-
scented to the president of France by Minister
Reid.
Alexander Clark. the American minister to
Liberia, died at Monerova, the Liberian capital,
June g.
There took place to-day at Long Branch. n j.,
the funeral of Frederick Brokaw the Princeton
student who was drowned while endeavoring to
save the life of Annie Doyle, servant girl. Many
distinguished persons were present.
June 29.
The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen have
been expelled from the Federation.
1t is reported that the crops in Russia a fail
ure and many people are starving to death.
The Missouri river is on its annual rampage and
is doing great deal of damage at ST. Joseph and
Kansas City.
The white strikers and negro miners have
pitched battle near Seattle, WASH, in which two
strikers are killed and many of the participants
are wounded.
June 30.
At Warsaw, Mimi, Andrew Ramstad was killed
by lightning
The queen has conferred the dignity of peerage
upon the widow Of the late Sir John Macdonald.
Quite a stir has been created in Chicago by the
discovery that much of the sausage on the market
is made of broken.down horses.
Forty.three persons. who partook of ice cream
at a church sociable at Brushton, N. Y, were
poisoned, and several have died.
Mark w. Harrington is to be chief of the
weather bureau, which is to be transferred from
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