The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-07-30
NEWS OF A WEEK.
July %.

line.
hailstorm destroys about two thousand acres
of grain in Norman county this state.
Hailstones measuring fourteen inches in circum.
ference fall near Aberdeen. s. Oak.
Lieut.. Col. ]. E. Tortellotte, once Gen. Sherman's
chief of staff. dies at La Crosse. Wis.
The governor calls out the National Guards to
prevent the HallFitzsimmons prize fight in St..
Paul.
The State Agricultural society will invite Presi.
dent Harrison, ex-Presldent Cleveland and Sock
less Jerry Simpson to attend the State Fair
The Farmers Alliance sends out circulars from
st. Paul advising the farmers OF the whole coun.
try to hold back their wheat q month longer for
higher prices. 1t is movement to thwart the
spectators.
July 20.
Col. c. H. Merritt. long prominent in Iowa poll.
tics. is dead.
Two men killed by an explosion in the Bur-
lington & Missouri round house at Plattsmouth
Neb.
The state supreme court decides that Salvation
Army soldiers may parade the streets of Red
Wing.
Chas. o. c. Hennesy, editor of the New York
Daily News, has been indicted for misdemeanor
in publishing an account of the recent electrocu.
tions at Sing Sing.
charge Minnesota's Worlds Fair exhibit issue
call for a convention in st. Paul. Aug. TO- to de-
wise ways for securing 500, 900.
July "a.
Seven children downed in the st. Lawrence
at Seven Islands.
The official census of France shows a total popu.
lation of 49, ,l60.
The mother of Major John Rawlins dies at the
age of Lightweight years.
The Columbia Oil company of Chicago, colapses-
after six weeks of existence.
Herman Raster. editor-in-chief of the Chicago
Stats Zeitung dies in Germany.
1t is discovered that Sara Bernhard is an Amer
lean and a native of New York.
A mob breaks into the Jail at Billings. Mont,
and lynches a tramp murderer.
Five persons killed in a collision the Den
yer S Rio Grande railroad near Pueblo. Col.
The mammoth wooden and cotton mill of Camp
bell s. Elliot, at Philadelphia. is destroyed by
fire.
July rs.
The foreign commissioners of the Worlds Fair
are in France.
Over three hundred active volcanoes are dis
covered in Lower California.
Two attempts upon the life of President Barril.
las Of Guatemala have been made within the past
week.
The engagement of Robt. T. Lincoln's eldest
daughter to Chas. Isham. of New York is an
nounced.
The trouble at Briceville, Tenn, over the pro-
test of the miners against the employment of con-
victs in the mines. has been settle pending the
action of the legislature.
A terrible disaster occurred at 10 p. m on the
Cincinnati. Hamilton s. Dayton road at Middle
town. o. The rear end of an excursion train
run into by freight killing five and wounding
about fifty of the passengers.
July 26.
Indiana is shaken by an earthquake.
The switchmen on the Big Four at Cleveland!
Ohio, 60 strike.
Two Indians are run over and killed by train
near Billings. Mont
1t is reported that the Balmaceda government is
about to come to end in Chilli.
Fortynne people are killed and over hum
dred wounded in a railroad collision at vincennes..
France.
law and order league has been organized in,
ST. Paul. and it will attempt to close up Sunday
saloons and purify the morals of the city gen.
orally.
July27.
The Berkeley Land Syndicate of Denver has
signed.
The entire business portion of Blair Wis.,. is
burned.
The st. Paul tax levy has been fixed at mill
and tenth for the coming year.
1t is said that Edwin Booth is dying in Boston
from the effect of too much smoking.
Rev. Wellington White and three little girls are
killed by passenger train at Elmira, N. Y.
The cylinder mill of the Latin. Rand Powder
company at Plattville. Wis.,, was blown up to-day.
One life was lost.
At Wooley. WASH, fight occurs between state
and customs officers over the capture of Chinese
who being struggled into the country. A
deputy sheriff is killed and his assistant wounded.
July %.
Claudio vicuno is elected president of Chill to
succeed Balmaceda.
William Donaldson, one of Minnesota's old and
respected citizen, dies at Planview.
William ]. Elliott the former editor and proprie.
tor OF the Columbus. Ohio, Sunday Capital. who.
with his brother, killed reporter of the Sunday
World and bystander, has been convicted Of
murder in the second degree.