The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-24
NEWS OF A WEEK.
December l6

Poet John e. Whittier's eighty.fOurth birthday
vein Of iron ore is found near Winona. MINI.
Many people are dying of famine in the state Of
Durango. Mexico.
Senator Davis introduces bill for ship canal
around Niagara Falls.
1t is said that a railroad will be constructeds
from Mankato to Hastings.
A railroad wreck occurs at Dudley. Iowa, in
which two persons are killed and the whole train
is demolished.
Four persons are killed and several injured by
a wreck on the Pittsburg. Fort Wayne & Chicago.
| railroad at Lima Ohio.
December II.
Red Wing is to have large patent medicine
factory.
COL John L. Halfway. governor of the National,
Soldiers home at Milwaukee, dies.
stephen B. Elkins of West Virginia is appointed
secretary of war to succeed Proctor.
Mcdonald Bros lumber dealers and steam
boat owners of La Crosse, Wis.,, make an assign
ment.
Miss Hattie Anderson. highly respected lady
of Minneapolis, is drowned while skating on the
| river.
| The lands of the Northern Pacific in Clay and
| Norman counties, Mimi, are to be put on the
market.
The Deep Water convention convenes at Detroit,
Mich Its object is to the opening of chan.
mel to the making seaports of the Great Lakes.
st. Louis has been chosen the place for
| holding the next national Prohibitionist
convention for nominating candidates for presi.
dent and vicepresident.
December 10.
The son of Cyrus W. Field is indicted for
forgery.
Brooklyn. N Y. lunatic shoots three persons
and himself.
Emperor William has made Chancellor Won
Caprivi a count.
Two Democratic tickets-lottery and anti.lottery
ARE nominated in Louisiana.
An expedition will be fitted out to 60 to the re-
lief of the Lieut. Peary party in the Arctic regions.
At the convention of the Federation of Labor
| at Birmingham. Ala, all the old officers are re.
| elected.
John and Martin Amundson, father and son,
| are declared insane at Mankato and are sent to-
the St. Peter asylum.
| December 49,
The Republican state central committee meets
| in st. Paul.
Rear Admiral Thomas patterson, o. s. A., dies
at New Brighton, N. Y.
| A successful test of the government bureau Of
animal ndustry's method of inocuating SWINE is.
made in Illinois.
| Charles Uncet the first colored man ever raised
to the Catholic priesthood. is ordained by Cardinal
Gibbons in Baltimore
Gov. Hill says that the he does not resign
the governorship to assume his senatorial duties
is that he wishes to prevent Lieut. GOV. Jones
from holding the Office for even a half an hour.
December. 20.
Coal has been discovered in the straits of
Magellan.
Seantor Plumb, of Kansas, dies suddenly of APP
oplexy in his Washington home.
Italy. it is said. will renew her diplomatic;
relations with the United States.
1t is reported that Robt. T. Lincoln. United
States Minister to England, will resign.
| The last spike in the main line of the Rio
Grande Southern railroad driven day.
Ira L. Bell and E. G. Gordan. we'll diggers, are
killed by premature explosion of dynamite near
| Graceville, MINI.
December Fl.
]. 1. Case is dying at Racine, Wis.
Three men are shot to deaht in the Jail at De-
witt, Ark.
The architects plans for grand auditorium in
st. Paul have been adopted.
| The great Davis will case at Butte, Mont, in.
yolving 50 600 900, is to be settled out of court
Claud Cooley is killed at winona by the cars.
and Eddie Nelson of Pine City breaks through the
ice while skating and is drowned.
The department of agriculture discovers that
the meat of diseased and crippled horses has
long!been put up on Long Island and exported as.
beef.
| December %.
| Nine sailor are drowned at Point Arena. Cal.
Arthur W. Dampier is appointed postmaster at
Mortified.
Steve Elkins' nomination secretary of war is
confirmed.
Matt Gross is elected superintendent Of the
Minneapolis workhouse.
Mexican government troops have a fight with
| insurgents and defeat them,
il. Case. the Millionaire horseman and manu-
facturer Of Racine. Wis, is dead.
The Sissiton and Whapiton Indian lands In
South Dakota will be opened for settlement
April Is.
The British steamer Cavalier. from Gibraltar to
Fastnet has been lost land it is feared all board
were drowned.
United States troops have a fight with Mexican
outlaws on the Rio Grande. One soldier was
killed and lieutenant was wounded; the loss of
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