The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-04-23
NEWS OF A WEEK.
APRIL Is.


The wife of Private Secretary Halford
died to day of bronchitis.
1t is reported that Prince Bismarck has
been defeated at the polls for the reigstag.
The report that Henry M. Stanley has
been appointed governor of the Congo state
is officially denied in Brussels.
The presidential party reaches Atlanta,
and the Atlantians in their welcoming
demonstrations fire canon so near the
train as to shatter the plate glass windows.
APRIL 16.
The Western Base Ball Association sea-
son opened to-day at Lincoln, Neb.
The Winner Investment company of
Kansas City. capitalized at $1,OOO,OOO,
makes an assignment.
King Humbert has sent 500 to each
child left an orphan by the sinking of the
steamship Utopia in Gibralter Bay.
A freight train went through trestle
near Baltimore and John Martin, Benjamin
Sprucebank, j. A. DOdsOn, train men, were
killed.
Warrants have been issued against two
members of parliament, Capt. Verney and
Edward D. Cobian, charging them with
heinOus OffenSes.
APRIL II.
The official count gives plurality of 1863,
to Hampstead Washburne, Republican can
didate. for mayor of Chicago.
Information is received that the British,
ship St. Catharis has been wrecked off the
Carolina islands and 80 persons drowned.
A cyclone sweeps through Texas and at
HanSferd it destroys the court house in
course of construction and kills two of the
wOrkmen.
The first session of the Western States
Commercial congress ends very unsatisfac-
tory owing to the attempt of some to make
political capital out of it.
APRIL Is.
The presidential party reaches Galveston,
Texas, to-day.
Chas. Yeager, proprietor of the Ameri-
can house, Hastings, died to-day of heart
disease
The large dry goods house of Gus Blass
& Co.. Little Rock. Ark, is destroyed by
fire. Loss $5OO.OOO
A riot occurs in circus at Knoxville,
Tenn; many people are injured, and much
of the circus property is destroyed.
Sister Mary Dennis, known to the world
as Josephine Mclaughlin, died to-day at
the mother house of the Dominican order
at Sinsinawa Mound, Wis.
The Toledo express, on the Lake Shore
railroad, cOllides with the fast mail at a.
small station near Cleveland, o. Six postal
clerks, both engineers and one fireman are
killed.
About sixty persons are poisoned at
wedding near Louisville, KY. One man has
died and many are seriously ill. It is
thought that some one maliciOusly put
arsenic in the spring.
APRIL 10.
Col. William Colville, register of the.
land office at Duluth, has resigned.
Col. S. Olin, prominent pioneer of
Minnesota. died to-day at Rochester.
John Jarvis is killed by train on the
Milwaukee road at OwatOnna. MINI.
Rear Admiral Alfred Taylor. retired,
died in Washington to-day of pneumonia,
aged 81 years.
The Reyes Australian election bill, re-
quiring every name on the ticket to be-
marked, becomes law.
Negroes and Italians are being brought
into the Scottdale coke regions to take the
places of the striking operatives. and it is
expected that trouble will ensue.
APRIL 20.
Minnesota legislature adjourned to-day
at noon.
Carter Harrison, of Chicago, claims to be-
the recipient of letters, in which his life is
threatened.
Charles Fredln, of Minneapolis, was.
killed to-day by falling tree at West Su-
perior, Wis.
Col. A. V. Kautz is appointed brigadier-
general to fill the vacancy caused by the re-
tirement of Gen. GibbOn.
The electric power house of the st. Paul
City railway company was the scene of
terrific explosion this morning. One of the
petroleum oil tanks exploded, tearing the
building to atoms. and John johnson, an
emplOye, was cremated.
APRIL 81.
The National Republican League con-
vened in Cincinnati to-day.
The Mexicans Joined the Americans in
doing honor to President Harrison at Ell
PasO. Tex.
Gen. Butter, having incurred the animos-
ity of judge. was forcbly elected from a
court room in Boston to-day.
The grand jury of New Orleans is still
investigating the Malta case, and 27O wit
nesses have been summoned to appear be-
fore that body.