The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-07-09
NEWS OF A WEEK.
July l..

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The Democrats of Minnesota meet in Min neap-
oils to organize.
The eighth annual Chautauqua assembly opened
at Waseca. MINI.
Potomc wins the Realization stakes. worth
SAC, 900. at sheepshead Bay.
Hiram c. Wheeler is nominated for governor Of
Iowa by the Republican convention at Cedar Rap
ids.
The site chosen for the government building at
Mankato is two lots on the Holbrook property at
the corner of Jackson and Second streets.
July 2.
Sturgeon, the famous London preacher is dan.
gerously ill.
The wheat investigating committee adjourned.
to meet again in January.
The government decides to extend the ~ per
cent bonds at per cent.
William E. simons, of Connecticut is appointed
| commissioner of patents
| Patrick B. Larkn inmate Of the Soldiers
Bardsley, the ex-city treasurer of Philadelphia.
is sentenced to fifteen years Imprisonment.
home at Minneapolis, committed suicide.
A freight train and gravel train collide
St. Paul Junction and one engine and twenty.six
| cars destroyed.
The census bureau issues a bulletin showing
| the population of Nevada 4576l, decrease of 49,.
sos since 1851; ldahO o4,3S5 Wnlcn Is an increase
during the decade of 5l.175.
The president has appointed A. Louden Snow
den, of Pennsyl vania. minister to Greece. Roume-
MIA and Servia; Romualdo Pacheco. of California,
minister to Guatemala and Honduras.
July3.
The president goes to Cape May where he will
remain for six weeks.
The New York Jack the Ripper" is found guilty
of murder in the second degree.
Gov. Fifer, of Illinois, is at Lake Miltona. near
Alexandria, Mimi, where he will spend a couple
of weeks.
Herman Harms, who has slept almost continu.
ously for the past sixteen years. has awoke. His
home is near Quincy. Mimi.
Friedrich Douglass American minister to Rayti.
has arrived in New York. and reports that the
Haytian rebellion has been suppressed
The Chicago Burlington & Quincy railroad com.
pany secures control of the Burlington. Cedar
Rapids & Northwestern by purchasing the Rock
Islands half interest in that road.
A terrible railroad accident occurred at
Ravenna. Ohio, at O'Clock this morning A pas
senger train while lying at the station was run
| into by freight train. Twenty-one people were
killed outright or burned to DEATH and many
| were injured.
July 4.
| The Park theater. st. Paul, is burned.
The Gillian insurgent vessel Itata arrives at
San Diego, Cal.
William Henry Gladstone, the eldest son OF the
great English statesman, is dead.
Emperor William. of Germany. arrives in Eng
land to visit his grandmother the queen.
Two aeronauts and one assistant are killed in
Ohio towns while attempting to make ascents.
| Ex.vice President Hannibal Hamln died after
a few hours illness at Bangor. Me. He was eighty.
| two years of age He was elected with Lincoln,
in 1860.
An excursion train the Kanawha s. Michigan
railroad went through trestle eight miles west
of Charleston w. Va. Ten persons were killed
outright. number fatally hurt and many
were severely wounded.
July 5.
Galveston, Texas, is visited by heavy storm
and great damage is done.
An elephant at menagerie in Denver becomes
frightened and is not quieted until one child is
trampled to death.
Nelson A. Bradt, of YOUNGSTOWN, arrives at San
Francisco having ridden from New York city on q
bicycle in eighty-six days.
1t is practically decided that there will be
grand reunion of Union and Confederate soldiers
held in Chicago during the Worlds Fair.
July s.
in the Worlds Fair.
Two white men and two Indians are killed in a.
fight near PARK ersfeld. Cal.
Eber Wait. twelve years DID, was drowned in
Prairie Lake near Fergus Falls
The steamer Dunhom went down off Dover,
Eng, and seventeen persons were drowned.
Two elevators, one at Warren. MIMI, and the
other at New Richmond, N. OAK. are burned
Princess Louise. granddaughter of Queen Vic
toria, was married to Prince Albert of Unhalt.
Germany.
1t is believed that twelve more persons were
killed in the Ravenna disaster than were first
ported, as there 10 that number who have not
been accounted for
July =.
-Four men were put to death by electricity in
Sing Sing prison at an early hour this morning.
Chief Hump. who caused the government so
much trouble during the late Sioux war; is going to
join the regular army.
A convention of Farmers Alliance members
was held in st. Paul for the purpose of organizing
the Peoples party in Minnesota.
According to bulletin soon to be issued by the
census bureau there $3.50 900 Catholics in the
United States over fifteen years of age.