The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-08-27
NEWS OF A WEEK.
August 10.

John Maier and Robert Jinksley are killed by
lightning at GAINESVILLE. MINI.
The second annual Western Students confer.
ence is held at Geneva Lake, Wis.
Solomon Bridgman, Minneapolis city sewer in.
spector. loses his life by the caving of q sewer.
At New Auburn. eight miles south of Glencoe
MINI. Mrs. Dickinson browns herself and daugh.
ter.
Owing to the crowded condition of the Roches.
ter insane asylum patients are compelled to sleep
in tents.
The first annual meeting of the Railway Postal
Clerks Association of the United States opens in
st. Louis.
Dedication of the monument concentrating
the battle of Bennington. Hon. e. ]. Phelps ora,
tor of the day.
August 20.
President Harrison's birthday.
At Crab Orchard, KY. Sheriff Saunders kills
Judge Egoert.
U. S. agents succeed in producing rain in Texas
by artificial means.
Cardinal Gibbons confers the pallium upon
Archbishop Katzer of Milwaukee.
By an explosion Of giant powder four men are
killed in the Black Bear mines at Burke, Idaho.
Clark Woodman. one of the wealthiest and
most influential citizens of Omaha. Neb., suicides.
The American Wheel company. with plants in
six different states, goes into the hands of a re.
ceiver.
August 81.
President Harrison is given hearty reception,
at Saratoga.
Gustave johnson is killed in ST. Paul by
runaway freight cars.
At Argyle. Mimi. Frank Mitchell is accidentally
killed by John Benson.
Queen Victoria makes formal inspection Of
the French fleet in Osborne bay.
At Ironton. Ohio. three little children are found
smothered to death in a tool chest
The captain of the Netherland line steamer
OLDHAM quells a mutiny at sea by shooting the
leader.
The Italian government organs assert that if
the next conclave is held abroad the government
will occupy the vatican and exclude the pope.
William D. Holtzemorth of Gettysburg. Pa, the
famous battlefield guide, ex.director of the Gettys
burg Battlefield Memorial association and super
intendent of the Soldiers National cemetry. died
to-day.
August %.
At Nicollet village near New Ulm, Mimi, John
Miller is killed by his divorced wife.
Two hundred and fifty persons are killed and
many thousands injured by a cyclone in the island
of Martinique.
the defense of New Ulm during the Sioux war Of
1862. is dedicated.
A frightful accident occurs in New York CITY, In
Park place. between Greenwich street and Col.
lege place. a large building with many occupants
tumbles to the ground. Twenty-Five dead bodies
have been recovered and it is thought that the
whole number Of fatalities will reach seventyfve.
August 20.
Over eleven hundred bushels of potatoes are
raised on one acre of ground near Northfield MIMI
Reports say that the Wabash company villa
build a new railroad between Montpelier, Ohio,
and Oh icago
The Chlians are engaged to-day in the fercest
battle of the war and it is estimated that 8, 600
men have been killed and wounded.
dead body found in the river at St. Paul turns.
out to be that of George B. Osborn who disappear.
ed from Minneapolis some time ago. He had met
with reverses in wheat speculatons which is sup
posed to have been the cause of his suicide
August "a.
II. c. Raikes, postmaster general of England is
dead.
The wealth of the United States is estimated at
s62. 210. OO0, 600.
The national encampment of the Sons of veter.
ans opens in Minneapolis.
Inc minnesota WOrloS Fair commissioners de-.
eide to abandon the idea of an extra session Of
the legislature.
The artc steamer Kite. which bore Lieut.. Perry
the artc explorer. and companions to Mccormick
Bay, has returned and reports that on July IL,
Lieut.. Perry broke his leg. He will not be able to
continue on his land journey for three months.
August 25
hon. Leland Stanford's boom for the presidency
is started by the San Francisco Weekly Argus.
The BeriniSaale Zeitung says that Prince Bis
marck is afflicted with drowsiness and is losing his
Age is rapidly telling on the EXCHANGED.
lor.
The president of Nicaragua, to prevent his
downfall, causes a number of prominent people to
be put to death, and drives many others out Of
the country
Secretary Of War Proctor has been notified that
he will be appointed United States senator for
Vermont to fill the vacancy made by the resigna-
ton Of Hon. George F. Edmonds.
report has been received by the treasury de.
partment from the artic regions that sixty whale.
men had been massacred BY Esquimaux at Mac.
kenzie about 500 miles east of Point Barrow.