The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-03-19
NEWS OF A WEEK.
MARCH II.

The anti-PinkertOn bill passes the New
York assembly by vote of 1O1 to IL.
An explosion of gas in building at the
corner of Diamond and Wood streets, Pitts
burg, creates $500, 900 fire.
The Arthur and the Atlas manufacturing
buildings 103-107 West Fulton street, Chi
cagO. are destroyed by fire as the result
of boys carelessness. Losses 5000, ZOO.
The long senatorial contest in the Illinois
legislature is ended by the election of Gen.
Palmer, democrat, on the 154th ballot. This
result was brought about by two of the
three F. M. B. A. members voting with the
Democrats.
MARCH 10.
Gen. John w. Fuller died at Toledo.
Ohio.
A man at Manitowoc, Wis, throws his
childs body into the river to save funeral
expenses.
The heavy storms continue along the
British coast. and several steamers and
many lives are lost.
A revolution is'going on in Chilli, and it
| is reported that the president has been as.
sassinated, and foreigners are being ex-
PEELED.
The Republican League Clubs of Mime
sofa hold a convention in Minneapolis.
About 1000 delegates were present: John
GOOdnOw, of Minneapolis, is elected Presi.
dent.
MARCH Is.
The Minnesota House resolves in favor
of free coinage.
| The Minnesota House recommends the
Reyes election bill to pass.
The vulcanzed fiber ware factory, of St.
Cloud. is destroyed by fire.
| S. F. Leddle, a prominent real estate man
of Duluth, is run over and killed by the
cars.
Fifty starving coal miners raid provi-
sion store in daylight at Renvlle. Hooking
county, Ohio.
| The insane asylum at Nashville. Tenn,
is partly destroyed by fire, and twelve pa.
tients are burned to death.
Six of the nine Italians on trial at New
Orleans for the assassination of Chief of
Police HenneSsy are acquitted. AS to the
other three the jury disagree.
MARCH IA.
| A. Miner Griswold. The Fat Contributor
of Texas Siftings, dies suddenly Of apo
plexy at ShebOygan Falls, Wis.
| The United States steamer Galena and
the United States tug Nina are wrecked on
the beach at Gayhead light, Mass. All
hands were rescued.
| A mob of several thousand enraged New
Orleans citizens batter down the prison
doors and slaughter eleven of the Italians
| accused of the assassination of Chief of
Police Hennessy. The deed was done at
midday.
| MARCH Is.
A child of Dennis Hagan's. of Waseca,
Mimi, dies from the effects of drinking con-
centrated lye
| Italians all over the United States are
greatly excited over the killing of their
countrymen at New Orleans.
| Fire broke out in the residence of Gen.
E. Fowler in Brooklyn and his son William
was burned to death in his bed.
MARCH 16.
Judge John R. Brady of the New York
supreme court, is dead.
| John DOdd, of Buffalo. Mimi, dies at
the advanced age OF 1O1 years.
The Minnesota Senate passes bill pro-
viding for legal interest rate of and 8
per cent.
| Claud Libby. the ten-year. old son of
Thomas Libby, of Minneapolis. is killed by
street car
| The case OF Kincaid, charged with the
murder of ex-Congressman Taulbee. is
called in the criminal court of Washington.
A man supposed to be Tascott is arrested
at Aberdeen. S. Oak. The resemblance to
Tascott is said to be remarkable if he is not
actually the fellow.
| MARCH II.
Prince Jerome Napoleon dies in Rome.
Col. James ROdy Sneed. dies in Chicago,
aged 70 years.
The Minnesota House passes the bill
granting Minneapolis new charter.
Hon. Ben Butterworth and Maj. Moses
P. Handy address the Minnesota legislature
on the Worlds Fair.
New York City has 50, 900. 900 fire
which originated in Alfred Benjamin &
Company's large clothing factory at the
corner OF Blocker and Green streets.
The British steamship Utopia, from Ital-
ian ports, bound for New York with 700
Italian emigrants aboard cOlllded with the
British ironclad Rodney in Gibraltar bay,
and sank soon afterward. Many of the
passengers were rescued, but it is believed
that over two hundred persisted.