The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-05-21
NEWS OF A WEEK.
MAY 10.

WlIldm FOWell, an ola ana respected
resident of Blue Earth county, committed
suicide.
Three steamboats,, the George Roberts,
Twilight, and Engle, are burned at Pitts
burg. Pa.
The eighteenth annual conference of
charities and corrections began at Indianap-
oils, Ind. to day.
MAY IA.
President Harrison and party visit Lin.
coins tomb at Springfield.
1t is reported that crops are suffering
greatly from drought in all parts of the
Northwest.
The Chicago & Northwestern Railroa
company discharges all its union switchmen
in Chicago.
A twelve year old boy kills his mother
with garden hoe at Benton, Ark. She
was whipping him.
The special committee appointed to in
vestigate the grain elevators commenced it's
work to-day at the state capitol.
MAY Is.
Tenny won the Brooklyn Jockey Club
handicap.
A vestibule train on the Milwaukee road
is wrecked near Columbus, Wis.,, but no
one is injured.
Robert Morrison a we'll known railroad
contractor of Minnesota. was killed in
Joliet. ILL.,. while experimenting the re-
mOval of building.
The tour of President Harrison which be.
gan April IA terminated on the presidents
arrival in Washington to-day. He travelled
10000 miles and made 140 speeches.
MAY 16.
A gang of tOughs raised riot in circus
tent at Pittsburgh and many people were
injured.
Policemen Petries and Freed. of Youngs-
town. Ohio. are shot while attempting to
arrest burglar, the latter fatally.
Charles H. Champlin, superintendent of
the North Star Wooden Mills, Minneapolis,
committed suicide to day by shooting.
Capt. Charles H. Billiard, of Fairmont.
Minn., is to receive the appointment as
deputy collector of customs at Sand Point.
Alaska.
Henry M. Stanley was almost mobbed at
Sheffield, Eng. by gang of socialists
whom he had elected from the hall where
he was lecturing.
Twenty-Five blocks of business houses
and residences at Muskegon. Mich, are
burned, and about 1.500 people, mostly
poor. have been rendered homeless
MAY II.
A. F. McDougalI and his fve-year. old
son are drowned in mill pond at Vern-
dale. MINI.
Capt p. S. Davidson's large saw mill at
La Crosse. Wis. is destroyed by fire. which
is supposed to have been incendary.
About so persons are dangerously poi
sOned at Pittsburgh by eating smoked
sturgeon which is supposed to have been
decaying when smoked.
The commander in chief of the G. A. r.
asks that $500. 900 be contributed to erect a
national memorial G. A. r. hall at Decatur.
ILL.,. the birth place of the organization.
The necessary capital, 500. 600, 900, has
been subscribed and the construction of the
big bridge to span the Hudson river be-
tween New York and New Jersey at West
Seventy first street will begin by September
MAY IS.
Twelve hundred laborers strike for higher
wages at West Superior, Wis.
The Italian government is taking meas.
ures to restrict emigration to the United
States.
The new municipal assembly of st. Paul
holds its first meeting and VIM. Pitt Murray
is elected president.
The works of the Joliet Gill;, Enterprise
company have been destroyed by fire, in
consequence of which 800 men are thrown
out of employment.
Antonio NOrtOre, John Hanson, and the
two year old daughter of James Flaherty,
died to-day of injuries received from
street cars in Minneapolis within the past
week.
The president has committed to life i'm.
prisonment the three Navassa rioters under
sentence of death at Baltimore. The pres
ident says that the men had been treated
more like convicts than laborers on the
island and that it was but natural that thew
should revolt.
MAY 10.
Eighteen men are killed near Tarrvtown.
N. Y. by dynamite explosion.
The national union conference of the AL.
lance party opened in Cincinnati today,
Jacksonville. Fla. has $500. 600 fire on
Bay street between Market and Newman
streets.
Over one thousand delegates attend the
first session of the trans Mississippi con.
gress at Denver. COL, to-day.