The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-06-04
NEWS OF A WEEK.
MAY a..

MAY ~.
G. A. Booth, marshal of Hinckley,
Mimi, was run over and killed by train.
Mrs. w. A. Uptegoff and her three chill
dren are burned to death at Topeka, Kan.
The lumber yards. warehouses and ma
terial of the Winona Wagon company were
destroyed by fire to day.
DR.. Garrison. who killed DR.. Baird in
Wheeling, w. Va. last March. is convicted
of murder in the second degree.
Gen. B. B. Eggleston. who made brill.
liant record as soldier and statesman in
the South. died at Wichita, Kan.
MAY 25.
Plenty Horse, the slayer of Lieut.. Casey.
is acquitted.
Harry Freeberg is killed by train at
MOOrhead. MINI.
Swan A. Ponthan is elected city con-
troller of St. Paul.
Howard Hanson, son of a Saltwater
butcher, browns in Lake st. CroiX.
An engine and sixteen freight cars 90
through trestle on the Canadian Pacific at
Revelstroke. Man.
Judge S. M. Breckenridge, OF St. Louis,
dropped dead to-day as he closed a speech
before the Presbyterian General Assembly
at Detroit, Mich.
MAY 30.
John Bardsley, the defaulting city treas
urer of Philadelphia is imprisoned for en-
beZzlement.
The United States man war Vermont
is reported to have been sunk in a collision
in Chinese waters.
A bill to prohibit British subjects CATCH
Ing seals in Behring sea for certain period
is introduced in parliament
The trial of DR.. Briggs is concluded, and
his appointment to the chair of Biblical
theology of the Union theological seminary
is vetoed by vote of 40 against SO.
MAY 80.
Memorial Day.
The business portion of Osseo, Trempe-
aleau county. Wis, is destroyed by fire.
John Hines. mate of the schooner Annie
Sherwood, was killed by all accident at
Washburn, Wis.
An excursion train from Davenport to
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. is derailed at Upton
and many passengers are injured.
Fire breaks out in the wholesale house of
W. A. Seely & Co. at Whapeton. N. Dak.,
and property to the value of $500, 600 is de-
stroyed.
David Brook. the electrician and in
ventor. died in Philadelphia to- day.
Thomas Hieler's large mill and elevator
and the 500 depot at Buffalo. Mimi, are
destroyed by fire.
Four men are killed by an explosion of
dynamite in the Atlantic Pacific tunnel at
KelsO mountain, Col.
A party of Turkish brigands wreck
train near Tchereskei, plunder the passen-
gers and carry off a number of wealthy
travellers who are ransomed for $40
JUNE 1.
The Old Settlers Association of Mime
sofa holds its thirty third annual reunion in
ST. Paul.
The works of the Brooklyn IN. W
COOperage company are destroyed by fire,
causing loss of $780,
The famous baccarat scandal trial, in
which many big guns including the Prince
of Wales are interested began in London
to day.
Tchang- Ki-Tong. formerly connected with
the Chinese legations in Paris and London,
has been sentenced to death for dishonesty
to his government.
Proposals were opened to day by the
navy department for the construction of a
uOW CTuIS0Ts WHICH, Is W nave d SpcCU ~
knots an hour and is to cost about So, $780,
900.
JUNE Q.
Three people are killed and great damage
is done to property near Watertown, S.
Dak., by cyclone
Sir John Macdonald, premier of Canada,
is dying.
At Bowling Green. Va. five men are
killed and eight wounded by boiler ex-
plOSion in sawmill.
The grand lodge of Odd Fellows of
Minnesota commenced its annual meeting
at Winona to-day.
Geo. j. Schwinfurth. the Illinois "Mes-
siah," creates sensation in Kansas CITY.
and is threatened with a night gown Of
tar and feathers.
Michael Davitt. the famous Irish leader.
arrives at Winnipeg, Man.
The scow Mayfower sank to-day near
Duluth and Captain Theo. Zerbot was
drowned.
The three New York murderers. Smiler.
SlOcum and Wood, have been resentenced
to death by electrOcutiOn during the week
beginning July 6,