The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-05-28
NEWS OF A WEEK.
MAY 20.

The large linSeed oil mill at Sioux City,
Iowa. burned to-day.
Ten or twelve persons are killed near
Mexico, Mo-. by tornado.
SignOr Corte. the Italian CONSUL at New
Orleans, sailed for home to day.
Lemon Brothers circus train was wrecked
at st. Joseph. Mo-. and three men were
fatally injured and two lions killed.
The fourth qunquennal convention of
the Universal Postal union convened in
Vienna to day.
The National Alliance cOnven ton at
Cincinnati succeeds in organizing new
national party to be called the ''PeOpIe's
Party of the United States"
MAY21.
S. H. Nichols. state oil Inspector has
handed in his resignation.
The 103rd annual meeting of the Presby-
terian general assembly convened at
Detroit. Mich, to day.
Twenty million feet of lumber valued at
$24O, 600 is consumed by fire in Day & Co.'s
North Minneapolis yard.
Judge AlphOnso Taft. secretary of war
and later attorney general under President
Grant, died at San Diego, CAL. to. day after
long illness.
President Harrison issued proclamation
to day throwing open to settlement about
1, 900, 900 acres of the Fort BerthOld Indian
reservation in North Dakota.
j. c. Newton. general manager of the
Des MOines & Kansas City road. is indicted
at Des MOines, Iowa, for defrauding the
U. S. postal department. Mr.. N. is a mill
iOnaire.
MAY %.
The Republican State convention of Ken.
lucky has nominated T. A. Wood for gov.
ernOr.
near Birmingham. Ala, ten negro cOnvicts
and one free man are killed.
The Hill shoe company of Memphis.
Tenn, failed to- day for about $500, 900 and
William Walls Hill. the president of the
company, committed suicide.
MAY %.
The Gillian insurgents have founded
government with Gen. MOntt as president.
Albert Goheen is sentenced to death at
Fergus Falls for the murder of Rosetta
Bray.
Mayor E. M. Morehouse, of Owatonna,
who was fatally injured by falling down
stairs. died to- day.
City Treasurer John Bardsley, of PhiIa-
delphia, has been arrested for the embeZzle-
ment of several hundred thousand dollars.
Two little children of Felix Lawler,
yardmaster of the Minneapolis & St. Louis
road at Minneapolis, are burned to death.
The James E. Davis wholesale drug house
and the liquor store of Fechhemer &
Hart. at Detroit, Mich, are burned Loss
$3.50. 900.
The saddle tree factory inside of the
walls of the penitentiary at Jefferson City.
Mo-. was destroyed by fire to night. Loss
$17O, 900.
MAY "a.
Louis Yoerg. prominent citizen OF Hud.
son, Wis.,, is dead.
Three men who were stealing ride in a
lumber car are fatally crushed at Wazeka,
Ill.
An Austrian Baron and a young south
erner fight a real old fashioned duel with
swords in Jackson Park, Chicago.
The Jewish charity organization, of Chi
cagO, refuses to accept any of Baron
Hirsch's 50. 50O.0 600 fund to assist Jewish
immigrants from Russia. Their reason for
refusing is that Chicago is not good place
to send those Jews.
David Butler. Nebraska's first state gov
ernOr, died to day.
Mrs. Christen Peterson hung her four
children and herself at Harlan. Iowa.
Congressman l.. c. Houk. of Tennessee,
is killed by an accidental dose of poison.
John B. HOllenbeck. the oldest Free Ma.
son in the world, died to- day at Burling-
ton, VT
1t is rumOred that Senator Stamford will
be nominated for president on the new PEG.
pies party.
Trains between Mankato and Wells.
Mimi. are Obstructed by caterpillars that
gather on the track.
MAY 26.
Illinois will have 81, 900. 900 exhibit at
the Worlds Fair.
Rear Admiral S. P. Carter, retired, died
to- day in Washington.
Students of the Iowa University and the
Iowa City police have row which results
in many broken heads.
The New York Central will bridge the
st. Lawrence from Cape Vincent to Kings.
ston across Wolf Island.