The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-09-24
NEWS OF A WEEK.
September 16.

September 16.
Portland and Salem, Or. are shaken by an earth
quake.
Roswell P. Flower 10 the Democratic nominee
for governor of New York.
Hon. w. w. Grape is nominated for governor by
Massachusetts Republicans.
John Pratt. owner of the town site of AMMAN.
dale, Wright Co., kills himself accidently while
hunting.
Austin Bidwell, the great American forger, after
serving II years of life sentence in a British
prison, has secured a Communication and will soon
be free.
September II.
st. Paul is to have lace paper factory.
Albertson, the Tacoma bank defaulter is cap
tured.
Thirty thousand bushels of wheat is destroyed
by fire near Libson, N. d.
The Great Northern tracklayers pass the
NIT of the Rocky mountains.
The Western base ball association disbands and
awards the pennant to Sioux City.
Col. H. c. King is sentenced to death for the
murder at Memphis, Tenn, of David H. Pasten.
Attorney General Miller prepares a brief in the
lottery declaring the anti-lottery law consti
tutional.
fire which started in Smith & Thompson's
worth of property. The electric light plant was
among the losses.
September IS.
The Acme Cooperative Barrel company's fac
tory at Minneapolis is burned
Gen. Isaac Qumby. who served with distinction
in the army, dies at Rochester N. " aged seventy.
Twenty-Five men belonging to the Nuremberg N.
S., fleets of fishermen are drowned during hurri.
cane.
Five people lose their lives by the burning Of a
tenement at Nos. $40 and 55l sedgwick street.
Chicago.
Cowboys and Negroes are having serious trouble
in Oklahoma over government land. good deal
of shooting has been done resulting in the wound
ing of many.
Says the Pioneer press. IF the Liberals carry
the British elections, the program is for Gladstone
to be premier, to be succeeded by Harcourt after
the home rule bill is passed.
The weather bureau report says that the temper.
AZURE of the Dakotas, Wisconsin, Minnesota and
Northeast Iowa is the highest for this season of
the year of which there is any record.
September 10.
Russia is alarmed at Chinese beligerent atti.
tude.
sassnated.
falling from a wagon.
Twenty-Five miners are killed by explosion
in coal mine in Belgium.
number of people are seriously injured in
street collision the st. Paul Interurban
electric line.
Fire sweeps a large section of western
North Dakota destroying many thousands of dol
lars worth of grain and other property.
September 20.
Ex.Congressman w. L. Scett. of Pa dies at
Newport, R. l.
An invention to stop runaway horses by cleo.
tricty is successfully tested in Chicago.
The Attorney General of Washington state de.
clares Bible reading in public schools unconsti-
tutional.
dies at Sioux City, Iowa, after living
twenty-five years with bullet in the most vital
part of his brain.
Ex-President Bamaceda of Chill shot himself
through the temple in his room at the Argentine
legation in Santiago Saturday morning.
September 81.
man is hanged by a mob at Darlington, Wis,
in daylight.
The German.American Catholic congress opens
at Buffalo. N. Y.
Work is to begin at once on the Grant monu-
ment in New York.
Secretary of State Blaine is negotiating for st.
Nicholas Mole, Hayti, as naval station.
The Westminster bank of London is robbed of
nearly million dollars in some mysterious way.
Eleven Cinnamon captured at Detroit.
Mich. while attempting to sneak into the United
States.
The United States England Germany and
France will send ships to China to protect
their citizens resident there.
The government 10 about to prosecute persons
suspected of stealing timber from the Fond du
Lac Indian reservation in Northern Minnesota.
September %.
William Hartman, burglar, is shot in Eau
Claire, Wis.
Mrs. j. NJ Critic residing in West Side, st. Paul,
confessed to having murdered her husband by
poisoning last August.
Thousands of boomers enter into the addi-
ton to Oklahoma There three persons to
each section of land. There considerable
blood shed.
S. v. White & Co.. bankers and brokers. Of New
York and Chicago. make an assignment. They
attempted to corner the corn market, and are said