The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-02-04
NEWS OF A WEEK.
January ~.

occupied by West & Tice. Loss about S15OOOO.
national conference of representatives of va
rious political reform movements is held in Chi.
caeo.
Chile's reply to the ultimatum is acceptable to
the United States. and Secretary Blaine says that
all danger of war is past.
The antiChinese sentiment in Montana has
grown to such intensity that an effort is being
made to exclude them from the state.
Solomon Hanks, one of the most prominent
men in Ohio and cousin of Abraham Lincoln.
dies at his home at the advanced age of ninety.
two years.
Grover Cleveland, it is said. contemplates writ.
ing letter announcing his withdrawal as a posi-.
BILE candidate for the presidential nomination by
the Democrats.
January28.
France has concluded commercial arrangements.
with all the powers except Spain.
The United States threatens retaliation for the
arrest of two of its customs officials at Montreal.
The Minnesota railroad commission tackle the
subject of demurrage charges at terminal points.
Additional correspondence shows that the un.
pleasantness between Chile and the United States
is now ended.
An attempt is to be made by the millers to open
up trade in flour between Cuba and the North.
west.
Herr Goar. prominent banker at Frankfort,
Germany, has become a bankrupt. His liabilities
| are about a million marks.
The thrty-third degree of Masonry was con-
ferred upon Hon. Thomas w. Palmer. president
Of the Worlds Fair commission.
January 20.
The percentage of pauperism in Minnesota is,
shown to be much lower than in the rest of the
United States.
Articles were filed yesterday by the Great
Northern Soap company of Minneapolis with q
capital stock of 100000.
The general manager of the st. Paul city rail.
way declines to furnish the city treasurer an.
itemized statement of earnings.
The bank at Albert Lea controlled by the late
ex-Leut. Gov. Armstrong will remain closed, but
depositors W i'll be paid in full.
In habeas corpus proceedings at Red Wing.
MIMI, for the release of an inmate of the state
reform school, Judge willston decides that the
reform school is not prison and those detained
there are not prisoners
January 80.
cabinet crisis in Germany grows out of the
Emperor's educational bill
A meeting to further the cause of Canadian in.
dependence is held in Toronto.
A British ship is wrecked off the coast of Wash.
ngton state and twenty sailors drowned.
At the request Of Turkey, the French govern.
ment expels a Levantne journalist from France.
Rumor has it that the State Farmers Alliance
and the State Federation of Labor will combine.
railroad combination exists which Injuries the
st. Paul theaters. preventing of the best at.
fractions from going there.
Secretary Thompson, of the Duluth chamber of
commerce, carries congressional committees by
sfO Wit adj in IF
way from Duluth to New York.
January 81.
The Gear intends to re.establish serfdom in.
Russia.
Bishop McGolrick of Duluth is badly injured by
a runaway.
Mr.. Spurgeon. the great London preacher, dies
at Mentone.
A mob at Butte forces a gang of Great Northern
employees to quit work because they were getting
only So day.
dispatch from Shanghai reports that British
gunboat has been sent to Ichang. where the
Christians were recently massacred. More trouble
is expected there.
February.
The public debt decreased 50. POS. 6 SO in Jsnuary
resolution demanding the recall Of Minister
Egan is introduced in the house by Democratic
member.
According to the statement of the American
minister to Russia the sufferers number at least
fourteen million.
William E. Lee of Long Prairie secures a YER
dict of $1,000 against the Pillsbury Milling
pany in a test involving infringement of q
patent. He is thus enabled to collect perhaps
a million dollars in royalties from Northwestern
millers.
February 2.
Jacob P Leese the first white settler in Califor.
MIA, is dead, aged eighty two years.
The library board of Minneapolis selects DR.. J.
K. HOsmer, OF st. Louis. as librarian.
The president issues proclamation announcing
the reciprocal agreement between Germany and
the United States.
A bin allowing reporters to be present at cleo.
trical executions has passsd both houses of the
New York legislature.
An extradtiOn treaty between the United States
and France has been drafted for submission to the
representatives of the two governmental