The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-31
NEWS OF A WEEK.
March %,

March %.
The bill for the detail of army officers as Indian
| agents is discussed in the house.
After long and animated debate the South Da.
kota delegation is instructed for Harrison.
The strike on the Canadian Pacific is declared
off, and the trouble will be settled by arbitration
President Harrison answers Lord Salisbury's
note and says that the United States will protect
the seals at all hazards.
| The Pennsylvania board of pardons recommends
a pardon in the cases Of the Beaver Star publish.
| ers who convicted of libelng Senator
Quay.
March "a.
The ruins of an Aztec city are found in Arizona
with eighteen mummifed bodies.
The Boring Sea difficulty becomes graver vet
| There is danger Of a naval engagement if Lord
Salisbury does not see his mistake
| The North Dakota Democrats hold their con.
| vention and cry loudly for Cleveland.
Through the action of Speaker Crisp. who votes
in the negative. the motion to table the silver bill
in the house is lost by tie vote. The bill cannot
| be considered again except upon a special ORDER
March rs.
Russian Jews are prohibited from entering Ger.
man territory.
| The strike of West Publishing company printers.
st. Paul, is settled.
The State the anti. Donnelly Alliance paper sus.
ponds publication.
canvass shows that Knute Nelson leads as a
| candidate for governor in preference among Re.
publcans throughout the state.
From April next direct postofice money or.
der service will be established between Austria.
Hungary and the United States.
March 26.
Walt Whitman. the GOOD Gray Poet dies at
his home at Camden, N. j.
The charge Of attempted robbery and blackmail
is made against two other Chicago aldermen.
Gen. A. w. Greeley may be court. martialed for
violating general orders Of the war department.
Some of the silver men think that the free coin.
age bill will be defeated in the house by IL or Is
majority.
The Illinois supreme court pronounces the Illi-
nois antitrust law unconstitutional It holds that
the act interferes with the right of
employers and employees to make contracts.
March ~.
DR.. Morrison Munford, editor of the Kansas
City Times. is dead.
Over 5000 Chinese rebels put to death by
the sword and 500 are burned alive.
1t is proposed to start political party whose
principal creed is the pensioning of ex-slaves and
whose presidential candidate will be Fred Dou.
glass.
Chinese evade our restriction laws by being nat.
uraized in Canada and then coming to the United
States. This country has no power to exclude
British subjects.
At the Cathedral in New YORK. and during serv.
ice. Archbishop Corrigan advises his people to at.
tend meeting Of the peoples union to be held,
in support Of the Mccarthy party in Ireland.
Paris anarchists wreck the house of public
prosecutor with dynamite. They are believed to
have inaugurated a war of determination upon all
magistrates who assist in the conviction of anarch.
lists.
March 20.
Minnesota Democratic leaders fix up slate of
delegates to the national convention.
District attorney Sleight Of Ashland. Wis. is
cited to appear before the governor and answer
charges of malfeasance.
Gov Merriam suspends H o. Peterson. county
treasurer of Hennepin, pending investigation
of his Irregularities.
A movement has been inaugurated in the West
and South to secure the nomination of free coin.
age platforms both at Minneapolis and Chicago.
Gov. Flower of New York had attack of yer.
tigo Sunday which is said to have been the result
of a stormy interview with Senator Hill.
March 20.
The Wisconsin State A lliance gets together.
Gov. Merriam buys the Richelieu hotel Chicago,
for 100000
Assistant United States Treasurer Dustin is
dying in Chicago.
dynamite explosion occurs in one of the larg.
est banks of Paris
A state of anarchy prevails in the Brazilian
state of Rio Grande do Sui.
Gov. Mckinley announces that he is not a can.
didate for the presidential nomination.
An attempt is made to have a national conven-
ton to discuss the Nicaragua canal project
T. }. Buxton. Minneapolis banker is made
treasurer of Hennepin county in place of II. o.
Peterson, suspended.
A bill for the consolidation Of the Canadian Pa.
cific and Grand Trunk railways is introduced in,
the dominion parliament.
A legislative joint committee begins work on
the case of Judge Maynard of the New York court
of appeals. accused Of manipulating election re.
turns.
A sale under the vagrant act takes place in
Fayette, Md. when three negroes were sold on
the block to the highest bidder. One brought s25,
another IS, and the third 81. The negro element