The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-05-19
NEWS OF A WEEK.
May H..

May IL.
Iowa's twenty six Democratic delegates are in
structed to vote a unit for Gov. Boies.
Great Britain accepts the invitation of Presi.
dent Harrison to participate in bi.metallic con.
gress.
Much difficulty is encountered in raising the
funds necessary for the Peoples party convention
at Omaha.
]. Sloat Fassett of New York, it is expected
will succeed Clarkson chairman of the Repub.
lican National committee.
During musical festival given in Kansas City
the scaffolding collapses and 500 children held
upon it are thrown down. Five children were
injured.
May12
The friends of President Harrison figure that he
will be renominated on the first ballot
The house passes resolution authorizing an
investigation of the Pinkerton detective agency
The experiments made by the state show that
profitable crops of sugar beet could be raised in
Minnesota.
resolution to promote the establishment of a
republic in Cuba is introduced in the United
States senate.
The Childs-Drexel memorial hospital for aged
printers is dedicated at Colorado Springs in the
presence of twenty thousand men and women
! representing the union printers.
May ID.
The acting secretary of the treasurer transmits
| to the house an estimate of the deficiency in the
appropriation for pensions of s7,674.1a2.
The store and factory of the Wolterstorff-Ha
kel Manufacturing company of ST. Paul. is dam.
aged by fire to the extent of over $4,000.
The national monetary convention is expected
to convene about July l. All the nations will
probably accept President Harrison's invitation.
The president selects Justice Harlan, of the
United States supreme court and Senator Morgan
of Alabama the representatives. of the country
on the Boring sea board of arbitration.
May a.
| Nine men crushed to death while working
| in the Anaconda mine at Butte. Mont.
Secretary Elkins has directed that the new mil.
itary post at Helena, Mont, be named Fort Har.
| rison."
| Four Chinese charged with being in this country
Illegally, sent across from Detroit to the Brit.
ish domain.
Reciprocity is the means suggested by American
residents in China for an adjustment of our rela.
| tions with the empire.
Gen. Thomas A. Rowley, who served with dis.
tinction in the Mexican war and in the Rebellion,
dies at Pittsburg at the age of eighty.fve.
The immense ice house of the Silver Lake Ice
| company at Perry. N. Y, burned, and $4,000
tons of ice were destroyed. Loss s25O,OOO; insur-
| ance, $4,000.
Judge E. s. German, formerly probate judge,
dies in st. Paal.
One hundred thousand stone cutters are to
strike in the United States to-day.
The pope is preparing brief in connection with
the approaching Columbian celebration.
Fred C. Pillsbury. member of the great milling
firm of Minneapolis, dies of diphtheria.
There is said to be truth in the report that
errors have been found in the original survey of
the boundary between the United States and
Mexico.
According to the statement of DR.. Kelley, thus
far he has rescued 10000 patients from drunken.
ness by the process of his bichlorde of gold cure.
May l6
Col A. E. Chantler is elected president of the.
st. Paul press club.
A terrific hurricane passes over New Zealand.
Many vessels driven upon the shore and
dashed to pieces.
committee of five will be appointed by the St.
Paul chamber of commerce to receive delegates
to the national convention.
Mrs. Bridget j. Cummings is appointed matron
of the ST. Paul central police station. This posi-
tion created at the instance of the w. C. T. o.
John j. Penner secretary and treasurer of the
Twin City Packing company dies in st. Paul. He
was one of the best German citizens of St. Paul.
Two wealthy Cinnamon visit the president Of
Mexico with the object to secure colonization
cession for their countrymen who now reside in
the United States.
The imaginative correspondent Ct Chicago pa.
per sends telegram announcing that the people
of st. Paul are compelled to leave their homes on
account of disastrous flood.
May II.
1t is understood that Chief Detective John
O'Connor has received offer of one Of the i'm.
portant position the Worlds Fair detective
force
A pitch battle takes place between horse thieves
and deputy sheriffs in the Indian Territory. Two
of the horse thieves and one of the deputies were
killed.
The Objectionable ordinance enabling hack.
man to procure the arrest Of any refusing TO-
pay an exorbitant sum he may charge, is passed i.
by the board of aldermen of st. Paul.
The Vatican recommends the American bishops
| to form a national union against the project ad.
vocated by Herr Cahensly to appoint bishops Of