The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-09-08
NEWS OF A WEEK.
August 81.

The Minneapolis exposition is opened.
The Nelson.paper mill at Minneapolis, MIMI,
is destroyed by fire.
The world record is again lowered by Nancy
Hanks, the queen of trOtterS. On kite-shape
track she goes a mile in 2O5A
Twenty-Five passengers of the steamer Nora
via, which arrives in New York from Hamburg,
die of cholera during the passage.
Figures given by the state labor commissioner
show that the foreclosures of mortgages on farm
lands in Minnesota were in 1891 less than one
fourth what they were in 1881.
September 1.
The Commercial Bank of ST. Paul will resume
business within ten days fortnight.
Twenty-six lives are lost by a barge going to
pieces in gale of wind on Lake Superior
Through mistake of the hired girl four men,
bers of st. Paul family are made ill by poi
sOned pOrridge.
Active measures are taken by the state author
tiles to prevent, if possible, the introduction Of
cholera into Minnesota
Minneapolis crop year closes with record of
wheat receipts of trife less than 100000
bushels, a gain of 2O,OOO,OOO over last year.
The government issues circular and recon-
mends that no vessels from any foreign port car
rying immigrants shall be admitted to any port
of the United States until said vessel undergoes
quarantine of twenty days.
September 2.
United States Minister Patrick Regain sails
from Valparaiso for home.
England admres and approves President Har-
rsOn's radical treatment of the cholera.
1t is reported that twelve persons are drowned
by the sinking of the steamer Green Bay in Lake
Superior.
At Jersey City, n j., twentyOne ballot box
suffers are given sentences ranging from six to
fifteen months.
Archbishop Ireland denies the recent report
that he was to be elevated to the cardnalate and
be sent to Paris.
Thus far the treasury department has shipped
to various points in the United States 81 900 OOOin
small notes to facilitate the moving of the crops.
John d. OsgoOd, for the last seven years head
wheat buyer of the Pillsbury- Washburn mills at
Minneapolis, is lying at the point of death.
September g.
1t is claimed that New York cannot escape the
cholera epidemic.
Ground is broken for the great drainage canal
from Chicago to the Gulf of Mexico.
A young woman at st. Paul is killed by being
given corrosive sublimate in mistake for medi-
cine.
A bayOnet charge is made by soldiers at Home
stead upon loaded passenger steamer because
somebody cried "scab
The Mexican government apprOprates three
million dollars in gold found buried in convent
in the city of Mexico
September t.
Present figures place the wheat crop OF
Minnesota and the DakOtas at 100, OOOO 600 bushels.
The state convention of PrOhbtionsts Of
South Dakota will be held at Sioux Falls Sept. A.,
The entire town of Rocky Bar is swept away
by fire and nearly $50 people rendered home
less.
Fire in Portland, Or, completely destroys a
| row of wooden buildings owned by c. X. DOdd.-
Loss 100000; fully insured.
Thomas C. Platt, in an interview, says he was
greatly disappointed in the result of the
Minneapolis convention.
The statue of Christopher Columbus, presen-
ted by the Italian nation to the people of the
United States arrives in New York.
A special census just completed of the city of
Little Falls, MIMI, shows the population to be
4,699 The population in 1890 was 1854.
September s.
President HarrisOns long expected letter of
acceptance is made public.
A raid is made by the police upon the Garfield
track in Chicago and 100 people are arrested.
MinneSOta'S thirty-fOurth annual exhibit is
opened. The displays have never been eQuaed.-
Daniel Dougherty, the silver-tongued orator
and well known lawyer dies at his home in Phila-
dephia
The first severe frost of the season visits Mil
Ter, S. d. but late crops were too far advanced
to be damaged
Canadians not alone insult our flag but the
Stars and Stripes are dragged in the streets of
Montreal.
September g.
No immigrants will be brought into Minnesota
without health certificates.
Five thousand dollars is appropriated for
cleaning the city of st. Paul.
The Joint special council committee of st. Paul
passes resolution to reduce salaries.
Rev. Sam Small, the evangelist is shot by an
Indiana tough and seriously wounded.
Three car loads of immigrants from Germany
arrive in Detroit by the way of Canada.
The poet Whittier is not expected to live. His
condition has grown worse since yesterday.
George Dixon, the champion bantam weight
fighter of the world defeats Jack Sicily in eight
rounds
A prominent citizen of Bismarck n D., is ill
with what his physician considers to be genuine
! ASiatic cholera