The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-12-15
NEWS OF A WEEK.
December z.

Gov. Mckinley is to lead the Republican hosts
in Ohio next November.
The Spanish premier tenders the queen regent
the resignation of the cabinet.
Over six hundred operators on the Rock Island
railroad are going on strike
Jay GOulds will is made public. and the entire
fortune is devided among his children
The George II. LainS Furniture company of st,
Paul has its stock damaged by fire to the extent
of 81 800.
Representative Harter of Ohio introduces =
bill in the house its object being to abolish the
bOuntieS on sugar
Senator Hill introduces bin in the senate To
repeal the act of July II, $780, directing the Dur.
chase of silver bullion
DecemberS
Worcester, Mass, is visited by $4,000 fire.
A report is cabled from London that Mrs May
brick is slowly dying
The.LOng street armOry at Cleveland. Ohio is
completely burned to the ground
Prof John Strong Newbury. one of the most
eminent biologists in the United States, dies at
his home i'm New Hampshire.
At Glencoe, Mimi, George Pierce. a fireman
loses both his legs while working under an en-
CINE in the Milwaukee yards.
Peter Maher, the Irish pugst and Joe God
dard meet before the COney Island Athletic club
and the former is Knocked ont in the third round
The Postmaster General sends an order to the
American Bank Note company for three thou
sand million of Columbia postage stamps to be
delivered in 1893.
December
The decline in the price of silver in Colorado
causes the closing of several silver mines.
The Fergus Falls MIMI wooden mills are
sold to o. C. Van Ness and Capt II. S. Cole.
Martin Burke, another character in the Cronin
murder tragedy. dies in the Joliet penitentiary
The inheritance tax of per cent will give to
the State of New York $75O.OOO from the estate
of Jay Gould
A heavy laden Southern Pacific passenger
train is saved from destruction in Oregon bv the
bravery of a girl.
COL John Ryan, who fought with sam Houston
for Texas independence. dies pauper in a Kan
Sas City hospital
The proposition to choose the president bv
direct vote of the people is meeting with more
than usual consideration
December 10.
The Reform Club of New York gives a banquet
to Grover Cleveland.
France withdraws from the conferences being
opposed to bimetallSm.
Chicago police are accused of causing the
death of a boy through fright
1t is claimed that prohibition in North Dakota
has turned out to be a colossal failure.
The bids are opened i'm Detroit Mich for
work on the deep waterway between Duluth and
Buffalo.
Mrs. Francis Fisher Wood says that nine
tenthS of the children of coege-bred women
survive infancy'
December H.
Albert De Leur, a wealthy contractor of Mil
waukee, Wis., has been missing since Dec t.
The city of London is put under the terror OF
dynamite tiends Anarchists propose revenge
most horrible
Rev. MatlewC. Chaplin of Minneapolis is dead.
He was one of the leading CongrcgatiOnalStS in
the Northwest.
James Sill. the cOllored inmate of the New
Jersey reform school. has finished the sixty
third day of his fast
nj. j. Downing, editor OF the Renville Star
Farmer. is a candidate for chief clerk of the
house OF representatives.
December II.
Jay Gould'S will contains 5000 words and dis
poses of S72,OOO.0O0 worth of property
The condition of Mrs. Maybrck has improved.
She is now able to retain nOurishment
Count TOlStoi is coming to this country next
spring to study our agricultural methods.
The poet William Watson. who wrote the best
ode on TennySOn. has become violently insane.
Philip ID. Armour. the millionaire packer. sails
for Europe. leaving behind him 81 .5OOOOO to the
city of Chicago.
An employee of +. G. NevnS of WinOna, Mimi.
with 5000 in his possession. disappears for
parts unknown.
The National Cor,laSo company will increase
its capital stock by the addition of 81, 600 com
mon stock This gives a total of $25.OOO.OOO
December 49,
Dr. Smith is suspended from the ministry of
the Presbyterian church.
There is prospect of the Nicaragua canal
bill passing this session of congress.
1.-The New York Watch club accepts Lord Dun
ravens challenge for an international yatch
race.
Naval Cadet Farbrother of Rhode Island is
dismissed from the Annapolis academy for haz-
ing.
The belief i'll Tennessee is that Coy. Buchanan
will pardon H. Clay King before he retires from
office.
The immense cotton warehouse of Alexander
Browns at Baltimore is destroyed by fire. along
with $4,000 bales of cotton