The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-10-06
NEWS OF A WEEK.
September %.


At Terre Haute, Ind Nancy Hanks trOts
mile in 2:O4 on a regulation track.
long distance telephone is successfully oper-
ated between Boston and South Bend, Ind
John Lind predicts that Minnesota will be car
ried by the Republicans by 10000 plurality.
Lady Somerset, in her zeal in the temperance
cause, descends into mines to address the min
erS.
There dies at Shullsburg, Iowa, William Dur
gan considered the smallest member of the Ma
sonic fraternity, being only forty inches high.
September 20.
Ten miners are burned in the Norris mine at
| IrOnwOOd, Mich, by cave-in.
1t is the opinion of Secretary Rusk that Nancy
Hanks make mile in two minutes
AS auxiliary to the worlds fair the railway
commerce congress will be held in Chicago next
June.
The ports of some of the Central American
countries are closed to United States ships from
fear of cholera.
Captain Andrews, the American navigator.
who crossed the Atlantic in dOry, arrives at
Huelva in his little craft.
st. Paul railroads slash rates to the real estate
congress at Buffalo, One result is $40 round
trip between st. Paul and Chicago.
1t is claimed by an editor of Kansas City
paper that the British parliament will introduce
a bill to impose duty on American wheat
September 80.
Ireland is having thirty thousand of her ten
ant farmers evicted.
Two contract labOrers are returned from Buff
fao, n. " to Canada yesterday
Six leaders of the Homestead strike are arrest
ed on the charge of treason against the State of
Pennsylvania.
Forty car loads of merchandise are consumed
by fire in the Nickel Plate freight yards in
Chicago. Loss, 100000.
Gen. Carl Muller the last surviving German
officer of the battle of Waterloo, dies at Hanover
at the age of ninety mine.
Bishop Brennan of the new province of Dallas.
Tex, has been raised to the dignity of archbish-
pc, and is the youngest in the world.
October 1.
1t is reported that Judge Gresham will vote for
Grover Cleveland.
The tax levy of Minneapolis for 1898 is finally
and placed fixed at twenty-One mills.
German army officers begin a horseback Jour-
ney from Berlin to Vienna.
The Auer Incandescent Light company Phla-
delphia, is robbed of $44O,OOO by two employees.
Several people are injured and much property
is damaged by severe hail storm in st. Paul.
few days ago fire destroyed property to the
amount of s., 100000 at BueuOs Ayers, Argentine
Republic.
October 9.
Reports from Paris say that the cholera is
steadily increasing there
Joseph Ernest Keenan, the great French writer
dies of congestion of the lungs in Paris.
The fertilizer works at Pensacola. Fla, is de-
strOyed by fire. Loss, 500, 600; partly insured.
Immense damage has been done to the Mich
gan fruit and vegetable crops by severe cold
snap.
Hiram Atkins, editor eff the Montpelier (Vt.}
Argus and Patriot, and chairman of the Demo-
| cratic state committee, is dead.
DR.. Douglass, who attended Gen. Grant in his
last illness and was for many years the family
physician. dies in Washington. He was sixty
nine years old.
October 8.
Four of the Homestead strikers are released
on $4,000 bail each.
DIR. Briggs, of "heresy'' fame, will be tried
publicly by the New York presbytery on Nov o.
Hon. Robert T. Lincoln. Minister to Great
Britain will sail for home this week on a short
leave of absence.
A prairie fire in Idaho causes the death of
over a thousand head of cattle and three persons
are fatally burned.
Germany, it is said, tries to bride the president
of San Domingo to declare the reciprocity treaty
with the United States abrogated.
An idividual known as the "Cyclone Tramp
arrives in st. Paul on his way from Tacoma to
New York. He will earn $500 if he makes the
round trip in twenty-four days without asking
cent from any one.
October 4.
Over an inch of snow falls at Beauce, Ont.
The Duluth Nelcs and the Tribune consolidate.
Lord TennysOn's death is expected at any mo-
ment. He was in fair health until the middle of
last week.
Judge William G. Howard has been nominated
for justice of the supreme court by the Demo-
Gratis of Michigan.
Charley Mitchell, the pugilist, is arrested in
London yesterday for brutally assaulting an old
man without cause.
C. L. Jones, chief of the issue bureau of the
treasury department, drops dead of heart disease
while at work in Washington.
The condition of Mrs. Harrison is such that
the President will abandon all plans for his par
ticipatiOn in the Columbia exercises in New
York and Chicago.