The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-24
NEWS OF A WEEK.
March 16.

garOlng CdtQOlc CnurCh affairs.
The Minnesota Alliance decides to prosecute
the railroad elevator combine.
The state central committee of the PEOPLES
party open the state campaign.
Two judges of the federal supreme court are of
the opinion that the Mckinley bill is unconstitu.
tional.
Paris police making wholesale arrests of
anarchists supposed to have been connected with
the recent explosions.
Judge Van Brunt of New York is undecided re-.
garding the sanity or insanity of Edward Field,
and has ordered that Field be kept in an asylum
until the question is fully decided.
March II.
large portion of the striking English miners
decide to resume work.
The Iowa Republicans send uninstructed dele
gates to the Minneapolis convention.
Max Strakosh, the famous musical composer,
died in New York yesterday of paralysis.
The conductors and trainmen the Western
division of the Canadian Pacific begin their strike.
The falkething has granted $4,000 for the ex.
pense of Denmark's participation in the Chicago
fair.
New Orleans finally decides ito adopt a sewer
system. 1t is the only civilized city in the world
wholly without sewers.
St. Paul and Minneapolis are granted franchises
in the Western Base Ball league. The schedule
for the season is promulgated.
A terrible degree of corruption is unearthed in
the Chicago city council. Some of the aldermen
seem likely to 60 to the penitentiary.
March Is.
There is a talk of two Democratic presidential
tickets.
Philadelphia will send another cargo Of food to
Russia.
of Minneapolis is dead.
Mr.. Cleveland denies the report that he wrote a.
letter declining to run for the presidency.
The Palmers. one of the largest naval shipping
firms in Great Britain, it is reported will remove
their plant to the United States.
The leaders among the striking miners in Eng.
land privately admit that the strike is failure.
The have already lost in wages since they
quit work the immense sum of $2.5O0.000.
March 10.
George M. Pettis. the famous authority OF
American whist. dies in Boston.
Compositors employed by the West Publishing,
company, st. Paul, threaten to strike.
A so-called citizens mass meeting, held in st.
Paul, decides upon a convention to nominate an
independent city ticket.
The river and harbor bill carries about $2O. OOO.
600. including $4,000 for beginning work on the
Duluth. Buffalo deep water way.
Mr.. Hall of Minnesota will introduce in the
house, as a substitute for the Bland bill. meas.
providing for silver dollar equal in value to
the gold dollar.
]. A. Chapleau. the Canadian statesman, says
that. Notwithstanding all reports to the contrary
reciprocity between Canada and the United States
is in sight.
March 20.
deadly epidemic among horses in Montana is
reported.
to the Democrats.
e. L. Godkin, editor of the New York evening
Post, is arrested on a charge of criminal libel
1t is now asserted that Guiteau. President Gar.
fields assassin, was in a drunken condition when
he was hanged.
A young girl inmate of the female reformatory
in Indianapolis which was burned few weeks
ago, confesses having fired the building. Several
lives were lost in the fire.
March Fl.
A milk trust has been formed in Chicago.
The Standard Oil company formally dissolves it..
self,
Work on the st. Paul auditorium will begin at
once.
Seven Chicago councilmen are indicted for boo
ding
The compositors of the West Publishing compa-
ny, St. Paul. quit.
| Five children of John Lahey are burned to
death in their house near Springfield. Minn and,
Lahey is thought to be fatally burned.
The strike of the Canadian Pacific may be fol.
lowed by strikes of railroads in the United States.
Several deeds of violence charged against the
strikers.
March %.
Mr.. Mills is elected senator by the Texas legis.
lature.
Gov Merriam decides to make his pardons
ditional.
A railroad company styled the Sioux City, Chi
cago & Baltimore is organized.
The Minnesota Alliance will nominate ticket
and let the Peoples party severely alone.
The curious statement is made that Senator
Hill has declared that he was not candidate for
president.
You can tell by the honey where the bees
have been.