The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-08-11
NEWS OF A WEEK.
August 8.

in convention at Minneapolis
The wife of Judge Williams, state railroad
commissioner dies at Fergus Falls.
Reports come of the lOoting of United States
vessel on the coast of Brazil by the natives.
Warrants are issued for the arrest of number
of Carnegie officials and PinkertOns on charge
of murder.
Three persons are killed and many injured and
much property is destroyed by a flood in ST. Paul
caused by the breaking of street embankment..
The Brazilian commission to the Worlds Fair
arrives. They are all distinguished gentlemen
and will remain until the close of the exposition.
August 4.
Bismarck, N. d., has destructive fire.
British parliament opens with Gladstone at the
head.
Thousands of acres of grain are destroyed by
hail in northern Minnesota.
GOttfried Benssel, a prominent Dakota county
farmer, meets death accidently.
Marcus A. Fulton one of the Oldest residents
of Hudson Wis. and one of the prominent men,
of his state, dies of apOplexy.
A train bearing $3O,OOO,OOO in government gold
starts from San Francisco for Washington. 1t
requires six cars'tO contain the treasure. and it
is guarded by thirty armed postal route agents.
The Studebaker Wagon works of South Bend,
Ind, the largest in the world, shut down owing
to 5000 men refusing to work on account of the
company using material from the Carnegie
Steel company. The carpenters union of that
city serves notice on all contractors that they will
not work on buildings in which Carnegie material
is used.
August 5.
EX-State Senator Charles E. Cults. of Itch
field, is dead.
John Morley will be chief secretary for Ireland
under Gladstone.
Congress adjOurns after passing the Words
Fair appropriation bill.
The Schulenburg & BOeckler Lumber compa-
nys large saw mill at saltwater is destroyed by
fire.
Manager Frick. of the Carnegie Steel company,
has so far recovered from the aSsassin'S assault
that he resumes work at his office.
The regetta of the Minnesota and Winnipeg
Rowing association begins at Lake MinnetOnka..
Winnipeg wins two of the first three races.
August 6.
Rev. Benjamin Fisk Barratt, the noted Sweden
borgian, dies at Germantown, Pa.
John c. Bundy, of Chicago, the famous spirit
ualist and occultist, dies after a brief illness.
By the explosion of gasoline stove at 3O42
Harriet avenue, Minneapolis, six persons are
badly injured.
Five persons die in Kentucky from the effects
of eating cabbage with which poisonous snake
had been cooked.
Warrants are issued for the arrest of the en-
tire town board of West Superior, Wis. on a
charge of embeZzement.
The Carpenters and JOiners of North America
in convention at st. Louis elect Henry H. Ire
nor, of New York, general president.
1t is found that the late Cyrus w. Field left an
estate valued at 100000. He was mistaken in,
fortune a hpaO
August Z.
The bishop of FOligno is found murdered in
Rome.
The cholera scOurge reaches st. Petersburg,
Russia.
st. Mary's Catholic church of st. Paul cele--
brates its twenty-fifth anniversary.
1t is estimated that over 100000 visitors are in
Denver, Col, attending the Knights Templar'
cOncave.
All but one of the Wisconsin Central mines on
the GOgebic range close down because of the
Homestead strike, throwing 1900 men out of en-
pOyment.
The names of the commissioners to the Inter-
national Monetary conference are made public.
They are Senator w. B. Allison of Iowa, Senator
John p Jones of Nevada, Congressman j. B.
McCreary of Kentucky, eX-ContrOller Henry w.
Cannon of New York, and Gen. Francis A
Walker of Massachusetts.
August 8.
Strikers at Carnegies Duquesne mills return
to work.
1t is said that Carnegie steel will be bOycOtted
by the American Federation of Labor.
Frederick Kuhl, brother of the st. Paul cap
italist commits suicide in his brothers house.
Otto Burkhardt kills John Tritchler, accident
ally. at Wabasha MINI. Mr.. Russell, of Utica
is killed by the cars at WinOna.
A storm passes over southern Minnesota, de-
stroving it is estimated, ST., 100000 worth of
growing grain. Mr.. and Mrs. StackOvert are
killed at Lake Stay, near Marshall
August g.
The contract for St. Paul's new Catholic theo-
logical seminary is let.
Melvin r. Baldwin Of1Duluth, is the Sixth dis
trict nominee for congress.
ST. Paul and Minneapolis found to be-
flooded with counterfeit mOney-$2 bills, silver
dollars and quarters.
The sentence of Col. H. Clay King, who was to-
have been hanged in Memphis on the 10Th, has
been committed to life Imprisonment.