The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-09-01
NEWS OF A WEEK.
August "a,

Ex-Gov. Campbell, of Ohio, visits Minnesota
The switchmens strike at Buffalo is declared
off.
Cholera is spreading through Germany and
Belgium.
CrOOkstOn, Mimi, is soon to be lighted by
electricity.
Mrs. Sarah Whiffy Sloan, wife of the late Hon.
Frank Sloan, dies at WinOna.
woman in Marion township, Mich, leaves,
her child for time while picking berries and on
her return found that some animal had deyoured
the child
August 25.
A female baloonist falls 800 feet at Detroit.
Mich, and is killed.
new post office has been established at Co.
haSset. Itasca county.
EX-Secretary Blaine decides to make speeches
in Maine for his party.
Over 200 steel workers strike in the Carnegie
mill at Lawrenceville.
w. w. Blackwell of Kentucky, is elected su-
preme chancellor of the Knights of Pythias.
The Hennepin county democratic convention
renOminates all but two of the present office
holders.
Grand Master Sweeney of the Swtchmen's
Union is accused of accepting brides from the
railroad companies to call off the strike and he
is assaulted and badly beaten by one of the
strikers.
August 26.
The cholera scOurge reaches England.
Many miners are killed by an explosion in a
coal mine near GlamOrganshire, Wales.
The reelection of John Morley to his seat in
the English parliament is an immense relief to
Liberals.
The congregation of the propaganda at Rome
requests the French government to protest to
Great Britain against the closing of Catholic
schools in Manitoba.
The London Lancet is sued by DR.. Kelley, of
drink cure fame, for damages for libel. The
trial is being watched with excited interest by
medical men.
The international peace congress held at
Berne, decides to accept the invention of the
North American Societies to hold the next inter-
national congress at Chicago in 1898.
August 81,
New York's Metropolitan opera house is con-
sumed by fire..
According to the official statistics published
in Berlin there are ,O2s cases of chOlOra in Ham,
burg.
Isaac Botsford pioneer of the city of Albert
Lea, Mimi, commits suicide. His death is at
trbuted to dependency.
river near Elbow Lake, MIMI, passenger train
is wrecked causing the death of six persons.
1t is claimed that there is not one word of
truth in the statement made by newspaper
that malignant disease was raging in MankatO,
MINI.
August %.
The residents of London are afraid that the
cholera will reach the great metropolis.
Cant lanes StarkpV one of ST Paul'S niOnpprS
dies at Winnipeg. He was in his seventy-fOurth
year.
Sullivan and Corbett practically finish their
work of preparation. and both principals are
confident that each will win.
Turkeys explanation to the United States re-
garding the recent outrage in Asia Minor is not
accepted, and reparation will be demanded.
Dan Daugherty, Philadelphias great lawyer
and orator, whose life was despaired of, has now
some chances of recovery from his illness.
The impression in Washington is that the
government will carry the retaliation against
Canada still futher by compelling the Canadian
government to pay foliage in the 500 canal
August 29
Cold wind and rain causes much damage to
grain in fields throughout the state.
Thieves enter the Catholic church at Prairie
du Chen Wis., and steal the gold vestry service
valued at s., 500.
Sullivan and Corbett appear before crowds in
New York and give an exhibition of how they
have been training for the fight.
New YOrk's health officer issues an order to
the effect that all vessels from cholera infected
ports will be subjected to quarantine detention.
Oliver Wendell Holmes celebrates his eighty
third birthday. His faculties are unimpaired,
otherwise than the eyesght, which has not been
good lately.
The failure of the great firm of BEDFORD, Alex
ander & Co., Australian and New Zealand mer-
chants of London fail with liabilities of e25OOOO.
August 81.
Ramsey cOunty's property is assessed for tax
alton at $40, 666,S32.
Ex-Secretary Blaine is negotiating for the pur-
chase of home in Los Angeles, Cal,
Two men, a woman and two children are
arrested in Montreal on suspicion of being dyna-
miterS.
Several men are fatally injured in New Orleans
through disturbance created by striking
swtchmen.
The Marquis de MOres, of Dakota fame, is
tried in Paris for killing Cap. Mayer in a duel