The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-02-25
NEWS OF A WEEK.
February II.


two.million dollar fire occurs at New Orleans
The Minnesota G. A. R. encampment begins in
Minneapolis.
The annual state encampment Of Odd Fellows
begins at st. Paul.
St. Pauls public building appropriation is in.
creased to 81, 400 900 by the senate.
Secretary Elkins is quoted saying that Pres
ident Harrison will be a candidate for reelection
The elections for members of the house Of rep
resentatives of japan have been attended with
disturbances in many places and large number
of people have been killed.
The pope declares that he considers a republic
quite a legitimate form of government. The
church, he says. will place itself in accord with,
the French Republic as it has done in the United
States.
February Is.
Ex.Ald. Rollins of Minneapolis commits suicide
with carbolic acid.
l.. NJ LANCE of Minneapolis is elected COM
mander of the Minnesota G. A. R.
1t is claimed that Rockefeller. Mackey and
North. the nitrate king, have cornered the worlds
wheat market.
movement has started in Chicago for new
government building the present one being too
rikety for safety.
The New York senate has adopted a resolution
for the investigation of the alleged combination.
to raise the price of coal
Having been defeated in the chamber of dep.
uties the bill dealing with church associations
the French cabinet resigns.
February 10.
President Carnot of France accepts the resigna-
ton of the ministry.
The reciprocity negotiations between the United
States and Mexico suspended.
Clarence e. Sherin buys the st. Paul Daily
News and will issue a Sunday edition.
The senate passes the bill to extend the opera
ton of the Chinese exclusion law for ten years.
An Iowa surgeon successfully removes large
! table fork from the abdomen of female lunatic
who had swallowed it.
The mine troubles in the Coal Creek Valley of
Tennessee have at last been settled. The mines.
W ill be run on the cooperation plan.
1t is rumored in New York that Thomas Edison
is dissatisfied with the projected consolidation of
the Edison General Electric company and the
Thomson Houston.
February 20.
A split in the New York Democratic state
vention to- morrow is promised.
Senator Washburn will amend his option bill so
as to make its meaning clearer.
The st. Paul council committee will recommend
that peddlers licenses be increased.
Ex-senator Blair of New Hampshire announces
himself candidate for the Republican pres
idential nomination.
Three little children in New York robbed of
their clothes and left locked up in a room. where
they suffer from cold and hunger four days.
DR.. John Culinary Shea, the noted Catholic
writer and editor of the Catholic News is dying
at his home at Elizabeth. N. ]. He once ed
itor Of Frank Leslies illustrated Newspaper.
February 21.
Wisconsin farmer dies after a sleep of four
weeks.
The Hill Bruce. German combination is dissolved
by the act of German.
Five thousand people engage in a wolf hunt in
| Kansas and 800 wolves are slain.
A formidable movement is on foot to break up
labor unions connected with British shipping
Utah's claims for statehood are destroyed by
the conduct of Mormon representatives before
| the congressional committees.
A meteor three hundred feet in length is re-
ported to have fallen in Montana. burying forty
head of cattle and two Chinaman and embedding
| itself two hundred feet in the ground.
February %.
Considerable loss of life at sea attends the
gales in Great Britain.
| The steamship Indiana sails from Philadelphia
loaded with relief stores for Russia.
A company headed by ex.Gov. Campbell Of
Ohio buys over 1000 acres of Minnesota mineral
land for over S1.OOO0OO.
An increase in freight rates from New York and
Boston to st. Paul is announced by the Soo-Cana-
dian Pacific combination.
David B. Hills New York democratic state con-
| vention instructs its delegates for HILL The
anti. Hill men secede and call another state con.
| vention for May 81.
February %.
The National Irish League of America issues an
appeal for aid.
Cardinal Casper Mermilod, bishop of Lausanne
and Geneva, dies at Berne.
| Reciprocity negotiations between Austria and
the United States about to be opened.
A bill making radical changes in the naturaliza.
ten laws will be favorably reported to the house.
| Temperance people at Newport. Tenn, blew up
a saloon with dynamite. Two stores adjoining
were also destroyed.
| Twenty-Five organizations are represented in
| the st. Louis convention. The convention mar
rowly escapes riot and bloodshed.
Citizens of saltwater protest to the board of ed
ucation against the employment of nuns as
! teachers.