The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-08-18
NEWS OF A WEEK.
August 10.

August 10.
Samuel Bland commits suicide at Montroso
Mimi,
An electric road wagon stands successful test
in Chicago.
Mrs. Martha Hester of Eagle Lake. MINI, be-
comes insane and kills her two little children.
Henry r. Wells is nominated at Spring VALLEY
for judge of the Tenth judicial district of Mime
sofa.
The fOrty-twO Wyoming stockmen under in
dictment for murder are released on bail of $40.
600 each.
Gov. Buchanan of Tennessee is burned in eff.
gy at Memphis for having committed the death
sentence of Col. H. Clay King.
August II.
st. Paul is to have large shoe factory.
The United States cruiser No. II is successfully
launched at Boston.
1t is said that Judge Gresham will take the
stump for the peoples party.
Ex-County Assessor Harroun of Hennepin
county, is arrested for forgery.
The Salisbury government is defeated on
division of the British house of commons
John j. Valentine is elected president of the
Wes-FargO Express company, vice Lloyd Lewis
resigned
Hon. Hugh McCurdy of Corunna Mich, is
elected grand master of the Knights Templar of
the United States.
August -.
Dresden has been selected as the place for
holding the international monetary congress-.
Wolff & Ditteman the defaulting bankers of
Berlin, Germany, are sentenced to Imprisonment
for ten years.
DR.. C. X. Bartlett, superintendent of the St..
Peter insane asylum tenders his resignation to
take effect Jan. l. 1893.
tenders to
the Queen, and Gladstone receives her command
to form a new cabinet.
August 10.
The Homestead strikers issue an appeal for as
sistance.
Another destructive storm sweeps over the
southern part of the state.
In drilling gas well at Anderson, Ind, the
drill went through vein of iron at 375 feet, tin
at 425 feet and lead at 500 feet
AS a train loaded with Knights Templar on the
way from Denver nears Clinton, Iowa, one of
the cars is thrown from the track and fifteen
persons seriously injured.
Free miners take the 800 convict miners out of
the stOckade at Tracy City, Tennessee, load them
in cars and start them to the central prison at
Nashville, after which they burn the stockade.
1t is believed that SearcherS have found the
lost treasure ship, Hussar which was sunk dur
dredge has brought up number of old English
guineaS.
August IA.
The international congress of firemen opens at
Havre, France.
whole family named Murray are drowned by
the upsetting of their boat on the Palmer river
at Warren, r. l.,
Striking switchmen ON the Erie & Lehigh
Valley railroad at Rutfa1O DESTROY large
amount of railroad property
John c. Warwick, who defeated Major Nc
Kinley in the Sixteenth Ohio congressional dis
trict in $780, dies in Washington.
Several of the large workshops at the Hunting
don, Pa, refOrmatOry were destroyed by fire
which is believed to have been incediary.
August15.
About LOCO people are dying of cholera in Rus
STA daily.
oJacob Mayer, a clerk, is drowned at Winona
while bathing.
The Erie & Lehigh Valley railroad switchmen
are still rfotting at Buffalo.
The ship Thracian went down off the Isle of
Man, and her crew of twenty-five men lost their
lives.
Gov. Buchanan of Tennessee comes out as an
independent candidate and it is expected that he
will be endorsed by the peoples party
Inc second regiment OF ILLINOIS DuTn IN omgy
Gen. SnOwden and Col. StreatOr of Pennsylvania
as an expression of their feelings in the Iams
case.
August 16.
The crop of Minnesota is estimated at rs per
cent of last years crop.
Gladstone announces his cabinet. John Nor
ley becomes chief secretary of state for Ireland.
Four thousand of the cab drivers of Paris went
on strike yesterday. No disorders have been
reported.
1t is asserted that ex-senator SpOoner will be
nominated for governor of Wisconsin by the re-
publican state convention tomorrow.
Six persons were killed and fifteen injured in
terrible wreck on the Toledo, WalhOnding Valley
& Ohio railway near COshOctOn Ohio.
The department of Mississippi and Louisiana
G. A. r. has organized and the colored posts
have been admitted to full membership.
The trouble at the Tennessee convict stockades
is spreading. Free miners attack the stOckade
at Olive Springs and several persons are killed.
The switchmen's strike on the Erie & Lehigh
Valley railway is spreading to other roads. Sew
eral regiments Of the state militia hovo hoon