The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-04-14
NEWS OF A WEEK.
April 6.

There is a movement in Hawaii to form re-.
public.
The ST. Paul White Lead g. Oil company's
plant is burned.
Ex-Gov McGill avows himself a candidate for
the Republican gubernatorial nomination.
In an interview in Washington Gov. Merriam.
says that the people of Minnesota desire Davis
return to the senate.
China threatens to sever all diplomatic rela.
tions with the United States if the Chinese ex.
cluson bill becomes a law:
On May a demand for eight. hour day will be
made by carpenters in Baltimore, Cincinnati.
Denver. Salt Lake. Decatur, ILL.,, and Toronto
Ont On the same day seventy.one cities through.
out the country will make demand for a nine.
hour day.
April Z.
Custom house frauds are unearthed in San,
Francisco.
The house passes the free wool bill by an over.
wheming vote.
new extradition treaty between Germany and
America is nearly completed.
st. Paul and Minneapolis base ball clubs will
play four exhibition games beginning to-day.
Gov. Merriam says that the result in Rhode Is.
land means that the Republicans will win in No.
vember.
Several people lose their lives by floods in Mis-
sissipp Millions of dollars worth of property
have been destroyed.
April 8.
The Massachusetts, Democrats join in the Cleve.-
land chorus.
1t is said that the United States has secured a.
naval depot in the Argentine Republic.
No monument will be erected to James Russell
Lowell in Westminster abbey because the dean.
says there is not room enough to spare
The various steamship companies have decided
to advance steerage rates to this country about Sc
a head on account of the new restrictions on i'm.
migration.
The McEnery Democrats, the lottery and the
Leonard Republicans of Louisiana form a com.
bination to elect Leonard governor and carry the
state for Harrison.
1t is declared with some show of authority that
Mr.. Blaine will adhere to his expressed deter.
mination not to accept nomination. He is
quoted saying that he does not believe he
would live his term out if elected.
April 9.
Charlie Ross the long missing. is reported
found in Missouri.
A lizard is removed from the stomach Of a.
Pennsylvania man, having been there for two
years.
By evading provision of the election law. the
each election district.
The Newfoundland government this season will
license only vessels Of that country and the
United States. thus barring out Canadian vessels.
The clergymen of the lower st. Lawrence say
the exodus of French Canadians is ten times
greater this year than ever before Whole con.
cessons depopulated.
The vanderbilts, 1t is rumored have secured
control of the Delaware & Hudson Canal COM
pany and have Joined hands with the Reading
syndicate. almost completely controlling the an
thracite coal production.
April 10.
Toxic. Japan is visited by disastrous fire.
Considerable loss Of life is occasoned by the
floods near Columbus. Miss.
Coal is to be sent. in semiliqud state. in pipes
from Ohio to New York and then solidifed again.
test case involving the titles of many settlers
in the states to their lands is being heard at.
Rapid City, S. D.
1t has been agreed to submit the boundary diff.
fculty between Brazil and Argentine to an arbi-
traitor to be appointed by the president of the.
United States.
The municipality of Berlin will probably make,
an appropriation of 10. 900 marks for the pro.
posed exhibition in 1896 in that city. The fair
is to be an international affair.
April IL.
Mormon elders try to perform miracles, but fail
| signally.
| The st. Paul chamber of commerce favors
postal telegraph.
A man of seventy three is sentenced to the PEN
itentiary at Bismarck for pententiary frauds.
For the first time in the history of New Britain.
| Conn., the Democrats have elected their complete
city ticket.
| Ten villages in Hungary have been burned.
| The spread of the flames assisted by dry and
| windy weather.
April IL.
| The base ball season is opened by the National
League.
The St. Paul central police station is to have e.
matron.
The burial place of George Washington's'
mother is in litigation.
Geo. B. Young. for fifteen years reporter of the
supreme court resigns.
paper in Rome states that Archbishop Ire.
land has virtually been appointed cardinal
| During the recent fire in Toxic, Japan, six thou.
sand houses were destroyed and between fifty and
! one hundred persons lost their lives.