The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-06-30
NEWS OF A WEEK.
June %.

summer home in Irvington. New York. He is
emaciated to almost a skeleton and only weighs
IS pounds.
By acute measurement four and one.eight inches
of water fall in Sioux Falls in two hours. The.
streets and cellars are flooded.
In portions of Southern Russia the sheep and
cattle are pershing for the want of fodder as the
crops are being withered by drought
Walter G. Oakman is appointed receiver of the
Richmond Terminal railway. The revenue of the
road is not sufficient to pay the interest due now
on its bonds.
The best example of the improved locomotive.
starts from st. Paul with the Northern Pacific
transcontnental train. The engine is a lO.wheel.
er, dryers it. in diameter; boiler 81 inches and
carries 100 pounds of steam-from 40 to SO pounds
more to the square inch than customary.
June %.
w. H. Pendleton. wholesale grocer and produce.
shipper of Lawrence Kan, has assigned. Labil.
tiles. $l35. 600; assets estimated, 500, 900.
The trusted manager of the st. Paul Beef COM
pany lis arrested a charge of embezzlement
His employers say his shortage will amount to-
SC, 900.
The wnona Mill company purchases of Dyer
Ingham Co. of Dover a two.third's interest in
the line of elevators operated by them in South
Dakota.
1t is announced that Joel P. Heatwole will &C.
cept the congressional nomination in the Third
district. and is out of the field gubernatoral
candidate.
On Wednesday Archbishop Ireland took lunch.
con with the president and Nine. Carnot in,
Paris. On Sunday he to start for London,
sailing from Liverpool for New York on wednes.
day of this week.
June "a.
A Mormon bishop and ex.Danite leader IT,
killed by the Navajo Indians in Arizona.
The Denver News, the leading Democratic paper
of the Rocky Mountain States, has declined to-
support Mr.. Cleveland.
The report of the St. Paul Workhouse shows i.
to be self.sustanng. The daily expenses for pro.
visions. including officers and employees, is 9.6s
cents per capita.
James Marien Allen, the Viroqua. Wis. school
teacher who caused the death of one of his pupils
by fogging him with stove poker, is sentenced
to five years in the state prison.
The Cleveland street car strikers too many
for the Pnkertons. The mayor orders the car
company to send the detectives out of the city on
penalty of Withdrawing police protection.
June rs.
Great excitement prevails at Staples Mimi, by
the discovery of petroleum.
The steamer Miranda. which goes to the relief
of Lieut.. Peary's Attic expedition. will sail from
Brooklyn Monday.
In an interesting article in the North American
Review Gov. Merriam gives his ideas regarding
the needs of the new Northwest.
Mr.. Gladstone is struck the nose by stone
thrown by a woman. bruispg that member and
causing it to bleed. He on his way to address
a meeting.
The United States local immigration inspector
has decided that an Italian who arrived in St.
Paul in April affected with granulated eyes comes
under the pauper immigration act of 1891. The
treasury department has ordered his return to
the port of embarkation.
June &c.
The new electric line from St. Paul to White
Bear lake is to be opened this week.
Whittier will write the opening ode for the
Worlds Fair at Chicago The title is a secret to
every one except M. Whittier.
D. d. Bell, the we'll known turfman and capital.
list. dies at Lexington. KY, of paralysis. He
leaves a fortune valued at $500, 900.
New York mariners express the opinion that g.
terrible disaster has recently occurred at some
where near that port in which more than thou
sand souls have persisted.
The arrangement entered into by the wholesale
grocers and the sugar trust is that the former
to maintain uniform price receiving besides the
regular trade discount a rebate to protect them
from loss.
June p.
W. ]. Campbell is elected chairman of the Ma
tional Republican committee.
Judge Gresham refuses to accept the presiden-
tal nomination of the third party people,
The special session of the Wisconsin legislature
to reapporton the state into senate and assembly
districts will meet tomorrow.
Nine convicts at Birmingham. Tex. charge the
guard and attempt to escape. The guard fires on
them killing one and wounding four others.
June 2S.
Seventy.five deaths from cholera have occurred
in Central Asia.
The Mckinley bill is denounced by the London
chamber of commerce.
Senator Washburn's anti.option bill is strenu.
ousy opposed by Democrats.
The great battle.ship Texas is successfully
launched at Portsmouth, Va.
The saltwater board of education meets and
decides that sectarian property will not be leased
for public school purposes.