The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-03
NEWS OF A WEEK.
February "a,

February "a.
The Chamber of Commerce of st. Paul favors an
auditorium big scale.
AS was expected the third party people capture
the mammoth aggregation ct st. Louis.
]. H. Willoughly, of the best known railroad
men in the Northwest. dies at st. Paul.
The president to-day in a message to congress
favors an additional Worlds Fair appropriation
Charges of fraud made in connection with
appraising Chippewa pine lands but they are
proven groundess.
February rs.
Rev. John Schwebach is onsecrated as Catholic
bishop of La Crosse.
The Peoples party convention will be held in
Omaha July T. the delegates numbering 1776
All the street car employees at saltwater strike
because of non-payment of wages and no cars are
running.
Fire at San Antonio. Tex, burned over two
acres. several stores being destroyed Loss,
$3.50, 900; insurance. $40, OOO
riot is created in Berlin by thousands OF un.
employed workmen. They are dispersed by the
police who seriously injure of the rioters.
February 26.
immigration to the Northwest will be very large
this year.
Germany will abandon her possessions in South.
west Africa.
Relics two thousand years old are found in
mound in Illinois.
steamer is sunk by collision in the North sea,
and all on board but one lose their lives.
bill providing for an annual appropriation of
So, 600, 600 for the improvement of the Mississippi
from ST. Anthony Falls to the jetties is introduced
to the House.
Rioting is resumed In Berlin, and many rioters
are injured in a fight with the police. There is
talk of dynamiting the imperial castle. revolu.
tion is feared.
February 81.
The Queen Isabella association is barred out of
the Worlds Fair.
Telegraph rates in the West and Northwest are
to be reduced March l.
Anti-administration Republicans are reported
working hard to prevent Harrson's denomination.
There are further serious disturbances in Der.
lin, many more rioters being badly wounded by
the police.
Nearly all the members of the Georgia Alliance
will remain in the Democratic party and not join
the Peoples party.
The House adopts amendment to the In
dian appropriation bill providing for the appoint
ment of army officers Indian agents when
vacancies occur.
February 80.
platform is issued by the singletax advocates
Fifteen business houses Of Hot Springs S. D..
are burned, the loss being $4,000.
The Berlin police state their belief that the dis
orders in that city at end.
Chile has bought new war ships in Europe. One
is of similar type to the Capt. Pratt
1t is stated that Senator Sherman is to retire
from the senate in a year, to be succeeded by
Secretary Foster.
The United States has instructed Minister Egan.
in Chile to have the bodies of the Baltimore's
murdered sailors brought home.
February 29.
Rumor makes Judge Gresham the Peoples
party candidate for president.
The United States supreme court declares the
Mckinley tariff law constitutional.
Ex-Speaker Reeds ruling about counting a
quorum is sustained by the United States supreme
court.
Senator Davis seems to have the advantage
Senator Washburn in the matter Of Minnesota
patronage.
Four hundred and forty thousand miners in
Great Britain threaten to strike against reduc.
ton of wages. This would affect 1000. 900 men.
Warren Springer wealthy Chicago man. is in
dicted on a charge of manslaughter. on the ground
of criminal carelessness, which led to explo-
sion in battery of boilers in Of his buildings
by which five people lost their lives
March l.
The public debt decreased 49, 497, lat in February.
Capt. Castle assumes the duties of postmaster
of st. Paul.
Silver ore is said to have been found near
Tifin, Ohio.
The st. Paul board of aldermen defeats the
auditorium project.
Whitney Jones. who helped organize the Re-
publican party. has died at Lansing. Mich. aged
eighty years.
Members of the whisky trust accused of
tampering with the United States grand jury in
Boston. and they will probably be arrested again.
The Minnesota Republican state committee
lects st. Paul the place and May as the date
for the convention to choose delegates to the ma.
tional gathering
Congressman Castle introduces bill to renew
the reciprocity treaty of 1854 between the United
States and Canada, which made absolutely free
trade between those countries.
The inhabitants of Arva county of Hungary
are suffering from epidemic of typhus and
other deadly diseases, in addition to famine. The
people com pelled to eat he barks NJ trae