The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-06-02
NEWS OF A WEEK.
May rs.

Three petty officers at Montreal insult our flag
and force storekeepers to pull down the stars and
stripes.
1t is announced that new commercial treaty
has been entered into between Austro- Hungary
and the United States.
Active preparations are being made by the st.
Paul police to give the crooked" visitors to the
convention q warm reception.
The convention enthusiasm is getting chilly in
Minneapolis. The ladies of the prominent
churches withdraw from the promise given to help
feed the people.
Representative Henderson of Iowa surprises the
house by arraigning President Harrison and the
OF states for failing to give representa-
ton to colored people in connection with the
Worlds Fair.
May &C.
Terrence Brazil. of Renville county's oldest
inhabitants. is drowned near Norton MINI.
Conrad's dry goods store at Great Falls. Mont,
is consumed by fire. Loss $4,000; insured for
S64. 900.
The depositors of the suspended commercial
bank of st. Paul in favor of the reorganization
of that institution.
1t is claimed that Minneapolis has only two
hundred and twenty-five men to guard the city
during the convention.
preference over Minneapolis on wheat freights,
says c. A. Pillsbury the latter city would in three
years 60 out of the milling business.
May 81
The Minneapolis council makes provision for
the extra police force needed for convention week.
The recent colored outrages forces the president
to write letter regarding lawlessness in the
south.
According to Bradstreets' report the estimated
damages caused by the recent floods in five states
is 1872, O00 900.
Wellington. Kan, is laid in ruins by a cyclone,
and fire breaks out to add horror to the desolate
scene. The exact number of dead unknown.
Col Pablo, second in command of the Mexican
revoutionists. is sentenced at San Antonio. Tex,
to one and one-haf years Imprisonment and fined
$4,000 for violation of the neutrality laws.
May 20.
The walters of Chicago decide to strike during
convention week for S12 per week and day of ten
hours.
Chauncey Depew will speak in Minneapolis next
Saturday evening under the auspices of the Min
neapolis Press club.
Joseph Fish, prominent CHICAGO merchant, in
trying to defend lady from hoodlum has his
skull fractured.
David B. Hill says that whatever action is taken
by the "anti-snap" convention of New York he
will be in the race all the same.
1t is said that there will be fifty.seven of the
New York delegates who will be for Harrison as
against Blaine any other candidate.
Dr. Rainsford of New York advises the churches
to have open places for the sale of pure liquors
thus knocking the saloon business endwise.
May 80.
Arkansas City, Ark. is now under from six to
eight feet of water. and not dry spot of land
within two miles
Gustaf Hallgren, Swan Soderlnd and John A.
Benson of Red Wing Mimi. get capsized in the
river and are drowned.
The monument erected by New Orleans to the
memory of the late superintendent of police,
David c. Hennessy, was unveiled yesterday. He
assassinated by the Malta in october. 1890.
The New York Herald says that Harrison will
have 500 delegates. Blaine 1862, Alger 20, with
Mckinley man from Montana. This leaves 23s
delegates from which Harrison must get 81 or
Blaine 1856 votes which are necessary secure the
the prize.
May 80.
London and Chicago capitalists have organized
to run in opposition to the Standard oil company.
j. A. Hallberg one of the earliest pioneers of
the st. Croix valley dies at Center City, Mimi,
aged slXty.twO years.
1t is said in Washington that the Blaine talk is
the creation of disappointed politicians who desire
the defeat of Harrison.
Chief Detective John O'ConnOr and his five as.
sistants place their designations in the hands of
Mayor Smith, st. Paul.
Gen. Ager will not attend the Republican con.
vention and declines to say anything regarding
the declaration that he and Blaine would form the
ticket.
May 81.
Snow falls in portions of Nebraska and Colorado
Count Tolstoi the Russian writer. is seriously i'll
NJ F. Dryer loses $4,000 the Morris Park
Minnesota's Prohibitionists begin their conven.
ton in Minneapolis.
Politicians now have it that Blaine must stand
by his letter declining the nomination.
Yesterday was observed day of special
fasting by the Afro Amer citizens of st. Paul.
Coster & Martin. Chicago brokers, succeed in
driving corn from As cents to 81, but prices after
ward fall to SIS cents and the brokers assign.
A story is going the rounds that Minneapolis is
trying to procure the Republican state convention
by using national tickets brides.