The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-05-05
NEWS OF A WEEK.
April 81.

Lieut.. Gov. Ives says he will accept the guber.
material nomination. but is not working for it,
loss of 81 600, 900 is caused by fire at PhiIa.
delphia, and fifty persons are hurt in a panic that
results.
Maine Republican delegates will go to the ma.
tional convention uninstructed, but Blaine and
Harrison are praised highly.
The corner stone of the Grant monument is laid
in New York with imposing ceremonies. Presi.
dent Harrison, Chauncey NJ. Depew and others
speak.
In the Canadian house of commons Mr.. Watson
moved that it was expedent that binding Irvine
be placed on the free list. The motion was lost
| So to 1O7-a government majority.
April %.
Jefferson Coolidge OF Massachusetts is nomi.
mated for Minister to France.
A fire at Chase. Mich, destroys the entire bust.
ness portion of the city. Loss. 800, OOO
| Seven hundred feet of the Worlds Fair manu-.
facturers' building blown down on Wednesday
An assignment is made by the Commercial bank,
st. Paul, and Frank A. Seymour becomes the as.
| signee.
The representatives of the New York Republi.
cans in the national convention will be Miller.
| Depew Plat and Hiscock.
circular is issued by the colored leaders of
|
and prayer among their people. as a remedy for
the evils of lynching. burning and mobbing from
which they suffer.
| April 20.
| Platinum ore is reported to have been discov.
cred at Rapid City. S. D.
| President Harrison, it is said, is going slowly
surely in the execution Of the civil service law
| Henry NJ. Stanley consents to stand candi-
date for a seat in the British cparlament at the
general elections.
| By the wrecking of construction train on the
Great Northern. in Montana, four men are killed
and several others hurt.
| A union in connection with the International
Typographical union is formed by reporters on
daily papers in New York.
The building containing the colossal panorama
of the crucifxion. in Vienna. is burned. The
great painting entirely consumed. Loss
amounts to 10000 forms.
| April 30.
A fire occurs in the state university building.
Damage $4,000
| large number of Prussian Poles are emigrating
to the United States having fears of a coming
between Germany and Russia.
| A proposition to retire both Cleveland and Hill
in favor of William C. Whitney is made by the
Cleveland managers in New York.
Architect Emery ]. Mills of Chicago has been
indicted for mansaughter. He planned the
structure Pearce st. which collapsed in storm
recently, killing number of people,
| Because the Canadians tax American vessels
passing through the Welland and st. Lawrence
| canals. President Harrison suggests to congress
that tolls be imposed on Canadian vessels using
the Sault Ste. Marie canal.
! May1.
| Winnipeg is visited by $l25,O 900 fire.
proclamation of reciprocity with Honduras is
made public in Washington.
The recent sales of school lands in six counties
OF North Dakota is claimed to be entirely illegal.
Gen. Miles calls attention to the almost utterly
defenceIess condition of the entire coast lines of
| the United States.
The dedcatory services of Notre Dame church,
in Chicago, the magnificent edifce erected by the
French Canadian Catholics of that city, were con.
Quoted by Archbishop Fabre of Montreal and Mgr.
Paquet. president of Laval university, Quebec
In Belgium two explosions supply the only ele.
Paris no disturbance occurs though anarchists
make violent speeches. An attempt to blow up
England's greatest arsenal marks the day in
| London.
There many men idle at La Crosse, Wis, as
no settlement of labor difficulties is in sight.
| The extensive plant of the Minneapolis Sash
and Door company is totally destroyed together
with all the stock. Loss, $50 600
| st. Paul Republicans claim that the Democrats
are padding the voters list with the names of
| fictitious and nonresident persons
| The Russian relief ship Tynehead sails from
New York laden with provisions for st. Peters
burg. The cargo is donated through the Red
Cross society.
! May 3.
Count Holsteinberg, the eminent Danish states.
m an, is dead.
The Minnesota grand lodge A. o. U. W. is in
session in St. Paul.
The telephone contest that has been in progress
for years terminates by patents being granted to
Edison.
1t is said that with Cleveland's assent a move.
ment is on foot to secure the Democratic nomina.
tion for Chief Justice Fuller
The entire city Republican ticket is elected in
ST. Paul, seven and probably eight of the nine
assemblymen. and five and perhaps seven of the
eleven aldermen.