The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-03-17
NEWS OF A WEEK.
March q.

The senate passes the pure food bill.
William Lindeke. one of st. Pauls noblest cit
liens. dies at his home.
Waldo Adams, manager of the Adams Express
company. dies in Boston.
The directors Of the Chicago board of trade for.
bid all dealings in puts and calls.
The state supreme court decides that .'tailors'
clubs' are lotteries and must discontinue
The Boring sea arbitration treaty and the dip.
lomatic correspondence on the question are made
public.
The government has introduced in the Canadian
house Of commons a bill providing for the modus
! vivendi granting licenses to American vessels to
engage on the inshore Atlantic fisheries.
March 10.
John F. Wnslow, who built the Mon itor dies in
New York.
Senator washburn of Minnesota introduces an
immigration bill
An attempt is made to reorganize the Minnesota
Republican Association of Washington.
combine is formed for the pu rpose of limiting
the output of the principal copper mines.
The Indiana delegation to the Minneapolis con.
vention is instructed to support President Harri.
son long his name is before the convention.
The Spanish senate has approved the CONNER
cal convention between Spain and the United
ton to so against it.
March IL.
An explosion in Belgian mine kills over hun.
dred men.
Another American sailor is killed by Chileans at
Valparaiso.
A bill to establish postal telegraph, prepared by
Postmaster General Wanamaker is introduced in,
the house.
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Judge Start decides that the stockholders are in
dvidually liable.
The Canadian Pacific will build line to connect
with the $780, thus furnishing st. Paul another
transcontinental line.
1t is believed that Cleveland or his friends in.
spired Harter of Ohio to ask Hill to declare him
self the silver question. 1t is said that Cleve.
land was trcked by Hill into writing his famous
antsilver letter.
A great strike of miners takes place in England
and Wales
A bill suppressing lotteries passes the Kentucky
legislature.
Minnesota may have an iron palace at the
Worlds Fair.
1t is believed that Secretary Blaine will not again
engage in active public duties.
The government is after more trusts, including
the dressed beef combine and the biscuit trust.
Milwaukee steamboatmen trying to have
the employment of Canadians the lake steam
ers prohibited.
There is a so.called citizens move to nominate
an independent city ticket in st. Paul. 1t is re-
garded as an attempt to disrupt the Republican,
party.
March Is.
prominent young clergyman of Russell, Iowa.
is stricken blind in the pulpit.
An organization styled Defenders of the Amer.
lean Public School System" is formed at Still
water.
At Mr.. Blaine's house it said that the
rotary continued to make favorable progress
toward recovery.
The negotiations for the consolidation of the
Freeman's Journal and the National Press Of Dub
lin has been concluded.
Fred Douglas has accepted the position offered
him by the government of Hayti as its representa-
tive at the Worlds Fair.
terrible prairie fire has been raging for sew.
eral days in the eastern part of Payne county,
Okla, doing many thousands of dollars worth of
damage.
March IA.
plot to assassinate the sultan of Turkey is
discovered.
at Yokohama, Japan.
General Master Workman Powderly, of the
knights of Labor. is soon to resign.
Robert Lincoln, the American minister to Eng
land. has resumed his duties. having completely
recovered from his recent illness.
Work on war vessels at the Mare Island navy
yard is being rushed, and all available Pacific
coast vessels may be sent to Boring sea at once.
March Is.
The Democrats and the Peoples party in Kan.
sas fuse
Anarchists are creating another reign Of terror
in Paris.
The ST. Paul board of aldermen finally votes in
favor of the auditorium project.
The beef trust is said to have burned its books
| in order to battle possible scrutiny by federal
officials.
The 'greater New York BILL" which contem.
plated the merging of New York. Brooklyn and ad-
jacent cities, is defeated in the state assembly
President Harrison. by proclamation, imposes
duties upon products of Colombia, Hayti and
Venezuela because those countries have not eff
fected treaties of reciprocity with the United
States.