The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-09-22
NEWS OF A WEEK
September IA.

Ocrats 1Or mayor OF Minneapolis.
Hon. John d. O'Brien is appointed member
OF the st. Paul board of school inspectors
Aslatlc cholera finally makes its appearance in
New York city, five fatal cases being reported.
1t is estimated that this years yield of wheat
in South Dakota will be 100000 bushels, COM
pared with 35,OOO,OOO bushels last year.
Spiegel Co., furniture dealers of Chicago
have confessed judgment for 100000. The liza
bilities, it is said will exceed $15OOOO; assets
about the same.
The delegates to the national convention of
street railway employees, in session in Indianap-
Oils, have decided to organize independently of
the Federated Labor and Knights of Labor.
September Is.
Street labOrers in Minneapolis exhume coffin
| containing the remains of an unknown man.
Fifty persons are precipitated in deep ex-
cavatiOn at Columbus, Ohio, and many are ser-
Ously injured
Four new cases of cholera in New York city,
Mayor Grant, in a proclamation, takes bright
view of the situation.
A head-end collision occurs on the Chicago &
Northwestern railway near Marshalltown, Minn.,
between a freight and accommodation trains
Four men are killed.
The dry dock of the American Steel Barge
works of Duluth was to-day tested and found to
operate perfectly 1t is 500 feet long, and said to-
be the largest in America.
On receipt of positive information from the
health officials of New York regards the cholera,
MOntreal's health authorities will declare quar-
antine against the states of New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania.
September 49,
The state convention of the w. c. T. IT, closes
at saltwater, Mimi.
William Dean Howells resigns his position as
editor of the Cosmopolitan.
President Harrison threatens to absolutely
| forbid immigration from chOera-nfected cOun-
tries.
r. G. Dunn & Co.'s Weekly ReUieW says that
the cholera has but little influence on business in
New York.
Thirty more cases of suspected cholera is re-
ported in New York city, several of which are
found to be Asiatic.
AccOrding.tO recent reports, threshing is now
general throughout the Northwest. The yield
WILL in a number of cases, far exceed former es-
Inmates.
September II.
Gov. Ruswell P. Flower of New York receives
an Internal machine by mail.
A total of nearly fifteen thousand cases of
cholera have so far occurred in Hamburg.
sofa, dies at st. Paul after an illness of year.
The firm of Root, Taylor & Co. of Memphis,
make an assignment. The liabilities are thought
to be over 100000.
A fire occurs at the Brooklyn navy yard which
destroys new set of engines for the cruiser Gin
cnnati, valued at 100000 and destroyed property
worth at least 100000 additional.
September 1S.
Miss.
A strike and lockout occurs in Cincinnati
among furniture operatives.
The secretary of the treasury says that the
cholera crisis is practically past.
Socialists and agitatOrs in the trade at Chicago,
have voted to boycott the Worlds Fair.
ODuring a sham bombardment on board the
United States cruiser Philadelphia at Baltimore,
a shell eXplOdes killing Captain King.
Gen. Joseph T. Terrence of Chicago has Of
fered to donate twenty acres of land upon which
to erect four hospitals, one each for cholera
smallpox, diphtheria and scarlet fever.
September 10.
Alden j. Bethen of Minneapolis, resigns from,
the Business Mems union.
A general uprising of the negroes at Campo
nOlles township, Ark. takes place on account of
In it's official bulletin the board of health in,
New York, states that no cholera has appeared
in the city since it's last bulletin.
Alexander Berkman, who attempted to kill
Mr.. Prick at Pittsburg, is sentenced on seven,
| counts to twenty years in the penitentiary.
President Conrad, of the Louisiana Lottery
company, denies the report that the company is.
trying to gain fOOthOld in the Sandwich islands.
September 20.
Only one cholera death is reported from New
| York.
An Irish peer is sent to Winnepegs jail for
| two months for vagrancy.
| A cablegram from London states that Mitchell
is ready to fight COrbett in February for purse
of $4,000.
The pope approves Cardinal Gibbons plan for
an exhibition of Catholic schools at the Chicago
| worlds fair.
| 1t is said at Fargo that the Louisiana Lottery
has not given up all hope of gaining a foothOld
| in North Dakota.
| ROckaway Beach, the famous summer resort on.
Long Island, is wiped Outby fire.. Loss estimated
at two million dollars.