The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-05-12
NEWS OF A WEEK.
May A..

May4.
Minnesota's delegates to the National conven.
ton will 60 uninstructed.
Both Dakotas are working hard to secure dis.
play at the Worlds Fair.
Maj. Geo. A. Camp the distinguished Minneap.
oils citizen and veteran. dies at his home.
The Office of the Daily Union Stock Yards Jour.
nal at South St. Paul is destroyed by fire. Loss,
2,5OO insured.
The victory of the st. Paul Republicans was
decisive and overwhelming. Wright's majority
over Smith reaches 3793.
Twenty acres of ground selected by the
Wood Harvester Works in st. Paul. Work will
be pushed to allow manufa curing soon.
Mays.
Saturday half holiday will be granted st. Paul
| employees during the summer.
The President signs the Chinese exclusion bill.
The former law expired to-day.
The largest horse in the world, standing twenty
two hand hight and weighing $500 pounds dies at
Fort Worth, Tex.
Serious charges in connection with Kansas
lands are made against Secretaries Elkins and
Mobiles and others. An investigation is asked by
the house.
Is said that the cardinal bishop of Quebec has
brought to America fragment of the of St.
Ann, mother of the Virgin Mary. The fragment
Will remain In canada.
Mayo.
bill is favorably reported in the house for the
issue of postal fractional currency.
Cincinnati and Boston base ball teams play
fourteen innings without making run.
Rumor has it that the pope does not approve Of
Archbishop Ireland's Farbault school policy.
The Chinese Minister protests emphatcally
against the Chinese exclusion act which has be.
come a law.
Mill owners who have not built fshways will be
prosecuted by the Minnesota state fish and game
commissioners.
The former president of the bank of Harlem,
New York. is arrested for Incorporating &c..
900 of the funds of the bank.
| May7.
1t is reported that Emin Pasha has died in
| Africa
A tickle couple in Minneapolis get divorced, re-
marry. and again divorced in a half year.
Through a frightful accident to east bound
Sante Fe train near Medill, Mo-, fifty persons are
| injured.
l. Newell Pillsbury, Daugherty and Day are the
delegates at large to the Republican national
| convention.
George e. Jones, we'll known business man Of
Minneapolis, dies suddenly in the West Hotel
Turkish bath.
| The house of representatives. decide that st.
Paul stands at the head of navigation the
Mississippi river.
| Mays
| Sixteen inches of snow falls in Nebraska.
The pope. after all, it is reported. will approve
of Archbishop Irelands educational policy.
| In London DR.. Vaughn the archbishop Of
Westminster is enthroned in the cathedral.
| Two thousand houses destroyed in Miching,
China, by fire and number Of people are killed.
| In Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma the floods
are more destructive than ever while in Iowa
and Illinois they subsiding.
| Representative Castle is afraid that the Chinese
legislation which recently passed congress will
result in having all the American missionaries
driven out of China and probably many of them
massacred.
The Worlds Fair grounds is the scene of labor
| riot.
1t is the belief of the Attorney General that the
sugar trust has violated the antitrust law.
| The st. Paul fire commissioners decide that fire.
men who are discharged never be reinstated.
The senate passes the bill to promote American
shpbuilding. and awaits the presidents
| ton.
Cold rain and heavy snow visit northwestern
towns. and the outlook for farming interests
| thought serious at some points
| Levees along the lower Mississippi break flood.
| ing many plantations. Property on the low lands
at st. Louis is submerged or floating away.
| May 10.
Connecticut Democrats endorse Harrison's ad-
ministraton.
| convention is to be held in ST. Paul, May 25,
| of the Afro-American league.
Jaeger. the defaulting cashier of the Rothschilds
of Germany, is arrested in Egypt.
Joel P. Heatwole ntimates that he would not
decline a gubernatoral nomination.
terrible gas explosion occurs in mine at
Roslyn Wash. Nearly fifty men supposed to
have persisted.
The report of the cardinals sustaining Arch.
bishop Ireland's educational plan is approved by
the pope.
| The Commercial banks schedule of assets and
liabilities shows balance of 1886. 3O1 in favor of
| the bank
Mckinley Cullom, Ingalls, and Fassett are the
names mentioned for permanent chairman of the
Republican convention.
At Baltimore the captain of a steamer is fined
5000 for allowing alien pauper. who had been