The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-10-13
NEWS OF A WEEK.
October 5.


The Minneapolis exposition of '93 will be held
if a guaranty fund of 100000 can be raised.
POpulistS are beaten in Georgia, the Democrats
electing their state ticket by their Old-time ma
jority.
The notorious Dalton gang are exterminated
and five of the bandits shot at COffeyville,
Kan.
Henry Gehrke, one of the most prominent far
mers in Washington county, dies from injuries
received while scattering straw.
The great Roosevelt organ mandatory of New
York city, is to be closed in January. 1t gave
employment to several hundred men.
October G.
Lord Tennyson, the poet, dies at his home in
London.
ST. Paul is chosen as the city in which the ma
tiOnal real estate meeting of 1898 will be held
Thomas Chase, L. d. of Providence, r. L.,
is dead He one of the revisers of the New
Testament.
Senator Quay is under medical treatment He
suffers with insomnia and vertigo, the latter
attack causing the most concern.
The earl of Dunraven sends challenge to the
New York Yacht club for the American cup. The
challenge will probably be accepted.
Skn-grafting is tried by a Rochester (Minn.)
physician on patient who had been horribly
is satisfactory.
October Z.
Charley Mitchell, the pugilist, is sent to prison
for assauting an old man.
Admiral Walker reports to the navy depart
ment that the war in Venezuela is over.
A boarding house at Homestead, Pa, contain
ing nOn-uniOn wOrkmen, is partially destroyed
by dynamiter.
Fully 10000 strangers were present at the cee-
bration of the 25Oth anniversary of the fOunda-
ton of WOburn, Mass.
! Secretary Foster in his speech at Frederick,
Nd, said that the country is prospecting under
the system of protection.
Susie Conrad, woman weighing 600 pounds,
was taken i'll at Chicago, and it took five officers
to help remove her to the hospital.
| october 8.
| A. c. Brick, editor of the Arlington Enterprise,
is married to Miss Juliette Bssen of Henderson,
MINI,
| The News office at MontrOse, Mimi, is totally
| destroyed by fire, which was caused by explosion
| of lamp
Grafton, N. D., is visited by $4,000 fire. The
Farmers store, owned by p. Sandager & Co.,
was totally destroyed.
| The question as to who will succeed the late
Lord TennysOn as poet laureate is agitating the
minds of Londoners.
Judge C. X. Lord, one of the oldest residents
of La Crosse and a pioneer of Wisconsin, dies
aged eighty-one years.
The latest criminal sensation in Washington is
a coOred female burglar who has burgarized
several houses recently.
| October g.
Miss Alice Granger of Chatham, Ont, said she
was tired of trying to teach bad bOys,' and
| commits suicide
| Two steamers crash together in Puget sound.
One is sunk, five lives are lost and seventeen
people are injured
The Georgia factory in Clark county, Ca, was
burned yesterday. Loss, $13OOOO. The factory
employed 800 operatives.
Important concessions have been granted to
the New York and Honduras steamship cOmpa-
ny by the Honduras government.
A consolidation of steel brakebeam manufac-
turing industries has just been effected. There
are but three companies engaged in the business,
and they are located in Chicago Detroit and
Pittsburg.
| October TO-
New York begins the celebration of Columbus
discovery of America.
Bishop Potter is authority for the statement
that Heber Newton will not be tried for heresy.
Policeman Mcbride of ST. Paul, is attacked by
a thug and is seriously and perhaps fatally in
jured.
Nathan H. Roberts, pioneer resident of Min
neapOlis and an eX-alderman of the Seventh
ward, dies at his home
Geo. C. Ger, who was engineer of the Monitor
in the engagement with the Merrimac during
the late war, is dead at Charleston, S. c..
| farmer in Lawrence Kan, shoots and seri-
Ously wounds two students of the Kansas univer-
sty because they walked across his land.
October II.
Washington paper insists that another In
dian scrap is brewing.
A new postOffice has been established at Green
bach KittsOn county, MINI.
Editor Seward of the Saltwater Messenger is
shot down without warning.
Mrs HarrisOn's constitution seems to be yield
ing to the effects of the disease from which she
is suffering.
The great naval review takes place at New
York, and over one million people witness the
parade of war ships.
The strike of tanners at Milwaukee, which has
lasted thirty-sx weeks, has been declared off and
the men are soliciting their old places.