The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-05-11
NEWS OF A WEEK.
May 3.

Under the existing law the gates at the Worlds
Fair cannot be opened to the public on Sunday.
The African explorer Oswen is dead. He was
companion of David Livingstone during the
latters explorations in Africa.
The new board of insane hospital trustees meet
in Fergus Falls All the old officials in the diff
ferent hospitals were reelected.
The late Abingdon Baird owned an estate of 49,
600 acres, valued at $3.50, 600, in Stockland which
he never took the trouble to visit.
The Northwestern Fuel cOmpany's sheds at
Milwaukee, Wis.,, fall, and seven men are buried
in the debris, all of whom are severely injured,
but none fatally.
The admirals and senior officers of the visit.
ing squadrons, to the number of eighty will visit
Chicago and be entertained by the city two days.
May 4.
The Mississippi river has ceased rising at St..
Paul, and fears of flood are subsiding.
The Atlantic seaboard is visited by most severe.
storms and several vessels are lost.
Miller, city treasurer of ST. Paul, declares he,
will carry the Refs investigation into court.
The railroad and warehouse commissioners
consider the selection of site for the state eeya-
tor at Duluth.
Sarah Galloway. who sued the Milwaukee rail-
way for damages, at the third trial is awarded
$4,000.
The National Cordage company of Jersey City
goes into the hands of a receiver, and three
prominent brokerage firms of New York are
forced to suspend, on account of carrying, too,
much of its stock.
Mays.
Three murders travel by the hemp route from
New Mexico.
The Chilians murder an American citizen ON
account of his nationality.
President Cleveland pOstpones until November
the date of the national monetary conference
The Worlds Fair directors adopt strenuous
measures to prevent eXtOrtion on the part of
hotels and restaurants.
For the purpose of testing the Chinese exclus-
ion law in the United States, three Cinnamon are
arrested to-day.
Some of Denver's Cinnamon register twice in
order to secure extra certificate to be used in
smuggling more Chinese into the country.
May6
Gen. ROsecrans register of the treasury re-
signs.
Bonilla, leader of the Honduras revolutionists,
is overthrOwn.
Alexander Mcdonald, Virginia editor is APP
pointed minister to Persia
IgnatiuS DOnnely in a lecture at st. Paul at
tributes the discovery of America to the Irish.
Minnesota women take conspicuous part in
the womens congress at the Worlds Fair.
There is talk of Caprivi's resignation, since the
defeat of the German army bill, and the dSsOlu-
ton of the reichstag.
Iron Mountain, MIMI, furnishes its passenger
over the hemp rapid transit line by lynchng
Pete BOulanger, rapist.
May7.
"Bill'' Plice wins the hackdrivers' race to Min
neapolis.
The wife of Chauncey M. Depew dies at her
residence in New York city.
A pathetic scene is enacted when Carlyle Har-
ris bids his family an eternal farewell.
An accident was caused on the Big Four road
by the air brakes being defective. Ten men were
killed.
populist leader III Oregon says the president
should be mpeached for not enforcing the Chi
nese exclusion law.
Eighteen members of students secret society
at St. Petersburg are arrested for the murder of
colleague, who retired from the society and be-
trayed its secrets.
May
Lake navigation opens at Duluth.
Carlyle Harris, wife murderer. dies by Electro
cution at Sing Sing.
st. Paul's bakeries come under the inveStga-
ton of Health Commissioner HOyt.
John Ruskin, art critic, and all around littera-
teur, but no poet. succeeds Tennyson as laureate
of England.
Rob't. ID. Russell of Minneapolis is appointed
j. D. c. to fill the place made vacant by Judge
LOchren's resignation.
DamrOsch may succeed Thomas as musical
director of the Worlds Fair.
plumbers strike is promised in the near
future.
Mays.
South Dakota is visited by slight earthquake.
Commissioner Blount is given the Hawaii
mission,
st. Paul opens its new auditorium with great
concert.
The opening of the Minnesota building at the
Worlds Fair eXcites much admission.
Chairman Carter is to be retained by the
Republican national committee.
The Ramsey county grand jury have at last
finished its investigation of the famous coal COM
bine.
Foreigners visiting the Worlds Fair suffer
from the failure of the Chemical National bank
of Chicago