The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-04-27
NEWS OF A WEEK.
April 10.

April 10.
An Ohio capitalist mysteriOusly disappears in
Chicago.
A large number of bills passed by the last leg
islature are signed by Governor Nelson.
Mrs. Isaac Staples, wife of the prominent lun-.
herman of this city, dies of old age and paralysis
The ticket brokers of St. Paul will continue
business as usual and fight the new scalper law.
Christopher Peterson, an employee at the Inter-
national hotel, St. Paul, falls from window and
is killed.
Herr Krupp will present to Chicago the mon
ster Krupp gun, the largest piece of ordnance in
the world.
Therese BOudOn, who was nearly 1O5 years old,
dies in Saint Paul at the home of the Little Sis
tiers of the Poor.
April 20.
Senator La Due is selected as Minnesota's rep
resentative at the Worlds Fair
A plan for funding the floating debt of the
Northern Pacific is practically adopted.
Fourteen wOrkmen are drowned in Lake
Michigan at Milwaukee during severe gale.
A clever sparring exhibition is given by Dick
Moore and Tom Murray at the Phoenix club St.
Paul.
A mad dog at Sioux City, Iowa, bites sixteen
other dogs and is killed after four hours chase
by the police.
After lingering Illness, Mrs. Amra Hancock,
widow of Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock
passes from earth.
April 81.
Gov. Nelson vetOes proposed appropriations
aggregating $237 900.
Nine men are smOthered to death in mine
near Butte, Montana.
Ex-President Harrison has applied for member
ship in the Virginia Historical society.
Fergus Falls votes no license, and some of the
saloon keepers leave for new pastures.
Champion Corbett is very sick man, and his
friends fear he is going into consumption.
The only two editors of daily papers in New
York city past middle life, are Charles A. Dana
and David M. Stone.
John w. Mackay has so far recovered from
the effects of the assault upon him last March As
to be able to visit his office.
April o.
Only 272 of the bills introduced in the Mime
sofa legislature have become laws.
The entries of Minnesota live stock for exhibit
ton at the Worlds Fair have nearly all been
made.
Gen. Harrison has been invited to make the
chief speech at the unwilling of the soldiers
monument at Athens, Ohio.
Bloody encounters between friends aud foes of
Home Rule occur in Ireland. An anti-Home
Rule demonstration takes place in London.
The Ramsey county WOmens Christian Tenn
perance Union is to meet in annual convention
next Thursday to discuss methods of fighting
the saloons.
Secretary Carlisle receives enough gold to
make the gold reserve intact again. Bankers
declare that if the secretary wants more gold he
must ask for it, and that if a large amount is
needed bonds must issue.
April %.
The anniversary of Shakespeare's birthday is
celebrated at StratfOrd-On-AvOn.
1t is said that Gov. Mckinley would accept the
gubernatOrial nomination again if his party Offer
ed it to him.
The son of the once famous prize fighter, Jem
Mace, has just closed series of evangelistc
meetings in indianapolis, Ind.
Timber to the value of 100000, is burned at
the Victoria dock in Hull. England. 1t is thought
that striking lockers started the blaze.
cOlored woman at Alton, ILL.,, who was bitten
ten years ago by mad dog is affected with n.y.
drophobia to such an extent that at intervals
she barks and crawls about on all-fours like
dog.
Upward of 1 800 people meet in the auditorium
of the Peoples church, St. Paul. to render
tribute of respect and esteem to the memory of
the late Maj. Thomas Mclean Newson.
April "a.
Partridge is on deck again, and is believed Ito
have fully recouped himself for his recent heavy
losses.
Thirty-twO men, of-war ships are now steaming
toward the scene of the coming great naval re-
view.
The draperies about the altar of a church at
Naples are set afre by being blown against
lighted candle, and in the panic that ensues
eight women and five children are crushed to
death, and hundreds of others were more or
less seriously injured.
April %.
The bronze statue of Columbus is unveiled in
Chicago with appropriate ceremonies.
The Odd Fellows of Minneapolis and st. Paul
celebrate to-day the rs anniversary of the order
Secretary Carlisle rejects the proposition
made by New York bankers to supply the treas
ury with gold.
An unlocked for turn of affairs forces tho
state of Wisconsin to re-arrest Mrs. Russell the
alleged murdress of Bertha Erickson.
The citizens of st. Paul are making great eff
forts to bring to successful issue the reciprocity