The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-06-15
NEWS OF A WEEK.
June z,

Spring Valley.
The new commissioner of pensions is making
preparations to decimate his clerical force
tombstone, the mind reader, is successful in his
search for the hidden pn but is worn out by the
exhaustion of his eighty hours search.
Fargo, the metropolis of North Dakota is visit
ed by most destructive fire, nearly one half the
city going up in smoke. The loss is estimated at
three million dollars, ard twenty-five hundred
people are made homeless.
June 8.
Two of Chicago's federal iurists decide that the.
Worlds Fair must close on Sundays.
magnificent popular ovation to the ST. Paul
railroad magnate closes the great Hill celebration.
The president appoints Gilbert G. Thorne of
Hastings national bank examiner of Minnesota.
Gov. Mckinley is almost unanimously renomi-
mated, and signifies in a strong speech his will
lingneSs to succeed himself
Polish students at Lemberg do violence to one.
of their archbishOps because he far disregarded
the tenets of the Greek Catholic church as to paw
visit to Leo XIII.
Chinaman named All Wing, a life convict at
Deer Lodge, Montana, askes for deportation
under the Geary law. as, owing to his imprisOn-
ment, he could not comply with the provisions.
He is serving life sentence for the wilful muir
der of three of his cOuntrymen The matter may
be tested by habeas corpus proceedings.
June 8.
The postoffice at Stewartsville is broken into,
and robbed of $500.
A fatal fight takes place between civil officers
and strikers in Illinois.
Bradstreet's reports show steadier beat to-
the financial pulse of the country.
piteOuS appeal to the American people for
help goes up from the fre-stricken sufferers of
Fargo.
Lieutenant Peary has completed his arrange
ments for his second visit to the Arctic circle.
His wife will accompany him on this trip.
FOrd's theatre in Washington, now used as a
government building, collapses, killing score
and injuring thrice that number under its
crumbling walls.
June 10.
Mrs. Frank Leslie is successfully divorced from
Mr. Wilde.
The robbery of a Santa Fe train is reported from
Indian Territory.
St. Paul will give benefit performance of the
"Allegory of the War; in aid of the Fargo
sufferers.
severe storm visits Dubuque, Iowa, flooding
the city and causing great damage to property.
Another gunboat, the Machas, beats the re-
quired thirteen knots record making fifteen
knots in her trial trip.
Chief Justice Fuller grants stay of proceed
ings in the Sunday closing injunction case and
the gates will open usual tomorrow.
June II.
The POpulists and PrOhibitiOnists of Iowa are
said to be about to fuse.
Foreign nations seek voice in the control of
the Nicaragua canal.
Cardinal Gibbons puts the Catholic church Oh
record as favorng the Sunday opening of the
Worlds Fair.
Archbishop Hennessys life is endangered by
an insane wOman's attempt at his assassination
in Dubuque, Iowa.
Tom Roe starts out on his bicycle race against
time from New York to San Francisco; sixty
five days is his schedule time.
June -.
The entire northwest is visited by hot wave;
the thermometer marking the nineties.
A twelve ear-Old boy in South Dakota muir
ders his twO-year- Old sister because she cried.
Trouble is reported on the Leech Lake reser-
walton through the accidental shooting of an
Indian.
Acting Secretary of State Hamline decides
that registered Chinaman, if he departs from
the country, can never return.
John SOntag, the notorious California train
was formerly citizen of MankatO.
An inquest is held over the remains of those
who persisted in the Ford theatre disaster, and
an attempt in made to mob Col. AinswOrth a div
isiOn chief of the medical bureau
June 10.
The State Firemens Association meets in st.
Paul.
The Third Regiment, MINI. Vols, go into
camp at Lake City.
The convention of the Minnesota Sons of Vet
Grams is held at Alexandria.
A Canadian cruiser seizes an American fishing
schooner in Nova Scotia waters.
The much talked of cowboy race, from Chad
ron, Neb to Chicago, is finally begun.
Two bank wreckers in the eternal city are
sentenced to long terms of Imprisonment.
Commissioner LOchren sends special pension
examiner to st. Paul to look after frauds
Trouble is feared among the Indians of Leech
Lake reservation, and troops are sent from Fort
Smelling to prevent an outbreak.