The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-03-16
NEWS OF A WEEK.
March s.

March s.
st. Paul business men inspect the Wood Har--
vester works.
The iron ore producers of the Lake Superior
district will perhaps form a combination.
Figures show that the last congress apprOpri-
ated over $3S, 100000 more than the Fifty-first
congress.
The two middle-weights, FitzimmOns and Hail
meet at New Orleans and the latter is defeated
in four rounds.
Buildings are perceptibly shocked in New York
and the supposition is that it was caused By
an earthquake.
William Dalton, last of the Dalton gang, pleads
guilty at Independence, Kans and is sentences
to the peHitentiary for life.
March g.
Ten million bushels of wheat are cornered ia
Chicago by Jim Keene.
The president is not satisfied with the Hawaii.
an treaty and will prepare another one.
Gen. Manuel Gonzales. eX-president of Mexico
is dangerously ill and is not expected to live
Gov. Turney, the bed-ridden governor of Ten
nessee, is hardly expected to live more than two
weeks.
Mr.. Cleveland says. that he will not reappoins
men to positions who held places during his first
administration.
The president sends to the senate the nomins-
siStant secretary of state.
March 10.
Duluth men cause the wheat market of Chics.
go to take jump. Much excitement prevails
The Minnesota Worlds Fair commission taks
a trip to Chicago to accept the new building.
The show case factory of l.. Paulie at Minneas-
oils is damaged by fire to the extent of $4,000
The central police station of st Paul is declared
unsafe and is condemned by the building ia-
spector.
1t is thought that the president will so frame D.
treaty that the Hawaiian people can be allowed
to vote for annexation.
one entire square is consumed by fire in BOstoa
thirty persons are thought to be dead. and the
property loss amounts to S45OO.OOO.
March H.
The Great Western machine shops at Sousa
st. Paul suffer "a loss of 100000 by fire.
President Cleveland will carry out as nearly as
possible the home rule pledge of tile Democratic
platform.
August Dohling, of Hastings, Mimi, an inmate
of the poor house. has been in a continuous sleer
for six weeks.
The auditors report of the Worlds Fair IL
nanceS shows that nearly SIC. 600 have beea
expended up to date.
An avalanche of snow and ice from the roof OF
the Northwestern COrdage works at ST. Paut
buries several wOrkmen.
large delegation of merchants bankers and
ship owners from Dublin, call upon Lord Sails
bury and show that there is a strong oppositiOs
to home rule.
There is but little danger of a cholera epidemic
in the United States this year.
James w. Hyatt, eX-treaS,rer of the Unites
States, dies at his home at NOrwalk. Conn
The Mississippi breaks up and the ice does
much damage in the vicinity of Rock Island
Illinois.
John H. Brown, one of the most prominent
MaSOns in the West dies in Kansas City aged
sixty-Seven.
Negotiations are on foot to build a new rail.
road to connect Manitoba and Northern Mime
sofa with Lake Superior.
bank is established in Venezuela which EN-.
bodies some features of the subtreasury schems
advocated by the POpulists.
March 10.
President Diaz of Mexico DEGREES the free ina
portatiOn of maize and beans.
Lives and property are swept away by devast-
ing floods in Michigan and New York
An association is to be formed in Maine for the
purpose of erecting monument to J. G.. Blaine
1t is stated, that eX-President Harrison is to
at the Leland university.
party of congressman will make trip to the
Hawaiian Islands. 1t is stated that the party
will have no official recognition.
The Atkinson House Furnishing company OF
Boston makes an assignment Liabilities, ST.
100000: assets estimated at s., 100000.
cablegram is received by the navy depart
ment announcing the safe arrival in st. Thomas
of the Columbus caravels Pinta and Nina.
March IA.
Leon T. Chamberlain of st. Paul takes the oath
of corporation attorney.
Richard Heath, son of the late Gen. Heath Of
San Francisco, is arrested for murder.
Mr.. Gladstone is again in good health and is
able to conduct his correspondence.
Nearly half of the little town of Polk City.
Iowa. is burned. Large elevators were among
the buildings burned.
Minnesota commissioners return from tho
Worlds Fair and report the States exhibit in a
satisfactory condition.
Charles Wells, otherwise known as MOnte
Carlo Wells, is sentenced in England to eight