The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-03-09
NEWS OF A WEEK.
March 1.

Brig. Gen. T. r. Freeman dies at Neosho Mo
The Washburn anti-optOn bill is killed in the
house.
Gordon Mckay leaves S2,OOOOOO in trust for
Harvard college.
Madame Grevy. widow of Jules Grevy, FORM
erly PRESIDENT of France. dies in Paris
The citizens of New Jersey hold monster
meeting at Trenton to protest against the racing
bills.
The Vice President and Mrs. Morton tender q
reception to the Vice President elect and Mrs.
Stevenson.
Princess Kaiulani loses no time in making an
appeal to the American people to aid her in
securing her ground.
March 2.
The Orangemen in Belfast burn Gladstone an6
Morley in effigy.
The estate of the late Gen. Beauregard is said
to be worth S., 100000.
DIR. Talmage denies emphatically that he is to
retire from the Brooklyn tabernacle.
Spectators of launching at Bay City, Mich,
are thrown into the water and some are drowned,
John L. Sullivan and Charlie Mitchell meet at
a theatre in st. Louis and become fast friends
The house committee investigates Panama
canal matters, and no evidence of the corrupt
use of money is found.
President Harrison decides to accept profess,
sorship in the Leland Stanford university where
he will lecture on constitutional law
March 8.
Five children SuffOcated in a rear room of
a tenement house in New York.
Gov. Mckinley, it is said, is the fourth eXecu-
tive of Ohio who has come to grief while in office
The parish of Avoyelles. La, is visited by a
terrible cyclone leaving death and destruction
in its wake,
Ed. Smith, the Denver pugilist, defeats Joe
Goddard at the Olympic club, New Orleans.
Purse, $4,000.
Senator Blackburn has made suit of Con-
federate jeans which he is to wear at the in
auguratOn.
Melville E. Stone is elected general manager
of the Associated Press. the organization being
completed in Chicago after a two days session
March 1.
A Wall street firm makes the statement that
bonds will be issued by Mr.. Cleveland.
Lee Mantle, Republican, is appointed by Gov,
Richards of Montana. United States senator.
George Hazelett makes preparations for going
over Niagara Falls in an egg-shaped barrel.
p. F. Egan, a jeweler at st. Paul. makes an
assignment. Assets, 81 800; liabilities, $4,000
DOnaghue's twenty-five mile record is lowered
Grover Cleveland is indicted for the second
time into the high Office of chief executive of the
nation.
The continued absence of the White Star
freight steamship Naronc is causing IA great
deal of anxiety in New York.
March 5.
HyppOlte Tane. the author of History of
English Literature" dies in Paris.
Admring friends of Gov Nelson present him
with fine gold hunting time piece.
1t is expected that the swtchmen and switch
tenders of the Michigan Central road will go Oh
a strike.
Col. Hans MattSOn, who was three times Secre-
tary of state of Minnesota, dies at his home at
Minneapolis.
Cord Burfeind. pioneer settler of Lake City.
MINI dies of cancer of the stomach at his home
in that city.
BaIlingtOn Booth, the commander of the Sal
walton Army in this country, decides to adopt
his fathers g Darkest England - in this country,
March g.
An American female base ball club is mObbed
in Havana, Cuba.
Mrs. Rebecca Clark, the oldest woman in Rice
county, dies at Mortified, MINI.
The latest advice from Honolulu shows that an
nexatiOn is desired by the Hawaiians.
Secretary Gresham's successor on the circuit
bench will be Judge James G.. jenkins.
Mrs. Christina Jensen of North Mankato,
Minn., shoots Ende Peterson by mistake.
Gov. Nelson thinks that the state of the public
business will not admit of journey to the
Worlds Fair.
A new revolution has broken out in Southern
Honduras which will probably involve all the
Central American republics.
March T.
Evangelist Mills begins work in Minneapolis,
Brokers on the New York stock exchange have
to pay so per cent. per annum for funds.
The sailors of the American war-ships station
ed at Honolulu nearly have fight.
The Minnesota Iron company declares div
idend of IL per cent. on the capital stock.
John w. Meagher of MankatO Mimi, son of
Hon j. F. Meagher, dies of consumption.
President Cleveland intimates that he will take
his own time in making room for office seekers.
1t is said, that President Cleveland may APP
point commissioner to visit Hawaii before act
ing ON the annexation question.
consolidation of the leading cash register
companies is contaminated in Boston. The COM
petition which has heretofore existed is brought
to end.