The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-08-31
NEWS OF A WEEK.
August %.
Gold flows steadily in.


clever swindle as to evade law.
Duke of Edinburg becomes Grand-duke of
e-COburg- GOtha and German prince
The President not ill but evading the office
hunting horde.
Senator PETER is anarchistic in speaking of
banks and gains Hills On. W support
August "a.
Bank of England raises rate of discount
voorhees, reported working for compromise
Steamer sinks at Halifax, N. S., drowning
seventeen.
Great Northern loses and N. P gains dis
puted land grant suit
Representatives from twenty seven nations
exhibiting at the Fair visit st. Paul.
Chinese at Singapore fear demonstration of
Mexican dollars now current, being debtors.
South Chicago has ST 100000 blaze; $50 houses.
burned and many people scared.
The Atlantic storm does very great damage to-
Shipping and on land. Rainfall the heaviest
known IN the East
August %.
France again threatens Siam.
Currency begins to re-circulate.
Mexico erupting again; fifty killed.
Rioting lOngshOre strikers quelled by the police
at New York.
Minnesota poorly represented on House COM
mittees.
The Diet recognizes Duke Alfred as ruler of
Sake COburg- Gotha.
An attempt to corner the Washington hop
crop ends in failure and loss.
Dave Hill is a repeal, bimetalliSt, anti-Cleve-
land, for president in '96 man.
Treasury pays debts in gOd bills having been
exhausted: reserve down to $97, 100000.
Irish Home Rule bill passed its report stage by
the steady majority of 3S.
August 26.
Russia reported ready to seize Herat.
TelescOped trains on Long Island kill sixteen.
Burke Cochran stands firmly by his party plat
form in glowing language.
All five robbers of the First National bank,
st. Paul, reported caught.
Ignatius Donnelly turns labor mass meeting
to political, prO-silver use.
Reed speaks in the House, pledging Republican
support for honest money.
The pension commissioner verbally shows up
Representative Morse of Massachusetts,.
Rumored that Voorhees, bill will pass the SEN
ate and Wilson's be killed there.
Minnesota takes many and high honors in
various Worlds Fair stock classes.
August q.
The President will come back to work.
n. P. train robbed east of Livingston, Mont.
Over $1,000 deaths in Russia last week from
cholera.
Prospects for fair grain prices are good, Europe
being short.
The bank statement encourages all lines of
business to expand.
Newspapers attack the Pope for establish
ing SatOlli as American legate.
Seventy-eight days of voluntary starvation re-
qured to kill an old sailor.
Turkish authorities will punish assaulters
of an American lady missionary.
st. Paul business man cleverly swindled by
new phase of gold-brick game.
August %.
Anti-silver wins by 100 ma jOrity.
Stocks and grain prices advance slightly.
Worlds Fair Judge of awards suspended for
peddling prizes for brides.
Allen and Mantle, appOintees of state govern
Ors denied seats in the Senate.
English papers Declare cOmmOn-Sense to have
gained victory over monopoly.
Peary apparently stranded in Labrador being
unable to buy dogs for sedging.
Dakota crops being moved by use of small de-
nomination sight drafts and some currency.
A Demo- Republican fusion likely in western
Kansas counties against Populist anarchy.
A bloody time expected when the Cherokee
strip is opened; one sooner " already killed.
Savannah Ca, reported struck by cyclone.
Forty at least killed. damage of property up in
to the millions,
August %.
Slight frost in parts of Minnesota.
Baltimore suffers from a furious gale.
Evidence of prompt tariff legislation.
The Ryan Hotel, st. Paul, changes hands.
Silver repeal starts banks. and factories.
France threatens a protectorate over Siam.
New York gets severe dose of the East coast
hurricane.
Cholera at Genoa, and parts Of Italy; also at
Nantes, France.
Reported find of enormously rich gold veins
in West Australia.
Senator Teller gets in work against the Will
son bill and delays it.
Fourteen hundred Hungarian miners, out of
work. return home to Europe.
A preacher, unjustly imprisoned and badly
treated in Oklahoma, threatens suit for damages.