The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-05-04
NEWS OF A WEEK.
April &c


Representative Joseph Markham pleads mot
guilty to the charge of boodling
The anti-scalping law is declared unconstitu-
tional by an Illinois court.
Sixty@twO lives are lost, and vast amount of
property destroyed by cyclone in Oklahoma.
A monument built to perpetuate the memory
of John James Audubon, is unveiled in Boston.
A careful revision of the pension list is to be
made, and all fraudulent pensioners will be
dropped from the list.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stoves health is as good
as it was ten years ago, but her mind is incapa-
BILE of sustained effort.
The German emperor had narrow escape
from serious accident by the overturnng of a
carriage in which he was riding.
April q.
Secretary Carlisle has conference with New
York bankers.
The greatest naval review of modern times is
witnessed by President Cleveland.
The treasury officials are in receipt of a new
counterfeit S. note made by photograph process.
Latest reports from Oklahoma, places the
number of fatalities in the recent cyclone at over
IS, with 200 injured.
Resolutions are adopted by the executive CON-
mttee of the Worlds Fair, which means re-
nunciation of congressional control.
A young girl mysteriously disappears at Wi
mona, Minn and all attempts to discover her
whereabouts have proved futile.
April %.
James w. Taylor, United States Consul at
Winnipeg for twentythree years, dies at his post.
The Standard Oil company has gobbled up its
rival, the Manhattan. The property transferred
by the deal is valued at $15,OOO,OOO.
1t is said that Queen Victoria will leave the
bulk of her fortune of $25 900 to the Duke of
Connaught and the Princess Beatrice.
A banquet is given by the chamber of COM
merce to the visiting admrals at the Hotel Wall
dorf Covers were laid for 400 the price set for
each plate being $50.
The Navaioe Indians have left their reserva-
ton in New Mexico and gone on the war-path..
Eight settlers have been killed by them. and the
Indian agent has called for troops to prevent
further blOOdshed.
April %.
The Mississippi river is rising rapidly at st.
Paul, but no serious food is expected.
bank at Salem, S. D., goes to the wall. Its
liabilities are placed at $4,000 and assets at $685.
600.
Mrs Potter Palmer completes the wOman's
building at the Worlds Fair grounds by driving
the golden nail.
DR.. Haffkine who claims he can prevent
cholera by incubation, has inocuated 400 per-
sons in India.
Frederick A. Powers, of North Dakota, lays
claim to the ground on which Grand Rapids,
Mimi, is built.
The most terrible cyclone that ever visited
Texas destroys the town of Cisco and does
great damage to the surrounding country. Con-
servative estimates place the number of killed
and wounded at 49,
April 80.
Mrs. j. c. Curry of st. Cloud, Mimi, has fallen.
heir to $4,000.
The passenger steamer Sidney, of the Diamond
10 line is the first steamer to arrive in st. Paul
from down river points.
Edwin Booths condition has taken sudden
change for the worse and his death is only a
question of few hours.
The high water at ST. Louis is beginning to
cause considerable ALARM and fears are enter
tanned that the disastrous floods of last May are
to be repeated
George W. Morehouse, police magistrate at
Great Falls, Mont, commits suicide. He left a
note saying that he preferred dying now rather
than suffer paralysis, which he feared might
Overtake him any day.
May 1.
Customs officers seize 800 pounds of opium at
Grand Forks, n. d.
Unrequited love drove Pearl Thomas female
barber of Cascade, Mont, to suicide.
f. Harper, the Fidelity National bank wreckef
who was pardoned by President Harrison, has
returned to his home in Hartwell.
| 1t is now believed that the liabilities of the
Union Loan and Trust company of Sioux City
are Sc, 100000 instead of $75O,OOO.
| The trial of the impeachment cases against
Nebraska state and eX-state officers are begun In
the chamber of the supreme court at Lincoln.
A. H. Hornsby escapes from the custody OF
Detective McGinn at Prescott, Wis, by jumping
from car window, but is recaptured at Hast
ings, Mimi.
May2.
Secretary Hart reports that insanity is on the
increase in Minnesota.
The origin and prevention of asiatic cholera is
discussed by st. Paul physicians.
| The gold in the treasury is increasing slowly,
and the situation is regarded as satisfactory.
The collector of customs at Tacoma, WASH,
refuses to admit the $50 Chinese actors en- route
to the Worlds Fair.
| 1t is understood in New York that Mrs. Elliott
F. Shepard will retain the control of the MaiJ
and Express property in the interest of her son,
whom Col. Shepard desired to succeed him.