The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-06-08
NEWS OF A WEEK.
May 81.

w. M. CampDell is appointed chairman of the
Chippewa commission.
Rising waters destroy three dams at Fergus
Falls.
The Metropolitan handicap is won by Charade
at Morris Park.
The remains of the COnfederacy's president
are reinterred at Richmond, Va.
The revolution at Nicaragua is ended by Presi-
dent SacaZO signing treaty of peace.
The directors of the Columbian exposition re-
port lamentable dearth of money in their ex-
chequer.
The grand jury in ST. Paul completes its inves--
tigatiOn in the coal combine, and reports the
finding of no true bills.
June l.
The Minnesota building at the Columbian ex-
position is formally opened.
Two hundred and forty are graduated
from the state university ut it's commencement
exercises.
The Iowa PrOhibitionist, head their new state,
ticket with B. O. Aylesworth for governor
VIM. Kelsal dies from asphyxia in St. Paul
hotel. the result, it is supposed of blowing out
the gas.
DR.. Briggs is convicted of heresy and suspended
from the ministry by the Presbyterian grand as
sembly.
Rev. j. B. Hearst of Hastings. Mimi, reports
at Hastings near midnight
June 2.
The public debt is lowered $739425 during the.
month of May.
Archbishop Ireland presdes at the opening of
social purity congress at Chicago.
Seventy-fve graduates of the law department
of the university are admitted to the bar; three
of the number being females.
An iron steamer cOdeS with an unknown
schooner on lake Huron; the schooner sinks
with all on board.
Another foreign potentate. the Sultan of Jo-
hOre, will visit the Worlds Fair this MONTH
A terrible cyclone visits Eldorado, Ark doing
great damage to property. and killing twenty
people.
June 3.
st. Paul's debt has been reduced to S656,OOO
Four firemen are killed at Omaha by falling
walls
Minnesota Odd Fellows will hold their grand
lodge at Rochester this week.
A new scheme for smuggling Cinnamon into
this country has been discovered it is through an
underground canal from Canada.
Three Americans rob Canadian farmer and
kill him, his wife and daughter. throwing their
bodies into the flames of their burning home.
The records show that Gen. Busy. late assist
ant secretary of the interior, allowed pension
to a veteran because he had corns
June 4.
Premier Gladstone is beginning to have pre-
mOnitiOnS of death.
The University of Minnesota is not represented
at the Chicago Intercollegiate contest, owing to
financial depression.
A steamer has been seized at New Orleans
charged with violating the neutrality law by aid
ing the insurgents during the Honduras revOu-
ton.
tombstone, the mindreader is trying. blind
folded to find pin hidden in a cave, fifteen miles
from the entrance. at Hot Springs, S. d.
Mamie Schwartz, the tiveyear-Old, whose alb
duction from st. Paul over a year ago caused
almost as much sensational excitement and
search as the loss of the famed Charlie Ross. is
found at West Superior. She was abducted
last June by a strange woman, who gave her in
charge to West Superior family, paying three
dollars per week for her care She had grown to
love her new surroundings. and her foster pa
rents were lOath to let her go, when claimed by
her father The state had offered $500 reward
for her recovery.
June s.
The Lally hotel in ST. Paul is destroyed by fire.
H. A. Castle is elected president of the ST. Paul
chamber of commerce.
MonsignOr SatOlli will visit st. Paul, and be
the guest of Archbishop Ireland.
DR.. Edw. McGlynn is in a Trappist monastery
in Kentucky doing penance.
A special session of Congress will be called for
September not later than the 18th.
Governor Nelson opens the antitrust conven-
ton in Chicago; makes stirring speach and is
elected permanent chairman.
Mayor Wright of st. Paul issues proclamation
ordering the closing of all city offices for the Hill
celebration.
June g.
Edwin Booth, the actor dies in New York
| Princess Eulalie and suite are given an enthus-
iastic welcome in Chicago.
The whisky trust will close all its distilleries
for an indefinite period
The POpusts bolt in the antitrust convention,
and hold meeting of their own.
Bradstreet, Thurber and Co. of Minneapolis
suffer loss of over 5000 900 to building and stock
by fire.
James j. Hill delivers an address on the SUBJ
ject of reciprocity at the convention at st. Paul.
The chief of police and chief of detectives of
st. Paul have warned all their subOrdinates to
be on the lookout for crooks during the Hill cell
ebratiOn.