The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-03-02
NEWS OF A WEEK.
February %.

cabinet
About $50 citizens leave Illinois to locate in
Southern Minnesota.
The switchmen on the Chicago 4 Western In
diana road go strike.
The Eastern states are completely Snow-bound
and business is suspended in many points,
Irving Bath, editor of the st. Louis Park Mail
dies at his residence at that place.
Secretary Foster retires as he is to assume
management of the Boring Sea case for Amer
lea.
President Harrison raises the American flag
over the New York formerly the City of New
York.
February 49,
The first formal session of the Boring Sea ar
bitrators is held in Paris.
Several men in London swnde the London
Building association out of about $1O,OOOOOO.
Rufus Hatch, the once famous Wall street
magnate, dies at his residence in New York.
Two hundred and twenty-five electrical line
men at the Worlds Fair strike for higher wages
Another lot of forged paper aggregating $780,.
600 has been brought to light in the National
bank case at Lincoln, Neb.
The Beaupre Mercantile company one of the
most prominent wholesale grocery concerns iB
st. Paul. make an assignment.
February "a.
A postoffice is established at Star Lake, Otter
Tail county. MINI.
The Minnesota senate passed the value policy
act regarding fire insurance.
Allan Marvel, president of the Santa Fe rail.
road dies at San Diego, Cal.
John w. Mackay the famous inancier is Sc.
riOusly wounded in the back by stranger
The house of representatives object to any def
mite action on the Hawaiian treaty unless the
house has hand in it.
The senate regrets the nomination of John V.
F. Fnday of Maryland to be arbitrator for the
United States in the matter of Chilean claims.
February %.
The supreme court of Kansas decides that the
Populists' house is illegal
There is little prospect, it is said, of the Ha-
waiian treaty being passed this session.
The Western Union Telegraph company have
ordered the discharge of all union men.
John w. Mackay is thought by his attending
physician to be in practically no danger.
The Panama Canal investigation proves that
$92, 500 600 was the amount paid to contractors.
The wages and means committee is assured by
Secretary Foster that the treasury is in no dan
ger of becoming bankrupt.
President Harrison cOmmutes the sentence of
Edward L. Harper ex-president of the Fidelity
May I, 1893.
February rs.
Archbishop frelands Faribault pan-memorial
to Pope Leo is at last made public
Mrs. Blaine will spend the summer in Europe
and will be accompanied by her youngest daugh-
ter.
Rev. s. NJ. CrOtherS of ST. Paul breaches ser
mon in favor of opening the worlds fair ON Sun
day.
disastrous fire occurs in st. Paul destroying
the factory building of the Minnesota shoe corr
pany.
Capt. Charles ID. Schmidt, formerly of the
uuartermaster's department of the United States
army, dies at st. Paul.
The people of Belgium vote on the question OF
universal suffrage The proposition is appar
emily favored by great majority
February D.
The Wellman Iron and Steel company of Phil
adelphia is in financial trouble.
The Roman police surprises twenty-six anarch-
lists working in bomb factory.
The pension appropriation bill is passed blythe
Senate without any amendments.
The walls of a building fall upon tenement
house in Chicago and kill ten persons.
1t is said that Mississippi Valley Lumbermens
Association are likely to advance prices on lum-
Der.
The L. S. revenue cutter Washington is badly
damaged by collision and sinks in New York
harbOr.
Mrs. Aver the manufacturer of toilet articles,
is suffering from chronic meanchOlia and is con-
fined in asylum.
February %.
The great battleship Indiana is successfully
launched at Philadelphia.
Traffic is nearly at StandStill in Minnesota
on account of the last snOwstOrm.
The Van DuZen cOmpanys elevator at Red
wood Falls is burned to the ground.
strong effort is being made to increase the
pay of letter carriers from ST 900 to 81 200.
The Pope is greatly dspleased because of the
abandonment of the American pilgrimage.
The Democratic municipal convention nOmi-
mates Carter H. Harrison for mayor of Chicago.
The house passes bill providing that after
July 1, 1893, pig tin and ore shall be exempt from
duty.
NJ Henri ROchefOrt claims that the French
government has suppressed part of the Pana-
ma scandal.