The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-07-06
NEWS OF A WEEK.
June %.


Results yet in doubt as to German elections
Floor falls at the Worlds Fair injurng thir-
teen.
Hay shipped to France on fodder famine &C
count.
The MOorhead bank robber captured and
identified.
Yale freshmen win the boat race against Har.
ward and Columbia
Heavy shipments of wheat to Europe during
the past month.
Many Minnesota postmasters made happy by
increase of pay.
Chicago Journal casts doubt on Gov. Altgeld's
citizenship and tenure of Office
June 90
Silver mines shut down.
Bismarck reported seriously ill.,
French suffer defeat in Tonquin.
Irish home rule debate nearing an end
Old Rogers block in ST. Paul badly scOrched
Gov. Altgeld hanged in effigy at Naperville ILL.,
The silver dollar is worth fifty seven cents act
ual value.
Silver slumps and makes money matters pam
cky in London.
Grand Jury investigating gambling at Wash
ington park Chicago.
j. w. Davidson, Austin, Minn., to go with
Peary towards the North Pole
Cash wheat breaks all previous records and
goes to 621a cents at Chicago.
Prompt and wise measures taken by New York
bankers ease the very feversh money market.
The President will not hurry the extra session.
The senate is still doubtful on the silver ques-
ton.
June 80.
Chcago-St. Paul lines inclined to lower rates.
Refreshing showers favor northwestern crops.
Uncle Sam has two millions over after paying
his debts
Yale beats Harvard in the boat race by four
lengths.
State supreme court decides unconstitutional
the Minneapolis courthouse act recently passed.
Extra session of congress called for Aug. 18th.
Wall street relieved by this early call.
st. Paul municipality economies by looping
off heads and reducing salaries
Cash wheat reaches 611s cents in Chicago; it
cost 60 per cent. to borrow money to carry it.
A. B. Stckney of st. Pual shows how; by feed
ing it to hogs, so cent what can be made worth
$1.OO.
Foreign commissioners at the Worlds Fair
unite in demanding an apology to the commits
sioner from Paraguay arrested last week by a
guard.
Senate reported all safe on the silver question.
Wheat and silver bulge on the early call of con-
gress.
Bimetallic league to convene in Chicago this
month.
Passenger rate war expected among trans-cOn-
tinental roads
German army bill will probably pass by a small
majority.
Epworth league would boycott the Worlds
Fair for opening Sundays.
Filibusters against silver bill repeal will prompt
ly receive the closure gag.
The early call of congress gives impetus to all
branches of trade.
Harvard beats Yale to t. winning the inter-
varsity base ball championship.
Carter Harrison Kissed for too much anneXa-
ton in his Worlds Fair Dominion day speech
South Carolina commences Operations as the
sole dispenser of liquor within her borders.
July2.
Lieut. Peary on the Falcon leaves BROOKLYN on
his polar search.
1t is rumOred that some senators will talk any
Sherman law repeal bill to death.
i Veterans reunite on the field of Gettysburg to
dedicate York state monument
The Munich, Germany, NdcIrichten appealing
against fine for libeling corrupt official, is
sustained by the appellate court
New river basin in Louisiana terribly inundat-
ed through levee crevasse. Many deaths, and
many more threatened by starvation.
July 8.
Students and police conflict in Paris.
Army officers do not want Indian agencies.
Another Republic-King of Grece abdicated.
At TeXarkana Ark, r. E. Lee shoots in court
his wifes alleged murderer.
Notorious bandits Henry Starr and Kid Wilson
captured in Colorado.
Speaker Crisp hurries to Washington to con-
suit with Secretary Carlisle.
Three men killed by gun cotton explosion in
U. S. factory, Newport, r. I.
July 4.
Enormous crowd at the Worlds Fair
Students and police again clash in Paris.
Circulation per capita in the U. S. $23-s6.
A mine disaster in Engand-oneh hundred killed.
Emperor William opens the Reichstag with a
speech.
Landslide kills twenty workman ION Canadian
Pacific.