The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-04-13
NEWS OF A WEEK.
April 5.

river.
Secretary Hart of the board of Corrections and
Charities, issues report on the population of
state institutions.
A distillery fire occurs at East Louisville Ky,
in which 1900 barrels of whisky valued at
100000, are destroyed.
The appointment of Judge William Lochren of
Minnesota as pension commissioner seems as
Sured. All other candidates have dropped out.
The largest driving belt in the country is in use
at the electric light station of the st. Paul Gas
Light company. The belt is six feet wide and
175 feet and eight inches in length.
The yatch of the sultan of Turkey is sunk and
about forty members of his household and guests
are drowned. 1t is rumOred that the sinking of
the yatch was plot against the sutan's life
April 6.
Mayor Wright of ST. Paul issues a proclama.
ton calling upon citizens to enforce sanitary pre-
cautions
During the dedication of the Mormon temple
at Salt Lake, an alleged supernatural manifesto
ton occurs.
waiter in a Newark, n j., hotel has been left
a fortune of 100000 by the death of an uncle in
Australia.
A great mass meeting in aid of home rule is
held at Market Hail. st. Paul, and over 81 900 is
raised for the cause.
The Mississippi river is rising rapidly at ST.
Paul and is now higher than it has been for o
number of years.
Irwin Shepard. president of the state normal
school at WinOna, is appointed secretary of the
National Educational association.
April Z.
Striking dock laborers engage in bloody riot
at Hull, England.
A st. Paul man is awarded $76O from the West
ern Union for the loss of a telegram.
At Romeo, Ill.,, nine men are killed and six
badly injured by cantilever falling upon an ca
CINE house.
A st. Paul railroad brakeman tells his wife
that he has foreboding of evil, and few hours
later he is found corpse.
Our government demands reparation from
Turkey for the burning of an American seminary
in Asia Minor by an incendiary fire.
Fifty prosecutors are selected by Charmaa
Davidson to aid the authorities in bringing to
punishment the members of the alleged coal
combine.
April s.
New Mexico has small earthquakes.
An anarchist plot is discovered in Spain.
Mayor Eustis of Minneapolis vetoes the eight.
hour ordinance.
Minnesota will have one of the finest exhibits
at the W ora 5 ar.
Destructive storms occur in New York STATE
and one man is killed.
Machinists and boilermakers of the Santa Fe
road strike for higher pay.
An attempt to introduce local option in Lon
don results in riot between liquor men and tee
tOtalers.
Attorney General Childs gives opinion that
Gov. Nelson cannot appoint members of the leg
islature as capitol commissioners.
April9.
Mrs Leland Stanford possesses Jewels to the
value of s., 100000.
Between 1000 and 5000 union men employed
on the Worlds Fair buildings go on strike.
AdOlph Anderson, patient in the Fergus
Falls insane asylum, dies in restraining sheet.
William c. Robbins, who belonged to wealthy
family and was prospective heir to $2,OOO0Os,
commits suicide at the Clarendon hotel in Brook
Ign, N.Y.
gigantic syndicate to manufacture steel and
nickle plate is being organized at PittSburg,
which will rival the combined interests of the
Carnegie company. The capital stock will be
81 ,OoO,O 100000.
Colored Masons at st. Paul organize a con-
sistory.
Duluth land officers decide case involving
81 100000.
A sensational report is made by the pine land
investigation committee.
There is another famine in Russia and the
poor are dying by hundreds.
The 1000 Worlds Fair employees who went out
on strike have returned to work.
James COrbett and his manager, William
Brady, came near being mObbed at Montreal
Can, by indignant cabmen.
April II.
The water in the Mississippi river at ST. Paul
is receding.
An explosion in Welch coal mine causes the
death of 100 men.
Cyclones destroy lives and property in Kansas
Iowa and South Dakota.
The famous plunger Edward Partridge drops
$4,000 to the bull clique in the wheat market
and is short enough to lose him another ST.
OOO, 900.
President Cleveland dominates Daniel w.
Morgan, of Connecticut, as treasurer of the
United States, and Daniel M Browning illinois,
commissioner of Indian affairs.