The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-04-20
NEWS OF A WEEK.
April ~.


amounting to $3O,OO0,OO0.
The coal combine committee holds meeting
at ST. Paul and concludes the taking of tessi-
mOny.
The Loyal Legion meets at st. Paul and en-.
dOrseS the appointment of Judge LOchren as
commissioner of pensions.
Democrats decide to stand by Senator Roach
of North Dakota, and his case will not be in
vestigated this session.
Ex-COngressman John Lind has narrow es--
cape from drowning while attempting to cross.
the Minnesota river near Redwood Falls.
The town of Robinson, Miss, is completely de-
stroyed by a cyclone and many lives are lost.
school house one mile west of town is swept
away and twenty-five school children are killed
and missing.
April 49,
Calhoun wins the Tennessee derby
At least fifty people are killed in the recent
cyclones.
The coal combine investigating committee sub
mitS its report
The city of Toledo, o., sues the Standard Oil
company for $1O,OOO.OOO.
1t is rumored that Charlie Mitchell, the prize
fighter will enter the ministry.
The first annual meeting of state correctional
and charitable institutions is held at the Peoples
church, st. Paul.
At the convention of southern governors at
Richmond, Va, an address to President Cleve-
land is adopted in which the republican party is
accused of slandering the South.
April IA.
Charles LOngfellOw, son of the poet. dies at
Boston.
The state conference of corrections and chart
ties concludes its session.
DPresdent Cleveland has appointed Caleb Wal
ton West governor of the Territory of Utah.
Senator w. B. Dean gives an informal recep-
ton to his colleagues State officials and leading
ST. Paul business men.
The committee on the Mile Laos pine land
sale to c. A. Smith illegal while the other up
holds the act of Auditor Bierman.
April 49,
The United States senate adjOurns sine die.
The last surviving relative of Aaron Burr is
dead.
Two electric cars are smashed i'm collision at
St. Paul, but no one is injured,
DR.. Hatfkine a Russian, claims to have dis
covered a method of incubation for cholera
which is sure cure.
A cOmpOsitOr on the st. Paul Pioneer Press
sets 227 800 ems solid nonpareil in fifty hours
a Mergenthaler Linotype machine.
John w. Riddle of Minnesota is appointed
secretary of legation in Turkey and Joseph S.
Miller of West Virginia commissioner of internal
revenue.
April Is.
A Texan will try the experiment of Kidding the
state of wolves by inoculating a disease among
them.
1t is said that United States commissioner
Blount will restore the depOsed queen to the Ha-
waiian throne.
typhus fever epidemic is raging at San Luis
POtosi Mex. and hundreds of people have died
of the disease.
John Schardt, cashier of the Mechanics Saw
ngs Bank and Trust company of Nashville,
Tenn, is short in his accounts about $65,OOO
A bloody battle between Hungarians and Ital-
ans occurs at Milnersville, Pa, in which two of
the contestants are killed and several wounded.
1t is said that a New York syndicate will buy
DR.. Keely's famous bichloride of gold cure for
drunkenness. The price to be paid is $1O,OOO,00o.
April II.
Carter Harrison is inaugurated mayor of Chi
cago.
formed in st. Paul.
Winnipeg official denies the report that there
has been a case of cholera in that city.
Exhibitors at the Worlds Fair are working day
and night to get their displays in order.
A meeting of civic bodies is held in st. Paul to
arrange for the memorial services in honor of
the late Major T. NJ. Newson.
The island of Zante, one of the principal IOnian
islands, is visited by a destructive earthquake
resulting in great loss of life and property.
April IS.
Michael DOran returns from Washington.
The Minnesota legislature aajOurns sine die.
Miss Lucy LarcOm, the pOeteSs, dies at Boston
after long illness.
Ismael Pasha, the eX-khedive of Egypt is said
to be worth sos 100000.
| The dOwager duchess of Sutherland is COM
mitted to Hollway prison for six weeks for con-
tempt of court.
| Secretary Hutchins of the st. Paul Relief So
ciety submits his report which shows success
| full year.
| A gas pipe loaded with dynamite explOdes near
Tower, Mimi, killing three wOrkmen and badly
| injuring a number of others.
| Representative Markham is arraigned in Min
| neapOlis on an indictment charging attempted
bribery in connection with the Wyman lOg-scal-
] ing bill in the legislature.