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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12
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For the intelligent voter the coming
year will be fraught with more interest
than campaign. The most valuable
paper that comes to this Office is The
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dependent, working at all times for the
best interests of the people, and never
for the selfish ends of any ring or in
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cOndeming the wrong wherever found,
it becomes great power for good
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fined by it's well-knOwn motto: Equal
Rights to All, Special FavOrs to None"
The reputation of The Weekly World
as an incompatible newspaper is fully
established. 1t reaches for the very
best and fullest news of the entire
country, and gets it. The celebrated
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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12
THE CRIMINAL RECORD FOR
1898.

The side of life of the year just passed
which the Chicago Tribune presents in
its record of fires, disasters, marine and
railroad wrecks. murders, lynchings,
suicides, hangings and embellishments,
is not pleasant one to look upon, but
like the disasters that have over
whelmed the business world, it is better
to recognize than to ignore it. The rule
that fear of business panic is prolific
of fires and large insurance losses held
good in 1898, which saw $1SS,356, $40
worth of property burned up, or $32,
100000 more than in 1892, 1922 100000
more than in 1891 and $9O,0OO,OOO more
than in 1890. In addition to this loss
Of property, 1877 persons lost their lives
by fires, not counting the ~ who met
death in explosions and the $50 who
were killed in mines. But the saddest
record OF the year is the list of murders,
hangings, lynchings, and suicides. The
year saw 6,615 murders in this country,
decrease of Is since 1892, but an in
crease of 100 over 1891, and the alarm
ing increase of 1926 over 1890. The
cause which led to these murders are
classified as follows:
QuarrelS.. 1855.
OnknOWn. ,OSO.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12


John Lofquist, a life prisoner in the
Columbus, O., penitentiary, has, during
the term Of his incarceration, raised a
flock of several hundred pigeons Every
one Of the birds knows him and will
go to him at call. He says that each
has name and that he can tell one
from the other by the difference in
their faces, which, he claims, are as
characteristic as the faces of human
beings. The pigeons, when they take
up their morning fly for exercise, soar
high up in the air and circle above
but never, unless driven by hunger,
go beyond the boundary Of the big
walls
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12

An exchange gets down to the bot
tom facts when it says that young
man with practical knowledge in his
head, skill in his hands, and health in
his body, in his own letter of recon-
mendation, diploma and reference Mix
him up with sixty million Of others,
and you will find him again, as he will
have the habit of being at the top.
Throw him naked on a desert island,
and he will be at the head of something.
He does not go whining up and down
the land, blaming fortune and saying
he has no chance, but goes Oh and does
something and goes out again and does
it again better.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12

With such an appalling list of MUIR
ders committed it is interesting to know
that only 1876 murderers were legally
executed in 1893, an increase Of IS over
1892 and Of over 1891. Georgia had
the largest number Of legal hangings Of
any State as it did the year before
Its record stands IA for 1892 and Is for
1893, while Alabama follows with II
executions and New York. South Caro-
lima and Maryland had 10 each. Penn
sylyania hung men. The Northern
States inflicted the death penalty legal
ly on 80 persons and the Southern States
on % persons. Considering. the many
instances Of mob violence occurring in
the South during 1893, it will be sur
prising to hear that there were only 200
lynchings during the year in the whole
country, or 36 less than in 1892 and only
5 more than in 1891. Of these 1873 oc
Cured in the South, or II less than in
1892, and Il occurred in the North or
10 less than in the previous year. Ala
bama has had the bad pre-eminence Of
leading all the States, with q lynchings,
Louisiana following with 20 and Missis
sippi with II. There were 154 negroes,
80 white men, MeXicans, Indians
and women lynched. Pennsylvania
has clean record in this respect. An
other discouraging item in the record
Of the past year is a large increase in
the number Of suicides reported. The
total is ( 1896 or an increase of $40 over
1892 and LOS over 1891 The cause of
these suicides are summarized as
follows:
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12

eve have already called attention. -
says the Kidder, Mo-, Optic, 'to the rot
now being dished up by the daily press
on the subject of tuberculosis in cattle. "
Now, if our able contemporary would
only call attention to the hundred per
cent. worse rot which is being
dished up by the same agency on the
subject of the Pollard breckenridge
scandal, and cause them to cease dishing
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12

no sign of responsibility either, nor is,
in the mind of any one with two ideas
above a monkey, but the fact that
man is above sharp practice, wants no
mans money only as he gives him
recommend that is good here and will
be good hereafter, or else there is moth
ing in the law of right and wrong.-NeW
Hampton QOwa) Courier.
Ii man robs you in options, that is
called business, if he gets your Doodle
at the card table, that is called gam
bling, buff he pulls your pants through
an open window and takes dollar and
half out of them, that is called rob-
bery.-kaw's Mouth.
Corbett announces that his forth
coming fight with Jackson will be the
last III which he will engage. And it
ought to be. Indeed his first FIGHT
ought to have been his last. He would
have stood higher in the estimation of
the community if he had never lent
himself to the brutal sport.-St. Paul
Globe
Chief Of Police Smith says he will
Withdraw his ''spOtters" because Judge
MahOney will not take the word of
policeman as absolute gospel And why
should he? Policemen were never
known to have monopoly of truth
telling. There is even disposition on
the part of some people to insinuate
otherwise. Minneapolis Penny Press.
Let us have done with vain regrets
and longings for the days that will
never be ours again. Our work lies in
front, not behind us: and Forward" is
our motto. Let us not sit with folded
hands gazing upon the past as if it were
the building: it is but the foundation.
Let us not waste heart and life think
ing OF what might have been. and for
getting the may be" that lies before
us.-Waverly Magazine.
The fruit of the spring terms of the
district court now being held in various
parts OF the state is observable by the
number of arrivals at the prison. War
den Wolfer now has 49o prisoners I'M
der his charge, which number will soon
be increased to 500, the population at the
present time is larger than it ever was.
This is simple proof of the legitimate
results of the present disastrous money
panic and hard times. The present hard
times are the cause of nearly all the
embezzlement, forgeries, thefts. rob-
berries, hOmicides and suicides The
two old parties are responsible for the
present hard times. From this. draw
your own conclusions. Farmers Buzz
Saw.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12

Chicago has organized an association
for the purpose Of giving employment
to ex-convicts. While we fully appreci-
ate the efforts of this praise worthy Or
ganization, would it not be well for
them to devote some of their energy to
the furnishing of employment to the
thousands of idle citizens and thus pre-
vent and save them from becoming con-
victs?
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12

The editor Of the Stockton. Cal,
Mail reminds fellow of his youthful
days in the following: "Come back,
come back, my youthful pants; come
back, come back to me, for never more
by chance your equal l shall see. My
mother made them. | recall, how won
drous was their fit, for l was some six
inches small into the things to get.
They hung straight from my shoulder
blade in folds beyond relief, and when
the eastern zephyrs played did to take
reef. She made them out of fathers
pants, the bosom was his size. The
sight of me in them by chance would
fill you with surprise. Istill remember
l would use the slack in carrying chips,
and when to rise if | did choose my
face was in eclipse. And all the little
boys | met would cheerful round me
dance and ask in tones | can't forget,
Where did you get them pants?' Oh,
trousers queer of long ago; Oh pants
wild and free, where have you gone |
long to know? Come back, come back
TO mer'
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12
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How true it is that those who engage
in wrong practices seldom consider in
advance how they are going to prevent
their detection and punishment Boys
Lantern.
When the opportunity to earn an
honest living is denied mankind of So
ciety, can man be anything else than
criminal if he wishes to live ?-Minne-
apolis Union.
In the House Of Commons there are
ten newspaper men, six printers, four
tailOrS, three statiOnerS. two butchers,
three hOtel-keepers, six farmers, one
coal merchant and one cab driver
Rocky Mountain Sentinel.
A Philadelphia wifebeater was arrest
ed, tried in the police court, held to
the grand jury, tried and convicted in
the circuit court and sentenced to three
years in prison. All this was accom-
plished in less than eight hours. Mich,
City Qnd.) Dispatch.
Not nearly so much need we ask: Is
the man learned in the law? when we
are selecting judge as we need to ask,
is the man honest and of good judge
ment? The fact that man makes
money is no sign of ability; it should be
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12

The S. f. Bulletin says that JUSTICE
has given Michael Lynch, of Grand
Rapids, Mich, five years in the peniten-
tiary for stealing chicken. At about
the same time the blind Goddess gave
the x-city treasurer of Tacoma, Wash,
five years in the penitentiary for steal
ing $4,000 of the peoples money en-
trusted to his care. If the above is JUS
tlce, what, in heavens name is in
Justice?
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12

An exchange very truly says that,
IF any one deserves to be despised and
hated by his neighbors it is the one who
says, Every man has his price. If you
turn one set out the new ones will be
just as bad" The man who says that
secretly wishes he knew enough to be a
successful thief himself
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12

Send us the name and addresses of
three or more performers on the piano
or organ, together with eight cents in
postage and we will mail you one copy
Popular Music Monthly containing ten
pieces, full sheet music, consisting of
popular songs, waltzes marches, etc,
arranged for the piano and organ. Ad-
dress: Popular Music Monthly, Indian
apOlis. Ind.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12

1t is to the credit OF the women that
they furnish only S3S, or less than 20
per cent. of these suicides. The men
doctors sought self-destruction than
the members of any other profession
was noted a year ago, and the record of
1888 shows that they continue to head
the list. No less than 80 physicians
committed suicide last year, as com
pared with 81 in 1892 and % in 1891.
The pistol is the most popular means
of suicide, 1889 persons having shot
themselves Poison relieved the woes
of 1,2OS more, hanging helped 64l out
Of life, drowning was preferred by 39l,
throat cutting ended 372 lives, the loco
motive helped IS to die, stabbing self
murdered 4S, only Is sought death by
burning and 10 by starvation, while 3
used dynamite. There is one more
disagreeable record of 1893, and that is
the S19,929,692 that We're stolen and
embezzled during the year. This is an
increase of more than 100 per cent. over
the recorded embellishments of 1892,
which We're $S,SS7,54S; but there is a
little compensation for this in the fact
that the donations of 1893 to charities,
education and art in sums of $4,000
and over, was S33,319,S66, or an increase
of nearly S5,OOO,OOO, over the donations
Of 1892. Estimating the population of
the country last year at 100000, then
every man, woman and child in the
country ran one chance in 10000 of
being murdered, one chance in $1,000
Of committing suicide and one chance
in 100000 of being lynched, and every
murderer had one chance in 521a of
being hanged or electrothaniZed. 1t is
to be hoped that the record of 1894 will
be a brighter one to comment upon.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12

The Sleepy Eye Dispatch says: ave
have some respect for an editor who
runs Republican, Democratic or a
Populist paper but none whatever for
the fellow who calls his sheet indepen-
dent" How abouta prison sheet, Bro.
Hays? Give us all a touch, don't show
any partialitY.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12

Two little boys, Henry Weldon and
Michal Mollick, Of Hastings, were ar
rested, and sent to the State Reform
School, at Red Wing, for taking few
marbles from playmate. The pinery
thieves, however, who have stolen a
million dollars worth of state pine,
are still at large. Great equalization
of Justice. this.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12

A clergyman Of New York visited a
certain jail where a young man, who
had thrown away many advantages,
was confined for murder and was there
awaiting his trial. Where he had lived
his shelves were lined with books.
What kind of books were they? The
Bible or religious books of any kind,
works of science and true taste? No.co
rupt works and licentious poetry reveal
ed the rock which had given its color to
the criminals life and character. Let
the young, let all avoid bad books as
they would bad people.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12
A bill fixing the salaries of U. S. dis

A bill fixing the salaries of Z. S. dis
trict attorneys, clerks of court, and T..
S. marshals at $4,000 per year and
abolishing the fee system now in vogue,
will soon be presented to congress.
This is proper step toward a much
needed reform which it would De well
for some of our state legislatures to
follow. The fee system is a shame and
disgrace wherever used.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12

The California Family Ledger is the
largest and best printed weekly family
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for trial ten weeks. Address Family
Ledger, Los Angeles, California
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12

The Democrats of st. Paul met in
convention at Market Hall in that city
at 10 o'clock this morning, Apr. 18th.
EX-Mayor Smith will undoubtedly re-
ceive the nomination for mayor.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12

up that unsavory news, he would per-
haps have less trouble with his cattle
Such rot is enough to infect his cattle
with tuberculosis, jim jams or any other
disease
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12

Charles Wickart, the western pugilist
who, in recent fight at Peoria, ILL.,, so
brutally manned and crippled Ed. Ben
rands, has postponed his engagement to
60 on the stage. He has entered into
compulsory contract with the Warden
Of the Illinois State Prison, which will
occupy his time for fourteen years to
come
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12
William Cutaiar, New York broker

William Cutajar, New Y ork broker,
on trial in the L. S. Circuit court in that
city, charged with customs frauds, went
suddenly and hopelessly insane recent
ly, while giving testimony. 1t is singu-
lar how suddenly these big guns col
lapse when brought face to face with
their own cusSedneSS.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12

\ murderer in Alabama fled the
scene of his crime. Soon after, a man
of the same name and appearance, in
Guiding peculiar scar, was positively
Unidentified as the murderer, found
guilty and sentenced to death. Before
the fatal day ample evidence was fur
nished proving that he was at work in
Tennessee at the time of the murder
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12

THE MIRROR is a weekly paper published
in the Minnesota State Prison. 1t was founded
in 1887 by the prisoners and is edited and man.
aged by them. Its objects are to be home
newspaper: to encourage moral and intellectual
improvement among the prisoners: to acquant
the public with the true STATUS the prisoner:
to disseminate pathological information and to aid
in dispelling that prejudice which has ever been
the bar sinister to fallen mans selfredemptlon.
The paper is entirely dependent on the public for
its financial support. If at any time there should
accrue a surplus of funds. the money would be
expended in the interests of the prison library.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12

Among the notable features of the
San Francisco Argonaut for April 8
1894. are 1.-The Mystery of Burbass: A
Story of Strange Beings from Another
World" by Edmund Stuart Roche;
letters from New York on the theatri-
cal affairs of the day and from Paris
on Jules Massenet, the famous COM
poser; and a review, with long extacts,
of Marion Crawford's latest novel,
katharine Lauderdale.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12

The st. Paul Daily News has passed
into the hands of a receiver and has
ceased to exist.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12

Henry Rosch, of Chicago, is suing for
the $4,000 offered for the recov-
cry of the body of DR.. Cronin.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12

Eight hundred prisoners are worked
in the coal mines of Alabama.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12

The Republicans of st. Paul have
nominated T. 3. Doran for city mayor
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-04-12

Liquor. Observation-Disclosures. lib.
Jealousy. 4o6.
BY hlghWaymen. ..............3 oO.
Infanticide 256,
Resisting arrest ..... PA.
Highwaymen killed. 17o.
Insanity Observation-Disclosures 2.
Outrages .................... 26.
Riots ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Strikes 3
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-08-04
DELINQUENT TAX LIST
Of Real Estate IN Trego
County, Kansas, for
the Year 1898.

Notice is hereby give
that the County Treasurer
will sell at public auction,
at his Office in the city OF
Wa-Keeney, on Tuesday,
the 4th day of September,
1894, and the next succeed
ing days, so much of each
tract of land and town lot,
described in the following
list as will pay the taxes
and charges thereon.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-08-04

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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-08-04

1t is estimated that the late strike
cost over eighty million dollars. A
greater part OF this loss was to work
men.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-08-04

p A. Troutfetter, the handsome and
bachelor editor of the Colby Tribune, is
spending his summer vacation in New
Mexico and other southwestern states,
From the above we would infer that the
editor viii receive many congratulations
when he returns home.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-08-04

-Guffey and Galley are sinking a well
at Fredonia to ascertain whether oil or
gas can be found there.
The advocate., 1894-10-10
Hoods pills should be in every household

gressmsn took his grip in hand and
marched alone up to the city, and in
quired Of the boys on the street where
the meeting was to be held, and he was
informed that no such meeting had
been advertised for that place. Mr..
Long went back to the train muttering
something that sounded like a forcible
Bible quotation, and told the conductor
to pull out Of that place as soon 90 he
could. They went on westward until
they came to where q crowd of people
had gathered in O little grove on the
creek, and here Mr.. Long asked the con-
ductor to wait an hour and half while
he told the assembled people what he
knew about Jerry Simpson and Cover
nor Lswellipg. This was o clear case Of
OBTAINING the United States mail, but as
1t was q republican candidate for con-
grsss it seems to be all right. Who says
the Santa Fs railroad is not a prominent
factor in the republican party Of Kan
sssP-Bsrton Beacon, October 4.