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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-03-12

4 FLORIDA man taught gang OF
whitecappers salutary lesson recent
". They had broken down the door
and we're about to seize upon their in
tended victim when he opened fire with
his rifle with such good results that
four of the mob were killed and SIX SO
badly wounded that they will not be IN
condition to 60 whitecapping for some
time to come.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-03-12

court calendar, and in other instances
political influence is brought to bear.
If these fail, various pretexts are
f0nnd for continuation of the case
TO some future term of court; this is
repeated several times, and no serious
objection to such continuation is
raised by the county attorney for he
and his assistants are engaged in trial
of the Jail cases which must necessa-
rily takes precedence, in order to secure
room for other unfOrtunates who pos
sess no funds, and such delays cause
the prosecuting witnesses to lose all
interest in the matter. In the course
of time the period of election comes
around and, perhaps, the state attor-
new is defeated. His successor enters
upon the duties of the office, grand
Jury will soon be in session and he is
fully occupied in the preparation OF
evidence to be submitted to it. After
this body completes its labors the jail
inmates are arraigned and their trial
takes place. The old cases have been
conveniently pigeonholed, and unless
something unforeseen should occur
are never resurrected. This is SIM
pie statement of facts as they occur
in every large city as was evidenced
by the recent overhauling of court
documents in the most populous coun
ty of this state, when it was discovered
that there were innumerable cases OF
defaulted bonds amounting to thou
- sands of dollars. No attempt ha(
ever been made to ascertain the where
abouts of the parties accused or t.
collect on the bonds. Moreover in al
> large cities there are usually men VIII
y make business of furnishing bond
for persons arrested on crimina
k charges for certain percentage OF tn
L. amount of bail required. When tn
tie state attempts to collect, it is foun
d. that they are what in common parlanc
~ is known as ''straw bonds,' in othe
I'd words, there is nothing that the stat
ne can seize upon to satisfy its judgmer
by and the accused persons whereabou
as is unknown. What procured for the'
in offenders against the law immunity
e. it was not money. The convict
he opinion on this subject is based up(
ut experience, the dearest of all teacher
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-03-12
the matter.

WE ARE indebted to Mr.. Frank
Lewis. state agent and assistant SUI
perintendent of the Minnesota state
public school at Owatonna for depend
ent and neglected children, for copy
of the fifth biennial report of the board
of control and superintendent OF the
school. The school was established oy
legislative enactment in 1885 and was
open for the reception of children in
December, 1886. Mr. Lewis, on re-
cent visit at the prison, informed the
writer that at present there were about
$50 children in the school, but super
vision was kept over more than athou-
sand who had been inmates OF the
school but were now in happy, Chris
tian homes where they are tenderly
cared for The good work accom-
plished by the state training school
can never be known. Many of the
children received at the school come
from parentage of low order, con-
sequently the teaching which they
would receive had they remained IN
the custody of their parents would not
have fitted them for the higher duties
Of life. 1t is the aim of the manage
ment to make the school a home, spe
. cial effort being made to teach thu
: children to abhor untruthfulness AM
4 deceit in all forms, and no lesson Cal
be taught that will better fit them TO
. the duties of right living in after life
and no doubt this school, wisely man
aged as it is, will do more to abat
crime than all the adult reformatorle
in the world.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-03-12
Y LITERARY NOTES. y

All the founders of McClatre'S maya
zine are recent graduates of Knox Col
lege, Galesburg, Illinois, and the Editor
Mr., Mcclure, is trustee OF this college.
They have undertaken to assist the
college in establishing ''The Abraham
Lincoln School of Science and Practical
Arts" as worthy memorial to Abra-
ham Lincoln.
Miss Gwendolin Overton, who writes
such clever sketches of Western and
army life, has a very striking httle
story in the San Francisco Argonaut
of March 9th. 1t is entitled "Ihe
Fate of Everette Austin: A Protest OF
Democracy" and relates a strange tale
of the terrible revenge set of cowboys
took on an Englishman who retained
on a Western ranch the social habits
of his European home.
Just a few suggestions of the ap
proach of spring and the coming OF
Easter give refreshingly poetic ant
timely interest to the March Ladaes
Home yoeunuz, which in its literary
artistic and more practical features, Il
exceptionally strong and unusuall.
attractive. The number opens with
fascinating story by the late Eugen
Field" The Werewolf" 1t is explained
nv the editor that "The Werewolf
the only manuscript by the lamente
poet and story-writer that has no
been published, and that it was "ri'
ten and rewritten eight times by tn
author before it exactly met his al
nroyal. It is probably the best OF a
Mr.. Fields writings.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-03-12

ONE of the speakers at the meeting
held last week in the Commercial club
rooms at St. Paul stated that "nearly
all persons convicted of crime are i'm
pressed with the idea that the only
reason they could not escape punish
ment was because they had no money.
The majority of the inmates of the re-
formatories and prisons are not only
impressed with the idea, but are firmly
convinced of the truth of the matter
and have Just cause for this belief.
Without money, without friends, is an
old aphorism. One who has money
has also friends, and with their assist
ance is in the greater proportion OF
cases enabled to produce the necessary
wherewithal to procure his release up
on bonds. After bail is secured the
complainant or compliments are in
teryiewed to ascertain if restoration
of the amount lost, with a sufficien
increase to compensate them for tn
worry and loss of time in attending
court will induce them to either with
draw the charge or be temporarily ali
sent when the case is reached on tn
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-03-12

EX-SENATOR WILLIAM I'll. HOUL
TON. of Elk River, was elected super
of the St. Cloud Reforma-
tory by the Board of Managers at a
meeting held in st. Paul last week.
There were quite a number of candl-
dates for the office, among the NUMBER
Denntv Warden Lemon. Mr.. Houlton
will take office on April 1st.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-03-12
partnnent.

\ CHICAGO man has been held to
the federal court for the crime of
wearing his own clothing. He wore
a letter-carrier's uniform-ha cut
off the buttons-when not in the en-
plov of the government, and his de-
Tense. when arrested, was that he did
not know it was violation Of the law
to wear what he had bought and paid
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-03-12

THEMIRROR is weekly paper published

THE MIRROR is a weekly paper published
In the Minnesota State Prison. 1t was founded
in 1887 by the prisoners and is edlced ana MAI
aged bv them. Its objects are to be a home
newspaper: to encourage moral and intellectual
Improvement among the prisoners; to acqualnt
the public with the true STATUS ofthe prisoner;
to disseminate psychological information and TO ala
in dispelling that prejudice which has ever oeeh
the bar sinister to a fallen mans self-redemptlOn.
The paper is entirely dependent on the puonc lOi
itS financial support. If at any time there should
accrue a surplus of funds, the money would be
axpended in the interests of the prison library.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-03-12

ATTORNEYS while travelling five dollars
per day for subsistence and marshals
two dollars per day. According to
this Uncle Sam must consider that IL
takes a larger amount of food to sat-
isfy the appetites of his attorneys than
il does of his mars halls.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-03-12
N 0 TIC

THOSE receiving copies of THE MIR,
ROR who are not subscribers Will
please consider them as sample cop,
les. If, after reading them, you should
conclude that The MIRROR is
worthy of your patronage, send one
dollar to this office and we will enter
your name on our books for a
years subscription.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-03-12

THE copartnership of 5. A. Clewell
and W. f. Easton, under the firm name
of the Gazette Printing company, has
been dissolved. Mr.. EastOn will be
sole owner of the daily and weekly
gazette. and Mr.. Clewell will be owner
of the jobbing and bookbinding de,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-03-12

SOME of the standard and we'll known
periodicals are becoming simply adver-
Using mediums instead of being mag
aZines: one of the latter for the cur
rent month has almost twice the num-
Der of pages of advertisement that 1t
has of reading matter.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-03-12

THERE is not a publication received
at this office that is read with more in
terest than the Northeast Magazine.
The current number is up to the stand
ard of former issues, which is as high
praise as can be given.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-03-12

In THE bill which passed the lower
house of congress abolishing almost
entirely the fee system in payment OF
the officials of the Department OF JUS
tice and substituting salaries for same
is a provision which allows district
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-03-12

THE Lamberton Leader has changed
it's size to a six-cOlumn quartO, and its
name from Leader to Star.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-03-12

This paper will be forwarded to SUBSCRIBERS
until ordered discontinued and all arrears aio
paid.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-03-12

Should THE MIRROR fail to reach subscriber
each week, notice should be sent 10 thls oil0o'
and the matter will be attended to at once.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-03-12

Entered at the Post Office at saltwater, Mlnn.'
as secOnd-class mail matter.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-03-12

Contributions solicited from any and all sour
ces. Rejected manuscript will not be returned
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-03-12

Edited and Published by the Inmates
Of the Minnesota State Prison.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-03-12

Jerry Simpson says that Mrs. Lease
is too aggressive. Jerry forgets that
Mrs. Lease belongs to the aggressive
sex. Woman is now aggressive along
lines innumerable-St. Louis Post
%oh
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-07-24
LEGISLATION AND Law.

~
The United States senate defeated the
proposition to increase the beer tar rs
cents a barrel by vote of "a to ~.
The vote vas taken as soon as the
fllled-chees9 bill was taken up, the
beer-tax proposition being Submitted as
an amendment
The anti-lynching bill, which pro-
vides for the punishment Of officers
through whose negligence or permits
sion lynchings occur, aud for the os-
sessment Of damages against the coun-
ty in which lynching takes e, has
passed both branches Of lie Soath
Carolina legislature.
The supreme court OF Now York. has
declared unconstitutional the bill in
.creasing the 6tate appropriation Of
$50 5000 to $50 ,oJJ,ooS for the build
Ing of subway rapid transit road
from tho battery to Harlem, and the
work will nov probably be abandoned,
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-07-24

AFTER MANY YEARS.
Garrett Light Formerly OF Monticello,
Under Arrest.

Garrett Light Formerly OF Monticello,
Under Arrest,
HARRIsBuRG, Pa, jniy 20.--Sixteen
years ago Garrett Light was living in
Monticello, Iowa, where Annie RiclSel,
a comedy maiden, was his sweetheart.
She loved Light and when he refused
to marry her there was quarrel and
Annie was shot 1t was supposed at
the time that her wound was fatal,
but after many weeks she recovered.
Light was arrested and protested that
he was innocent of the shooting. The
girl told a different story, which the
Jury believed, and her lover was con-
victed of assault with intent to kill,
Light was released on bail pending an
appeal to the higher court, but when
that court affirmed the verdict he fled.
He next appeared near Pittsburg,
where his father had Just died. He
received ST., 500 from the estate. and
coming 10 Dauphin county, he pur-
chased a small farm near this city. He
prospered, and in the thought that
nobody knew of his past, was content.
But the authorities learned of his
whereabouts and he was placed under
arrest. While admitting that he was
the man wanted, he insisted that he
did not shoot the girl but that another
man did.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-07-24

HAVANA, July 222.-Antonio Maceo
is reported to be in a frenzy of rage
over the death of his brother, Jose,
who; according to statements already
made. was snot by order of Calisto
Garcia for INSTRUMENTATION. Antonio.
who is in the province of Pinar del
Rio, wants to cross the trocha at all
hazards, and desires to summon all the
colored men among the insurgents to
aid him IN avenging the death of Jose
upon Garcia.
HAVANA, July 23.-The insurgents
are beginning to use dynamite more
freely in their efforts to prevent
Captain General Weyler from moving
Spanish troops by rail. The travelling
public, the Cubans declare, were
warned in time by a proclamation from
Maxine Gomez, chief of the revolu-
tionists, against riding on trains
which carried troops, and cannot,
therefore, with justice complain if
injured by accident when upon such
trains in violation of the decree
mentioned.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-07-24

It is announced that Nikola Tesla
has perfected his vacuum tube sys-
TEN of electric lighting without wires,
the possibilities of which he first
brought to public notice five years ago
in lecture before the American in
stitute of electrical engineers. This
light is whittier, more brilliant All
more intense than the arc light, and
is produced with much smaller
amount of electrical energy Tesla fur
Their states that his apparatus has been
greatly simpliied, and he will soon
have it ready for practical use" Work
Ing on different lines, Thomas A. Edi-
son, according to the Electrical Re-
view, has succeeded in developing a
new electric lamp or vacuum tube, "by
means of which the Roentgen or x rays
are turned into pure light. Edison's
new lamp is an ordinary Crookes tube,
coated on the interior surface with
crystals of new fuorescent substance
which he has discovered, similar to
gungstate of calcium. The x rays. in
passing through this coating of crys-
tails, are changed to light Very little
heat is generated, and nearly the whole
of the electrical energy expended is
transformed into light. Mr.. Edison
believes that there are great possibili-
ties in his discovery
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-07-24
ALL OVER THE WORLD
SHOCKING BRu rALlTIEs.
chinese villages In Formosa Burned and
thousands OF Persons Slain.

thousands of Persons Slain.
LONDON, July %. "A Hong Kong dis
patch to the Times says that mission
airy writes to a correspondent there
fully confirming previous reports of
Japanese atrocities in the south of the
Island of Formosa. The missionary
declares that he is able to substan tiate
every fact. The Japanese, he adds,
are fast DISCRIMINATING the Chinese in
that locality Over sixty villages have
been burned and thousands have been
killed with revolving brutalities. The
signing of the treaty of peace between
Japan and China ended hostillties be-
tween the two nations except in the
island of Formosa, BY the terms of
the treaty Formosa was coded to
Japan. But the inhabitants of the
island remained to be reclloned with.
They refused to recognize the author
ity of the Japanese, whose first effort
to establish themselves on the island
was the signal for an outbreak. The
Japanese soon found they had another
war on their hands. and from time to
time since the conclusion of peace a
year ago they have dispatched naval
and military forces to Formosa: Only
ineager information of their operations
has been made public
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-07-24
nj ST. LOUIS.

Y
ST.. E0cfs July 90. The national
committee Of the populist party has
selected Senator Butler, OF North
Carolina, for temporary chairman.
Sir. Louis, July ~, The nationa
convention Of the peoples party was
called to order at 1910 p. m, by Chair
man TaubeneclS, Of the national com
mittee, and prayer was offered by
Rev. w. l.. Smith, q Baptist minister,
Gov. Stone, of Missouri then welcomed
the delegates to the state. lgnatius
Donnelly responded to the address.
Senator Butler, of North Carolina,
was then introduced as temporary
chairman. His address was received
with great enthusiasm. The states
were then called for members of the
various committees and the conventio n
ad journed until $ p. Id,
At o'clock the convention met III
darkness, the electric wires having
been blown down by storm which
passed over the city at 6 O clock. The
convention was Id an uproar until
S:45 at which time the temporary
chairman appeared rand announced
that the committee on credentials was
not ready to report. The convention
adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-07-24
GREAT TIDAL WAVE.
Disaster OF June is Relieved to Have
Killed 10000 Persons.

WASHINGTON, July 23.-An interest.
ing report Of the great tidal wave in
Japan has been received by the ecre'
tary of state by the United States le-
CATION at Toxic. This is the first
authentic report Of the disaster to
reach America. The report says:
A horrible disaster has befallen
her people and leaving twice that mum
Der homeless and starving. On the
evening of June Is, at shout $40 or
500 o'clock, the northeastern littoral
Of the island Of Hondo, for a distance
Of nearly 900 miles, was submerged by
Tremendous tidal wave, eighty feet
in height, which, sweeping irresistab bly,
upon the coast, only spent its energy
after rush of miles into the interior,
and retired, leaving desolate waste
Of sand and debris, where had stood
many homes and thriving villages.
During June Is nimber of earth
quake shocks had been felt by the in
habitants of the unfortunate project
ures of Miyage, Aomori and Iwate,
but these slight disturbances gave no
warning to the fishing people who were
Celc DI6JiHS Ollt may ISooiNdif N'iSu.
according to the Chinese calander, fell
upon THAT day AT about 5 o'clock the
people along the coast were startled
from their tranquility by a fearful
roaring from the sea, likened to the
report of heavy artillery. Reused to
action by cries of ''tsunamai, tsun-
ANAL tidal wave. tidal wave0 from
those who realized the impending ,dis-
aster the inha bitafits rushed from
their homes into night Of pitchy
blackness To be overtaken and Ell.
quilted in their fight TO higher ground.
The first meager reports from the
scene of the catastrophe gave little
idea of its magnitude, but each sue
ceeding budget of news arriving from
the north has added to the appalling
character of the disaster, until at the
time Of writing June 25) ii is estimated
that the mortalities viii number more
than 10000, The magnitude of the
losses of life is better appreciated by
comparing this catastrophe with those
known so well iii history. Lisbon, at
conservative estimate, lost but $4,000
Of its people in its memorable earth
quake, and Japan but 1900 in the Gifu
disaster of 1s92-in fact, the mortal
tiles exceed those of the Chinese
Japanese war No Americans have
suffered either in perso1i or property.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-07-24
NATIONAL SILVER PARTY.

ST. Lofts, July a2.-1 j, Mott, chair.
man of the national committee; called
the national silver convention to order
shortly after IL o'clock. Prayer was
offered andsCongressman f. &. New
lands was introduced as temporary
chairman. he spoke briefly, his adj
dress being heartily applauded: Som
mittees were then appointed, after
which Miss Lille Pierce read the de-
claration of independence. At 2:a4
the convention adjourned until 4:3O
p: Ill:
AT o'clock the Convention was
again called to order. The credentials
committee reported that there We're
no contests and recommended that all
delegations be allowed to cast the full
vote, Adopted. w: f St. John, of
New York, was made permanent
chairman, Chas. A. Towne, of Mime
sofa, vice chairman and r. e. Duffcn-
dorfer, of Pennsylvania, secretary.
After Mr.. st. Johns short address, a
committee was appointed TO confer
with the populists with d view to
settling the differences between the
factions, and the convention then
adjourned till 10 clock tomorrow
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-07-24
"A MAN SHOOTS SIX BOYS.
They Wore in w. G. Hollis Apple Trce and
Hc Fired the Gun.

They Wore in w. G. Hollis Apple Trce and
Hc Fired the Gun.
Sioux CITY, July 22.--Six boys who
were in an apple tree at Morning Side
had d heavy charge of shot poured
into them, and as the smoke VI the
gun cleared away the ground around
the trunk of that tree might have been
taken for a field of carnage, Not one
of them had been missed and there
were mingled cries of "Oh! I'm killed"
Il m shot to pieces" SIN dying"
and the like. The boys We're George
Bedal, Ed Bedal James Ritter, II. l..
Webber, George Hefner aud p. Miller.
The shot was fired by w. G. Holt, the
photographer The boys were taken
to their homes and surgeons We're sent
for. George Bedal was found to be
the most seriously injured, In one of
his sides there were over so No, 8 shot.
The Ritter boys head was bleeding
from shot that penetrated the scalp
backsof the ear and the other boys
were suffering from wounds in the
body. None OF them, however, had
any shot in the face. There was a
general uprising among the parents of
the boys, which resulted in a united
complaint at police headquarters. De-
tective Brott and Sergeant Downs
went to Morning Side on the elevated
road, arrested Mr., Holt and brought
him to town, He was charged with
assault with intent to commit great
bodily harm.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-07-24
WHOLE FAMILY POISONED.

DIES MONIES, July 21.-Lawyer A. II.
Mcyey and wife, four children, three
hired help. and Prof. E. L. Nelson, of
Ohio, guest in the McVey home, were
poisoned, presumably from eating
corned beef purchased at neigh Dor
ing butcher shop. All of them except
ing Mrs. McYey were taken violently
i'll within few hours afterwards. Mr.
McYey was in precarious condition
for several hours, but is now much
better. All Of the persons flicted are
now out OF danger, but it was certainly
a very narrow escape for several of the
family.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-07-24
DAT CROP RUINED.
Only 35 Per Cent of the Crop win Be
uoryasfod

Only 35 Per Cent of the Crop win Be
Harvested.
DEs MONIES, July %. Reports from
many points in the southern half of
the state shows that not over 35 per
cent of the oat crop will be harvested
Rust has caused the damage, and not
only Will the binders be kept out of
the field and the oats remain away
from the threshers, but the straw is
ruined for feeding purposes. Many
farmers are burning over their fields
getting ready for next season crops
The financial loss will run into
thousands of dollars, although no
estimate can be made