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Fire disaster At D.vil.. I.,s..

Fire broke out in Graham's jewelry store,
Fourth street, DEVILS Lake, about1 a. m. A
breeze from the lake carried it along Fourth
nearly two squares, consuming the Lake View
hotel, post Office and Inter Ocean printing
house. North Shore bank, and houses and
buildings on Kelly avenue to the Benham
house, which was saved. The fire was
stopped on Fourth street beyond Nash's by
pulling down buildings. The mail, books and
papers in the post Office were saved About
fifty buildings are gone. Loss 800, 600, with
about 100000 insurance.
is as follows;
The Lake View hotel s. Converse Il Sons
general store, W. G.. Blaghton's general store,
4. II. Mareod's furniture store, Bennil & Bros
dry goods, the postoffice and the Inter Ocean
printing office, Moore & Doud's butchering
establishment, G. A l. Maurice's bakery
North Shore Bound townsite Office, R. s.
Ihopscn's dry goods, Lee Bros general store.
O. Q. Nash's hardware. J. A. Deshine's restan-
rant, ten real estate offices, eight saloons and
eight dwelling houses.
The heaviest were Lake View hotel, s1G,O 600:
\, Q, Hansbeagh, $1,000; G.. o. Nash 4 Co. S.,
OVO; North Shore Bank, s. 5000; Lee Bros. > So
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WatcheFsgod Congress cannot have
failed to notice the great increase in
importance into which conference COM
mittees are growing. The fashion now
adays is to formally disagree to all
amendments proposed By d house to
: billcoming from the other, and refer
the points in dispute to 8 committee Of
conference, composed Of three members
Of either house. These six Congress
mrer can add, eut and change the bills
submittedstc them pretty much as they
choose, and their work is generally
ratified without mueh objection OF con-
sideration ofary sort. The custom has
grown popular from the difficulty Of
getting the houses il free and open de-
bate 70 agree to anything, and is, per-
haps. necessary device under the
present codeo Of rules. But it is q dan
gersus convenience, and greatly increas-
"A the responsibilities OF the President
OF the Senate and Speaker, 40 they se-
|lect III the conference committees.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.


One hundred and twenty ACRES OF marsh on
ins IA
There is como talk in naval circles here of
smother court of inquiry To- review tho work Of
The Greedy Arctic exploring party, and Of the
various relief expeditions.
b postmaster at Albany, New York, has
been instructed to forward through registered
pouches for Chicago and st Louis twice daily,
via New York and Chicago trains leaving Al
bany ct Ills q am. and 1:20 p. m.
Postofices Observation-Disclosures. Erie,
Becker county; Jarvis, Becker county. Post
masters commissioned-Martin Hicks. Hick-
DRY, lows. Posteffice Name Changed-Eden.
Mosher, Pilger, late Canton, Nebraska New
0mces-deorge Richardson. B~loominpdale.
Clay county, Dakota.
The American prisoners at the City Of Mexi-
co have been released in pursuance Of the re-
guest Of Secretary F~relinghnysen. The re-
leased men say they wero confined i've DAYS IN
separate cells. When informed Of their sen
Se1ce for defaming the government they assert
ed their complete Innocence.
Thu surgeon general OF the marine hospital
service re%cievedthe following telegram from
James b. Holt, president of the Louisiana State
board Of health: exhaustive investigation
fails 10 establish even q remote suspicion Of
Asiatic cholera as the cause OF the death OF the
Silver
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Ihsaorgan 81 the British grain trade
states thAt the drouth this year in Eng
land has been the most severe and pro-
jlonged since 1868. But SO opposite are
The clin1atic conditions Of England and
the United States, that drouth, which
II this country i destructive to field
crcps. maybe looked upon ordinarily in
England IN the light 81 q blessing. In
one instance an excess Of moisture il
normal, andin the other an excess Of
dryness. In1ses, therefore, the Eng
lish wheat crop was the largest in tven-
II years Tbs anthority from which
ws qnote, however, shows that the
3ToStth of 1884 has been accompanied
by astemperature extraordinarily low,
whils that Of 1868 was abnormally high.
The crop outlook for 1884 is therefore
less. favorable.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-08-08

The States did not alwaysSyote on the
same day for president. In the cam
pAign Of 1874, which ended in Clay's
SdafeAt By Poll, twelve Of the twenty
III States voted on the Arst Monday il
November, threeson the first Tuesday,
three on the second Monday, and The
others u different times, New Jersey
taking two days for the business, be,
ginning withthe first Tuesday, Pennsyl-
vania the 6rat Friday and Ohio the
LAST Friday, and South Carolina not
choosing her Felectors until the Legis-
iaturs met, shout the frst Of December.
Ihs only requireinent then was that
the electors should be chosen within
the thirty.four days proceeding the first
Wednesday in December, but early in
1S45the present law was passed, which
provides that all electors shall be chosen
on the Tuesday next after the first
Monday Of November.
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Market Reports.

ST. PAuL-Wheat. No. / hard, o3C895c
No. /, Sic; No. 2 hard. Sic: No. :, 76c.
Corn, No. 2, sic: No. 8. 4GG64Sc.
Oats, No. . mixed, $50: No. 8 mixed. 26c.
No. 2 white. 2soc. No. 3 white, 2Sc,
Barley, no. Z, SIC. No. 8 extra 4Sc No 8,
Rye, No. . $50.
Baled Hay, Wild, $500; timothy, $500.
Eggs, 16@1615c.
MnwAuKEE-Wheat, No. 2, SIC.
Corn. No. z, SEC.
Oats, No. 2, white, SIC
Rye, No.. 1. 631Iffc.
Barley, No. 2, $50.
Mesa Pork. $1,000.
Lard, $T.20.
Butter choice creamery, 17a1sc; fair to
good, l6@1Tc; best dairy, 14al5c
Eggs, I5@151lc.
csieAao:-8heat, No: 9 Chicago spring,
S40S5kc
Corn. 55l15Gc.
Oats, 30@3oj6c.
Rye, G213c.
Barley, 64G168c.
Flax Seed, 81. 32t1s1.3a
Pork, SIG (0s1T.M.
Lard, s7.1500S7.2 90.
Eggs, 15@i5}4e
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AttGnptsd Rape.

The news Of . dastardly attempt at rape, by
. man named John Murray, of the town of
Elmo, in the eastern part Of ottertail County,
Mimi recently. Murray was driving home
from Wadena in an intoxicated condition, when
he met a young girl of sixteen, named Wright,
daughter of the owner of the mill at Wrigh-
She was alone, and became the victim
81 = beastly assault by Murray, who dragged
her into q grove by the roadside. Her screams
and stout resistance, however, called the as
sissance Of a man In . field near by, and Muir.
team and drove rapidly away. &c has been
arrested, and il under heavy bonds to answer
g court the charge of rape. He is q man Of
family and has hitherto borne q fair reputa-
saon. victim j. a bright yonng girl, and
y sngerlnG much from the shock and person
a injury, although she was rescued before
we drunken man accomplished his purpose.
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South Carolina waterme1ons.

The watermelon business in Barnwell
County has reached very large pro-
portions during the past two or three
years. The acreage planted in melons
along the line of the Augusta division of
the South Carolina road and of the
Barnwell Railway is about 1920 acres.
The area is about 500 acres less that the
acreage last year, but the prospects are
that the yield will be larger than it was
last year. The indications are that the
shipments will reach 1000 carloads. A
car will hold on an average about 1900
melons, so that the Barnweu County
melon growers will ship for sale this
year about 1000, 900 melons. Two
thirds of the crop last year was shipped
to western points. The first shipments
resulted badly, but by the end of the
year the melon growers had made some
money. Themelons were favorably re-
ceived in the west, and dealers regarded
the South Carolina melons as better
fruit than Georgia or Florida melons.
The movement of the melon crop this
year will begin about the 10th of July,
and every facility will be extended to
10 Bct tnelf crops to market
with all possible despatch. The rates
are quite reasonable, and are the same
as they were last year. The crop will
be moved in any way the growers de-
sire, to any point west or north, all
rail route, without transfer or by New
York steamers from Charleston. The
melon territory embraces u strip of
country lying along the railway and ex-
tending for a distance of about thirty
miles. The soil on which the melons
are grown is light and sandy. Much of
it cannot be used profitably for the cul-
tivation of any other crop. The average
yield in melons is about one-third of q
carload to the acre, or one carload to
three acres. A carload Of good melons
will bring about 1925 gross, and at this
price the growers can make a fair profit.
Charleston News & Courier.
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An Exciting AFFAIR IN xinn..no,,..

In Minneapolis, MINI, early on Saturday,
the 18th, Officer Robert Laughlin attempted to
arrest Tony Cantieny, Martin German and
James Parker, for creating a disturbance on
the street. All three of the roughs assaulted
the officer and one of them, Cantieny shot him
in the abdomen, inflicting a probably fatal
wound. The ~ruf1ians were arrested and COM
mitted ito jail During the night 5000 people
congregated in front Of the jail with the pur.
pose of getting Canteny out and lynching him,
The front door was battered down, also the
iron door leading into the main corridor; but
here the mob encountered a guard consisting
Of forty policemen, armed with muskets, and
prndently halted for a parley. Chief-of-Police
West addressed the mob, stating that he and
his men would do their duty in protecting
the prisoners with their lives. While speaking,
Chief West was hit on the head by q stone
thrown by some member of the mob. The
crowd finally dispersed, perceiving that it was
impossible to seize and lynch C~antieny except
at the cost of much bloodshed. The military
OF st. Paul and Minneapolis were under arms
Saturday night and Sunday.
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The peculiar sect known as tho "sha

Thepeculiar sect known as the "Shak-
ing Quakers" deserve credit for many
of the useful inventions Of the present.
More than half a century ago they first
originated the drying of sweet corn for
food, and they first raised. papered and
vended garden seeds in the present
styles. From their first methods of
preparing medicinal roots and herbs for
market sprung the immense patent
medicine trade. They began the broom
corr business. The first buzz-saw was
made by the Shakers at New Lebanon.
This is now in the Albany Geological
Hall. The Shakers invented metallic
pens, first made of brass and silver.
All distilled liquors were abandoned as
a beverage by the Shakers sixty years
ago, and ducing the past forty years no
fermented liquors of any sort has been
used, except us a medicine. Pork and
tobacco are also numbered among the
forbidden articles"
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AN ACTORS wNFAL
How a Male Professional Beauty Went
From Bad to Worse.
New York Letter to the New Orleans Times

"U Democrat.
If you recall him at all, it is as a
splendid specimen of young manhood.
He was only fairly expert in acting but
was SO remarkably pleasant to look at
that audiences liked him. Ihad a slight
acquaintance with him in those days.
he was an educated fellow, refined in
his tastes and inclined towards literary
pursuits. He thought that he had nat
ural talent in the direction of fiction,
and was at one time at work on a novel,
as to which I have no more distinct idea
than that it was neither good enough or
bad enough to make q lasting impress
sion. l do not suppose it was
v e published, though it may have
found a place in ephemeral magazine
pages. He was the object Of dis
tinguished regard by the girls of
blithesome immaturity wherever he
appeared. His daily mail was chiefly
composed of sentimental missives. He
was au actual Grosvenor, on whom the
adulation OF love-sick maidens palled.
There was no affectation about it.
George took no delight in the admira-
ton which his beauty excited, but rath-
Ell saw in it an indication that he was
effeminate. He desired to play parts
in which his face would be disfigured.
but there were two business-like rea-
sons why the managers would not graft
ty him. His good looks were too at
t~ractive to be wasted, and he lacked
the skill of what was called character
roles. Well, the other night in stroll
ing up Broadway a friend suggested
that we should inspect the newest of
the wicked concert halls. There is
always a worst one among this kind of
New York resorts. The pre- eminence
is short, because the proprietor gets
into the penitentiary after o little while.
Jake Berry, Sandy Spencer. Owney
Geoghegan and Billy McGlory are
illustrious names on the roll of infamy.
Each prospered for q season in
the maintenance of q theater in
which the audiences were more
offensive than the performances. Tom
Gould's Souci theater-or Gould's
Sassy, as phrased by it's frequenters-
is at present in the enjoyment of the
patronage which ends in disaster. We
found the place crowded by men and
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Beer Drinking and Heart Disease

The habitual consumption Of beer in
excessive quantities tends to hyper
trophy by the direct action of alcohol
udon the heart, by the enormous amount
of fluid introduced into the body, aud
by the easily assimilated nutritive con-
stituents Of the beer itself. Further
mora such habits are often associated
with great bodily activity and at least
relatively luxurious manner of life.
The average weight of the normal heart
in men is relatively greater in Munich
than elsewhere, a fact, without doubt,
dependent upon the excessive con
sumption of beer in that city. The
characteristic changes in the form of
hypertrophy under consideration con-
slst in the participation of both sides of
the heart and in an enormous increase in
the volume of the primitive muscular
elements, with an enlargement of the
nuclei. Whether Dr. not actual numeri-
cal increase in the Muscular fbres takes
place is not known. Many individuals
addicted to such excuses attain an adj
yanced age, Notwithstanding cardiac
AyPeiIfopny ny reason OF CONSTITUTIONAL
peculiarities, an active open-air life, or
an enforced moderation, but the greater
number perish after brief illness with
symptoms of cardiac failure. At the
post-mortem examination are discovered
moderate dropsy, pulmonary edema,
brown induration of the lungs, bron-
chitis, congestion of the lungs, liver,
spleen, kidneys and other organs. Fat
ty degeneration of the muscular wall of
the heart is absent in most of these
cases, and death must in the absence Of
adequate anatomical LESSONS be looked
upon as due to paralysis of the cardiac
nerves and gonglia. The condition of
such subjects not rarely amounts to a
true plethora of the most typical kind,
such as is seen among the drivers of beer
wagons and workers in breweries in
this country. The excuses in beer
common in some parts of Germany are
rare in the New World, but that such ex-
cesses are attended by u direct and
grave danger, hitherto little suspected,
should be generally understood.--Phila-
delphia Medical News.
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Foreign Flashes.

Deaths by cholera are diminishing in the
cities of the South Of France, and the plague is
spreading in the country districts.
Lord Randolph Churchill has determined,
for Ike sake,of unity, to retire from the chair
manshipof the Conservative union, and will
nominate Sir Michael Edward Hicks-Beach as
his successor.
Lord Ru~pertswood of Victoria is reported to
be richer than Nv. H. Vanderbilt He is worth
more than s2OQ, 0O0. 600, and his wealth is rapid
" increasing. He inherited a greet estate from
his father, including millions of cattle and
sheep in Australia. His residence in Mel
bourne is said te be the most magnificent in
The world. It cost 81, 0 ,0OU.
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The people MI over Europe are set-
Ting down to tho conviction that they
are to have . visitation 81 cholera which
win permit no place to escape, and are
putting their houses in order for the
scoarge. The English have fondly
hoped that their insular position would
protect Abeanfro . an invasion 81 the
pIaguss bntsthis pleasing idea has been
sndely dispelled by the earnest remind
ersof the leading physicians that any
ship sailing into these .harbors from q
Mediterranean port may infect the whole
Inland ssss
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Crimes ana Criminals.

Regulators, are treating horse thieves to
hemp at WiIlowa Valley, Ore.
Plus Miller, . PENNSYLVANIA crank, killed his
In the capitol at Albany is : portrait of Maj.
Andre, drawn by himself before his mirror
the morning before he was hang.
The police raided four houses Of ill fame in
Milwaukee last Sunday night, finding about
twenIy-fonr women and ten men, some Of the
latter being well known.
Captain ]. TIC. Davis of Pocomoke City,
Md. was shot and killed Sunday night by Irv-
ing Mills, his daughters lover and a travelling
salesman for . wholesale grocery.
Andrew Gorham OF Falls Village, Conn, was
shot and Instantly killed at his house by Ed
ward Halstead, who forced his way into the
house Halstead gave himself up.
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General News Items.

The Greedy reception at Portsmouth will take
place Augusta {.
South Carolina boasts SIX centensrians. Spar.
tarburg has three Of them.
F. A Cowdin was married at Springfield.
MASS, last week, W he was dying
The Free Masons Of St. Paul propose to erect
Masonic temple to cost 100000.
Mississippi has AZ, al school children. for
whom but 81 cents q head is annually appropri-
ated.
Three hundred New England locomotive en-
gineers had IN excursion to tho White noun
tainA
Daniel Connor of New York sues for the loss
of two daughters in the City of Florida disaster,
claiming $4,000 damages.
e..;;s Strong, q member of the Yale College
Glee club, who lost a leg in the wreck near
Charleston. Ind. on the Ohio 4 Mississippi.
6tebbins, Mund & Co. the Bank of Living
ston) levied an attachment Friday on all the
stock OF Wholesale liquors and kindred goods
owned by = r. Dean s Co, in Livingston.
Electric lights are in operation in the Yellow
stone Park hotel, and the management have
secured the services of q frst-class orchestra
which discourses sweet music morning and
evening.
Dispatches from Dakota, Nebraska and Min
aesota tos W. Talmadge Of Milwaukee indi-
cate . goodspring wheat crop. James Baynes,
statistical agent of Dakota, says the yield will
be 20 bushels per acre, making q total yield Of
e6,000,0o0 bushels. Hail storms damaged To-
~calities, but the damage was not yerv general
Daniel Il, Wheeler, statistical agent Of Nebras-
ka, says winter wheat will yield so to 40 bush
els per acre and spring wheat % to % per acre.
There is no damage from rust or bugs. In
Jury by storms is entirely local. FL. H. Young,
STih be 100000 bushels. Corn, oats, barley
and rye promise well.
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girls, who got their diversion by alter
nate attention to the beverages served
to them at little round tables and to
tho singing and dancing that was being
done on the stage. An architectural fen
tnre of the house was ~ AsSf boxes
along three sides of theS>A1119m and
in which seats cost hAttertebllar, the
rest of the premises being'tres in thedr,
~, though in practice We walters
seemed to be making it unpleasant for
those who did not disburse freely for
drinks. w took places in one of
those boxes.
How d'you do?" said q voice which
manifestly was Engaged in. a resolute
effort to be cheesy; chow are your"
and it called me by name. I dropped
my eyes and saw leaning against the
front of the box, which was Just high
enough to bring his head to a level
with the rail, q frowsy, bleary, sodden
wretch.
"Come, come" exclaimed q waiter,
grabbing him roughly by the arm, you
mustn't annoy the gentleman. Bounce
right out"
The tramp drew himself up into a pose
OF dramatic dignity, but held it only for
mn instant, and then shrunk down to alb
%jectness.
Don't you remember me?" he
said, piteously; "Im George Middle
ton"
So he was. The gallant Romeo of ten
years ago had become this miserable
outcast. He was in quest of employ
ment on Tom Gould's stage, and he was
willing to accept whisky in full payment
for his services, but they wouldn't have
him even on those terms. I subsequent
y saw him draining stale beer from kegs
into a tomato can in front of q saloon,
which, / believe, is u resort for members
of his profession.
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Rail and River News.

The first commercially successful electric
railroad in America was started in operations in
Cleveland Saturday, by the East Cleveland
Street Railroad company.
Az the election held at Wadena to vote on the
question Of bonding the town Of Wadena to the
an1ount OF 81 900 for the Wadena l. Park Rap
lbs railroad the vote stood 200 for and is
against issuing the bonds.
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Personal News Notes,

Chuck-a-luck Spencer, colored. aged us
years. died at Lockpert n. Y, Thursday.
Henry Elkins the artist, who died at George
town, Col, Friday, has been an inebriate for
years: He received from the State OF Colorado
slu.Wn for hts Seventy sixth STAR q Rocky
Ohm Grace formerly sheriff ofRamsey coun-
y Minnesota, died in st. Paul IN Tuesday at
the age of go. He came to- America in 1851.
and settled in Pittafiela, Mass, where he mar,
ned Mary Corcoran, his late wife. They moved
to St Paul in $50
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Casualties Of the Week.

e While playing in his fathers yard James
Copely, the young son Of George Copeley, a
railroad rnan at Cleveland, Ohio, was pounced
upon by . large Newfoundland dog, q pet Of
the family, N chewed to pieces.
Sunday afternoon, at Chicago while . party
were yachting on the lake, Miss Mamie LAWS
fell overheard. Otto Mulhart, owner of the
yacht, though unable to swim, plunged in to
rescne her, and both were drowned. The bod
les were not recovered.
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France has made no progress inpopu-
Dton since 1860. Its numbers are
0naIler now thsn they were is years
agc. While the load Of taxation has al
most dcubled-in mere debt charges it
has more than doubled, while imports
hsve Augmented and exports decreased.
u i alike facts that have caused great
dissatisfaction among the people and
The apprehensions OF violent changes al
10 distant period.