Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1884-12-13
NEWS DIGEST.

Sl5O from cowboys IN Texas. /
The gunboat Coridad. recently zap
tured off the Cuban coast a boat con- |
tanning five well-known bandits.
Chauncey l.. Higbee, presiding Judge (
Of the appellate court at Springfield,
Illinois. died of apoplexy Sunday.
Francis D. Moulton. who was lifted
into fame by the Beecher trial. died
Wednesday evening in New York.
The plague in Wise county, Virginia,
which swept off nearly three hundred
persons, is decreasing in intensity.
The death-rate in Chicago for No
vember was 16.S to the 1,OOO-the low
est Of any of the large cities of the
world.
John D.. Standish, city assessor of
Detroit, a lineal descendant from the
famous puritan, died of heart disease
Tuesday.
The steel cruiser Boston was on
Thursday launched at Chester, Penn
sylvanla, in presence OF a large num-
Der of naval officers.
The wholesale liquor-dealers of Chi
cago have decided to abolish the GUS
tom OF making Christmas presents to
their retailing patrons.
A negro named Howard Sullivan
was on Tuesday executed at Salem,
New Jersey. for the murder of q white
girl named Ella Watson.
The aldermen of New York have
passed over the mayors veto a resolu-
ton permitting the construction Of q
surface railroad in Broadway.
The Young Mems Christian ~associa-
ton of Chicago, has elected John V.
Farwell, Jr., president, and Cyrus II.
Mccormick, Jr.. vice president.
Joe Williams. the negro who muir
dered Minnie Brooks and Giles Hunt
in Chicago. was found guilty and SEN
tenced to imprisonment for life.
Willie Brewster, 4 lad OF II years.
whose father is postmaster of Mid
land. Michigan. has been arrested for
taking S1n5 from registered letters.
Hog cholera is Singing 50 violently at
Wheeling, West Virginia, that quaran-
tine has been established. The disease
In ~discharging employees from it's
%car-shops at Mount Glare, the Balti-
more and Ohio road placed the names
OF four veterans on the pension list.
A row in the Maryland Jockey club,
tary Ferguson. led to the resignation of
the latter, which the club refused to
accept.
Two confidence men of Charlotte,
Michigan, who won $50 at three-card
monte, were convicted of larceny and
sentenced to three years each in the
p~enirentiary.
Josiah S. Colgate, a New York
broker we'll known throughout the
country, received fatal injuries by fall
ing down a flight of stairs at his Office
in Broadway.
Orlando J. Beam, the banker and
merchant who failed last week at Avon,
Illinois, is charged with forging notes
for a considerable amount, and has fled
the country.
In a document of nearly ten thous-
and words, the governor of Illinois or
ders the issuance of a certificate of
election as senator to Henry w. Le'
man, of Chicago.
Leading business men of New York
and delegates from the trade organiza.
tions met Wednesday to promote the
passage by congress of the Lowell
bankruptcy bill.
Boston dispatches announce the
death Of Frederick u. Klemm, ahotel.
keeper at Dedham, who was liberated
from a German prison through the eff.
forts OF Carl SchurZ.
The wife of Rev. w. A.. Downs,
leaving two young children, elopeG
from Riverhead, Long Island, with
Deacon G. M. Terry. They have prob.
ably gone to Florida.
B. 7. o. Hubbard. the defaultine
bank cashier of Monmouth. Illinois,
has been lodged in Jail at Chicago, be-
of inability to secure bondsme1
under the indictment.
At Rockford. Illinois, Mrs. George
Cunningham drew from her side witt
a pair OF scissors. a needle which she
swallowed two years ago, from which
she has suffered great pain.
Some thieves at Rockford, Illinois
watched Edward Rush as he entered
his house and hid a roll of. money un-
der the carpet, and they soon broke il
and secure d the currency.
The Canadian government refuses t.
permit the American tug .Winslow tx
go to the relief Of a wrecked steame,
in British waters. on account of re
peated attractions of the law.
Parties from Kalamazoo have pur
chased the white pine standing OF
three thousand acres of land in John
son county, Tennessee, and will erect
alarge factory at Chattanooga.
Nearly one hundred deaths from
smallpox have recently occurred il
the village of Stoco, one hundred mile
east of Toronto. and other sufferer
are dying for lack of attendance.
Boatmen at Victoria, British Colum
bia, receive SOS from each Chinama1
landed in Washington territory. An
other vessel engaged in this trade wa
recently lost, with twelve Celestials.
c. c. Shoyer, one of the wealthies
citizens OF Leavenworth, formerly
surgeon in the army, died of blood
poisoning, caused by carelessness il
giving himself morphine injections.
The sheriff at Mount Sterling, Ken
lucky, has arrested sever men of
band of regulators who recently kille,
j. G.. Hughes in Rowan county. Tw'
of the number made full confessions.
Track-layers on the Wisconsin Cen
trail road expected to make a junction
with the st. Paul and Duluth thi
month, and trains from Chicago to St
Paul are promised by New Years. day
William Rogers, a blind o%rgan-grind
er of Carthage, Missouri who serve,
in the sth Indiana infantry at Atlanta
has received a pension certificate TO
1892, and is assured S72 a month TO
life.
Judge Blodgett, of Boston, dismiss
I'd the charge OF contempt brought b,
the district attorney against two re
obtained the secrets of the grand jur,
room.
Petitions have been presented to tn,
governor of Illinois for a pardon TO
John F. Burrell, the embezzling Ma
sonic official, now undergoing five years
Imprisonment in the Chester peniten
sarY.