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

colored children.
John Fitzsimm6ns, an engineer who
permanently crippled on one of
the lines of the Pennsylvania COM
pany, refused $4,000 i'll settlement,
and was awarded 81, 300 by a jury at
Youngstown, Ohio.
At a conference of republican poll
ticians in New York, it was decided to
send James D. Warren to Washington
to learn whether President Arthur de-
sires to make the race for senator
openly or by proxy
II. W. Sanford, one of the earliest
settlers of Dubuque. who accumulated
a fortune of S25O,OOO. died at Sher-
burhe, New York, in his 7Sd year. He
made the circuit of the globe, crossing
the Atlantic seven times.
Miss linn, of Cincinnati, caused the
arrest of distateful beau, named Leo
Heller, for making threats. When ar
reigned for trial he attempted to shoot
her, and when others interfered he
killed himself in the courtroom.
A coach on the Grand Trunk road
was set on fire near Kingston by the ex-
plosion of a mysterious box carried by
Professor Dawson, of BelIeville. Some
of the passengers were nearly suffocat-
ed before the train could be stopped.
The clearinghouse of Raymer, Sea-
grave & Co., Of Toledo, Ohio, has been
compelled to suspend business, with
liabilities of S4OO, COO. Its assets include
the Erie street railway. a cotton-mill,
and a large number of new buildings.
An application has been made to the
federal court at Chicago for the re-
moval from the criminal court Of Cook
county of the case of "Black Jack''
Yattaw, who was indicted for killing q
special constable named William Cur
ran.
Edward Condit, a forger in jail at
Jersey City, sawed through his cell
door, locked up two guards who were
asleep on duty, severed an iron staple
IN the bathroom door, and was caught
while cutting the bars of the ventil-
ator.
At Lincoln, Illinois, Tuesday even
ing, the father of Zura Burns fred q
shot at o. A. Carpenter, who was tried
and acquitted of the girls murder. The
bullet struck an iron column, and
Carpenter was escorted home by
friends.
Bryan Smith, a retail grocer of Atch.
fsOn, Kansas, was forced to make an
assignment because the farmers there.
about refused to sell their grain anG
pay their debts. The creditors will re.
open the store and dispose Of the stock
for cash.
The iron firm of Tug & Co., of Pitts,
burg, has thrown twelve hundred mel
out of employment. The Keystone
Bridge company will next month re
duce wages Is per cent, and q planins
mill is about to cut its employees II
per cent.
It is rumored that The London Iek
graph has purchased a large tract o.
land in the Mojave desert. on the Pa
citic coast, to use the yucca plant il
the manufacture of paper. the pulp tt
he shipped to New Orleans for Liver
pool.
Captain A. H. Murphy, superintend
ent OF the workhouse at New Orleans
was assassinated on Claiborne street
while supervising the cleaning of tn
canal. Judge Thomas Ford and sew
enteen others have been arrested TO
the crime.
In the matter of the estate of Wilbu,
IF. Storey, of Chicago, Mrs. Eureka G
Storey and Mrs. Mary E. Farrand hav'
appealed from the order of the probate
court refusing to admit to probate,
paper purporting to be the last will o
the deceased.
Judge Baxter, of Cincinnati, has or
dered the vice president of the Hooking
Valley road to show cause why b.
should not be punished for conJemp
in discriminating against w. T. Rem
& Co., as to facilities and charges 70
carrying coal.
Alexander Buntin, a Montreal mil
lionaire. has been sentenced to tel
days Imprisonment for making him
self preferred creditor of the insolven
Exchange bank. of which he was vic
president, by withdrawing $4,000 afte
the suspension.
The cap-stone of the Washington
monument was on Saturday noon low
cred into place, SIS feet from tn
ground. The cornerstone was lai'
in lS48 by Roberto. Winthrop, who ha
been selected to deliver the Oratiol
next February.
George Snyder, of Dartown, Ohio
killed his aged mother with a shove
and buried her in a ravine, to obtail
500 which he had paid her as interes
on a mortgage. The deed was perpe
trated last month, but was only discov
cred on Friday.
The manufacturers of Youngstown
Ohio, are considering the PRACTICABLE
ity of a pipe line to force natural ga
from Butler county, Pennsylvania, 10
tight and fuel. The distance is twenty
six miles, and the estimated cost of tn
scheme is S156,0 OO.
Lucy Maclem, the daughter of
hero of the Revolution, once we
known to the literary world and sal
to have been engaged to Salmon T
Chase, was sent to Blackwell's islam
by a New York police judge, for beg
cling on the streets.
The search for Abe Buzzard, th
Pennsylvania outlaw. having bee
abandoned by the citizens aroun
Welsh mountain, a reporter went t
his hiding-place and secured an intel
view. The bandit carries a Winches
ter rifle, and deties arrest.
Roland Kane, a customs officer 9
Montreal, is to receive from the Unite
States government $780, 900 for informs
ton furnished as to diamond smu.
Cling on the border, by which good
valued at $4,000 were seized b
American customs officers.
Pauline Ehrlich, of Chicago. cause
the arrest OF q former roommate
named Martha Fidel, for stealing
diamond ring presented to the mothe
of complainant by Emperor Willial
for twenty years. service as q cook j
the royal kitchen at Berlin.
A stranger entered a church parlt
at Youngstown. Ohio, where a ladie
aid society was in session, and secure
cash contributions to the amount {
$50 for an old ladies' home. Fro
wealthy gentlemen he obtained thrit
that sum, and then disappeared.
The mercury fell to 81 degrees |
Chicago Sunday afternoon. The win
reached a velocity of ~ffty-six miles a