Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1884-11-08

dead and attempted to kill his son.
daughter, and daughter-in-law. His
sanity is being tested by. physicians at
Cincinnati.
The Canadian authorities have been
advised that the landing, of q detach-
ment Of Toronto police at Michipico-
ten will be opposed by the liquor deal
ers by force. A party of armed men
is On the watch.
William Brooks, q colored desperate
OF Logansport, Indiana, was on Satur-
day evening shot dead by Councilman
George Haigh. Brooks had robbed q
farmer, and, when ordered to surren-
der, fired twice at the officer.
In the Superior Court at Montreal,
Judge Sicotte ordered fines of $500 or
imprisonment for two years to be i'm
posed upon L. A. SENEGAL, president Of
the North Shore railway, for unblush-
ing bribery in the last election.
Improbable rumors are afloat atA
Pittsburg that the Pennsylvania COM
pany is slyly buying all the floating
stock of the Baltimore and Ohio road
which a be obtained, in the hope of
overthrowing President Garrett.
Elijah Henderson snapped what he
thought to be an empty revolver in his
VIZ AoSo IL 0Ao !uuldu 1oIIlUOTy
Thursday evening and shot her dead.
He surrendered to the United States
Marshal, and wants to be hanged.
iron business at Buffalo, who mysteri-
ously disappeared three months ago,
returned with a statement that he was
rendered half insane by business
troubles, and took a trip to Europe.
Near Long Creek, Oregon, Tuesday.
a party of whites stole upon a band Of
Indians, and shot and killed two
braves. The feeling against the alb
origlnes is intense among the whites,
and an Indian outbreak is threatened.
While intoxicated Wednesday in
RADON county, Ca, Eugene Beck shot
and killed his wife and her sister, then
threw himself on the floor. and was
asleep beside the corpses when arrest
ed. The indications are that he will
be lynched.
: At Reading, Pa, Wednesday, q To-
connective and two cars jumped the
track and fell through q trestle, the
engine tumbling upon the Reading
Iron Works boiler house, and demol-
ished it. Two persons were hurt, and
travel was delayed.
Aunt" Becky Young, of Des
Moines, who followed the fortunes Of
the One Hundred and Ninth New
York Regiment during the war, will
probably receive the appointment of
Matron of the new Soldiers Home at
Leavenworth, Kan.
Rev. G. B. Scoville. pastor of the
Free Methodist Church in Elgin, H..
has been found guilty Of improper in
timacy with Mary Dove, q watch
factory employe, for q period of eight
Q months. He will be dismissed
from the ministry.
The Presbyterian Synod of South
Carolina has d%isapproved DR.. Wood
rows teaching in The Columbia Theo-
logical Seminary, declaring his belief
in Darwin's theory of the descent of
man, and considering it not inconsist-
emit with the Scriptures.
An explosion Of gas occurred in a
coal mine near U%niontown, Pa, Mon
day afternoon, where twenty-four men
were at work. Two corpses have been
found. and two more were rescued in a
condition next to death. It is believed
that twenty lives were lost.
John Mccormick, who ran away
from the jail yard at Winnipeg, but
was recaptured,. "a ordered BY tho
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logged. he was stripped to the waist
in a snow-storm. before his fellow
prisoners, and given twelve lashes.
Major WATSON, an army paymaster.
who has served eighteen months in the
Kansas ~penitentiary for embezzle-
ment, was released Wednesday. He
goes to Des Moines, where his parents
reside. He planneda and super1ntended
a'system of water-Worksf for the prison.
The Woman's Home Missionary So
ciety began its fifth annual meeting
Wednesday at Boston, an increase in
finances and number of missionaries
being reported. The old board was re-
elected, and Mrs. G. 3. Bliss, Of Chi
cago, wa added to the Vice Presi-
dents.
The Baltimore and.Ohio company is
about to put on a limited express train
to make the trip from Chicago to
Washington in twenty-five hours. It
has purchased the lines near Milwaukee
Of the Bankers and Merchants Tele-
graph company for extension to st.
Lake underwriters are suffering
large losses from the severe gales that
have swept over the inland seas re-
Gently. The large iron steamship
Scotia, valued at 500 1000, is a total
wreck on Lake Superior. Several
vessels of the Chicago grain fleet have
been wrecked.
Frederick W. Duvernois, banker and
insurance agent at Detroit, has been
missing for two weeks, and is said to
be a defaulter for. between $4,000 and
$40 ,0O0. It appears that he decided his
property to his wife some years ago,
but the deeds were only placed on
record this week.
Three masked men bound James
Grain in his house near Brookston,
Ind, Tuesday night, and maltreated
him when he refused to disclose where
$500, but $1,000, hidden in a secret
place, escaped their clutches. II caught
the robbers will be lynched.
F. j. Moses, formerly governor of
South Carolina, having been Jailed in
Detroit for swindling a clergyman.
nearly succeeded in hanging himself in
his cell. When cut down he was black
in the face, and had lost consciousness.
On recovering he was sentenced to 80
days in the house of correction.
A six-st0ry building in Chicago
owned by Charles E. Culver and occu-
pied by several manufacturing firms.
was destroyed by fire, the loss being
$4,000. James Carr, foreman of q
cigar-box factory, conducted thirty of
his employees to the f~re-escape, and
lost his life by falling from a window
sill.
In the Lutheran cemetery in Brook
Ign, on Saturday afternoon, a gentle
man found a 3-year old English girl,
with a handkerchief tied tightly around
her neck, her face being nearly purple.
When able to converse, she gave her
name as Lizzie Engleman, and said
she had been on q big ship with her