Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1884-12-06

Inc general nelgnI agent admlJIed on
the vitness-stand that the monopoly
was given lower rates because Of larger
shipments,
Charles Newbold, a married coach
with the daughter of C. J.. Whitney,
has been convicted Of bigamy, and
will doubtless be sentenced to seven
years in the Ohio p~enitentiary. He
claims to be the genuine Sir Roger
TichbOrne.
Charles T. Goodwin, the head of q
cracker manufacturing firm in New
York which recently failed, became
insane and left his home in Port Ches-
ter. His wife and the neighbors pur-
sued him, and found his corpse with
the entrails torn out, and his head and
right. arm cut of. ,
In the circuit court at Chicago, in
b e'matter of the estate of Wilbur F,
Storey, Judge Tuley appointed Hor-
ace a. Hurlbnt receiver of the TS,nes,
with an order that there be no change
of policy or of the business or editorial
management. The amount of bond
was Fixed at $4,000.
Becky Jones, the New York house,
keeper who refused to testify in the
Hammersly will case, is not likely to
gainlher freedom by a,petition. 1t ap-.
pears that the movement originated
with Ferdinand Ward, the banking
swindler, who employed counsel to re-,
cure Becky's release.
Another "last spike" was driven
Tuesday afternoon, and the country.
now has four transcOntinental lines.
The latest addition wa formed by the,
l p~0nnoof1nn nt 'urnfinoton 0rol 80 Tho.
Oregon Railway s. Navigation Com
pany's system with the, Oregon Short
Line Of the Union Pacific.
A telegraph lineman at work In
Brooklyn Jaw: that something had be-
fallen his fellow-workman eighty feet,
above, and made the ascent in time to
lash, him to the pole before he became
unconscious from q. nervous fit. "A
policeman then found q freman's SEQ
tiOnal ladder, and the sufferer was res
cued.
Two rolling-mills in ittsburg, which
have been suspended for several weeks,
will resume operations next Monday.
A factory at Brunswick, Maine, Will
reduce wages 8 to IL per cent: a seVinR
machine factory at Bridgeport, Con-
necticut, will shut down until January,
and a wire mill at Easton, Pennsyl-
vania, will resume work at cut wages.
What constitutes the net earnings of
the Union Pacific's main line under the
Thurman act, and what is q fair COM
pensation for the Government to pay
the road for carrying the mails, are the
two questions to be argued before the
4 United States Court Of. Claims. The
lawyers began talking yesterday and
will keep it up for the nexttwo or three
weeks.
One Of tho questions which is being
agitated before the Plenary Council at
Baltimore is that Of mixed marriages,
bid the solemniZatiOn of marriages be-
tween Catholics and Protestanty in the,
churches unless byespecial dis%pensation
from the Pope, and it may 90 even fur
ther and forbid them altogether on pain
of accommodation.
The Lancaster pal crematorium,
built by the Lancaster Cremation and
Funeral-Reform Society, was dedi-
Gated Tuesday afternoon. The body
of Mrs. Frederick Beseler Of Jersey
City, for some time dead, was then re-
duced to ashes III Il little over an hour.
A number of applications for crema-
ton have already been received from
different parts Of the country.
Large orders for railroad supplies
have caused an improved feeling among
iron men at Pittsburg. A reduction OF
8 per cent. in wages has been ordered
by a carpet company at Clinton, Mas
sachusetts. A carpet factory at Yon-
kers, New York, shut down for an in
definite period. The Pennsylvania
company will reduce the number of
its employees and leave wages at the
present figure.
A customs inspector from Chicago,
aided by two special treasury agents,
seized at New York about $l5. OO0
worth OF jewelry in possession of Ed
ward Morris. OF Vienna. who recently
swindled Chicago merchants out Of
considerable sums. The goods we're
forfeited to the Government as SNUG
gled. Morris proves to have been u
burglar in Vienna, where his picture
adorns the rogues' gallery. lie has
been discharged from arrest, as Gov
ernor Cleveland deemed the evidence
insufficient for extradi5ion.