Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-02-28
NEWS CT THE WEEK.

n wei VI Altural q mas zee de-
yeloped on a farm in Messea township,
Ontario.
The storm at Newport. Rhode Island.
five feet.
There is an ice bridge across Niagara
river. extending into Lake Ontario for
two miles.
Farmers in the vicinity of Grand
Haven, Michigan, report finding in the
woods great numbers Of frozen robins.
Abraham True, who built the first
house on the site of Kankakee, Illinois,
died wednesday at the age of SO years.
4 stock train on the Alton road was
wrecked at Sag bridge, by a broken
rail. killing n hundred head of cat
Tie.
There were 254 failures in the United
States last week, a decrease Of nine.
teen as compared with the previous
week.
Paul Holman. the irrepressible son
of the Indiana congressman. has been
sent to Texas with a field partv on a
geological survey.
Il. F. Nadal. an elocutionist. was con-
victed by a jury at Winterset. Iowa. of
marrying three women, and will repent
in the penitentiary.
A medical journal of New York
states that all alarming symptoms in
General Grants tongue and throat
have entirely disappeared.
John X. MacIver. secretary of the
Detroit board Of trade. was stricken in
the street with heart disease, from
which he expired Wednesday.
\ constitutional amendment was
passed by the California assembly pro-
Eidlng that railroads shall pay a tax of
a per cent on their gross earnings.
AN article written by John r. Nc
Lean. casting ridicule on a fashionable
sho maker OF Cincinnati. cost the En-
ga er 81 q as damages in a libel suit.
Ihe scarcity OF fuel al Saybrook. ILL.,,
caused the clliZpns TO Sr!Ze for Y tons
flCm a train going Through on HE Lake
Erie road, for which they offered to
pay.
The Dakota council has passed a
bill for a constitutional convention for
the southern portion OF the terri tory,
to be held next September at Sioux
Falls.
A case Of g%arroting occurred Monday
night in Third avenue. New York.
where a bank director was robbed of a
tin box filled with securities and
money.
The committee in charge of the leg
islalive b II TO be held at Madison
next month gives notice that dudes
and claw-hammer coats will be eX-
Guided.
The funeral of DR.. Leopold D M
rosch was held in The Metropolitan
opera house in New York. where Henry
Ward Beecher and Felix Adler deliver
ell addresses.
The Mountain institute. at Chappa-
qua, New York, was destroyed by fire,
the loss being S5O.0OO. S~evenly-ive
children We're safely removed in their
night-clotEes.
Some wood-sawyers at Gallon. Ohio,
stopped their work on finding that they
had cut the head from a corpse in a
hollow log. They o discovered $500
In money. a par of revolvers, and some
burglars tools.
The New York assembly. by a vote
OF II to l. passed a joint resolution urg-
ing congress to pass the Edmunds bill
to place General Grant or the retired
list OF the army.
Pitts. one of the mail robbers who
Killed Marshal Casting and his deputy
lee Braunfels. Texas, fell dead within
one hundred yards of the train. Ycager
his accompiice, was pursued eight miles
and shot dead.
John johnson started from East
Tawas, Mich, Thursday morning to
walk to Logging cHmp. Sunday he
was found in the snow terribly frozen.
He died soon after.
Canadian steamboat-owners have re-
solved to petition for the repeal Of the
act compelling them to supply lake
vessels with fog-horns, which would
cost nearly S5OO,0OO.
In Mcdowell county. West Virginia
and the territory adjacent. citizens and
live stock are said to be starving. or
account of the failure of crops last
summer. The region is one hundred
miles from a railroad.
George Scott. an aged resident OF
Gibson City, Illinois. seized a young
woman whose clothes W re on fire and
carried her to a snOwdrift, saving hel
life and losing his OWL.
The Burlington road has completed
a survey for a line of sixty miles from
Louisiana, Missouri. to Brighton. Hi
nois, to secure a direct track between
st. Louis and St. Joseph.
With the exception of the Peppcrel
company. the cotton mills Of New En-,
c1'liN lSl"lI q ioolIS DuSliNSo M tJt
last half of 1884. production being Still
in advance OF consumption.
Arthur p. German, in his effort to be
reelected senator from Maryland. viii
have as competitors ex-senator William
P:nckney Wnyie and Governor Rober
n. McLane. although the chances are
in favor of the first named.
The engine boiler at III" east shat
coal mine. lear Springfield. ILL.,, OK
ploded Monday. The engineer anl
fireman were ins,an " killed. Thu
engine house was badly wrecked.
Jeremiah Ridgeway. an early settle
at LapOrie, Indiana. who acculnula; et
a large fortune in California and re
turned to invest it in new buildings
was swept away by lung disease.
The weigh, of the snow crushed il
the roof of a large skating rink il
Pittsburg, Pa. 1t cost $1,000. There
were fifteen persons in the rink. bu@
all escaped but a lad, who hid an arm
broken.
A young lady from Springfield, Mas
sachusetts, named Elsa Steubins. trav
cling westward with mr. parents. wa
ut Detroit treated by a physician will
morphine, from winch she died at kal
amazoo.
A train on the Ohio and Mississippi
Road struck a broken rail near NortI
Vernon, Indiana. The real sleepe
was THROWN down an embankmenl.
passenger and the coiored porter losin,
their lives.
Luis Gonzales, ed tor of a newsp1
per at Morelia, Mexico, who was re
Gently arrested and released 10y tn
government. was on Tuesday ni2h
killed OH the street by five soldiers il
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