Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-01-17
NEWS DIGEST.

the tug Sol Thomas.
Robert c. Haney, of the pioneers
Of milwaukee,: a wholesale hardware
dealer, died Wednesday morning.
William NJ. Evarts is said by the
Albany Journal to have a clear major
ity Tor the New York senatorship.
In a billiard contest in Chicago Mon
day evening. Schaefer beat Slosson at |
the champion game" by $40 to $50.
Ben Butler has brought suit for
heavy damages against the Boston
Herald for attacking his war record.
Leland Stan. ord can have the Cali
fornia s~enatorship for the asking. Bal
loting is to commence on January %.
A collision on the Pensacola and At
lantic road, near Chipley, Florida,
caused severe injuries to six persons.
Twin boys born 1T Grand Haven on
election day are to b. christened Gro
yer Cleveland and Thomas Hendricks,
The mayor of New York reports the
funded debt ut S92. OH. 90, and the
rate OF taxation Will he nearly 2.35 per
cent.
a boa-constrictor eighteen feet long
is said to have been found at Fisher
Station, Indiana, lrJZen into a solid
knot.
"A liz Ct4luhA u1V lillS VI Xix t1l(Ou
Horticultural society the mem:,ers re-
ported plenty OF peach Luds or d good
crop.
Captain c. w. Folgcrs only son of
the Secretary of the treasury died OF
consumption, Sunday, at e. II, vi. New
York.
Nine No. 5. of the Hooking valley
property. 1T Strait>vl l.. Ohio, The
lar est in that IT glun, l..S ben fired
by strikers.
Gen raj Jackson's day was celcbrat-
Ell 10y democratic D. nquels ut W. Sh-
inglun. Bo: ton, Columbus, and DIS
AiomS.
T." Mrncie (1ndiana) National bank
has decided to 90 into voluntary liqui-
dalton this month, on the txp ration Of
its charter.
Nashville reports the burning of a
freight and passenger depot and one
hundred 10 lied cars. the losses aggre-
eating Sl50,0o.
James II. Bingham, formerly lieu
tenant governor of Wisconsin, died
Thursday morning at Chippewa Falls,
after Il brief iiin, S..
Canadian millers are pe1itioninc the
government to double the duty OH
American flour, because $40 ,OCO barrels
"SAC llll'oA leu lAoI SCt4.
The reduction ordered in the iron
works OF Oliver Brothers at PittSburg
will place the wages of a number of
employees at aS cents perday.
The governor of Ohio renews his
recommendation that in presidential
years the election of state and county
officers be held in November.
Joseph Rankin. who represents a
Wisconsin district in congress, is Sc
verely i'll at Washington from what is
believed to be Br:ght's disease.
Enoch W.. Eastman, formerly lieu
tenant governor of Iowa, author of the
penal features of the prohibitary liquor
law. died at Eldora on Saturday.
The Denver chamber of commerce
invites all friendly to the unlimited
coinage of silver TO meet in national
convention in that city on January
3.
The widow of Mark Hopkins, the
California railway promoter, proposes
TO construct ut Great Darlington, Mas
sachusetts, a residence to cost $5,OUO,-
UO.
Under orders Of the United States
court. the bankrupt Toledo, Cincinnati
and St. Louis narrow-gauge road has
been restricted to one mixed train per
dav.
The suicide is reported of Major
Charles Il. Brady. of St. Louis. former
ly one OF General McClellan's BODY
guard, leaving a wife and two daugh-
tiers.
The defendants in the election fraud
cases i n C!.:r igO intend to waive a trial
by granger juries, and ask Judge Blod-
gett to oeciue upon their guilt Or inno-
cence.,
Over one hundred citizens of Hazel
ton. Indiana, are searching the wOous
for a Mexican lion which escaped from
a circus, last summer. at Allenuale,
Illinois.
James F. Mallory. formerly promi-
nent in the oyster trade in Maryland
a. 4 Connecticut died at New Haven,
OF creeping paralysis, leaving a large
fortune.
Six large iron establishments at
Pittsburg have resumed operations. az
ter weeks OF id, ness. anu other con-
Germs that they will SOC loi-
low suit.
The legislature of Connecticut ba'-
loted for state officers Thursday. elrct-
ing the republican nominees Of Nov H.
Der, headed by II my &. HARRISON lur
governor.
Rain caused the food in Grind
Rapids. Michigan. to gain in force
Tuesday. TIE scheme of S muing
tugs to nreak the ice S.rge has bee II
alb ndon+d.
Iradesmen OF Toronto. having been
duped to tile amount of $1,000 Ivy Il
MAN named Morris Long. / Ike revenge
by stnu:ng out t:.e Statement thai lie
has Il glass eye.
The N yur OF Brooklyn reports that
the big DlluGe must earn So2).ULO per
aim: II to provide the SINKING l"nC
for the construct on BOMBS, and that il
has failed 10 40 So.
jam $ TIllingn st has resigned his
come llon with the New York c. H.
1rai rod and til prtsld' hey OF Tie
Wagner &: r com ANY, to Il effect ut
the end q 'li,i> month.
Som iend put a pHper of poison in
a cot1e,-p't n>ed at a party in East
Liverpool. Ohio. by which means Il
child lost its life and ten other persons
were made violently III.
. General Grant has written to Cyrus
". Field DIT clining 10 receive tie parse
being made up for his ben"tit. II tx
presses The regret that he did not make
The announcement tar!i:r.
A train on the Indiana, Blooming
ton and Western road WAS thrown into
n ditch near Lily, Illinois, Monday
morning. Twelve parsons in the smok-
inC-car were bruised or cut.
The government veterinary surgeon
1t Fort Yates reports that the horses
and mules in that region are being de-
stroyed by Wholesale by CHAMBERS,
which is in its most violent form.
President Arti,nr iaS acre nte6 the