Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-01-31

options or futures. The penalty, for
violation is not less than 500 anu not
more than $1,000 for eacl. offense.
N. II. Paaren. the Illinois veterin-
arlan, ordered the slaughter of six
horses ut T%aylorville, Illinois. on &C.
count of CHAMBERS, and had their man
gers and feeding-trouehs burned:
Freight trains on the Nickel-Plate
road cOllided Tuesday morning. near
Grand Crossing. Illinois, killing an en-
gineer named Charles E lis, and caus-
ing damage to the amount of $2O,UO.
At the door of Joliet prison, after
having served a term OF Two years for
burglary, Michael Muir. hy was arrested
by a Chicago detective for the murder
of Joel Prescott, the batll-house keep
er.
There is greatexcitemert in St. louis
concerning the outbreak of alleged
Asia1ic cholera. Two men-a Russian
Jew p-ddler and a negro-have died in
that city Of the disease within a few
DAYS.
BY the completion of a link around
the north slloIe Of Lake Superior, M:in-
itoba has secured ~telegraphic commu-
mic alion with the Canadian capital out
side of the territory Of the United
States.
a decision rendered by the Court of
Appeals in New York. Thursday. prac-
ii, ally asserts. that telegraph comp&n-
les. Ike Oiln r companies, are subject
to the franchise tax imposed by the law
OF 1851.
The severe cold weather in Tex 8
has a~llea,iy CAUSED the death of five
thousand sheep IN the counties of Lam
.,c,s .r,i rny,.nI. nI,nto NIL l,o ,,n,
luss among cattle not provided with
shelter.
Il. II. Thomas. commissioner of
Pennsylvania at the New Orleans ex-
position. lhreateans TO close his head
quarters unlrss the legislature appro-
PIRATES Siu.COu TO secure l display of
EXHIBITS.
In the federal court at Wichita,
K ,nsis. Nellie {. Bailey was acquil-
lee: oi the charge Of numbering e. Z.
BOii"mley in Indian Territory with
revolver and taking his money and
sheep herd.
Customs collectors in the vicinity Of
The gulf coast have been ordered to be
w;tchlul as 10 tillbustering operations.
The rtvpnue steamers Dix and For
ward are . Oh the lookout for sus-
p!ciOuS Vessels.
: Wniie George and Ray Sweet, small
boys of kallmaz",. were playing doc.
tor. the former administered strych.
nine to his brother. who died in a few
minutes. The package was found
ABOVE tie rh ok.
The thermometer ON Mount Wash.
ingtUn. y. H.. Went down to 81 degrees
below zero Thursday morning, one de.
gree. below the record. a hurricane
WAS blowing III the iime ut the rate OF
100 miles All hour.
The insolvcnt Oliver firms. of Pitts
burg. report liabilities OF $2,47O,7 TO
and ask III %eXlenlion Of five years. with
annual payments. al . per cent. inter
est. Another meeting of creditors viii.
be held January -
james Garneau. 4 member of a large
manufacturing firm at Omaha, caused
the arrest of a young woman named
Etfie Davis for threatening to kill him
She claims that they were married il
Chicago three years ago.
The customs authorities of Montrea
have discovered that by means Of
counterfeit invoices made by brokers
the government has been defrauded tt
the amount of S45.G OO. which will bt
levied upon the importers.
The Liberty bell was on Friday
morning takenfrom Independence hall
Philadelphia, under escort of three
hundred policemen, to d a especial.
constructed hy the PENNSYLVANIA road
and started for New Orleans.
At 4 hamlet in Kentucky called
Green's Store. the Widow Maguf1n,
heard a noise in her barn at night. Sh'
stepped out with a rife. fired at a NOV
ing figure. and shot through the hear
a notorious colored hog-thiet.
DR.. Yauszky, the insanity expert O.
New York. who recently attempted t.
kill himself. has been adjudged a luna
tic. His estate is valued 1T $780, QUO
and the supreme court will appoint
committee to take charge Of it.
A washerwomen at Dayton, Ohio
who was recently given some clothing
belonging to a dead woman of her &C
quaintanc', found $500 in currency
sewed III an undrrgarmtnt. and prompt
ly returned the money to the heirs.
Simon S one. the most daring color
ed burglar in Louisvil e. has been sen
ttncedto fifteen years. imprisonm n
in the penlttntlary. 1t Isl Expected lha
this Will end the operations IT a DIES
perate gang of which he was the head
At Gu mung. Illinois. Tiursda,
night, Gtorue II. FIX went to tue resi-
d"nce Of John u.:;iliuay and kicktd Inn
to de: til. Fox just ii"s his action OF
the ground Of wong inf .cted upon hi!
aunt, who was uailiday's second wife
A tank in the packinG-house Of J. E
Boogr & Co., at Sioux City. Iowa. ex
plo,ed Iues1ny incoming. tearing dowI
p"rt OF a four-story build ng. k Hin,
four men and Slightly sculuing elgh
others. The damage amounts to So,
UOo.
Ex-Cong1essman Epson of TexaI
says that grazing companies have t,keI
possession Of the public domain ant
all closed. There is no route to driv,
without going hundreds of miles out o
| the way.
A gang of thieves has been systemat
icallv plundrring freight cars on III,
Chicago & Alton Road. 1t is though
that nearly s2o,LW worth of good
have been stolen within the last lev
months. Several OF the robbers hay'
been captured.
A controversy in the Christian
Church at Lovlngton, ILL.,, %concernin,
the question Of organ music ended in
row Sunday. An E.der of the churcl
was Knocked down by an ex-Dracon
and a general fight was only prevented
by calling in the police.
The Iowa temperance convention
which was attended Ivy four hundred
delegates from all parts of the state
: passed resolutions 10 secure the en-
iorcement OF the prohil tory law b,
| the use Of all proper means. ever to it
) amt ndment by tine legislature,
1t is estimated that 10000 men, pre-
viously unemployed. have obtaine.
work in manufacturing enterprise
Il Sinca lapnar,. In aidi4;on "a 4Laa