Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-01-03

Mrs. Williams. living near Dah1Gren.
Illinois, while mentally d%is0rdered''
threw one Of her children into a well.
and, fastening another to her clothing.
also jumped III.
Sedgwick l.. Plummer. a graduate
OF Harvard, died in the almsh0tise At
Gardner, Me. He was formerly edi-
tor Of the Gardiner Transcript and was
worth $5O,OuO.
W: K. Alderman. for many years
president Of the Illinois Central. road.
has been engaged to attend the general
interests OF the Baltimore and Ohio
company in Chicago.
The directors Of the Oregon and CAL
!fornla road, now completed in the.
former state Tor a length OF $50 miles
have voted to transfer the property to.
tile Central Pacific.
An internal machine. containing
6fty-eight cartridges of dynamite and.
q lot of giant powder, was found by a,
track-walker on the Jersey Central
road, near Westfeld.
After being dashed to the rigging Of
the barkent!ne Epllraim William five
days without food or water. the Cap
tain and crew were rescued by the life.
boats at Cape lIatteras.
An officer of the New York police is
said to have offered $l,0Uu per n u
to as many members OF the Winnipeg
force as desire to resign, to be placed
on the Broadway SQUAD.
George W. Walker, = leading lawyer
OF Virginia, having suffered for years
from the amputation of his right leg
on the battlefield, killed himself with
a revolver ut Heathyille. .
Hermann E. Voss secured the arrest
Of his sister Amelia at New YORK,
Wednesday, for taking from a trust
company's box $lO0, 600, in money and
bonds belonging to him.
An unknown assassin, standing near
q window in a residence, at LongvieW,
Kentucky, fred five shots in quick. sue
cession, killing Jacob Torian and fatal
ly. wounding Peter Adcock.
j. NJ: Ballie, formerly a bookkeeper
in the National Bank Of America, at
Chicago, where he embezzled $500.
pas been arrested in New Orleans, and
will be taken back for trial.
William Mcknight, a prominent
businessman, Of Centralia, Ill.,, told
his pastor a month ago that he would
die early Christmas Day. He expired
at 1925 o'clock Christmas morning.
Cornelius Aultman, of Canton. Ohio,
we'll known throughout the country as
a manufacturer of agricultural imple-
ments, died on Christmas evening, at
ter entertaining a large party of
friends.
The statement comes from the North
ern Pacific headquarters at, St. Paul
that the road has been continuously
open to Wallula Junction, the snow
blockade being on the Oregon Naviga-
ton line.
Three hundred and fifty men are
thrown out Of employment by the con-
flagration which is raging in the Paint
ertoWn coai-mine near 1rWin's Pa. It
may be several weeks before work can
be resumed.
The Jackson, Mich, Interest and
Deposit bank failed Wednesday morn
ing. The deposits were principally
comprised OF the savings Of wage
workers, and the crash is surrounded
with, mystery.
A pensioner of the war of 1872,
named Thomas Van Violin, died at
Syracuse, New York, at the age OF
los. A dispatch from Titusville, Pa,
records the death OF Baltzer Gehr, in
his 104th year.
James Collins, ticket agent of the
Panhandle road at Cadi2 Junction.
Ohio, has disappeared with SIC, QUO.
Part Of the amount belonged to the
railway company; the rest was borrow
ed from friends.
c. B. Simmons, a prominent citizen
of Louisville. Is a de1aulter to the
Louisville and Nashville road for 1884,
699, and has fled to Canada. He has
been local treasurer of the road for
fourteen years.
General W. 7. Sherman is in Phila-
delphia, where he asked A. J. Drexel
and George W. Childs to aid in rescu-
ing General Grants mortgaged proper
ty. W. II. Vanderbilt offers to abate
$50, 900 of his claim.
Isaac Wright, one OF the most noted
steamboat captains on the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers, who. commanded
government vesse:s during the Mexican
war and the rebellion. died Tuesday at
Troy, Indiana, aged S6 years.
The north-bound express train on the
New Orleans y Northeastern Railroad
was thrown off the track by obstruc-
tions near Purvis: Miss. A number of
passengers Were injured, ami the engi-
neer and fireman were killed.
J. e. McAlHth. whose term as prose-
LoCIAAS OlloliiCy ANl SlC4lllOllU CUullvs
Ohio, is about to expire, shows Il clean
hand as to his official accounts, but has
transferred all his property to meet
losses sustained in sp .cuIation.
Four thousand cUal-niners on the
Monongahela River went out on a
strike Monday for an advance OF half
Il cent q buslel. The operators say
they will close the mines indefinitely
rather than accede to the demand.
While eight tramps were sleeping
over the boiler-house of the coal COM
pany ut Lincoln. Ill.,, Wednesday morn
ing. the blow-of pipe exploded, the
team scaldlnG tile men in a terrible
manner, and fatally wounding two of
them.
W. Y. Harvey. express agent at Pa
nora. Iowa, undertook to carry home a
5000 package Wednesday night. in
stead Of leaving it in the safe at his Of
Gee. lie claims to have been shot in
The arm by a robber, who escaped with
the money.
DR.. Mary Walker created a panic in
the Governors Office :tAlhany Friday.
She did o find MI. Cleveland in,
much 10 her regret, as she said, be-
cause she wished to apply for an Office
and to give him some advice abou'
matrimony.
w. F. Macarthur. district attorne,
for Winnebago. county. Wisconsin
was, on Tuesday. fatally shot by
cripple named Paul Strinel. al old res
ident of Nernal. The difficulty aros,
from a suit in which Macarthur wa!
Steinel's counsel.
Jacob Avery, who alone operated
fouring-mill near Greenbush, Illinois
was on Saturday night found by his sol
In a condition which showed that b,
had been caught by a shaft and pound