Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-02-14

GentTal busters communal, mas been
sentenced to five years Imprisonment
in the Massachusetts penitentiary for
shooting Dell Hanson in a Boston sa-
loon.
The president of the Erie road is
said to have issued a circular ANNOUNCE
ing withdrawal from all agreements
with competitors. and ordering his
agents to meet cut rates to secure bus
mess.
The ice in the Yellowstone river al
Glendive is gorged for several miles.
The ferry cable has been swept away,
and the west bank is so deeply flooded
that citizens have removed their ef-
eects.
Representative Holman, Of Indiana,
was so Inundated by the conduct Of
his o at the Stewart castle in WASH
ington that lie wrote out his resigna-
ton, but was persuaded by friends tc,
tear it up.
Some Omaha physicians were called
to a clearinghouse kept by Mrs. G. B.
Moore, where they found tWenty-three
which had got mixed with sugar in
making pastry.
In spite OF hard times Southwestern
Kansas is booming, and the new coun-
ties III the State, heretofore esteemed
purposes. are rapidly filling up with
agrlculturists.
Nine business buildings in Tuscola,
Illinois. valued at $50, 900. were Thurs.
day evening destroyed by fire. The
village of Battle Lake. Minnesota, is
said to have been nearly wiped out by
a confiagration.
Senator Logan WAS ,renominated by
acclamatiOn at the Republican caucus
at Springfield Thursday evening. At
least two members Of the house were
absent without excuses satisfactory to
the party leaders. !
D.. J. Morrell. formerly a member Of
congress from Pennsylvania, and now
holding the presidency of the Cam.
bridge Iron company at .J~ohnstown,
a been sent to q private insane aSy-
lum III Philadelphia.
William r. Morrison was nominated,
by the democratic caucus at Springfield
for senator from Illinois or the first
ballot. the vote standing 81 for Nor,
risOn, - for Harrison, 8 for Black, and
I for John NJ. Schotield.
Attic request Of the Mexican gov
ernment. Secretary Lincoln has in
structed Lieutenant Mcdonald to hold
the mntineers recently arrested near
the borders OF Arizona for extradition
papers from President Diaz.
At Vincennes.I Indiana, Henry Strait
MAN killed his father-in-law and fatal
iy injured his wife, The murderer has
four children " ry i'll Of typhoid fever,
and was probably driven insane by
grief and religious fanaticism.
Subscriptions to defray the expenses
necessary 10 Mrs. Dutiley's defense
have been started in England and CAM
ada. The bullet has not yet been ex-
tracted from Rossa's back, but he will
soon be able to ieave the hospital.
At Muskegon, Michigan. Philip Ivet
seriously wounded his wife with a re-
volver and then killed himself. For
years he had done no work ON their
farm, and she sought relief. by remov-
ing to the city with her three children.
A preacher named Newell. who o II
Quoted revival meetings at Vincennes.
Iowa, carried away the family bible
from a farmhouse whose hospitality
he had enjoyed. lie was pursued. O
victed Of larceny, and lodged in Jail at
keokuk.
The district court at Cincinnati found
I. c. Campbell, the well-known crim-
inal attorney, guilty Of only one of the
seven charges brought against him by
the bar association. He was suspended
from practice for ten days and ordered
to pay the costs.
+. +. WaShburn, who has been placed
IN the Arkansas lunatic asylum, lost
his reason through serving as a wit
ness against a murderer in Monroe
county, and c%herishing a fear that the
condemned man would appear and
take his life.
A box containing a jumping-jack
was sent to O'Donovan Rosa, who
caused it to be as carefully opened as
il it contained an Internal machine.
Mrs. Dudley has received a postal-card
Tiled with curses and a letter in red
ink threatening her life.
Judge D%usenberry, of Utah. states
that the enforcement of the Edmunds
bill has unsettled all business in the
territory. Many of the Mormon lead
ers have been forced to fee-amone
them being Zeph Sears, at the head OF
The Zion cooperative store.
Now that both are dead, it is claimed
ut the p~ostoffice department that Mail
ing Clerk ID. Wis, of ST.. Joseph, Nilsson
ri. constructed the first ,maiEcar il
1852. and that Colonel George B. Arm
strong secured an appropriation ant
developed the system in all directions
Richard Short, who stabbed Captain
Phelan in New York. was held in
$S,WO, at the Tombs police court. Phe-
Ian asked for protection by the police,
as his left arm hung in a sling, and
then requested the privilege of carry.
ing conceaied weapons to defend him.
self from Short.
Russell b. Swift. of St. Louis, went
to the office Of the Chronicle and at
lacked the managing editor, w: II.
Little, for publishing an article re.
iecting upon his father. Swift struck
the Journalist several times in the face
with a cane, and then snapped a re-
volver twice ut him.
Stephen Barclay, a country store
Keeper in the vicinity of New Albany,
Ind, undertook to stop the operations
OF a burglar by keeping watch all night
with a shot gun. When the intruder
appeared, the old man fired both bar
relS. Lighting his lamp. he found his
son dangerously wounded.
A Reading dispatch chronicles the
demise Of Sallie kitner, "a years OF
age. who for half her days lived in a
dilapidated hut near Bonneville, keep
ing twelve dogs and nineteen cats.
HER eccentriclties were due to dishp-
pointment in love. and she eve after
ward fled from men as from tigers.
In order to recover three imperiled
propellers. dynamite is being used to
blast the ice in the harhor of Grand
Haven. Mich. A channel FIVE hundred
yards long was cut Sunday, and as
much more remains to be done to reach
open water. The Oneida is TIN mi es
off Mnnfauna and hoo oxhnlaiod ho,