Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-02-21
NEWS DIGEST.

Colonel Smith. of Winnipeg. is rails
ing a regiment for service in Egypt.
A cremation society with a capital of
$25.O0O has been organised at Daven-
port, Iowa.
The shooting of a wolf at Delavan,
Wisconsin. brought $40 bounty to Da-
vid Markari.
Snow fell all day Thursday at Mont
gomery. Alabama, where tho ground is
frozen beneath it.
The Illinois board of agriculture has
q decided to hold the state fair at Chi
cago for the nexttwo years.
A woman in the City of Mexico gave
birth TO seven children in n day. The
babes died, but the mother survives.
Major Clark, senior partner in q
banking-house at Bryan, Texas, killed
himself Sunday evening with a re-
volver.
Upward of one hundred ships are
overdue at the port OF New York, and
the recent terrible gales cause great
anxiety.
The mining camp of Alta. Utah, was
on Friday night near y destroyed by a
snOW-slide, and sixteen citizens lost
their lives.
The firm of Davis, Roper & Co., con-.
Quoting the oldest grocery-house in
Petersburg, Virginia, has made an as.
signment.
The Minnesota house has agreed to
appropriate $1,000 for an encampment
Of ex-union soldiers at Lake Minneton-
ka next September.
One hundred Democratic Congress-
men petitioned Mr.. Cleveland not to
commit himself on the silver question
in his inaugural address.
Fl,A nn ., cfA, rx,1sah 80
rived III New York Thursday expresses
the fear that Long Island Sound will
soon lie com lettl. sealed H., b. ice.
The mayor OF Milwaukee has called
for the resignation Of Lemuel Ellis
worth. chief of lolice, for accepting
money for recovering stolen property.
Sportsmen in the vicinity Of La
Sale, Ill.,, find SO many quail starved
or frozen that they fear that the birds
have been exterminaled by the storms.
G. F. Adams, president of the Union
Pacific road, tenders Secretary Teller a
draft for any amount found due the
government on the annual settlement.
A cablegram nnounces the death in
Paris Of B. B. Hotchkiss, of Connecti-
cut, the famous gun inventor, and of
Jules Wales, the noted French jour,
nalist.
In Cleveland, Sunday evening, two
men who attempted to cross a railroad
bridge were cut to pieces by a switch
engine, and a lad in their company lost
IN arm.
Hon. Julius J. Wood, whose demise
at Columbus, Ohio, is reported, was an
intimate associate Of Greeley, Weed,
and Seward in political campaigns In
New York.
, A cotton-mill, established sixty years
ago at Fall River, Massachusetts, is to
transfer all it's machinery to Mexico,
and manufacture printed goods with
native labor.
DR.. Leopold Damrosch, the musical
director and composer, died suddenly
In New York Sunday afternoon. He
was i'll only a few days and his death
was unexpected.
Russ II Sage, the noted dealer in
puts and calls. was arraigned in a po-
lice court in New York BY |. customer,
who charged larceny in connection with
q stock transaction.
Civil-service examinations for the
Washington departments will be held
At Chicago February q, at Springfield,
ILL.,. February Is, and at Indianapolis,
Ind, February Is.
jeremiah J. Sullivan, one of the wit
nesses in the Mackin election conspir-
NY Ia NA4CoSOs ndS 3IICSL6u ny d Uc-
tective for perjury, and has been lodged
in the county Jail.
The Canadian officers who volunteer
ed to raise regiments for service in
Egypt have been informed that there
Is . chance to do garrison duty in En-
gland, it they SO desire.
The wagon-works of Fish Brothers
q Co. located in the lumber districts
OF Kaclne, Wis.,. had at midnight been
well nigh consumed by fire. The prop
erty recently in%ventoried $3.50. ZOO.
Esther Thomas, an aged and intem-
perate woman, who keeps a variety
store at No. 500 Michigan avenue, De-
troit, set the place on fire by smoking
in bed, and was burned to death.
The town marshal of Hunnewell.
Kansas, having resigned, a gang OF
roughs rode through the streets and
fired at everything they saw until the
citizens rallied and drove them away.
The striking miners in all parts Of
the Hooking valley of Ohio have been
notified that aid Is no longer coming
In, and tits ruwored that they are adj: