Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-01-10
Coke, to celebrate the twentieth ami
versary of lis election. He is vigorous
at 81 years Of age.

Di' OiiilIuCk. VI SllaAka. MlnUU
has been arrested Tor g~rave-robDlL
His brother and a fellow-student were
forced by the sheriff 20 abandon a
corpse or the road.
Louis Feeder. night wa;chman at a
spoke factory in bloomington. Indiana,
was murdered for money early Sun
day morning. his skull having been
crushed with Il spoke.
DR.. TansZky. If New York, an ex-
pert in cases Of insanity. attempted to
kill his wifi ami himself. early on Sum
day morning, but succeeded only in in
dlctlng severe wounds.
Coburn Il Ewing. Of Kansas City,
have paid $suO,OOU for the Munson
ranch i'll the Panhandle of Texas.
hich comprises 100 900 acres of land
and 25,O0O head Of cattle.
U. s. Grant. Jr., testified in a New
York court that the day succeeding the
collapse Of the family clearinghouse
Ferdinand Ward made to him a full
confession of his rascality.
Captain David Nye, a railway sup
e%rintendent. dropped dead at San
FRANCESCA. from heart disease. Judge
Asa Norton, an old residentof Goshen,
Indiana, also died suddenly.
One of the Buzzard gang Of outlaws
was arrested at Columbia, Pennsylva-
MIA, while attempting to steal a ride
on a train. In a satchel he carried
twenty-eight stolen watches.
-Four young men Of Greensburg,
Pennsylvania, procured half a gallon
OF alcohol at a drug store and drank it
all. Two of them died the next day;
the others are suffering greatly.
Colonel Hatch is organizing an ex-
petition at Leavenworth, composed OF
six troops Of cavalry and Il company Of
infantry. to remove another band Of
raiders from Indian Territory.
A st. Louis newspaper, after a can
vass of the factories Of that city, es-
Inmates the number of UNEMPLOYED
persons at fifteen thousand skilled
workmen and nine thousand day labor
erS.
The police in Philadelphia learned
that Mrs. Amelia Gibson has for years
been enlicing children from their
homes and training them to steal.
Among her pupils was her 1O-year-old
son.
Seven locomotive engineers employ
ed by the Pennsylvania railroad COM
pany have been discharged for a con
spiracy with the time clerk at Erie, by
which they obtained $1,000 of unearned
pay.
A colony OF three Thousand Firms is
about to be established in Hancock
county, Michigan. "A priest and his
advance guard have landed at Port
land, Maine, on the way to select q
site.
A police lieutenant of Cincinnati,
named Mullen. has been sentenced to
one year in Jail for imprisoning citi-
Zens on the day of the October election
in order to defraud them of their
votes.
David T. McDonough, of Daven-
port, has been arrested for stealing the
sachel OF W. K. Alderman, containing
annual passes owe a hundred roads,
and e~ndeavoring to have them re-
neWed.
The appearance of an infectious dis
ease among sheep in the province of
Quebec was met by all order of the
government to slaughter all suffering
animals on an allowance of two-thirds
their value.
Edward Goodspeed, who killed Silas
StotZ on the fairgrounds at Blooming
ton, Illinois, five years ago, has been
pardoned from Joliet by Governor
Hamilton, who was one of his counsel
at the trial.
St. Paul reported the coolest weather
of the winter. Friday, the signal-ser-
vice instruments showing SO degrees
below zero. while Saltwater, Minneso-
ia, claimed a temperature OF so de-
grees below.
At a recent ball in the isolated ILL
,nois county of Calhoun, a young blood
was so nearly crazed by jealousy as to
fire both barrels of his shotgun into the
dancers, wounding even Of them, two
with fatal effect.
Captain %1lowgate, the defaulting sig
aal-service officer, was on Saturday
seen at Lorisburg, New Mexico, Ell
route for Il mining-camp in the Burro
mountains. by a; man who served seven
years under him.
John Gallagher, a gray-haired citi-
zen of New York, was compelled to
ask admission to the workhOuse, be-
u of the delay OF savings bank Of
ticers oyer the loss of his book, repre-
senting 100000.
W. II. Morris. who served four terms
in the Missouri legislature, was recent
~ burned to death Ill his house in
Ozark county. liz had once made his
-.sclpe, but ran back into the house to
save a valued relic.
Near Blakesbu:g. Iowa, on Monday
y ning. Il party Of citizens hanged
Pleasant Anderson for the murder Of
Christian McAliister. He was last
year ;,cquitl. Il OF the crime by a jury
II Mlhasia county.
John McClllouell, the unfortunate
ictor. came very near being crushed to
le;itl III i, railway station in Pliladel-
''Iia. New Years night. A colored
coachman saved his life by lifting him
u'on a car platform.
H. II. Chalmers, associate Judge of
the supreme court of Mississippi, died
OF apoplexy OF Saturday night. John
How. who was three times mayor of
st. Louis in its early days, passed
away at San Francisco.
Suit against the Alton road for
$25.00O damages has been commenced
by Fred Soutner. OF Bloomington, ILL
nols, who has just attained his MAORI
ty. Fifteen years ago his legs were
cut off by ali Alton engine.
St. George Best, of Cincinnati, after
being sentenced to three years in the
%penilentiary Tor disseminating obscene
literature, swallowed poison in the
court room, and was only saved by the
heroic efforts OF physicians.
The courthouse at Moorield, West
Virginia, was on Saturday the SC ne
Of a bloody fight on the question OF
who had been legally elected county
clerk. A strong guard is on duty, and
all saloons have been closed.
In the United States district court al
Cincinnati, five men were sent to jail
for from one to six months for illegal
voting, and two others were given q
halt year each for hindering citizens
from depositing their ballots.
The Union Pacific officials havino