Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-01-10
NEWS DIGEST.

Colonel J. M. Frye, father of the
senator from Maine, died Thursday at
Lewiston, at the age of 81.
A p%rohibitory liquor ordinance has
gone INTO effect at Hot Springs, Ar
kansas, with a limit of two years.
Samuel Wade, a bank president at
Alton, Illinois, who has several times
been mayor of the city, died Friday.
J. G. Scrugham, teller in a national
bank at Lexington, Kentucky, is a de-
faulter for $50, 900, and has fled to Can
ada.
An explosion in the gas-works at
Augusta, Georgia, demolished a brick
building and severely wounded three
Workmen.
Potters at Trenton, New Jersey, to
the number or n thousand, have re-
solved to strike II a reduction be made
in wages.
At Birmingham, Alabama, Samuel
J. Randall inspected a coal mine which
has an average daily output Of twenty
five hundred tons.
DR.. J. II. Harris died Friday in In
~dianapolis, and, in accordance with his
the dissecting-table.
aiuAcW IlCl4cllU!eCLcl. 1OuIluer OF
the geological garden of Cincinnati,
ing a large fortune.
The Grand Army of the Republic
in New Mexico has erected oyer the
grave of Kit Carson, in Taos county.
an appropriate tablet.
DR.. John Maxwell, who was lodged
in Jail at Springfield, Ohio. for poison.
ing his three young daughters, hanged
himself in his cell.
The liquor traffic has been resumed
at Des Moines by Il leading hotel and
tie ordinary number Of saloons, while
a brewery is in full blast.
y venerable citizen of Trenton
New Jersey, named Isaac Allen, fell
In the IN from a stroke of apoplexy.
and was frozen to death.
The amputation of toe developed
blood-poisoning, which caused the
death Of Rev. Dr.. Noah Hunt Schenck,
OF Brooklyn, in his Goth year.
The funeral of Russell Hancock. the
only son of Gen. W. s.. Hancock, took
place Friday at st. Louis. the remains
being placed in the family vault.
The Northern Pacific road has COM
pleted its Wisconsin division between
Ashland and Superior, and will put on
regular trains early this month.
Mrs. George Il. Chambers, of New
York.45 years of age and holding prop
erty valued we'll up in the millions, has
married her stepson, q years old.
James Greenwood, of Chippewa.
Ontario, while attempting to row across
Niagara river. broke an oar in mid
stream and was carried over the falls.
Fire swept away fourteen buildings
at Pierre. Dakota, valued at $4,000,
and seven stores and a hotel at Hop
klnsVllJe, Kentucky, the loss being$75,-
: .Abner Coburn ex-governor of Maine,
oled Sunday evening at ~Showhegan,
aged ~ years. His illness was contract
ed at the session of the electoral COL
lege.
Differences of opinion as to the wis
dom OF paying commissions bids fair
to defer indefinitely the restoration of
e~ast-Dound passenger rates from Chi
cago.
There is every probability that the
passenger rates eastward from Chicago
are about to take a drop, as the differ
entails to the weaker lines have ex-
pired.
At jackson. Michigan, a hack con-
tanning Jud Crouch, the murderer. was
demolished and the horses killed by a
locomotive, but the passenger escaped
uninjnred.
Iron manufacturers in the Mahoning
valley have agreed upon a reduction of
~ per cent IN the wages of all employees
excerpt members of the Amalgamated
Association.
The coal walls of Bristol tunnel, one
thousand feet long, near New Licking
ton, Ohio, We're set on fire by incendi-
aries, and its speedy destruction seems
quite certain.
Rev. Mr.. Newman, of Ripon, Wis
consin, will probably be called to the
pulpit of the Congre gational church in
washington, a comittee having made
the selection.
Samuel McMaster, superintendent Of
the Homestakes gold mines at Dead
wood, and prominent in the political
circles of Dakota died in San Francisco.
leaving $250,O0O.
At Dallas, Texas. on Sunday even
ing. a daughter of Belle BOYD, the
famous confederate spy, was married
TO Kay Chartaris, who claims to be a
British nobleman.
John S. Wise, a republican member
OF congress from Virginia, will proba-
bly, be called to the law professorship
OF the state university. He is a son Of
Henry A. Wise.
The money package lost by the
ADAMS Express company at %Indianap-
OILS was IN some mysterious manner
replaced in the safe, probably by the
frightened thief.
A package of So, sou in currency. con-
signed by a bank in Indianapolis TO the
treasurer OF the United States, was abb
stracted between the express Office and
the railway station.
historical sermon was preached in
Buffalo Sunday evening by Bishop