Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-11-11
NEWS CONVERSATIONS.
Wednesday, Nov. e

The public debt increased $43, 4S7, III
in October.
General Sir Edward Lugard, formerly
British under secretary of state for war,
is dead.
Rev. DR.. Samuel White Duncan,
prominent in Baptist circles the world
over, is dead at Brookline, Mass.
The board of directors of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad has declared its regular
s%emi-annual dividend of 219 per cent.
Mr.. Hanna, American consul at Porto
Rico, warns young men seeking work or
positions of any kind not to go to
Porto Rico.
The output of ore in the Cripple Creek
district for October is valued at s i,488,-
100, the highest for any month in the
history of the camp.
Nine men were shot and wounded by
an insane man at Beaver Dam, Wis,
who was wounded by o shot from an
army officer for the purpose of captur-
ing him.
Thursday, Nov. 3.
The lockout of 600 employees of the
Denver breweries has ended. Conces-
sions were made by both sides.
A Frenchman has been arrested at
Dover for attempting to enter the big
gun turret on the admiralty pier there.
The Vicksburg has sailed from Nor
folk for Barbados. She will probably
form the nucleus of the new South At
lantic squadron.
The London Daily Mail announces the
appointment as governor of Khartoum,
of Colonel Kitchener, brother of the
sirdar, General Lord Kitchener.
Colonel James G. Biddle, who was a
member of General Miles staff and
served with distinction in the Civil wal,
is dead at Philadelphia, aged 60 years.
Commander Snow, who is to relieve
Admiral Schley as commandment of the
San Juan naval station, has sailed from
New York on the Solace.
The monthly statement of the govern
ment receipts and expenditures shows
that the receipts for the month of Octo-
Der amounted to $50, 63O, 051 and the dis
bursements $50, 9s2, 278.
Friday, Nov. 4.
Carl Doelle, a Chicago musician, shot
Mrs. Berth Riedel because she refused
to leave her husband and elope with
him.
The president has issued a proclama-
tion reserving for the use of the United
States navy certain water front property
in Honolulu.
Colonel Amos A. Webster, q member
Of General Grants personal staff in the
campaign around Richmond, is dead at
Washington, aged 62.
Charles Offutt, a we'll known Omaha
attorney, while temporarily deranged
through illness, shot himself through
the head, dying instantly.
Lieutenant Thomas Sullivan, First
United States volunteer engineers, is
dead at New York. His father ia q
wealthy business man of Denver.
Senator Proctor, in a speech to the
Vermont legislature, favored the reten-
ton by the United States of the entire
Philippine group. Any other course, he
declared, was impracticable.
Saturday, Nov. 8.
The pressmen employed in the San
Francisco newspaper offices are on
strike for higher wages.
Mr.. Emile Bourlier, widely known
throughout the United States in theat.
rical and sporting circles, died suddenly
at Louisville, KY.
Both branches of the Vermont legis.
lature passed q joint resolution approx.
ing President McKinley's demands fol
the retention of the Philippines.
The government has decided to sus.
pend all work on the sunken Spanish
warships near Santiago. A chance will
be given private firms who desire to un
dertake the work of raising them.
The steamer Arorangi, from Australia
via Honolulu, brings news that a drouth
and hot winds played havoc with the
Australian wheat fields. The commits.
sioner of agriculture says there will not
he enough wheat for local demand,
Monday, Nov. ].
Harvard won at football from Penn.
sylvania, 10 to o.
David A. Wells, the noted political
economist, is dead at Norwich, Conn.
Prince, George of Greece will probably
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