Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-10-28

11eeoila eAys tuAt MT. nope, represent
ing an American syndicate, offers to
loan the Transvaal government $l2, OOO,-
600 at 5 per cent and 213 per cont COM
mission.
Friday, Oct. Fl.
Secretary Long has approved the find
ing Of dismissal in the case Of Chaplain
Mcintyre.
Baron Won Rotenham, the German
minister to Sweden, has been chosen to
represent Germany at the Vatican.
The Boston Shoe company has been
absorbed by the United States Rubber
company. The price paid is about g.
0 10000.
Over 1000 people, 700 of them dele
gates, are in attendance at the interna-
tional convention Of the Railroad Y. NJ.
G. A. at Fort Wayne, Ind.
Elisa Burrill, wife Of a well-to-do me-
chanic Of Toronto, Ont, strangled her
three children, Ethel, aged 9, Stanley,
aged 8, and Harold, aged IL.
The Peruvian senate is now discussing
a bill, already approved by the chamber
OF deputies, placing import duties on
rye, lard and crude petroleum.
Saturday, Oct. ~. (
Julius Dexter, prominent in Ohio
Democratic politics, dropped dead at
Cincinnati of heart disease.
Tho board of directors of the window
glass combination has decided to ad-
vance the old list price 9 per cent.
Land Commissioner Hermann reiter-
ates his denial Of the charge that gov
eminent estimators have defrauded In
dams.
Swiss exports to the United States
last August showed an increase of over
a quarter of q million dollars compared
with August Of the preceding year.
Daniel j. HILL recently appointed as
sistant secretary of state, arrived ON the
Cunarder Lucania Friday. Mr.. Hill was
in Paris at the time of his appointment.
Two masked men held up the passen-
gers on a Great Northern train near
Willmar, MIMI, securing several hun
dred dollars. The men left the train at
Litchfeld and were captured after a
short chase.
Monday, Oct. "a.
The emperor of China is believed to
be afflicted with an incurable kidney
disease.
The total registration of the city of
New York is $50, $3.50, as against 587, 1919
in 1907.
j. j. Hill, it is said, will turn over to
the Baltimore and Ohio all of the Great
Northern's lake traffic.
AS a resi- m attempt to arrest q
negro n rsville, Miss, one dep
uty ST. &c negroes are reported
dead.
Th. rain storm in years oc-
currc.. IT. wanna Saturday. The water
was four feet deep in the streets, swamp
ing houses and stores and doing great
damage.
The sons of the late William E. Glad
stone have decided to entrust the task
of writing their fathers biography to
John Morley, the distinguished Liberal
statesman and journalist.
Tuesday, Oct. 2B.
The president has approved the sen.
tence of Chaplain Mcintyre of the Ore
gon.
Captain d. L. M. Peixotte Of the
Third United States volunteer infantry
is dead at Guantanamo.
South Dakota's supreme court has
rendered a decision holding that per-
sonal taxes are a lien from date Of filing.
Lieutenant General Sir William How
ley Goodenough, in supreme command
Of the British troops in South Africa, is
dead.
The strike on the Colorado Midland
of the freight conductors and brakemen
has been declared off and the men have +
resumed work.
Miss Marie h. Churchill, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Churchill of New
York, was married Monday to Harold
Of London.
superintendent John j. Fsyel of the
Holy Terror Mining company and one
of its largest stockholders is dead at the
hospital, Deadwood, 8. D.,
from al operation for appendicitis.
Origin Of the Days OF the week.
Sunday, the day devoted to the wor-
Of the sun by our forefathers. Mon
day, the day devoted to the worship Of
the moon by our forefatherA. Tuesday,
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