Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-12-16

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mission, to Captain General Castellanos
was marked by a great display of official
and military courtesy and honors!
Friday, Dec. 8.
General Garcia is seriously ill of
pneumonia in Washington.
The peace treaty has been completed.
It contains little outside the protocol.
The First North Carolina and the Sec
ond Illinois regiments have left for
Cuba.
A gratifying improvement is shown
in the health reports received from the
army in Cuba and Porto Rico.
Judge Seaman, in the United States
district court at Milwaukee, upholds
the federal bankrupt law and declares
in an opinion just filed that it divests
4he state courts entirely of jurisdiction
in insolvency cases.
The French court of cessation has Or
dered q stay of proceedings in the Pic
quart courtmartial. The anti-Dreyfus
papers are very angry over the decision
of the court, which they describe as an
other insult to the army.
Saturday, Dec. 10.
The Nicaragua canal bill is nov I'M
finished business in the senate. 17"
Bedford, Pa, with a population of
$500, has 200 cases of smallpox.
M, Henri Laveden, the author, has
been elected q member of the French
academy.
The urgent deficiency bill passed the
house without opposition. It was feared
it would be made the occasion of q war
debate.
The Rev. DR.. Stuart Dodge has been
appointed president of the home mis-
sions board of the Presbyterian church
to succeed the late DIR. John Hall.
The archbishop of Santiago preached
a remarkable sermon at the fete of the
Purisima Conception. He called upon
all Cubans to rejoice upon the termina
ton of 400 years of cruelty, extortion
and misery, and to show their gratitude
to the United States for the happy con
summation. He also warmly eulogized
General Wood.
Monday, Dec. -.
William Black, the novelist, is dead.
"A valuable copper deposit has been
found in the Black Hills.
There is some talk of postponing the
Paris worlds fair for a year.
A movement for the purchase of street
railway lines by the city has been started
in Chicago.
Sir Thomas Upington, premier of Caps
Colony from 1884 to 1883, is dead al
Cape Town.
The pope has decided that the Span.
ish policy of the vatican shall be anti
Carlist and not neutral.
Samuel Mckee, ex.member of con
gress and one of Kentucky's most prom
inent Republicans, is dead at Louisville
of paralysis.
The Turney & Jones company ani
Pennsylvania and Ohio Fuel company
will be organized and taken out Of tn
hands Of the receivers.
Tuesday, Dec. ID.
Smallpox is epidemic at Nebrasks
City, Neb.
Mgr. Antonio Conte Renter, former
private secretary of Pope Plus TX, diet
in New York Sunday.
Sir William Jenner, the distinguished
patholigist and physician in ordinary t.
the queen and the Prince Of Wales, il
dead.
President Dole of Hawaii will leav'
for Washington on the 20th, to be pres
ent at the r~eopening Of congress early il
January.
A mutiny occurred in the Colorad,
state p~enitentiary at Cannon City Mon
day and t.ree men were injured, one,
guard, seriously.
Henry Michigan, cook, and George w
Beverly, both Of Company q, FRS
Florida, were killed in q fight at tn
Huntsville (Ala.) camp.
Cubans residing at Lima, Peru, an
preparing to give an enthusiastic recep
ton to the United States battleship
Oregon and Iowa on their arrival there