Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-12-30
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Secretary Of State Hay il laid up b.
An attack OF grippe.
A powder explosion at Hang Chow
killed 5000 Chinese soldiers. !.
Colombia will grant . o-year extsn-
sion to the Panama Canal company.
Dayton, O., physicians estimate there
are 5000 cases Of influenza in that city.
Fire at Maiden, Mo-, destroyed IS
business houses and 3 residences. Total
loss about $4,000.
The Thirteenth Minnesota regiment
has been ordered home from Manila and
and will arrive about March Is.
Alex Nimick, one Of the oldest and
best known steel and iron manufac-
turers in Pittsburg, is dead, aged 20.
Miss Belle Hite attempted suicide On
q crowded street a at st. Louis By
drinking the contents Of bottle Of car
bolic acid. She will die.
The Winona, Mimi. normal school
Investigation has begun. Much bad
blood is shown to exist between Presi-
dent Shepard and Professor Freeman.
Thursday, Dec. -.
Senator Allen has introduced . bill
for the establishment Of the postal tele-
graph system.
A company, Of which Alderman
Charles F. Gunther ID president, will
erect q mammoth new coliseum ct Chi
eago.
Seventeen Of the brewing companies
Of Baltimore have consolidated under
the name Of the Maryland Brewing
company.
The Merritt q Chapman company has
made q contract with the government
for the raising Of the Spanish warship
Reina Mercedes.
Arthur A. Hall. q we'll known bicycle
trick rider, was instantly killed at syria
euse, N. Y, BY being struck on the
head by q timber which fell six stories,
crushing his skull.
Congressman Stevens Of Minnesota
has introduced the bill to amend tho
election laws to provide that voting ma
chimes shall hereafter be used ct all
elections for members Of congress.
Friday, Dec. 4s.
Prince George of Greece has formally
taken charge Of affairs in Crete.
n. Jules Canbon, French ambassador
to the United States, will probably be
transferred to Berlin.
The United States cruiser New York,
from Havana, has arrived at New York.
Admiral Sampson is IN board.
Andrew Wanless, q we'll known lit
efary character Of Detroit and poet and
prose writer of no mean ability, is dead.
The senate committee on foreign re-
lations has concluded its revision Of bills
providing for q territorial government
for Hawaii.
Ethan A. Hitchcock Of st. Louis. the
present ambassador for Russia has been
nominated to succeed Mr.. Bliss - sscre-
tary Of the interior.
Through fast mail service will be e.
tablished between New York and Seat
tie by way Of st. Paul over the Great
Northern, leaving st. Paul for the west
at Q q. m.
saturday, Dee. -
Countess Thun-H ohenstein, wife Of
the Austrian premier, il dead.
Tommy Ryan Of Syracuse defeatsd
Dick O'Brisn Of Boston at Hartford,
Conn.
It is said that Whitelaw Reid will be
nominated as ambassador to Russia and
Secretary Bliss to England.
The British admiralty, it is reported,
has just placed orders for four warships
with shipbuilders on the Clyde.
A new combination of some Of the
leading rubber firms in the United
States is in course Of organization.
The French chamber Of deputies has
unanimously voted . credit of SO. ZOO, 900
francs to complete the new artillery.
Percy NJ. Jaffray, center rush Of the
Harvard university football team, died
at Cambridge, Mass, Of spinal menin-
gltis.
Monday, Dec. 70.
The military force in the Sioux India,
country in South Dakota is to be in.
creased.
The United States will take posses
sion of Wake Island, in the Pacific
ocean for a cable station.
The Rock Island and the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy roads are likely
to be extended to the Pacific coast.
The United States troops have begun
a regular patrol Of the city Of Havana in
order to guard against possible disor.
ders.
St. Patrick's Cathedral, the church Of
! the Bishop of Harrisburg Roman Cath
Z, olic diocese, was ruined by fire Sunday
afternoon.
According to the Rome correspondent
Of the London Daily News, King Hum.
bert has signed a decree granting am.
nesty to minor offenders in the recent
Milan riots.
Tuesday, Dec. ~.
DR.. John B. Hamilton, former sur.