Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-01-28
NUKTH DAKOTA NEWS

All state educational institutions are
overcrowded.
Nickel.in.the-slot machines have been
prohibited at Grand Forks
The recent East Grand Forks fire de.
stroyed $4,000 worth of property.
r.. G. Goodrich, one of the Oldest resi-.
dents of Jamestown and vicinity, is
dead.
The school population of Stutsmau
county has increased 55 per cent in five
years.
The auditor of Stutsman county esti-
mates the expense of til. Viliers trial at
$4,000.
S. S. Bergh of Grand Forks has
been appointed consul ut Gothenburg,
Sweden.
Three brothers named Greebe were
arrested and jailed ut Rugby tor oper-
ating blind pig.
Bleckmer is a new pcstot1ice estab.
lished i'll Richland county with Otis
Foote as postmaster
Dickinson women are moving toward
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room and public library.
Colonel A. P. Peake of Valley CITY
has purchased part interest in the
Lehigh coal mines at Dickinson,
j. B. Munson of Fargo, bound for
the Klondike, was robbed OF $500 on a
train between that place and James.
town.
The comptroller of tho currency has
appointed William j. Ksnncsaw re.
celver for the FIRST National bank of
Pembina.
: The state drainage law has been de.
n tlarcd constitutional W un opinion
written by Chief Justice Coriss OF the
Is supreme court.
~ Daniel 3. Mhler, a prominent resi-.
10 dent OF kldd"r county, d,ed suddenly
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visit to relatives
Charles H. khncic.tcr, proprietor OF
the ST. Charles hotel aud manager of
the Dickinson Opera House, fell from
sh tho rear landing of his hotel at that
ne place and was instantly killed.
~ ~ The Fargo city council has decided 10
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H., $4,000 damages, caused by the II III
~ ,.s water of last spring, which back sd .,p
N.Y. NJ. from some Of the property Of tho com.
pany.
Waldemar johnson, until recently
agent for the Andrews 4 Gage elevator
at Englevale, has been bound over to
the district court in the sum Of $1,000.
Embezzlement and forgery in the third
o. degree is charged.
:; Arrangements have been III progrest
- ever since the big Grand Forks fire OF
;, Dec. II for the rebuilding OF the Fl, 81
~ Dacotah, end there is now every jrJs
pect that the negotiation will be brongh,
to successful issue in a very sior
time.
,; Joseph Neuber a young Germa.
TX farmer south of Milnor, is dead as tne
l. result of'exposure to the cold durin.; ;
spree. While returning from town in
an INTOXICATED condition he was throwI
from his horse and lay out on thu
), prairie all night.
A valuable deposit Of Ignite coal ha
been discovered on the farm of Joh.
Myers, 10 miles north of Bismarck. /
barn had been built on side hill til.
collapsed, carrying with it a consider
able amount Of the earth, and revealed
o a large vein Of fine coal.
. The divorce case Of John G. Brannon
against Mrs. Brannon came to u la ~
i. termination at Grand Forks, the i,ns-
5 band and wife being rcconciled. 4"o
. h..laud huu alleged that his wife Fad
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asylum to secure his property.
There were eight deaths Of children,
chiefly from scarlet fever, and one
{; adult, in the vicinity of Kuhn, La
r Moure county, last week. It is claimed
that over 800 deaths have occurred in
: Mcintosh county from scarlet fever
alone during the past few months.
The Northern Pacific road is making
preparations to remove the tax suit of
the road against Stutsman county, re-
: straining the sale of the lands of the
company for delinquent taxes Of 1895
and years prior thereto. to the federal
court on an order from Judge Amidon
of tho United States court, based on
grounds of diverse interests OF the de-
fendant in different states.
The jury in the Villers murder trial
at Jamestown was out seven hours, re.
); turning verdict Of guilty of murder
. in the first degree, and sentencing
i Martin ]. Villers TO life imprisonment
}. in the state penitentiary. For NUM-.
Der of ballots the jury stood to i III
favor of the death penalty, but i'll view
of the fact that the evidence was
wholly circumstantial, compromise
;; on life Imprisonment was made.
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Hnugen Found Guilty