Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1899-01-20
NEWS CONVERSATIONS
Wednesday, Jan. n.

publican, will succeed James Smith, Jr.,
as senator from New Jersey.
The Pennsylvania supreme court de-
MED Senator Quay's application for a
writ of certiorari and remanded his case
back for trial.
Charlemagne Tower of Pennsylvania
has been nominated ambassador to
Russia and Addison G. Harris of In
diana minister to Austria-Hungary.
T~hursday, Jan. II.
CONGRESS: Senate-Treaty discussed
In executive session. House-Diplomatic
and consular bill passed.
The army is gradually being reduced
to q peace basis.
Hon. Joseph Choate has been named
as ambassador to Great Britain.
Senator Hawley Of Connecticut has
been re-nominated by a Republican
caucus
Ex-senator Dubois was married to
Miss Edna Maxwell Whited Of Doland,
S. D., at Chicago.
Preliminary steps have been taken for
the Louisiana purchase exposition in st.
Louis in 1908.
Judge Shiras decided that the Iowa
law taxing foreign insurance companies
is constitutional.
A grand jury has begun an investiga-
ton of the charges of bribery in the
Montana legislature.
The house committee on territories
has agreed to make a favorable report
on the Hawaiian bill.
Friday, JAN. Is.
CONGRESS: Senate-Nicaragua canal
bill discussed. McLaurin, (Dem., S. C.)
made anti-expansion speech. Allen intro
duced war investigation resolution. House
Naval personnel bill under cOnsidera-
ton in committee of the whole.
A West Superior woman is thought
to have been buried while in a trance.
Ex-Congressman William L. Wilson
has been chosen president of Yale COL
lege.
Trunk line presidents conferred with
the interstate commerce commission re-
garding uniform freight rates.
Thursdays statement of the condition
of the treasury shows avilable cash
balance, $3.50, 2S1, 053; gold reserve,
$237, 94s, SIT.
Commissary General Eagan, in his
testimony before the joint commission,
called General Miles all kinds of a liar.
Eagan will be courtmartialed and Miles
perhaps removed from his command.
Saturday. Jan. IA.
CONGREss:B Both houses adjourned upon
announcement Of Mr.. Dingley's death.
A German government bill seeks to
greatly increase the army.
Filipinos drove away a boat load of
American soldiers that had been carried
by the tide to an island.
American and Canadian lumbermen
held their conference in Washington
and have failed to agree.
c. Hermann Boppe, prominently
known as editor of Friedenjer died at
Milwaukee after an illness of several
months, aged SO.
The Standard Distilling and Distrib-
uting company has acquired a large
number Of additional distilleries, in
Guiding one in St. Paul.
The senate appropriations committee
has reported the Indian bill with a pro-
vision authorizing a partial return to
the Indian contract school system.
Monday. IAN. 10.
CONGRESS-: Both houses attended the
funeral of Representative Dingley and
then adjourned.
Spain will probably sell the Ladrone,
Caroline and Pelew islands.
A movement is on foot in the South
to colonize negroes in the West.
The transport Manitoba, with the Sew.
enth cavalry on board, has sailed from
Savannah for Cuba.
E. Pennington, general superintend-
ent Of the 500, has been appointed gen.
| eral manager of that road.
The Oceanic, the greatest steamship
| ever built, was launched at Belfast
Saturday. She is 704 feet in length.
The United States cruiser Albany,
purchased just previous to the Spanish
! war, was launched at Newcastle, Eng,
Saturday.
Mr.. Davidson of Wisconsin has intro.
duced a bill proposing a heavily in.
/ creased tax on all oleomargarine that
has been colored in imitation of yellow
butter.
Tuesday. Jan. II.
C. K. Davis has been reelected senator
| from Minnesota.
Father Chiniquy, the noted ':Apostle
of Temperance is dead at Montreal.
The Minneapolis and St. Louis Rail
road company has bought the Wiscon-
| sin, Minnesota and Pacific.
Eliza Proctor Otis, the actress, has
| fled a voluntary petition in bankruptcy.
| placing her total liabilities at $50, 1851.
At a meeting of the Wisconsin divis.
ion, L. A.. W., GAINESVILLE was selected
as the city for holding the next state
! meet.
George Germunder, one of the most
expert violin makers in the country, is
dead at his home in Astoria, L. l., aged
50 years.