Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1899-09-15
Cream. OF the News.


Peoria distilleries use 10000
bushels Of corn daily.
Gen, Russell A. Alger says he
would not accept the Republican
nomination for mayor Of Detroit.
The queen regent of Spain
signed a decree calling out 10000
men of the 1899 class for military
service.
The Red Cross society at Madrid
has news from Manila hat Agui-
naldo has promised to release all
sick Spanish prisoners.
A document written by an aide
to the king Of Portugal proposing
the annexation Of Spain, has
caused a sensation at Madrid.
A recent law passed by the
North Carolina legislature amend
ing the divorce laws, it is ascer-
tanned, was enacted to fit a parti-
cular case.
The Belgian chamber of de-
puties rejected a motion to revise
the constitution. The motion was
to pave the way for a universal
suffrage bill.
A beggars' trust is reported in
New York. One man controls
forty mendicants, feeds, clothes
and cares for them and handles
their daily collections.
The death rate in Syracuse for
five years succeeding the securing
of a good water supply has been
13.49. For the five years previous
thereto it was 1859.
For the third time within a few
months the toll gate on the
Eminence and Clear Creek pike,
in Shelby County, Ky. was Satur-
day night destroyed by dynamite
A child was lost in the Blue
Ridge Mountains, and three
. months later it's dead body and
! that Of the dog who was with i
! were found. Both had starved te
death.
A yellow jacket stung DAME
! Stutsman, near Goshen, Ind, OIL
) the tongue, while he was eating al
. apple, and for several days he wa
} deprived Of the power of speech
: The son of Richard Wells, O
Cory, Ind, died in a spasm, an,
cats attacked the body, tearing on
one eye, and biting the face unit
the features were scarcely recoe
nizable
Notice has been received at Ri
! Janeiro from Berlin that the Duk
q Of Sake has sold to the Germa
q Government lands in Santa Cattle
8 rine estimated at over 1000 squa1
8 leagues.
. Richard Kessee, a prisoner cor
fined in the Springfield Gill; ia:
= and under sentence of death, con
3 mitted suicide by taking morphine
q He was to have been hanged Ser
. TENDER Is.
3 At Salt Lake, Utah, a carpente
& named Vandiver, Saturday, CAV
= his children, a boy and a cir
. heavy doses of morphine, shot tn
girl, killing her, shot the boy, pro
8 badly fatally, and killed himself
Perhaps the strongest proof {
3 the interest the American peopl
8 take in the Dreyfus affair is tn
= fact that the translation of Cap
3 Dreyfus' letters to his wife
selling at the rate Of 600 copies
. day-an almost unprecedente
8 sale for a book of that character.
An octogenarian club has bee
. organized in Kenwood, III. The1
8 are fifteen members, their age
& ranging from so to 81 years. I'll
8 members enjoy the club hugel..
. spending most of the time in di!
q cussing events in the first half {
y the century.
At the coming session of Cor
gress Hawaii will be represente
Il by William O. Smith, formerl
attorney general Of this countr.
He will be appointed by Presider
Dole. Mr.. Smith will probab]
represent the chamber Of con
merce also.
Father Cluse, the German
American priest appointed recte
of St. Patrick's Roman Catholi
church in East St. Louis, despit
the protests of it's members. VIII