Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-07-18
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DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Forty prisoners failed in a bold at.
tempt to escape from Jail at St. Joseph,
Mo-, by ~dynamiting a wall Of the build.
ing.
Secretary Hays note to the powers
to eVacuats Tientsin has met with sue.
Administration circles, seeing a
clear title to the Panama canal route,
have begun negotiations for q treaty
with the Colombian minister at Wash.
ington.
The Chicago freight handlers strike
has been settled with victory for the
railroad managers. The men are
given 20 per cent. wage increase, but
the union has failed to get recognition
as demanded.
Rev. j. W. Poland, of Cincinnati, de-
clares that the kindergarten method
In primary schools undermines the
mental and moral powers, of children.
Notables in England and the United
States plan a new Anglo-American
club to promote international amity.
President Mitchell, Of the United
Mine Workers, in an address at Nanti-
coke, Pa, scored the operators and
Citizens alliance for statements
planned to crush the miners'union.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois rail
road control is believed to have been
bought by the Louisville & Nashville.
A London delegate presented to the
Minneapolis convention a plan for in
terchange of American and English
teachers for short terms of study.
Bandit Tracy shook off bloodhounds
near Seattle, Wash, by throwing pep
per in his tracks and eluded his pur-
suers, who have no clew to his where
abouts.
A steel trust official declares that
the combination will not only fight
suits in court but will attack motives
of men behind them.
The Panama title is considered
above suspicion by the state depart
ment, and the canal seems certain
to be built on that route.
President Schurman, of Cornell col
lege,~predicted that a Philippine re-
public would follow American edu-
c%ational work in a speech at the ma
tional Educational association in Min
neapolis.
Twenty-Five thousand Chicago
teamsters may assist the freight han
dlers' strike by refusing to haul
freight. They r awaiting the rail-
road managers reply to an arbitration
proposal.
Col. Nathaniel Mckay, a wellknown
hotel manand lobbyist in Washington,
died suddenly at Atlantic City, N. j.
The government monthly crop re-
port showed the corn acreage in
creased SO per cent. over area har-
vested in 1901.
A fire damp explosion in the Cam
bria Rolling Mill mine at Johns
town, Pa, killed IT'S or more miners.
but the exact number cannot be
learned till reach them.
Gov. Stone, of Pennsylvania, re-
fused to call out the militia as re-
quested by the Carbon county sher-
if to guard miners.
The National Educational associa-
ton in session at Minneapolis elect
ed as president Charles W. Eliot,
president Of Harvard college,.
The Baptist Young Peoples union
convened at Providence, R. l., with
10000 delegates present.
Dan Green, who killed two patent
medicine fakirs on q steamer at Dav-
EXPORT, Ia, was acquitted by a coro-
ner's jury on the ground Of self-de-
Tense.
The receipts Of the 50. largest post
Offices in the United States for June
were $4,47s,3 1858, q gain OF s572, 1872, OF
IA per cent, over the receipts for June,
1901.
High water in Woodbury. county, Ia,
did damage to the extent Of 81, 1000, 900.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur.
ing tho seven days ended. on the
4th aggregated $1,s47, sos, against
s ,sss, 1919 s the previous week. The
decrease, compared with the cores
ponding week Of last year, was 1877.
There were los business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 1873 the
week previous and 1879 the correspond
ing week of last year.
Over 5000 persons were made home.
less by a food in Des Moines, Ia, and
property valued at 100000 was de-
stroyed.
On the sandbars in Jones' inlet
near Long Beach, N. Y, a launch
was wrecked and IL persons prob.
ably drowned.