Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-06-13
A WEEKS RECORD
All the News Of the Past Seven
Days. Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD

THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
CONGRESSIONAL.
The ena passed a bill on the 18th pro-
viding that the postmaster general may ex-
tend free delivery to cities of 5000 inhaoi.
tants or $1,000 gross income, instead of lO,OoO
Inhabitants, as at present. Senator Morgan
opened the debate on the isthmian canal
project....In the house the debate on the
a~nti-anarchy bill continued all day.
On the 5th consideration of the canal bill
occupied the time in the United States SEN
ate, Senator Hanna CO., speaking in favor
of the Panama route, and Senator Mitchell
(Ore.) advocating the Nicaragua route. The
military academy appropriation bill was
passed....In the house the general debate
on the a~nti-anarchy bill took up the time.
A resolution introduced by Mr.. Ruppart IN.
W for final adjournment Of congress on
June %, was sent to the ways and means
committee. !.
The time in the senat on the 9Th wasoc-
cupied in further discussion of the isthmian
canal measure....1n the house Mr.. Richard
son (Ala.) in discussing the a~nti-anarchy
bill caustically criticised President Roose-
MI. Littletield CMe.) closed the general de-
bate with ~ hours speechin supporter She
On 1hsl7th the senate discussed without
action the bill appropriating SlO,0oO,OW for
the purchase Of 100000 acres Of land for a
national forest reserve in Virginia, North
Carolina. South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama
and Tennessee. Senator Mitchell (Ore.)
spoke in behalf Of the Nicaraguan canal
route....1n the house a resolution was
adopted authorizing the conferees on the
sundry civil appropriation bill to insert in
that bill the necessary appropriations au-
thorized by the omnibus public building bill.
The an~ti-anarchy bill was further dis
cuSsed.
DOMESTIC.
The American congress on tubercu-
losis states that consumption is an
acute, infectious disease and urges
methods to prevent its spread.
The strike of the packing houses and
department stores drivers ended in
Chicago by a compromise. The night
of peace negotiations was preceded by
a day of wild rioting, over 100 persons
being injured and many arrested.
The Illinois Car and Equipment
company's plant at Hegewisch has
been burned and 1900 men made idle.
Six railroad magnates are said to
have absolute monopoly of the anthra-
cite coal trade, restricting the output
and regulating prices at will.
Mrs. Belle Smith and her two small
children were burned to death in their
home at Hardin, Mo. Triple murder is
suspected.
Chicago packers have been enjoined
by the New York supreme court from
doing business in that state in viola
ton of the antitrust law.
Engineer Frank Finch and Fireman
Pay were killed in a railway wreck
near Chattanooga.
Furniture manufacturers at Grand
Rapids, Mich, decided that they would
not 60 into the proposed furniture
combine.
Ruddock, the ideal mill city of Lou
isiana and the lifelong dream of Chas.
81. Ruddock, a millionaire lumberman,
has been nearly wiped out by fire.
A cloudburst destroyed the greater
part of CORTLAND, Neb.
Rev. Cornelius O'Rourke, a Catholic
clergyman of S%ilverton, Col, and John
McComb, a Denver mining man; were
drowned near Durango, Col.
Investigation shows that Mrs
Belle Smith and her two girls, who
were found dead in the ruins of their
burned home at Hardin, Mo-, were
murdered, robbery being the motive
Samuel l.. Clemens Mark Twain
announced at Columbia, Mo-, his ina'
retirement from the public platform
Willis b. Wheeler was hanged Il,
the northern Indiana prison at Mich
igan City for the murder of Elias
Burns, his son-in-law.
Oscar Webb, during a family quar-
rel at Philadelphia, shot and killed
his wife and her mother and thel
shot himself.
Violence in the anthracite miners
strike has increased in the SchuylkiI
region.
Whitecaps brutally whipped Mrs
Alice Hanger, near Marengo, Ind.
compelling the husband to witness he1
punishment.
The president has nominated Joh1
F. Jewell, of Illinois, to be consul al
Martinique, W. !.
Jim Black, a negro, who murdered
the wife of j: Z. Jones, was hanged BY
q mob near Ravenal, S. C.
President Roosevelt opened in Wash
ington the eleventh annual convention
of the Association of Military Surgeons
of the United States.
In a railway wreck near Bellefon
tame, O., sever horse cars of expor
animals were destroyed and a larg'
number of the animals persisted.
Central Iowa suffered from n o
the ~severest transforms experienced
in years, and great damage wa
done.