Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-05-30
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The senate Cuban committee has
reached a compromise and the Cuban
bill can now be passed without trouble.
The house bill, providing 20 per cent.
tariff cut, is the most favored.
Dudley Morgan %(colored), who as
saulted Mrs. Mckee, wife Of a Texas &
Pacific section foreman at Lansing,
Tex, was burned at the stake by a
mob.
The schooner Helen Augusta, bound
from Stonington, Me-, for New York,
has been lost, and Capt. Moore and a
crew of six men persisted.
Secretary Hay has proposed to Den
mark an extension of one years time
for ratification of the West Indies
treaty.
French delegates to the Rochambeau
statue unwilling were welcomed by
President Roosevelt and cabinet and
paid a visit to Mount Vernon.
A ~cloudburst at DEBORAH, Ia, killed
several persons and did great damape
Improperly.
J.,>P. Morgan & Co. announced the
purchase of the Monon road by the
Southern and Louisville and Nashville
lines. 3
Adam Shaffer and his wife. both oc-
togenarians and wealthy, were killed
by q train on a crossing at Newcastle,
Ind.
Bishop Thoburn told the senate Phil
ippines committee that American oc-
cupation of the islands was an act of
God and should be continued.
The ILLINOIS G. 4. r. encampment at
Rock Island elected Fl. NJ. Trimble, of
Princeton, department commander.
One thousand Hebrews started a riot
in Brooklyn, N. Y, over high meat
prices, wrecked several butcher shops
and poured oil OF meat.
The Presbyterian general assembly
in New York adopted the creed re-
vision report with two negative votes.
DR.. Emmett Enos, former superin-
tendent of the Kankakee (Ill.) insane
asylum, is hopelessly insane from
paresis; he correctly diagnosed his
own case.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the seven days ended on the 23d aggre-
gated $2,134,00 1853, against s2,3s4,-
235 the previous week. The decrease,
compared with the corresponding
week of last year was 1875.
There were 1872 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 23d, against 22s the week
previous and $50 the corresponding
week of last year.
Half of the business section of Mil.
ford, Ind, has been destroyed by fire.
President Roosevelt was rendered
a luncheon by members of the Roch-
ambeau commission on board the
French battleship Gaulois at Annap.
oils.
The Presbyterian general assembly
has appointed a committee to act
with other churches in securing uni
form divorce and marriage laws in the
United States.
The town of Clover, Va, has been al.
most destroyed by fire.
S. E. Gross, of Chicago, has been de-
clared by the United States court to
have originated "Cyrano de Bergerac''
in his Merchant Prince of Cornville."
The Iowa G. A. R. encampment at
Des Moines adopted resolutions prais-
ing the work of the army in the Philip
pines.
Jefries and Fitzsimmons have
agreed to fight for the championship
in San Francisco this summer.
A Grand Trunk train was wrecked
at Mishawaka. Ind. and four coaches
were smashed and several passengers
hurt.
Use of whisky and tobacco when on
duty and n~onpayment of debts will
hereafter cause the discharge Of en-
ployes of the Northwestern railroad.