Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-04-11

ing q seven days endeQ On Inc 4In
aggregated 81, 1854, 161,325, against ST.
O6s, 4s,166 the previous week. The
decrease compared with the corre-
spending week of last year was 23.1.
There were 176 business failures in
the United States in the sever days
ended on the 4th, against 206 the
week previous and 1873 the CORE
spending week of last year.
The Virginia constitutional conven-
ton adopted a clause barring me-
groes from registration.
The Iowa house voted to grant q
pardon to John Wesley Elkins, who
killed his father and mother in 1889.
Clinton Dotson was hanged at Deer
Lodge, Mont, for participationin the
murder of his father.
Harry Preston, a plumber shot and
killed his wife and then killed himself
at Toledo, o. He was under the infu-
ence OF liquor.
The president has ordered an inquiry
into the alleged British military camp
at New Orleans.
Earl Kohl and Lily and Lizzie Ship
man were killed by the cars neal. Kit
ridge, III.
Fifty railroads for the third weekof
March show an increase OF 5.s1 per.
cent. in gross earnings.
A new merger suit against the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific roads
has been begun by the state of Mime
sofa IN the state courts.
Weekly trade reviews report that Ia
Dor disturbances interrupt production
and delay new enterprises.
Clyde Felt, Is years old, confessed
to killing Samuel Collins, awatehman
at mines near Warm Springs, Utah.
The watchman wished to die and
forced Felt to cut his throat.
The Massachusetts, supreme court
rules that losers in bucket-shop trans
actions may recover.
Frank Sargent, president of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen,
has accepted the position of commits
sioner general Of immigration.
TIE United States Savings and Loan
company, with headquarters at St.
Paul, has gone into liquidation. Liza
bilities and assets are $s00,OO0 eAch.
Moses Robertson, a negro, who killed
Deputy Sheriff Jenkins at Pablo Beach,
Fla, was hanged at Jacksonville.
Burglars got away with jewels
valued at $4,000 belonging to Mrs. E..
E. Paramore, wife Of a St. Louis cap
! italist. "a Nv s;a
The excise law was enforced more
vigorously in Greater New York than
on any Sunday since Theodore Roose-
velt's time. Over $500 saloons were
closed, but 1890 Raines law hotels res
manned open and obeyed the law.
Cardinal Gibbons, at the silver ju-
bilee celebration of the pope in Bal
timore, said, the strength Of the
United States is due to Providence
and love of free institutions.
President Draper, of the University
Of Illinois, and his wife were thrown
from their carriage by a runaway &C.
cident at Champaign and the former
had his leg broken.
"A negro at Tuscumbia, Ala, sought
by the sheriff killed two persons, ia
tally wounded three and seriously
wounded four more. He was then
shot and thrown into a burning build
ing.
One man was killed and five injured
in a wreck on the Grand Trunk near
Lansing, Mich.
Rich gold strikes are reported in
three mines near Pony, Mont, where
ore assaying from $3.50 to $175 a ton
is said to have been uncovered.
Treaties with Nicaragua and Costa
RIGA authorizing the United States to
build the isthmian canal and convey.
ing aperpetual lease of a strip of ter
ritory are expected to be signed il
Washington this week.
A statement of the department O.
agriculture shows that American
farm products to the value of 1852,
100000 were exported in 1901, while
agricultural imports amounted t.
1892, 900, 900.
A summary of special reports from
the entire wheat region shows thai
an enormous area has been seeded
and crop condition indicates tina
even last years record-breaking yiele
may be surpassed.
Lawton (Okla.) tried to expel.ne
groes. White and black resident.
collected in two armies. Forty ne
groes were driven out and a battl.
is expected. Fort Sill troops may b.
sent.
The plant of the Albert schinde1
} carriage, works at Cincinnati burned
causing $4,000 loss.
Jewels valued at over $4,000 lost by
Mrs. Harriet Blaine Beal, of Wash
ington, on a train en- route to Flor
ida, have been returned to her.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Democrats in the Thirteenth In
, diana district have nominated Franl
E. Herring for congress.
Junius Henri Browne, a widel,
, known author and journalist, died il
New York.
7 Mrs. Esther Morris, the first woman
Justice Of the peace in Wyoming, diet
: at Cheyenne, aged ssyears.