Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-05-09
DOMESTIC.

~ q. buffers, ~. "A. Emery, Miss
Blanch Harding and Miss Margaret
Keller were killed by the cars at a
crossing in Kewanee, III.
The report that Tom Thunder, the
celebrated Winnebago Indian, was
drowned e Gainesville, Wis, was or.
roneous.
The Russian battleship Retvisan,
built by Cramp & Sons in Philadelphia,
left the shipyards for Russia.
Gov. Cummins, of Iowa, in a speech
at Minneapolis, says American people
will eventually crush out trusts that
attempt to throttle competition.
President Roosevelt says that If
congress adjourns without adopting
some measure of relief for Cuba he
will order an immediate reassembling
to finish the work.
Andrew Carnegie left New York on
the steamship St. Louis for his es-
tate in Scotland.
Ernest Dewley, a negro who shot
and seriously wounded Harry Dowell,
q young white man, at Custom, KY,
was hanged by a mob.
Secretary Long has closed his of.
fetal career as the head of the naval
establishment and Mr.. Moody u G
ceeds him.
Rear Admiral A. S. Crowninshield
sailed with the battleship Illinois for
London to be present at the corona
ton ceremonies.
Eight girls were killed and AZ in
jured by a panic in a Philadelphia
cigar factory, caused by a false cry
of Sire"
Twelve thousand wofkmen struck
at Pittsburg to enforce eight-hour de.
mands.
The Rock Island road has pur.
chased the st. Louis, Kansas City and
Colorado line.
The ~Amalgamated Association OF
Iron and Steel Workers at the
Wheeling convention voted a strike
fund of 100000.
Absolute proof of the existence OF
at least three agreements between
the packing concerns included in the
beef trust has been obtained in Chi.
cago by United States District Attor.
ney Bethea.
The public debt statement issued
on the LIST shows that the debt de-
creased $4,616,356 during the month OF
April. The cash balance in the treas
ury was $334,739,9s3. The total debt,
less the cash in the treasury, amounts
to $993,115,979.
During April the total govern
ment receipts were $45, S 800 and
expenditures $40, 9 ,263, leaving a
surplus for the month of $4,316,0o0
The surplus for the past ten months is
sos, 500, 27O.
On April 80 the total circulation OF
national bank notes was 1886, 1897 1899.
The Amalgamated association in
Aession at Wheeling, W. Va, reelected
Theodore Shaffer president for the en-.
suing year.
The Indiana supreme court in a test
case decided that the indianapolis
three-cent-fare law is invalid.
A bill accusing packers of antitrust
law violation has been prepared by
District Attorney Bethea in Chicago
and is ready for filing. Packers are
charged with being in combination and
with accepting freight rebates.
A cyclone at Bayard, Van Vert and
Weldon, in Iowa, demolished many
buildings, causing heavy,property LOST
and probably taking human life.
Andrew Carnegie announced before
he left for Scotland that he would
give another $1,000 600 to Fl town.
for libraries.
Because of dependency Mrs. Joh1
L. K%ingsbury poisoned her two chill
dren, aged eight and II, at Denver
Col, and committed suicide by the
same method.
Mrs. Mary Hall, of La Grange, Ind.
died after fasting for so days.
A billion dollar packing trust is pre-.
dicted by Chicago financiers if the
United States wins its suit against thu
packers.
President Roosevelt has signed thu
Chinese exclusion bill.