Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1907-10-25
CURRENT EVENTS

Joe Cans, the colOred pugilist, is to
open a swell hotel in Baltimore, Md.
The latest is that Hartman thinks
the railroads are not given a square
deal.
The fight for control of the Illinois
Central is now on between Hartman
and Fish.
A big firm Of German bankers went
to the wall last week. Liabilities
s7,50o,o0o.
the worst food disasters it has ever
experienced.
Five men were drowned by the
overturning of scow in the Illinois
canal near Joliet.
Two aeronauts started from St.
Louis and travelled 100 miles in three
hours and ten minutes.
The Dresden National bank of Dres-
hosiery mill at that place.
Four negroes at Springfield, Mo-,
locked their jailer in cell and es-
capped from the county jail
An oyster company of New Jersey
is after oyster thieves. Already 200
baymen have been arrested
Kansas City has arrested 200 actors
over the city, for failure to comply
with it's Sunday closing law.
Morris Leeway, an eminent French
astronomer, dropped dead on the
streets of Paris one day last week.
A Danish steamer was wrecked off
the rocks near Stabbs Head, Scotland,
and twenty persons lost their lives.
A small city of Florida, near Jack
sonville, had a disasterous fire, which
destroyed 100000 worth Of property.
F. Augustus Heinz, the copper
king" has resigned the presidency of
the Mercantile National bank of New
York.
President Roosevelt has at last bag
ged bear. He shot large black one
in the canebreak near Bear Lake, La
last week.
A Seattle youth rose in an evange-
listic meeting in Seattle, protested re-
ligion, and then shot himself through
the head, dying instantly.
A rich American named D. Green
was robbed Of large amount of cur
rency and gold watch by thugs at
Kiev, Russia.
The elder Vanderbilts are reported
to be wrought up over Gladys pro-
posed marriage. They don't care for
q foreign title they say.
The operators on, the Denver & Rio
Grande railway threaten to strike be-
cause they want one of their number
who was fired to be reinstated.
The seismographs at Albany, N. Y.
indicate hat there was violent earth
quake disturbance throughout the east
ern PARTON of the United States.
The legislative voters league of Chi
cago has registered kick against
stuffing the payroll of the Illinois leg
islature.
AS a result of the new irrigation
works it is expected that 100000
acres of land in the west will be open.
ed for settlement in 1908.
A new kind of brick, to be known as
the gumbo brick, to be manufactured
from the soil Of that name, will be
manufactured at Mitchell, S. D.
An attempt was frustrated at Lead,
S. D., when three blackmailers at
tempted to extort $4,000 from the
manager of gold mine.
An electric car jumped the track at
Cincinnati and plunged twenty-five
feet down an embankment. One per.
son was killed, and over thirty injured.
A young carpenter named Frank
Varnell of Kenmare, while at work on
an elevator in the course of construc-
ton fell from the top of the structure,
seriously injuring his spine.
The Chicago Cubs share on the
Worlds Championship series, recently
concluded, aggregated $32,960.04, each
man receiving the handsome stipend
of $2,342.10. It looks like professional
ball was a paying proposition.
A Paris doctor has discovered a new
kind Of microbe. which he says -four
ishes in prunes. This microbe, the
scientist says, will produce blindness.
Jake Riis thinks that Taft is the
man to I'LL Roosevelt's shoes, says q