The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-11-16
Peter Nelson, swede. had his foot
injured by train at Madison about two

Peter Nelson, q Swede, had his foot
injured 10y train at Madison about two
weeks since, and has since been q
charge on the company at Bismarck.
He became very respondent over his
inability to support his family: and last
evening, while in the court house, he
obtained possession of a shoemaker's
knife and cut his throat from ear to ear.
He leaves wife and two children des.
titute.
There are seventy. -four convicts in the
Sioux Falls penltentiary.
The good people of Keystone in Dick.
ey county, we're terribly shocked on q
recent Sunday to see the men at work
on the new Presbyterian church lust az
on ether days. There was a righteous
insurrection and the workmen were
forced to stop from the ''sacrilegious in.
iquity."
Reports from northwest Dakota state
that the buffalo hunters are giving up
their usual fall and winter hunts on &C..
count of the scarcity of game.
Theielevator used for hosting mate
rial to the top Of the capitol building, at
Bismarck broke from its fastenings, and
with six workmen on board. shot down
No one was killed, but all of the men
were badly injured.
It is expected to have the new church
at DEVILS Lake ready for dedication
Dec. 2. The building will cost 81, 500.
about half of which has been raised by
the DEVILS Lake people.
The dome and large portion of the
outer walls of the capitol at Bismark are
up to the third story, while the face
brick and stone columns are complete to
the second story. Altogether there are
about twenty-niEe feet to be added TO
the height of the structure before the
roof can be- laid. MIR. Wright SAYS the
building will be enclosed this fall and
everything in readiness for interior work
during the winter.
At Painted Woods fifteen miles north
of Bismarck, two Swedes, named Au-
gust Oleson aud Andrew Nelson, were
engaged in digging we'll. Just before
quitting work the other evening they
cut through two-foot vein of coal. Yes.
terday morning Nelson was letting Ole.
son down in the bucket, and when down
distance of about twenty feet the lat
ter was overcome with fou air and fell
from the bucket to the bottom, a distance
of fiftv feet. Nelson supposed he had
accidentally fallen, and, calling upon an.
other man to work the windlass, him.
self began to ascend to the assistance of
his companion. When down few feet
he. too, was overcome and fell to the
bottom. Graphing hooks we're procured
and the two men raised to the surface,
dead. They were both married and
leave families at Painted Woods.
A fire occurred at Fargo in the section
of the city known rs The Hollow. The
structure burned belonged toa female of
salacious memory, called Nellie Otis,
and had been just completed, and was
about to be opened as q house of ill.,
fame. The building was worth $l5.OOO,
and the fire was doubtless incendiary.
The fire department was not brought
out. There was no insurance.
At Sioux Falls the Commercial house
and livery and the old Cascade house
have burned to the ground.
1t is almos! impossible to get anything
definite in the Ward case at DEVILS
Lake. 1t is know n that the case is be-
ing investigated before ther grand Jury.
It leaks out that an indictment will LIE
brought against different parties for
granddaughter.