The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1884-10-03
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time, bntthe balance Of them had
walked every step Of the way.
TheMitchell public schools opened
Monday with an attendance of 800.
There is great need of bank at
,Dickenson, the largest town be-
tween Mandan and Glendive, Mon
ytana.
A very fine display Of the products
of Northern Dakota, sent from Man.
dan, is on exhibition at the Chicago
exposition.
1t was ascrtained at the Pierre
press association, that the average
age of Dakota editor is thirty-two
and three-fourths years.
A car loaded down with fine dis
play of Dakota products left Yank-
ton over the Milwaukee & st. Paul
road for exhibition in eastern cities.
While prescribing. at Alexandria,
a family named Stegner were driven
out of their home by a swarm of
bees that were attracted by. the
sweets and took possession of the
premises.
Somefailroad hands at Tower City
poured Kerosene oil over thief
whom they caught stealing from
them, and then set fire to it. The
thief was badly scorched before he
was rescued.
@. A camping ground plat of so acres
shas been purchased by a Methodist
association on the Dakota side of
Big Stone Lake, two miles from Or
tonville. 1t will be laid out after
the style of the famous camping
grounds of Lake Chautauqua, New
York.
Argus: a private letter from a
gentleman very close to the next
president says: "Mr. Blaine knows
Dakota thoroughly; he is proud
that her delegates to Chicago went
for him by the wish of her people,
and has expressed himself as very
much gratified that Dakota's next
delegate will he IN harmony with
the administrations
At Millbank lightning struck and
set fire to the residence of John
Oelhoffer, tearing out one side
of it, but the fire was promptly ex-
tinguished by the inmates, none of
whom were seriously stunned. The
chimney of the C. NJ. &. St. P. rail
way depot was knocked off and
every instrumentjn the office torn
from the wires. EAe arm of one of
the operators at.Work was partially
paralyzed. :,
Last Saturday noon one of the
separators on the Elk Valley Farm
was burned in the field. It will he
remembered that the wind was very
high. The men had just gone to
dinner, leaving an expert at work
on the machine, when the first thing
he knew the entire machine was en-
veloped in flames, supposed to have
started from the engine. The ma
chine was insured and no other dam
age was done.
The body of Nellie Quakenbush,
aged 19, who died at her sisters
home at Columbus, was exhumed on
account of the suspicious circum-
stances attending her death. and the
evidence elected at the post mortem
examination went to show that she
was cnticed into q prominent clerks
room in a store under false preten-
ces and kept there from Sunday un-
til Wednesday, where and six COM
panions repeatedly ravished her.
Woonsocket Times: Last week
Thursday, while Edmund Yersted
was out hunting he met team and
buggy and stopped to talk with the
occupants, leaning his arm on his
gun with the muzzle upward. In
some unexplainable manner, he
raised his foot while talking and it
caught on the hammer, exploding
the gun and sending the charge in
to his side. He was Immediately
taken home and lived about nine
hours, retaining his senses to the
last.
a brakeman while assisting in
switching in the Jamestown yards
Thursday night barely and almost
miraculously escaped an instant and
horrible death. 1t was about nine
o'clock at night and very dark, and
he was running toward the rear of
the train on the top of the cars, the
train at the same time running
backwards. Miscalculating the
number of cars he stepped off the
rear Car and fell outside the track
but so near that the trucks tore his
clothes slightly as the car passed
him. 1t is also singular that the
fall hurt him but little.
Now we just want to see the fel-
low who SCOTS at the idea of fruit
being raised in Walsh county. We
want to show him a bunch of tran
scendent crab-apples we have in our
Office, which were raised on the farm
of Mr.. James Woods, of Forest
River. We think these are the first
fruit of the kind ever raised in the
county but they prove beyond a
doubt that such fruit will grow
here, and do nicely. too. They are
as large and rich looking as any we
ever saw in southern Minnesota or
Wisconsin, Mimic Journal.
E Argus, 27: Yesterday morning a
man who refused to give his name
was brought in from Casselton.
where he had attempted suicide on
Thursday by stabbing himself in the
abdomen and also in the neck. In