Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-12-29
STATE NEWS.
Items of Interest Gathered From All
Parts of North Dakota.

englne n other apparatus.
A delegate from the A., p. A. is re-
ported to be in jamestown trying to
organize q branch of the order.
Senator and Mrs. Hansbrough will
pass Christmas at Newburgh, N. Y.
The defense of Banker Murphy Of
Grand Forks, is temporary insanity.
Another Devils Lake man has been
arrested for selling liquor to Indians.
Stutsman county roads and highways
almost impossible because Of snow.
The half rates on building material to
Fargo have been extended to July l, 1893.
Valley City is earnestly discussing the
question of more and better fire protec-
ton.
Mercer county cattlemen are suffering
from the ravages OF wolves upon their
herds.
viii lam Beckett of Devils Lake, has
been found guilty of forgery in the fourth
degree.
John O'Keefe hasbeen appointed post.
master at Cavalier, vice H. E. Pratt, re-.
signed.
A Great Northern freight wreck at
Lakota the other day smashed up sew
eral cars.
E. P. Wells has bsen appointed re-
ceiver of the Jamestown opera house
property.
e Frank Kilgore of Devils Lake, has
been found guilty of selling mortgaged
property.
Grand Forks is kicking because hunt
ers are still slaughtering prairie chickens
in that locality.
Ned Colby of Gardner put his hand
into a straw cutter by mistake and left
three fingers there.
The United States court dismissed the
writ of haoeas corpus in the Walsh
county blind pig case.
VIM. G. irvine, pressman of the Grand
Forks News has died from asphyzia.
ton by gas from an oil stove.
A.. NJ. Barnum of Mayvllle, one of the
leading prohibitionists in the state, has
died at Mayville from la grippe.
A number of cases of diphtheria are
reported in the German. Russian settle.
ment in the northwestern part of Mercer
! county.
A lady guest in the Hotel Northern at
Grand Forks, blew out the gas the other
night, and came zeal climbing the
golden.
A rumor is current that the 500 will
build a line fro N Valley City to, Duluth
next year which will be over forty miles
shorter than the N. P.
Murphy the Grand Forks homicidist
has been acquitted on the ground Of
temporary insanity. The verdict meets
with general approval.
Horatio j. Taylor and son, Howard,
of Paramount, are under arrest there,
charged with burning their residence tc
get the insurance money.
Albert Bonn of Wahpeton, was struck
by pieces of bursting circular saw last
week, and injured in such a way that he
will perhaps be crippled for life.
Minnwaukar merchants have the
names of town people who send out Of
town for supplies, and have agreed te
extend 10 credit to any of them.
M. F. Murphy of Grand Forks, who
was acquitted Of the charge of murder
there was rendered a reception by a hun
dred of his friends in token of their salts
faction.
District court jurors in Fargo pres
ented Judge Mcconnell a seal skin cap
the clerk of the court with a pair O
seal skin gloves and the sheriff with
box of cigars.
Sargent county farmers have branchet
out into the stock business quite extern
, sively, and some large shipments hMv.
been made to eastern markets this sea
son, fair profits beng realized in ever!
case.
] Higham Bros. Hardware company.
stock of hardware ut Grand Forks wal
entirely destroyed by fire Sunday. Los.
Sl2,ON, insurance $1,000. The tire origi
mated in u detective furnace in the base
ment.
\ postottice has been established a
Ambro. Cavalier county. George Reid
, hammer has been appointed postmaster
The name Of tho Wells postotiee, Well
, county. has been changed to Fessend~'
i, and j. 4. Regain appointed postmaster
A decision in tho case Of Hlark ToMa
| hawk against }. +. Waldron Of Nortl