Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-09-22

Bookafry the other day. A family row
was at the bottom of the affair.
The case Of Bennett vs. the Northern
Pacific company, which has been twice
tried and twice reversed by the supreme
court is again on at jamestown.
Miss Jennie Hart of Grand Forks
while endeavoring to cross between the
cars of a train, had her foot caught in
the coupling and badly crushed.
The program for North Dakota day at
the fair, Is being arranged, and ex.Gov-
ernor Burke, Governor Shortridge and
others are on the list for addresses.
A gasoline lamp exploded in the
Devils Lake engine house the other day,
and the city's fire apparatus had a mar
row escape from going up in smoke.
The Glendale Commercial says A.
year-old boys lie around the streets there
drunk, and suggests that the matter
should be taken in hand by parents.
G. G%ustafson, a farmer near Grafton
enjoyed life at the blind pigs the other
day, and his team ran away and fell
into a railroad ditch, killing both horses.
Ten kegs of beer we're dispensed to a
number of threshers at Wahpeton, and
the result was a fight and cutting ARRAY,
in which n man was pretty badly in
jured.
Agrowth called beefsteak food from q
Fargo garden is the latest curiosity
from North Dakota at the fair. It re.
sembles q mushroom and. is 36x12 inches
in size.
A thief stole a pair of horses from a
farmer living near Harvey the other day,
and returned them in a day or two with
a note that they were too slow to get
out of the country with.
One of the robbers who touched the
Moorhead bank for several thousand
dollars last June, has been captured in
Sioux City. His nameis S. L. Copeland,
and he is a noted crook.
G. L. Parker, formerly of Bathgate,
now of Neihart, Montana, who was re-
ported worth a quarter of a million is
said to have lost it all through decrease
in value of mining property.
The term of court at Medora, did not
consume much time. There were but
two cases and both were continued.
Citizenship papers we're issued to Mr..
Cochrane, and the court adjourned.
A row at a German dance in Mandan
resulted in a f%ree.for.all fight, and W
E. Martin, Jr., was shot in the side.
Gus Hollembaek, q German, has been
arrested charged with the shooting.
A threshing engine blew up neal
Devils Lake Tuesday, killing Gustave
Fleck and injuring three other persons
so that they are not expected to live
Fleck was blown 100 feet by the explos.
ion.
The jamestown Alert of Wednesday
evening says: It is understood that al
the request of the examiner, Mr.. VIM.
Lloyd to day confessed judgment fol
the amount of his indebtedness to the
bank, $26,344.42.
In Mandan the following tax levy has
been made for the ensuing year: Fol
all purposes, except interest and sink
ing funds, $5,455; for interest and bonds
$3.50; for sinking fund, s75; making 6
total sum of $9,28O.
William Ellingston of Curlew, has haG
hard luck. Less than a month ago his
wife died, then a great portion of hiE
crops were burned and now he has beer
thrown from a horse, and suffered &
broken ankle beside internal injuries.
It is said there was nearly a stampede
in the jamestown court house when the
blind pig cases were called and the
liquor introduced as evidence displayed
so many persons wanted to be sworn il
to give expert testimony-on the levi
dence."
The body of Jem Schmidt, a farm
laborer, was discovered Saturday in
horrible purified condition at Gal
Grove, near Fargo. The man must hav
been murdered, as the head was bruise,
and the skull crushed. The coroner
jury has returned a verdict of murder.
. Times are high in Fargo. Late Sat
urday night all of the gambling house
were raided and closed by the police
Madame Massey's house was also pulle'
and seven men and three inmates, al
colored, jailed. 'Tis said there will b
: no more gambling in Fargo under tn
present administration.
The city of Grand Forks let the con
tract for making water main extensions
and then discovered the notice had nc
been published a sufficient number G
times, and the council is now endeavol
ing to get the property holders to sig