Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-04-13
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS.

Among cadet appointments to the
West Point military academy is that
OF George A. Nugent, of Fargo.
Col. w. H. Topping, Of Grand
Forks, has received his commission Of
adjutant general Of North Dakota.
A couple named eraser of Valley
City, gave their four.year-old boy a
drink OF whiskcy, Half an hour
after the child died.
Thos. McDonna's left arm was
blown off by dynamite while break
ing an ice blockade on the Northern
Pacific, west of Dickinson.
John Burke, of Rolla, a prominent
state senator in the last legislature,
mas been appointed assistant
attorn9y-general'b by w. II. Standish.
The board Of railroad commits
%sioners has appointed +. A. Grant,
editor Of the Fargo Commonwealth,
as secretary to succeed M. j. Edgerly.
Mrs. John Flaherty. Of jamestown.
In a temporary fit OF insanity, seized
her husbands razor and cut her
throat from a to ear. The wound
is not fatal.
At the jamestown city election
Alfred Steel was elected mayor:
III. b. Allen, treasurer; E. ?. Wells,
Z. ID. Porter, II. A. Blood and w. A.
Fletcher aldermen.
j. H.. Bowman, representing st.
Paul and eastern parties, will apply
TO the city councils OF Fargo and
M0orhead for a franchise to build an
electric street car line connecting
and traversing the two cities.
Owing to the considerably de-
creased vote from last April there
was no election in Rhode Island for
general officers. AS the result of the
battle Baker, democratic nominee for
governor, has a plurality. 1t is be-
lieved both democratic candidates
for congress have a plurality.
On application Judge Thomas has
ordered the Columbia Hotel company.
OF Fargo to show cause why a re-
ceiver should not be appointed for
the hotel. The application is made
on behalf Of B. Hageman, of Chicago,
president of the company. 1t is said
the cause is not financial embarrass-
ment, but a row among stockholders.
A big row took place at the auction
Of school land leases at Fargo. c. d.
Angel, Of the real estate firm of
Darling & Angel, has been getting
$40 for each quarter section from
farmers who wanted to rent. threat
ening that if they did not submit he
would lid against them and run the
price up. An application Vas made
for a warrant for blackmail, but
States Attorney Pollock thinks the
conviction could not be secured.
Angel was roughly handled by some
farmers, Patrick Neary, Of Buffalo,
publicly threatening tar and feathers.
Finally the school land board refused
to receive Angels bids. He filed
protests against this action. 1t is
likely that the whole sale may he set
aside on the ground Of collision.
A. II. Prauhous, a wealthy farmer
living ear Mayville, attempted a
double murder. Prauhous has had
an inordinate jealousy Of his wife. A
neighbor, and sisterOf PrauhouS' wife,
and Mrs. PrauhOus had written a
letter to friends in Norway.
prauhous constructed the act into a
love letter communication with some
supposed lover in Norway. After his
sister-in-law had departed from home,
| PrauhOus seized a knife, ran after
her and dealt a serious stab near the
heart, leaving a sever but not fatal
injury. On his return, encOuntering
his wife out of doors, he seized her
by the hair and attempted TO drag
her into the house; then he dealt her
three dangerous wounds with the
knife in the back and abdomen.
Mrs. Prauhaus is likely not to
recover
Northern Pacific Tax Cases nan
Chief Justice Fuller announced the
decision of the supreme court in the
case of the Northern Pacific Railroad
company against Charles S. Walker,
county auditor, ct al, from the court
Of appeals from the Eighth circuit.
The railroad company in 1890 began
suits against the auditors of twelve
counties in North Dakota for in
functions to restrain them from as
sessipg taxes against certain lands,
titles to which vest in the company.