Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-10-20

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f. A. Blood, one of Ransom county's
prosperous farmers died suddenly
Wednesday-presumably heart trouble.
Mears' motion to quash the indictment
in United States court at Fargo has
been overruled, and he has pleaded not
guilty.
The north end Of the first story of the
new city hall in Fargo collapsed the
other day, but luckily no one was in
jured.
The name of judges in the pretty baby
contest at the jamestown fair are kept
secret-for reasons which will be
obvious.
Several prisoners held in the Hills.
boro Jail for blind piggery. escaped
while the sheriff wal absent and are
still at large.
Deputy Marshal SCHNEIDER. Monday,
at Dunseith, arrested A. B. Donaldson,
who was indicted this week for selling
liquor to the Indians.
Pembina county schools got s1,25O in
one lump the other day. The liquor
sellers sentenced at the last term of
court all paid their fines.
DR.. Bjornstad of Hatton, has been ar
rested and placed under $1,000 bonds,
for giving an overdose of chloroform to
a patient, to whom death resulted.
The %coroner's inquest over the re-
mains of Lee, whose body was found
near Grand Forks recently, has de-
veloped no indications of foul play.
The store of Cross & Berg, at Gardner,
was burglarized Thursday night. A
case of jewelry containing some valuable
articles and dry goods and gloves we're
taken.
|. o. Monchamp, who took a gun from
the Neche custom house, is in the Penn
bina county Jail under sentence of the
United States court for thirty days and
1920 fine.
The j. & N. train struck a broken rail
near New Rockford, Wednesday, and the
passenger coaches were thrown from the
track. Nineteen persons were injured,
but none seriously.
Lars jacobson, q Barnes county man,
has something besides wheat to sell this
fall. He sold two loads of fax for $50
the other day. His fax crop went nine
bushels to the acre.
The wrestling match at the Fargo Ath-
letic club rooms Monday evening be.
tween James Connors of Pittsburg, and
Prof. Lewis of the Athletic club resulted
in a victory for the latter.
G. w. Corwin stabbed E. w. Smith
probably fatally, Tuesday morning
They are neighbors residing o Lud.
den and the quarrel was over a grair
deal. Corwin is under arrest.
Editor Hague of the Darlington In,
dependent, has been appointed by the
county commissioners of Foster county
as clerk of the court, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of H. P. Fisk.
The following postmasters have been
appointed in North Dakota: Conway
Walsh county, 7. P. Daley, vice D. T.
Currie, resigned; Rolla, Rolette county
Andrew Smith, vice D. B. Boyd, re.
moved.
The verdict Of the ~coroner's jury al
the inquest over the remains of San
Lee, who vas found near East Grand
Forks last Sunday, was that he dice
from exposure on or about November 4
last year.
A prairie fire Wednesday night de
stroyed the hay and barn belonging tt
G. P. Peterson, near Bisbee, Towne1
county, and also hay stacked on the
prairie. Mr.. Peterson was badly burned
while saving his stock.
The Pembina presbytery of the Pres
byterian church was in session at Forest
River, Tuesday and Wednesday. Some
fifteen ministers and twelve laymen are
in attendance, and the usual routine OF
business gone through.
Brakeman Edwards of jamestown, got
a flesh wound in the side from a pistol
while putting some tramps off a freight
train. When the tramps we're arrested
at Valley City, one Of them resisted and
got a bullet in the jaw.
There is some excitement reported at
Abercrombie. Last Friday Calvin D.
Cole, q farmer living neal that place,
left for Wahpeton with a stranger to
buy some cattle and has not been heard
Of since. Foul play is feared.
On the 21st of this month Mr.. Robert
Cowley the faithful aagman on Fifth
avenue in jamestown, will be 80 years
Odds. He is sparring with the railroad
boys every day and they threaten to
double up and knock him out that day
with a surprise.