Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-12-21
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
Items Of Interest Gathered From All
Parts of North Dakota.
r.. U. Cornwell Of Lisbon, loses a hand
through the accidental discharge of q
shotgun.
Rev. MacNamara Of Cando, paid SOB
costs, because he could not prove cases
against alleged blind piggers.
Jack Riley has been arrested charged
with setting the fire which burned Shey-
enne. Blind pig rivalry is supposed to
be the cause of his work. If he is found
guilty lynching is threatened.
Mrs. Maud Bollinger Of Jamestown,
has a three-year-old orange tree upon
which are we'll formed oranges. The
tree will be in full bloom in q short
time also, it is expected, when both the
fruit and the blossom can be seen on the
8 me tree.
Wednesday, Edwd. Stoke of Stephen,
dropped dead in his blacksmith shop.
He had just finished shoeing a couple of
bronchos, and as he Strengthened up
from the task, he suddenly fell to the
floor, dead. It was no doubt caused by
heart disease.
A telegram from New Rockford says:
The village of Sheyenne burned at 4
o'clock yesterday morning. The chief
buildings burned were, H. Peoples gem
eral store, loss $1,000, insurance s2,4OO;
Westerland hotel, loss $4,000, insurance
$1,000; George Williams livery barn, loss
$1,000, no insurance.
A blacklist, signed 'Chief of Police
giving the names Of twelve or thirteen
citizens and. prohibiting the s%aloon-keep-
ers from selling or giving them anything
intoxicating, has been posted behind
each OF the nine saloon bars in Devils
Lake. The parties who are blacklisted
are mostly old-timers, having been there
since early days, and some of them feel
pretty badly over it.
Sheriff Barton has secured a reouiei.
tion from Governor Shortridge upon
Governor Altgeld Of Illinois, for the
Crazy murderer, who was captured in
Chicago, and will go to Springfield on
account of the same. It seems that the
detection of Bruno is due in a large
measure to Mr.. Barton, who ascertained
that he had been a soldier in Holland
and was expecting a pension from that
government, and he notified the Chicago
detective force of this, with a recon.
mendation that the Dutch consul be
informed and careful watch kept there,
with the result that he was captured
some days ago..
The other day a story was started that
a north state divine named Laird, of
Perth, has thrown one of his lady par
shioners into a we'll. The story
is denied by the reverend GENTLE
men in a letter to the Cando
Record. He says that the "Perth lady re-
ferred to, in the presence of two wit
nesses, and without any known cause,
wilfully and deliberately threw herself
INTO a pond of water about two feet deep
and three feet wide, and then told that
said Perth preacher did it. Said Perth
preacher had no part in this act what
ever; it was surely a scheme of the devil
to hurt said preacher"
Aaron Hirshfeld, the Helena banker
made famous by the recent trial in
Fargo, where his wife and all OF his rel
atives figured in the case, has made a
settlement WITH Mrs. Hirshfeld, which
will eventually give him his freedom. It
is understood he is to pay her ss31,1OO
and she is to drop all further claims
against him. The payment of the money
contains with it the provision that all
expenses incurred by Mrs. Hirshfeld
during the trial are to be borne by her.
It is expected that Judge Mcconnell
will now grant the divorce separating
the two. Mrs. Hirshfeld's original
claim against the banker was $75.OOt. I
According to a special from Fargo,
Hon. Seth Newman, at one time mayor.
and a prominent lawyer, is now in the
hands Of his physicians, from the effects
of a blow received from M. A. Hlldreth,
a prominent lawyer and politician. New
man was returning to his office with a
new iron poker, just purchased, when
Hildreth met him at the entrance and
handed him papers, asking him to stipu-
late as to q case now before the court.
Newman refused, whereupon Hlldreth
made an Insulting remark. Newman in
voluntarily raised the poker, saying:
"Take that back!" whereupon Hildreth
struck him, making severe outs over the
eye and on the face.
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