Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-16
STATE NEWS

A NEWS
Items OF Interest Gathered From All
Parts Of North Dakota.
Fargo lawyers want the newspaper
men to play 'em q game of ball.
Fire destroyed the Salvation army
barracks at Grand Forks.
Telegraph linemen are strlnging a new
wire from jamestown to Fargo.
Mrs. DR.. Vidal of Fargo gets a divorce
and the custody of her child.
Mayville has an artesian we'll which
spouts 5000 gallons a day.
Barnes county will be in it with a fair,
and has elected officers and gotten to
work.
The Wahpeton Globe says the beer
wagon is nearly run off it's feet these hot
days. E..
Stutsman county hires it's harvest
hands at $1.25 per day, and plenty of
them at that.
A hobo confined in the jamestown
Jail for refusing to work, dug his way
out underground and escaped.
The eastern part of the state had a
hail and electrical storm, which, how
ever, did not do much damage.
The Hankinson starch factory is con-
tracing with farmers for potatoes at 20
cents a bushel, and will start up this
fall. N.Y.. ..
A hobo who was entering a freight car
loaded with watermelons at Thompson,
was shot in the side but not seriously
injured.
Thomas Smith of Oliver county ate
strychnine lozenges in mistake for cough
drops, and died from the effects of the
poison.
Marshal Dewey of jamestown chained
a hobo up to a telegraph pole in the
main street of the city because he
wouldn't work.
David Gillespie was shot aud killed
by his nephew John Gillespie at Cav
alier. They had some trouble over a
tract of hay LAID.
The infant child of E. w. Comp OF
Jamestown wal kicked from a baby
buggy by, a delivery team, but was
rescued without injury.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Viles of Casselton
were separated by divorce last fall, but
have made it up and are married again,
at which their friends are happy.
The Minnesota Type foundry company
and Brown, Treacy & Co., advertise the
sale of the North Dakota Independent
plant upon a chattel mortgage of Sligo
on Saturday Aug. II.
G. E. GRADER, who was the first pub.
Usher of the Harlem New Era, was
found dead in bed at Great Bend, Rich.
land county. His death was caused by
excessive cigarette smoking.
William Hart has received a beautiful
solid gold double stop watch, a presen
from the North Dakota Firemen's asso-
cation. On the inside cover is engraved
"To ex-President William Hart from the
N. D. F. A."
Devils Lake has an anti-dog stealing
association composed of twenty-foul
men who offer $40 each for the convic'
ton of any man who steals or poisons
dog belonging to one of the members.
N. E. Nelson of Pembina, father-in.
law of Senator LaMoure and A. Mon
tague of Dickinson, filed in December
1870, at Pembina, the first homestead
claim filed in the territory Gov compris
ing the state of North Dakota.
Mrs. August Punk, Of Spring Cou1ie
Ward county, eloped this week with
man named Joe Raynard, taking bel
child along. The clipping couple oc
cupied a box car in Minot one night
Raynard being broke and out of a Job.
The Winchester Repeating Arms com.
pany have sent a Winchester repeating
shot gun, 1893 model, as a trophy to be
contested for at the clay pigeon shoot
to be given for the championship of the
state at the James River Valley Fair.
It is said that during a business meet
ing of the stockholders of the Daily
Commonwealth at Fargo the other night
Elstin Hooper is reported as having TORI
up the minutes of the meeting, and as
saulted F. R. HUH, with a pocket knife
Friends Of Hooper claim that the bal
a nd. "