Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-01-18

Ihe salvation army is said to be doing
some great work in Grand Forks, and the
regenerated brethren are numerous.
Democratic National Commit eeman
Leistikow and family will leave Grafton
in a few days for an extended tour of
Europe.
Uncle Sans dredging fleet on the Red
River at Grand Forks is too large and
about half of the boats are being broken
up. Only n dredging outfit will be
saved.
Peter Rousouse of Sargent county, a
quarter-blood Indian, was burned to
death New Years night. He was intox-
icated and it is supposed set his house
on fire.
The dead body of Jimmy McDermott,
a pioneer character of Morton county,
was found in ar old shack near Mandan.
1t is supposed he went in to rest and was
frozen to death.
Citizens of Drayton have subscribed
several hundred dollars toward keeping
the men at work who are in the woods in
Minnesota getting out ties for the new
Drayton railroad.
John Peterson, of Grafton, had a mar
row escape from being killed by an en-
glne. He was knocked down and his
clothing caught in the break beam, he
beng dragged a block before released.
He was quite badly bruised, but will
come out all right.
Fifty-six A. O. U. w. lodges in this
jurisdiction are raising a fund for Mrs.
Romstad of Cakes, the widow of a for.
mer member of the order who died while
suspended for non-payment of dues.
The fund now amounts to $3.50. Aber-
deem, s. D., lodge heads the list with $50.
The deputy making the seizure of a
Mimic pig is alleged to have got himself
into trouble in the deal, by making free
in treating his friends with some of the
fluids, and in one case he is said to have
taken coin for a small quantity. He is
now under arrest for violating the pro-
hibitory law himself.
Rev. W. l.. Van Horn, of Fargo, thinks
he has made a record in performing the
first marriage ceremony in the year 1889
in the United States. He performed the
ceremony which made Paul Miller and
Miss johnson one at one minute past
midnight on the morning of Jan. l. Who
a beat this record?
S. A. Hendricks, of jamestown. who
has been confined in the county Jail
there for several months under a charge
of adultery, was arraigned in the district
court and plead guilty to the charge. He
will be sentenced by Judge Rose al the
close of the term of court. It is under.
stood that as soon as his sentence for
adultery has been served in North Da-
kota he will be re-arrested and taken to
Minnesota to answer to the charge of
bigamy.
w. o. Wood, a wealthy railroad con-
tractor of Portland, Ore, is in Chicago
for the purpose of learning, if possible
what became of Thomas Morris, land
owner and railroad contractor, of Peters
burg, ND. Morris was robbed of all
his money, about $500, while in Chicago,
and then disappeared in the most mys
FERROUS manner after writing a letter to
his family, in which the robbery was re.
ferred to, and more money was asked for
with which to continue his journey.
A farmers institute will be held at
Casselton on the 18th and 10Th of this
month under the auspices of the Society
of the United Farmers of Cass county.
The topics are "Smut in Wheat" SUN.
mer Fallowing," clarifying in North
Dakota" Forestry" "Some of the Dis.
eases in Farm Stock and the Remedies
sour Insect Friends and Foes" "Do.
nestle Economy" and "How Plants
Grow" Members Of the Fargo Agri.
cultural college faculty and others will
furnish papers.
Last September Mrs. Lillian johnson,
wife of Charley johnson, who formerly
ran the Lisbon Star, was injured by a
fall in the street at Los Angeles, Cal.
She was taken into Littleboy's drug
store, and while she lay there dying, her
gold watch was stolen from her person
by a boy named William E. Scott. A
dispatch from Los Angeles says Scott
has been sentenced to five years at ST.
Quentin for the crime. The sentence
was lighter than it would have been as
when called upon to state what cause, if
any, existed, why sentence should not
be passed upon him, Scott begged for
mercy, claiming that he was in an ad-
vanced stage of consumption and that a
long term in the p~enitentiary would kill
him.
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