Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1896-10-22
IN NORTH DAKOTA


Joseph WOOD OF BISMARCK gets an
original pension.
| A big prairie fire did great damage
to stock men in Stark county.
Ransom county jail-birds made an
unsuccessful attempt to break out.
Ira Parfit has been arrested at
Jamestown for abandoning his wife.
Two blind pigs have been closed ut
Reynolds.
Ward county's hospital is in process
of construction.
Bicycle thieves are operating in the
vicinity of Lidgerwood.
r. III. Owens of Ellensdale lost 800
bushels Of grain by prairie fire.
Burglars got away with $1,000 from
a store at Darcy.
James Blakemore, living south Of
Brisnale, lost a separator by fire. -Four
stacks of grain were also burned.
Jennie Chamberlain was thrown
from horse at Enderlin and her skull
fractured.
Burglars blew open the postoftice
safe at Lisbon and got $500. Suspi-
cion is said to rest on local parties.
Cattle thieves are doing large bust
ness along the Northern Pacific main
line.
Burglars effected an entrance in Cur
RE & Crowds store at Dickinson by
throwing a brick through the window.
Mimic, was kicked on the head by q
horse. His skull was fractured.
Pembina's increasing population ne
cessitates the use of part Of its fire
hall as a school house.
Lars X. Odegaard, the victim of the
pitchfork accident ut NorthwOod, is
dead.
Will Hodgins had his collar bone
broken at Ellensdale by being thrown
from horse.
The Morton County Fair Associa-
ton has paid all bills and has Il about
5000 in cash and owns it's grounds
clear of debt.
Children We're playing with matches
in John Segerberg's barn near Cando.
Four hundred bushels of oats We're
burned.
With three men in Jail charged with
murder, three for cattle stealing and
one for safe breaking, Glendale is
| ltclluS, pretty 'UlS AoWdduSS.
1t is said that coal miners at Minot
will be prosecuted by the government
for working the mines without buying
the lands.
The name of the new town, Walker,
on the Hope extension of the Great
Northern railway, has been changed
to Finley.
The coroner of Grand Forks county
has ordered quarantine, an epidemic
of diphtheria existing in the towns Of
Meckinock and Gilby.
James A. Doney while feeding
threshing machine at Wahpeton had
the misfortune to get one hand into
the cylinder. The arm was amputated
between the wrist and the elbow.
The entire assets of the First Ma
Partridge & Mclean for SIS in cash.
ceeded $4,000.
Mrs. !. J. Mcdonald and daughter
Clara were arrested at Hunter for
shoplifting. When arrested they con-
fcssed, producing the goods and paid
sic to hush tile matter up.
Burglars tried to rob the store of n.
D. Nelson at Mayville recently. The
lock on the front door was considera-
bly, damaged but the burglars did not
succeed in getting into the place.
Jacob Allmares, prominent farmer
of Wells county, was caught in the
drive belt Of his threshing machine
and carried over the pulley. His in
juries may prove fatal.
A young man stole O. Youngs wheel
from in front of the store at Grand
Forks and pawned it in a secondhand
store. The theft was reported and the
man arrested before he left the store.
Lawrence Kochmstedt of Mimic has
invented a machine for picking up
down or lodged grain. The device is
to be attached to the binder and runs
ahead of the knife. 1t has been tried
this year and proved success.
John McCaffery, who made such
stir with his gun after the Republican
torchlight parade at Lisbon recently
and grazed another mans nose with
bullet, pleaded guilty TO carrying con-
cealed weapons and was fined $40 and
costs.
| T.. J. Hamilton, a travelling man for
Steve Collins, the farming implement
| dealer OF Grand Forks, was found
dead in his bed in the Ingalls, house
of asphyXiation from gas. He had
evidently accidentally turned the
screw about half open when he put
the light out last night. He had been
a resident Of that city since April I
and had a wife and three children at
Reedsburg, Wis.
A fire of mysterious origin burned
the separator of Messrs. Stull and
Bride OH the farm Of James Bride at
Glasston, and another Of like origin
the next day swept away Mr.. Ralph
Stull's stable and contents with the
exception of the live stock which, with
much difficulty, was taken out. -Four
thousand bushels of barley and oats
were burned. There was some insur-
ance on the building.
Kalbheischs flour mill near Bot
Itineau burned recently. The fire start
ed from hot box. The elevator shaft,
mill and buildings, worth $4,000, to-
gether with 5000 bushels of wheat and
1900 sacks Of flour were burned.
No insurance. Tuesday evening fire
caught from o. lantern in John lay
lor's harm ten miles west Of here Mrs