The Dickinson press., 1896-10-24

Cattle thieves are doing large busi-
ness along the Northern Pacific main
line.
Burglars effected an entrance in Cur
rie 4 CrowPs store at Dickinson by
throwing a brick through the window.
Grant Brown, Il six-year-old boy ut
Mimic, was kicked on the head by a
horse. His skull was fractured.
Pembina's increasing population ne
ccssitatcs the use Of a part Of its fire
hall as a school house.
Lars X. Otlcgaartl, the victim of the
pitchfOrk accident ut Northwood, is
dead. :
Will lIodgins had his collar bone
broken ut Ellcns(lalc by being thrown
from horse.
The Morton County Fair Associa-
ton has paid all bills and has Il about
5000 In cash and owns its grounds
clear of debt.
In John Segcrberg'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
feeling pretty big nowadays.
1T is said that coal min1ls at Minot
will bc prosecuted by the government
for working the mines without buying
the lands.
The name of the new town, Walker,
Oh the Hope extension of the Great
Northern railway, has been changed
to Finley.
The coroner of Grand Forks county
has ordered a quarantine, an epidemic
of diphthcria existing in the towns Of
Meckinock and Gilby.
james A. Doney while feeding
thrcshing. 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
tional bank Of I.:lkOth were sold to
Partridge Il Mclean for So in cash.
The aggregate amount of the notes ex-
cecdel $3.50.
Mrs. ]. J. Mcdonald and daughter
Clara We're arrested at Hunter for
slloplifting. When arrested they CON-
fessed. producing the goods and paid
S16 to hush tile matter uI.
Burglars tried to rob the store of N.
D. Nelson at AIayvillc recently. The
lock on the front door was cOnsidera-
bly, damaged but the burglars did not
succeed in getting into the place.
Jacob Allnrares, n prominent farmer
of Wells county, was caught in the
drive belt Of his threshing machine
and carried over the pulley. His in
jurics may prove fatal.
A young man stole o. Young's wheel
from in front of the store ut Grand
Forks and pawned it in a secondhand
store. The theft was reported and the
man arrested before he left the store.
Lawrence kochmstcdt of Minto has
invented machine for picking up
down or lodged grain. The device 10
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 a
stir with his gun after the Republican
torchlight parade at Lisbon recently
and graZed another mans nose with Il
bullet. pleaded guilty TO carrying COLI
ccaled weapons and was fined $40 and
costs.
Il
Steve Collins, the farming implement
dealer of Grand Forks, was found
dead in his bed in the Ingalls, house
If asphyxiation from gas. He had
evidently accidentally turned the
screw about half open when lie put
the light out last night. He had been
resident of that city since April
and had wife and three children ut
Reedsburg, Wis.
a fire Of mysterious origin burned
the separator Of Messrs. Stull ana
Bride on the farm of James Bride Mt
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 iDsur-
ance on the building.
Kalbneisch's -four mill near Bot
tineau burned recently. The fire start
ed from hot box. The elevator shaft,
mill and buildings, worth $4,000, to-
gethcr with 5000 bushels of wheat and
5000 sacks Of honr were burned.
No insurance. Tuesday evening fire
caught from lantern In John Tay-
lOr's barn, ten miles west of here. Mrs.
Taylor succeeded in saving the other
buildings but fell dead Immediately
after.
Tullif T. Lee, or Lein, was instantly
killed by falling from a train while
stealing a ride half mile south of Lari-
more He had on his person $50 in
cash and two notes for $50 and $50
each. The notes were dated Manville,
N. d., but his residence is not known.
Andrew Penson, the colored man
taken to Devils Lake recently for steal
ing grain, was bound over to the dis.
trict court. He now wants to plead
guilty, and will be allowed to do SO as
soon as Judge Morgan returns. He IS
wanted at Grand Forks on similar
charge and was also implicated year
ago In the stealing of money from q
registered letter in Fargo.