The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-07-11
IN NORTH DAKOTA
In%terestfng News Items From MI
Parts Of the State.

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bon.
Sherbrooke will incorporate it's Gem
etery.
Oberon contemplates organizing for
home rule.
DR.. Vaughn of Cando has a four.
legged chicken.
Charlie Paulson's blind pig at Fes'
sender was pulled.
A raccoon was killed near Caring
ton the other day.
A Fargo dog has bitten SO many peo'
pie that it's owner has been arrested.
Willert Williams Of Arthur was
struck and killed by lightning.
James Alstad, of Ottofy, was killed
by lightning.
John w. Craft Of Sanborn get a
restoration and increase of pension.
Jud LaMoure is president of the
Pembina bank, vice Booker, resigned.
T. A Cando man will lose. a leg as the
result of the bite of a vicious stallion.
Contractor Soule has begun the sur
vey of ten townships Of land north OF
Dickinson.
Fort Yates soldiers are exchanging
quarters to Omaha; also q lot Of keogb
troops the same.
John A. Brown of Glendale was ac'
quilted at Fargo of sending the OBJ
scene letters. -'
Robert Szczys of Mimic has invented
q n~ew-fangled showcase that it is
thought will make him a millionaire.
Dor nooo Col1;~o 30 NTor1oy hoc
contributed $1,000 to the building fund
Of the Fargo Catholic cathedral.
The. blind piggers raiued at James
town may be subjected to criminal
prosecutions.
J. e. Moan was killed by lightning
near Dickinson while asleep in his
house.
1t is said that Wiltser & Shurlock of
Grandin will open another drug store
at Davenport.
Willie Gardner, aged Is, was drown
ed while in swimming on q small
pond near Fullerton.
An insane man named Clark Cheney
was arrested at Medora. He claims
Akron, o., as his home.
Neyron Sherman, aged twenty, was
drowned in the Red river at Grand
Forks, while bathing.
David Besgs, while breaking q
broncho at Bathgate, had his leg
broken between the knee and ankle.
Large numbers of Street stock cars
are being sent west. One cattle COM
pany has placed an order for $50 cars
for a shipment early next month.
Henry Saunders assaulted the wife
of a Nelson county farmer during the
husbands absence and got three years
in the penitentiary therefor.
Public Examiner Langlie has issued
q call for q report Of the condition OF
all state banks at the close of business
June 81
Miss Teeter, q Grafton school ma'am
who sued DR.. Todd of Grafton for
$1,000 for breaking her jaw while
pulling a tooth, gets $695 damages.
J. B. Peppard was killed in a run
away near Grafton. His wagon tip
ped over and he vas dragged to death.
He leaves a wife and large family.
Jandell & Ringer have over G,000
sheep feeding at Mandan. The sheep
were bought in Washington, near
Sprague.
Fessenden is going to have a band
and her citizens have contributed a
hundred plunks to assist the totes in
securing the requisite instruments.
The governor has appointed H.
M. Wheeler Of Grand Forks and DIR.
I. N. Weir of Fargo, members OF the
state board Of medical examiners for
three years.
A farmer near Sheldon who has been
| at considerable expense to put down a
well now offers $500 to any n who
will shut it off. Its flow has compelled
him to move his buildings away and
threatens to ruin his farm.
The little twelve-year-old boy of An
drew Craving, while out hunting in the
woods near Grafton, accidentally shot
himself in the foot with a small rifle,
the ball going clear through, but it did
not infict n serious wound.
"A Walsh county jury has just rem
dered a.verdict giving Carrie e. Lock
rem Of near Edinburg, $500 damages
for breach Of promise to marry her,
alleged to have been made by Helgo
o. Russian q young man Of the same
neighborhood.
At Grand Forks Judge Templeton
sentenced Henry Saunders to the peni-
Tertiary for three years on the charge
of assault with intent to commit rape
on the person Of a farmers wife near
Lakota, for whom he had been work
ing several months.
The banks in Fargo have in the past
been assessed only 40 per cent Of capt.
tai stock and surplus, less real estate
owned, but this year the board will In
| crease the amount to 60 per cent, in
GLIDING everything but real estate,
which is assessed in realty lists.
Tom Ildstad, while taking a cat fish
from q hook ut st. Andrews, on the
Red river, ran the cats horn into his
| hand. about two inches and blood
poison was the result. Tom was taken
to Grafton a very sick man with an
arm and hand badly swollen. The
case is not q hopeful one, the doctor
says.
A Grafton teacher sued a Grafton
dentist for {. 100 for alleged damages
while extracting a wisdom tooth. A
large number of witnesses were ex-
amined, including a number Of expert
witnesses, and the expenses Of the
suit were very large. The lady's
bodily suffering during treatment was
very great, and, the ssympathAes OF the
| public, especially the feminine por-
ton, were with the lady. The jury
awarded the girl 500.
A. Brown, a prosperous bachelor