The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1896-11-28
IN NORTH DAKOTA
tateFesting News Items From all
Parts OF the State.

ready for business.
There are said to be seven candi-
dates for the Park River pOstotiice.
The Horton hotel at Lisbon is to lie
steam heated.
The DEnkartl church, at Cando, has
been dedicated.
Jacob Anderson was held up and
robbed of $500 ut Wahpeton.
There is a scarcity Of coal ut Bis
marck.
Grafton has had another window
breaking escapade.
Carl Hagar, a Hillsboro merchant,
was found dead in his cutter Cause,
heart failure
The farmers in the vicinity Of Glov-
er are talking of erecting creamery
next year.
A servant girl used kerosene to start
the fire, and DIR. Pierce and family, ut
f1iilsborO, came near burning up.
q. ]. Shepartlson of jamestown has
been appointed night operator ut San
born.
T.. Berg, who was burned out at
Grand Forks q short time ago, will
open up again next week.
Judge Templeton expects to engage
in the practice Of law rs soon as his
term rs district judge expires.
Clarence Mears is looking up the
availability of restarting the Leeds
State bank.
The Richland county commissioners
have decided to erect Il hospital on the
poor farm.
Frank Stangler became lost in
snow storm between Lucca and Ender-
lin, and was crazed through the suffer-
ing endured
Postmaster Fairman of FalcOner has
had well dug, and claims to have
found a dozen petritied eggs ut a depth
of forty feet.
Mr.. A. II. Shepard of Morton county
Is trying the experiment with wheat
sown in the fall. He has put in about
tifey acres.
Gen. Wesley Merritt Of the regular
army is making another inspection of
the site of the new military fort ut Bis.
marck.
Several car loads of fat stock have
been shipped from Ransom county.
Harry Oliver sold n car Of fat porkers
to 4 LaMoure county man.
Judge Glaspell las Withdrawn frcm
the law firm of Glaspc;! L. Ellsworth,
ut jamestown, and Mr.. Ellsworth Sic
| cectls to the business.
Spencer of Grafton, fusion candidate
for district judge of the Seventh Judi
cial district, is contesting the election
of o. Il. Sauter
Walter Blackorby Of CandO lost
three Of his fingers of his right hand
| while operating q buzz saw cutting
cord wood.
The Lakota public school building is
to be heated by Ignite native coal
hereafter, the fuel having proved very
satisfactory after n thorough trial.
Present Indications are that there
will he demand for all the hay put
up this year on account of the snow
having stopped foraging by stock.
The total vote of North Dakota for
presidential electors in 1892 was about
80 600 and in 1894 for the state ticket
3S,UDO. This year the total vote cast
was over 1900.
Two memorial windows have been
placed in the Baptist Church ut Grand
Forks. They are in the memory Of
Mrs. Longfellow and Mrs. w. II. Car
ter, both deceased.
Joseph Auger a Pcmbina county far.
mer, will have $4,000 pounds of dressed
pork to sell this winter, and will be
able to "come out even," he says, With
| out much trouble.
Frank Warner and Bada Kuper have
treated Dickinson to an clopcment
| sensation. Both are under age, but
went to Mandan, got married, and
their troubles have only commenced.
el of the secretary of state, state au-
ditor, treasurer, attorney general and
| superintendent of public instruction,
will meet Dec. 8.
Bishop Stanley of Fargo held con-
firmatiOn services at Langdon recently
and at Mount Carmel. The great bell
at the Roman Catholic church was con-
secrated and a banquet followed.
Fire occurred in Morck's grocery
store, in the Merchants block, Man
dan. The stock and building were
badly damaged by smoke and water;
insured.
John IIofstrand, aged "a, unmarried.
| was found dead in the new school
house at Beinsmade, where he was
sleeping to keep up the fire while the
building was being plastercd. Death
was apparently due to coal gas.
Gabriel Guessblacher, living near
1t g.,
thigh by horse. The kick ruptured
an artery, and the injured man nearly
blcd to death before medical aid could
be procured.
George A. Davis, Great Northern
| switchman, while at work in the yard
coupling cars at Grand Forks, slipped
and fell in front of a moving box car
and was caught and dragged along for
some distance, sustaining injuries from
the effects Of which he died two hours
! later. lie was unmarried.
for an eighteen-year-old child belong
ing to DIR. Moeller Of Hillsboro, became
enraged at her charge, and. going into
the doctors library, got hold of bot
tie Of nitric acid and poured it over its
but it will be dis6gured for life
A. H. Dodge, assistant engineer of
the Bismarck water works. was killed
by Northern Pacific passenger train.
Dodge was on his way to the water
works and. 1t is supposed, did not hear
the approach Of the train, as his head
was heavily bundled. Deceased leaves
q wife and several small children.