The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-08-14
IN NORTH DAKOTA
rnteresting News Items From all
s&5 Parts Of the state.

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A volunteer fire company will be or
ganized at Cando.
Valley City's park fountain is c IN
pleted and In operation.
4 A small boy at New Rockford fell
and broke his leg In three places.
r. w. McDougall has been appointed
postmaster at Neville, Nelson county.
Foster county reports $14,76S.13 cash
in bank.
A Fargo business man was arrested
for assault and battery on his wife.
A runaway at Grandin badly spilled
man and his two boys, one Of the
latter receiving broken arm.
Hon. II. G. Cooper of Cooperstown
tripped over wire and his nose was
broken by the fall.
A Mr.. Lahren of Preston, Ransom
county, had his hair and eyebrows
singed by lightning.
The old, original Morton county court
house ut Mandan has been torn down
and carted away.
Senator Pettigrew has resigned off
the Republican congressional cam
paign committee.
Preston Parkes, Ellendale's tennis
champion and all popular boy, has
been appointed to u position in the
navy department at Washington.
Some township authorities in Walsh
county have prohibited tramps and
hobos camping in the timber along the
highways.
A load Of hay tipped over into
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woman and boy underneath, the latter
being drowned.
The suspension of the First National
bank of Minot is not expected to cause
any further trouble there. It will
square up In full.
An infant, supposed to be the child
Of Miss Susan Busch, has disappeared
from Red Lake Falls, and Miss Busch
Is suspected Of foul play.
The assistance of a constable and
warrant of arerst were necessary to
collect q hotel bill from q traveller at
Church's Ferry the other day.
An ex-minister ran up against shell
game ut Fessenden the other day to
the amount Of gold watch and con-
siderable money.
Yellowstone Park on bicycles have re-
turned and report the hugest possible
kind Of a time.
The Ransom County immigration So
ciety will make an exhibit of grains,
grasses and other products ut the Min
nesota state fair.
Abe Eppinger Of Bismarck will next
year graduate from the medical de-
partment Of the Pennsylvania univer-
sity ut Philadelphia.
Mrs. William Bell Of Casseiton sus-
tained broken arm from being
thrown from buggy during runa-
way.
A small boy near Sanborn went into
barn and commenced whipping the
horses, for amusement. His face is
horribly smashed and his recovery in
doubt.
Miss Jennie Bechtel of Cavalier, the
surviving victim of the sad railroad ac-
cident near Canton, reported two
weeks ago, has entirely recovered from
the effects of the shock sustained.
1t is reported that w. n. st. John of
Fullerton is about 81, 900 short in his
ACCOUNTS Will l11C oUO NiillWHy SOul.
pany. It is said that the matter will
be fixed up.
Right of way is nearly all secured for
the extension Of the Hope branch of
the Great Northern from Hope to An
eta, a distance Of twenty-eight miles.
Grading will begin at once, and trains
will be running for this years crop.
By the suspension of the First Ma
tional bank Of Minot there are $4,000
of deposits tied up. OF this amount
about $4,000 are funds belonging to
the city and county. The bank is now
in the hands Of Bank Examiner Zinl-
norman of South Dakota, who is 60
ing through the affairs Of the institu-
ton in detail. 1t Is said that the total
assets of the bank amount to about
100000, of which large portion Is
covered by gilt-edged securities, and If
such is the case the depositors will in
time be paid in full.
During O recent thunder shower
lightning struck the Episcopal church
and slivered the steeple very badly.
1t passed through the roof and split
the heavy Orders in the roof to
kind!ing wood, then passed through
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the building. Mr.. Dingley's house, Just
across the street, was struck in two
places. The shingles were torn off and
the clustering broken, but no serious
damage was done. Although there
was large family in the house there
was no one hurt. William McLane
and Young Blais were standing in the
door of barn about one block fran
the church and both boys were
knocked down and McI4ane badly hurt.
The. rain did a great amount Of good
to the late crop, which was needing
rain badly.
The North Dakota crop bulletin says:
The weather conditions during the past
week have been fairly favorable for
crops in general, the recent rains and
cool weather having caused the wheat
to fill, and the prospects for fair
crop of early sown wheat are some
what more encouraging. The late
s0wn has not headed to any extent,
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