The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-05-29
IN NORTH DAKOTA
Interesting News Items From all
Parts Of the State,

cured an original pension.
There are said to be several scarlet
fever cases in Valley City.
William Appenzeller of Wibaux com
mitted suicide while deranged.
Towner is still quarantined on &C.
count Of diphtheria.
The Park river has overlooked and
Is running all over the country.
II. 3. Moen's granary at Mecklnock
was struck by lightning. :
Teachers institute meets at Langdon
June 1. :.
A. B. Mcdonald will build a three.
story mill at Cando.
w. 7. Montgomerys house at Hick-
son liz burned.
Work on the new school house at
Buxton will begin Immediately. !
Oscar Barnes of Bismarck gets an
original pension.
The Grafton burglars are reported
captured at Sheldon.
jamestown will have a running team
at the firemen's. tournament.
Roads and bridges around Milton
were badly damaged by the floods.
Two convicts of Cavalier county,
Riley and Moore, sent up for burglary,
have been pardoned by the governor.
There have been four deaths from
diphtheria in one family near James
town.
William Cook of Glendale attempted
to shuttle off the coil by cutting his
throat, but made fizzle of it.
Eddie Olson plead guilty to burglary
at Dickinson and was sent to the re-
form school.
A flock of cormorants. rare birds so
far inland, have settled at the Mayville
Park lake.
Bricllmaking experiments at Milton
were a success, and now for a brick
yard.
The Hillsboro city council appropri-
ated $500 to aid the G. A. II. encamp-
| ment.
A man near Pembina located wolf
den and dug out mother and eight
little ones.
st. Thomas small boys and sling
shots and air guns will be suppressed,
as to the business thoroughfares.
Senator Frank White had a stone
and is laid up.
A Nelson county woman sues her
father-in-law for $4,000 for aliepating
her husbands affections.
The home of Christ Hintz, seven
miles from Fessenden, was demolished
by wind.
The right of way for telephone
line from Fargo to WahpetOn has been
| secured.
Herbert Morris, arrested in Fargo for
stealing watch at Neche got thirty
seven days in quod.
Principal Smith, of the Gretna
| schools. broke his arm while wrestling
with bucking bicycle.
The total expenses of the asylum for
April were 81, 3SO.29 less than for April,
| 1895.
Horace F.. Merrill, charged with I'M
lawfully killing cattle, was acquitted
at Dickinson after n trial of eight days.
Isaac Stiles, who came to Grand
Forks nineteen years ago, died, aged
eighty-one years. He leaves family
in Nova Scotia.
One of Kennedy & Porritt's men got
caught in cave-in while working on
the Lisbon ditch and was rescued with
difficulty.
The man Hunter, arrested for at
tempted rape at Fertile. worked secret
| society men at Grand Forks under the
name of Duncan.
Milton Claughton. twelve years old,
was knocked down by boar at Cam
! ton, and might have been killed if his
dog had not Clipped in.
Jonas Saunders, who came to Breck-
enridge twentyfour years ago, died last
week. He built the old Merchants
hotel at Wahpeton.
John H. Monard, an agent of the
United States government, has been
sent to North Dakota to investigate the
dairying business of the state.
The NJ. and N. elevator at Oshabrock
collapsed, dumping 10000 bushels of
wheat. The rain washed out the foun-
datiOn.
Grand Forks butchers were arrested
and fined for using the rear of their.
shops as slaughtering houses. Fargo
houses should take warning.
A man arrested ut Jamestown for
burglary ut Valley City has just been
released from the pen at Leavenworth,
Kan.
L. Flynn's thirteen-year-old daugh-
ter was knocked down by a runaway
horse and seriously hurt at Neche,
several ribs being broken.
At Crystal the water came into the
engine room and the mill had to shut
down. Several people left their
houses OH account of the high water.
Il. B. Little of Dickinson is being
sued for $3.50 by sheep man Of
Custer, Mont, on purchase that did
not pan out.