The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-10-02
in NORTH DAKOTA


fnterestine News Items From MI
Parts of the stats. I;
Mrs. John Sand OF Fort Ransom
broke both her arms In runaway.
John Houghton had three ribs beo-l
ken In runaway at C0operstowH.
William Sandy has resigned % Q
county commissioner In Griggs county.
Mayville's fire department has voted
to get new engine. u
(. Lidgerwood will erect a new town
hall.
Wimbledon h mediums rotten-egged
Rev. Cooley, the colored evangelist.
r. d. Cowan is the new postmaster
at Rolla.
The foundation has been laid for the
new -four mill Mt Grandin.
Griggs county wheat goes from eight
to ten bushels.
A burglar who had burgled several
buildings in Cakes was captured near
Cogswell.
A hobo was arrested at Buttzville
for threatening to burn Maj. Buttz'
buildings.
The Jamestown man arrested for
cruelty to horse was bound over to
the district court.
Gen. Walker was thrown from his
buggy Mt Grandin and rendered I'M
conscious for some time.
The AIinot land office is doing q rush
ing business-ninety filings in one day
last week. u
The Richland county tax levy has
been reduced two mills under that Of
last year.
A 12-year-old girl near Lisbon was
kicked by q horse and will probably
die.
Fargo has gang of toughs that
cause the good citizens there much an
noyance.
Prudent farmers throughout the state
are blowing fire breaks. A wise thing
to do.
Wheat in Nelson county, except in
the hail district, will average eighteen
bushels.
T. M. Smith of Missouri hunted ut
Cooperstown without an outsiders IL
cense and was arrested and made to
pay $25.
Sheriff Hans Holtber of Mclean
county had threshing machine
burned up, and the indications are
that it was the work Of an incendiary.
Eli Titman, a Northern Pacific brake
man, was killed at Valley City, his
head being crushed between two fat
cars.
Little Dannie Wilcox, near Cakes,
was lost for two days, sleeping one
night in a straw stack. He was final
ly returned home.
The National elevator at Devils
Lake was burned, some time ago and
the company has decided to build at
once.
McHenry county will make de-
bank of MinOt for moneys deposited
with that institution.
Burglars made off with some clothes
and cash ut Fargo, the man Of the
house b. ring them but not caring to
modest them. pretending to think it
was the hired girl moving about.
The sentence of Joseph German, O
lifer from Walsh county, has been
committed by the governor to a year
and seven months. His term expires
next month.
John Baker has been brought back
to Sherbrooke from Killarney charged
with stealing q wagon from Rip Van
Wrinkle. Sheriff Linn made the cap
ture.
The business men at Dunseith have
taken steps toward opening Leeds
and Dunseith overland freight route
and asking the government to extend
its star route from Island lake to Dun
seth with a new postoflice ut Ok
Creek.
Martin Whaley was found dead in a
box car at Hillsboro. Death is sup
posed to have been caused by excess
i've drinking. The dead man was q
farm leborer and his home was Gin
cinnati.
III. l.. Blout, prominent cigar dealer
of Fargo, was arrested, charged with
selling cigars from other than original
packages. He was given hearing be-
fore the United States commissioner
and held to the next term of court for
trial.
The w. G. T. u. state convention
closed its sessions at jamestown. to
meet in Fargo next year. Mrs. j. Rus
sci of valley City; Mrs. f. Edwards Of
Fargo; Mrs. Ida Morrill, of :Nahpeton,
and Mrs. H. Pierson of Lisbon, were
elected national delegates. Miss Eliz-
abeth Preston was reelected president.
The most disastrous fire in the his
tory of LangGon cccu"red recently.
Fire was discovered coming out of the
First National bank building, on the
second floor This was the largest
business block in the city. and con-
tanned the bank. the Courier-Democrat
Office, the drug store of III. ID. Alert &
Co. and the offices Of G. p Gibson, DR..
Smith and DR.. Semple. This was