Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-01-28
IN NORTH DAKOTA
Interesting News Items From .N
Parts OF the state.

ing in quite freely.
w. j. Sladbolt of Cakes lost sk,y
sheep in the recent blizzard.
DR.. Read was reapnointed county
commissioner Of Morton county.
Twenty-Five hogs were smothcrpd =,
Lisbon during the recent blizzard.
Randolph Holdrug Of Sergeant com.
ty wants to, be oil inspector.
The receipts Mt the Grafton postsftic
during 1896 were $3.50.
James Russell is In Jail ut Feassnd N
on the charge Of forgery.
Sixty eases of beer We're captured in
the Aneta blind pigs.
Peter Land has been arrested at
Rugby for blind-pigging.
The Bismarck electric light plant il
in operation.
jack Fox died Of alcoholism at Olga,
so the coroner said.
The Williston council has adopted an
anti-gambling ordinance.
The First National Bank of Oa~alier
has $4,000 cash on hand.
The report is again out that the
Dickcy county murderers may get :,
new trial
Burglars broke into the Glass general
store at Glasston. Dry goods and gre.
ceries We're taken.
Peter Gilleran of Cakes was run into
by a runaway team and severely, bu,
not fatally, injured.
Tom Anderson of Grand Forks was
sentenced to thirty days in JUL for
choking his wife.
The Indians down OH the Sisseton re-
servation are said to be in a destitute
condition.
Thompson Granville, a Pierce county
farmer, was held up and robbed Of Sic
at Grand Forks.
The Wahpeton schools have beer
closed until the diphtheria epidemic
has abat,d.
The cost Of maintaining the public
schools Of Lisbon during 1896 wae
$7,Oo2.6G.
Dogs killed six antelope near Devils
Lake last week. The antelope ran in
to farm yard and could not get ont.
David Armstrong, ut Willsw City.
. AAAo OSSA appointed ucpulJ SILICA II IA
Bottinneau county.
Charles Olson offers a reward Of S25
for the recovery of the body Of his
brother, who was lost in the storm near
Valley City.
A new flow of water was struck in
the Forman we'll at the depth OF 200
feet, but the well will be sunk 100 or
200 feet deeper.
1t is reported that the body of a
blizzard victim has been found on ii
tree claim near Harlem, Sargent coun-
ty.
The Emmons county commissioners
have agreed to pay $500 per an:lum
toward the support of physician
there.
While Club Reitz, aged fifteen. was
crossing the railroad yards at Diekin-
son he was run down by the switch en-
CINE and mangled in such manner
that he died shortly after.
N. G. Swain, whose wife eloped with
a farm hand and suicided at Valley
City. has sold his farm near New Rock
ford. for $1,000. He intends Aeaving
that section of the state.
DIR. Bell of Conway, who was sen
fenced to the penitentiary abeua year
ago on charge preferred by young
girl, has been pardoncd by tho govern
OF.
An irate wife at Grand Forks, una
bic to longer endure the abuse of a
drunken husband, summoned nm officer
and had her nuisance Of spouse sent
to the city bastile for his nights lodg-
ing.
The branch Flower & Haslan cloth
ing store ut Devils Lake burned to The
ground. w. p. Rogers, notions. and NJ.
q. kil1ay. millinery. occupying the
adjoining building, had their stock
damaged by water. The total loss is
about $1,000, covered by insur lnee.
Theo. Bergsland and Carl Ketteson.
two Park River boys, have been ar
rested, charged with stealing grain
from John A. Owen, farmer. who
lives several miles west of Park Piver
1.angdon citizens expended $26U0
for new homes and other Improve
ments during the past year.
William Shure, a young man resid
ing at Page, and who has been attend
ing the Iowa state university, coming
home to spend the holidays, has MeF
with q horrible death. it is believed.
On Monday, the day Of the storm, he
left home to call on Il couple Of young
ladies who lived IL short distance away:
He has not been heard from since. anu
every effort has been made to find him.
It is feared that he was a victim Of the
blizzard.
The damage suit Of Amos Fl. xOIi's'
n railroad brakeman, against DIR. j. a..
Rankin of Jamestown, local Dhys'-
clan for the Northern Pacific railway
is now on trial in the district eonrt.
Mr.. Tullis claims that an alnputat'ol'
of his foot by the doctor, some years,
ago, when he was injured in railroad
wreck Mt LaMOure, was unskillfni:
that because of it the place never
healed properly. and that. ut his own
expense. he was compelled to ss'lsl'''
to anothe. surgical operation.
August pel,ning, who committed su'
eide Mt Ashland recently, ran the wan
pcton hotel from 1898 to 1896. ne
made considerable money running Il
blind pig. He sold out here in Decrh-
Der. His wife left him in October 'aN,
ing with her $4,000 and the eoloreo
porter. since which time nothing mas
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