Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-07-29
/. IN NORTH DAKOTA
entersstin9 News Items From an
Parts OF the State. ga


Heavy wind in Grand Forks do
stroyed a number Of shade trees,
The Great Northern will erect n nou
brick depot Mt Mayville. AZ"
An insane girl in Pembina countr ..
said to have been deserted by has ~
mother. "ei
Miss Mary Tobert of Grand rorl,
was overcome by heat and remainaS
unconscious for twenty-three hours
The tax levy In Grand Forks connie
has been increased $4,000 over last
year. "''
President Merrifeld of Of the stoto
university will pass the summer in
Vermont. ~
The jewelry store of S. e. Pixlov Of
Churches Ferry was burglarized and
$t5c worth Of jewelry taken. '1
John P. Bray has taken the oath of
Office as consul at Melbourne, and viii
leave for his post Of duty next week
The old Merchants hotel at Micbi.
gan City is being rejuvenated and re-.
modelled.
Gertrude Mosher gets a verdict
agaU st r. Goyet of jamestown for
$500 for defamation of character,
Grand Forks people want a pardon
for Thomas Peterson, serving a sen.
tcnce in the pen for robbery.
Many farmers in the vicinity Of
Hamilton. Pelnb;na County, have lost
their entire crop by hail.
John Abrahamson has been appoint.
ed deputy oil inspector at Grand
Forks.
There will be base ball tourna.
ment at Grand Forks at Darlington.
July 20, for purse of 5000.
Orrin Denney played foot ball at
Bottineau, and both bones of one leg
were broken.
The state asylum has let contracts
for $4,000 pounds Of butter for the en-.
suing year at 16 cents per pound.
Lars Lebo, a Ramsey county we'll
digger, was struck on the head by a
flying windlass and will probably die.
Some one left a piece of punk in the
millinery store at Wahpeton, and sos
worth Of millinery went up in smoke.
The capture Of August Normand is
said to have cost Grand Forks county
$4,000.
Judge Cochrane Of Grand Forks sues
Ashley Mears for $1,000, for legal SER
vices performed.
Land Office officials at Grand Forks
are doing more business than has been
done for years.
A carload of Italians has been sent
to Dawson to take the place of the
striking laborers.
Felix Ozowiski, a Polander, was at
tackled by bull near Mimic last week,
and killed. His skull was crushed in.
A little year-old girl in Fargo fell
into a kettle Of boiling water and was
fearfully out not fatally scalded. >.
Footpads at Hankinson held up
preacher, and fineing nothing of value
about him but sermon, took that.
Col. Robi1son's friends in Mayville
have presented him with a $125 silver
service as token Of their esteem.
n. Peavey's elevator at Lisbon has
burned. Twelve thousand bushels of
wheat were destroyed.
Aju ouI uSSs WIZ lives louI lllllcS cilot
of Grandln, lost his barn by fire. Loss,
about 5000; partly insured.
The Catholic church property in Lis
bon is to be sold sooE by the sheriff,
to satisfy judgment and decree in
foreclosure for SSO2.lS.
The recent hail storm in Pembina
county was the most severe ever ex-
perienced there. 1t was thirty miles
long and from one to two miles wide.
Billings county has settled it's taxes
with the Northern Pacific, getting 40
per cent up to 1895, and Is per cent for
that year.
The Northern. Pacific has brought
suit to set aside the taxes against their
lands in Ransom county The amount
involved is about $4,000.
Fargo will retrench, and the COM
n.ittee appointed for that purpose re-
conmends a reduction Of $1,000 in the
salaries of various city officials.
The claims for damages to the
Methodist church at Cakes, which was
struck by lightning last week, were
adjusted for $147.
Live stock on the ranges out west Is
Ia SOOu SAtlpcs duu Il1c SulplACA'o W."
begin actively about the last OF the
month.
Thomas O'Neal Of Rottipeau secures
an original pension, and Mrs. Mary );
Cronk Of Lakota secures widows
pension.
Hans 'Romer had his hand crushed
by the hoof Of falling horse when
he was riding in the recent races al
Eldrige. He may survive, however.
Drayton claims the youngest high
school graduate in the state, IN INC
person of Eddie Cochran, aged four
teen.
The Northern Pacific wants to move
their station from Eckelson to polnt
half mile west, and one of the resi-
dents Of that place has gotten out ILL
injunction. -.
Col. Lounsberry, as special agent OF
the land department, will settle tne
dispute as to land in the Turtle Noun,
tain country between the settlers anu