Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-02-18
IN NORTH DAKOTA
lnlerestlnE News Items From all
Parts OF the state.

"NAkS ouI ipI II
couple OF nights recently.
jamestown was just solid week
without II delivery of freight.
Frank Moran of Fargo has been all.
pointed stenographer for Gov. Briggs.
Sargent county's cash box makes n
good showing.
Knives and things like that figured
in "a drunken row at Lisbon.
G. A. Henry won the Wahpcton col
Iege Oratorical contest.
Valley City wants the filrmen's tour
nament this year.
A rotary snow plOw on the James
town Northern was destroyed by fire.
r. ID. Bennett has been appointed
postmaster at Robinson, Ward county.
Il. III. Ryan of Dickinson has had a
cancer removed from his eye.
w. Il. Bauch Of Rutland has been
granted Il veterinary's certificate.
Valley City Normal has an attend
ance Of 116.
T.. S. Owens is deputy treasurer If
Kilder county.
The Polk county hospital has been
closed for want of patronage.
Game Warden Bowers confiscatctl A
nice bunch of game at Fargo, to kee),
It from leaving the state.
A .limtown youth went up against
the Salvation army, and now rcpoSrS
in bastile.
w. H. Shepard has contracted to car
~ the mail from Hannah to Cypress
twice week.
The Norwegian Lutherans of Hunt
err are endeavoring to raise funds for
te erection of IL church.
Capt. Pope has received instructions
to proceed with the survey of the mill
tary post at Bismarck.
A sneak. thief at Hannah stole a
buck saw. An evidence of industry
and he will not be prosecuted.
Steele county will invest in an eli
ton of Old Glory to float over the
court house.
patient at jamestown imagines he
is George Washington. and bsies him.
self conducting the Revolutionary war
Albert Retzlaff is standing trial AT
COoperstOwn on Il charge of ASSAULT
and battery, preferred by woman.
Anton Brelke of Norman was up
before the insanity board, but was ae-
quilted and released.
Peter Paulson of Mayville sustained
a fracture of the shoulder from Il fall
from sleigh.
Steele county will endeavor to have
its paupers taken care Of on the Trail
county poor farm.
Two Wahpetonians got lost in i re-
cent SHOW storm and made q night of
it. frozen feet being the only damage
sustained.
Fire caused Il damage of $1,5OO in
Montgomery & Flint's furniture store
at jamestown. Much of the stock was
damaged by water. Fully insured.
There were 1853 chattel mortgages
filed in Rolette county in 1896, and
only two reports of chattel mortgage
sales.
Jens Jcnson. the Fairmont farmer.
charged with the rape Of his daughter.
was found guilty in the second degree.
Sentence has not been passed yet.
Barnes county commissioners found
the poor house in eXecrable shape, and
fOrc>5ly warned the Overseer that ii
must not be found that way again.
David Lindberg. who recently had
his feet amputated at Froman, died OF
blooG poisoning. He was q blizzard
victim.
Fred Kraus Of Iidgerwood had the
little finger of his left hand crushed
in a chain halter last week. 1t had to
be amputated.
Work on the Forman artesian we'll is
suspended. 4 flow of water was Sc
cured, but not of sufficient force to use
for power.
Suit has been brought against DR..
Dorman Baldwin of jamestown for
$4,000. 1t is alleged that Cora Kline.
aged five died from the effects of med
icine administered by him.
Bob Daniels. Il bachelor, residing
near Cando, got lost in the recent biz
zard and walked forty miles. finally
landing at a farm house, pretty well
exhausted.
\ broken rail caused a wreck to one
snow-bucking outfit near jamestown.
and two engines were derailed. The
engineer was thrown twenty feet into
the snow. All of the trainmen es-
capped.
Michael Carroll, wealthy farmer
living hear Darlington, died from lne
effects Of chloroform administered
while about to undergo an operation
for the removal Of an abcess from his
left hand
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Wormington OF
Wheatland had Il narrow escape from
being asphyxiated with coal gas. Inc
pipes We're Jared apart. and it was
only through chance that they escaped
being suffocated.
Fred Boisvert, foreman of car re-
paircrs, was struck by n switch engine
and knocked under a slowly-moving
train at Fargo. The first trucks passed
over his body and the others stopped
on it. His hip was crushed and back
broken, and he lived only few mill
utes. He leaves n wife and six chill
dren in poor circumstances.
Jacob Rcinhardt, an old resident OF
Walsh county, is dead. He was one "'
the early settlers at Kelly's Point. l:i'-
err known as Acton, on the Red river.
He was the first sheriff of WALSH
county In territorial days. He had Tor