Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-12-15
TE3 NEWS

Park River will have electric light.
Mayville suffered a 100000 fire Tues
day.
Gladstone has organized an enforce
ment league.
Representative Spalding has intro
duced Il bill to pension b. II. Breasted.
Carl Wenn. aged Z years, fell under
an N. p. train at Moorhead, lost a leg,
and died from his injuries.
Diphtheria is reported at Medina,
near jamestown. Six children in one
family are down with the disease.
Hanson's Touring mill at Devils
Lake burned early Wednesday morn
ing. The loss is $4,000; insurance,
$4,000.
w. w. S%tickney. Il probable republic
can candidate for governor of Ver-
mont, is a brother of DR.. V. H. Stick
ney of Dickinson.
\ large mountain lion was killed
near Nesson, Williams county, last
week. They have been creating havoc
among cattle herds in that city.
William Collins Of Fargo was killed
Monday at Jessie. Mr.. Collins was
working on All elevator there when he
fell some forty feet and was killed in
Stantly.
st. Thomas Times: Last week a
special carload Of Walsh and Pembina
county people went to California to
spend the winter. Does that look like
hard times?
G. A. Edwards Of Courtenay was
held to the district court for violating
the prohibition law. Witness testified
they took liquor in his barn and paid
for it by laying the money on top Of the
key.
George d. Lay, formerly president Of
the defunct Grand Forks National
bank, which has been in litigation for
some ii e, has been adjudged a bank
rupt by Judge Amidon of the United
States court.
A Washington dispatch says: 11x-
Governor \. II. Burke of North Da-
kota, recently returned to Washington
after an absence of a year and Il half
in the west anu southwest. He is an
inspector of land offices. and his duties
call him out of the city for the greater
part of the time. His family lives
here.
w. w. Jermaine of the Journal, in his
Washington letter, says Senator Hans
brOugh is figuring prominently in the
committee which is parceling out the
senate patronage. This afternoon a
meeting of the committee will be held
and in Il few days the northwestern
states will begin to find out what they
are to get. The preliminary work has
been on for ten days and meetings have
been held behind closed doors in Hans
brough's committee room. North la
kota is in line for a $4,000 or $500
place. it is said. although a definite an
nouncement is not yet possible.
Hans Thorpe, charged with having
murdered his wife, formerly Miss Ida
johnson, had his preliminary hearing
before Judge Murray at Minot. He
waived examination and was bound
over to the district court. The cause
of the murder was jealousy and dates
back to but the 25th of last month,
when Thorpe thought his wife had
danced too frequently with other men
at a party given by her brother on his
birthday anniversary. Later Thorpe
had threatened her saying he would
teach her to dance with other men, in
consequence Of which she left home,
taking refuge with a %neighbor. Thorpe
called about 8 O'clock and begged hel
to return with him. She refused, where
upon he held Il revolver within six
inches of her face and fired three shots
two entering her mouth, causing in
slant death. Thorpe then turned the
gun on himself and fired one shot
which entered below the eye. Thorpe
when told his wife was dead, said he