Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-03-23
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meanor.
The Devils Lake Inter-Ocean is IS
years old and growing better every
week.
The creditors of the Grand Forks
National bank get another five per
cent dividend.
Register of deeds fees in Richland
county for three months reached
nearly. $1,000.
An attempt to chloroform and rob
Mrs. Stewart, landlady of the Boston
hotel at Fargo, was frustrated.
Mandan holds a special election
March 20 to decide on the issue of
$4,000 bonds for the erection of a new
school house.
Prd6. G. H. Clemmer, formerly prin-
cipal of the Dickinson schools, goes to
Fenton, Mich, to accept the presidency
Of the Fenton Normal college.
F. D. Merritt of Grand Forks states
that $4,000 people are at Seattle await
ing the opening of traffic to Cape
Nome. He has just returned from
there.
Grand Forks and Cass county repub-
means will hold three separate con-
Ventlons to make the several classes
OF nominations of delegates and county
officers.
1t is said of Fargo's new Masonic
temple. it is the largest structure in
the United States devoted exclusively
to Masonry, and has the largest and
best prOporL4Oneu auditorium.
Northern Pacific surveyors have
completed their survey from Minor to
Cakes. The Republican expects trains
to be running from St. Paul through
Cakes early in the summer.
A correspondent of the Forum down
in Iowa writes that persons are there
from the east buying land at $40 to
900 an acre and the sellers are packing
up and preparing to come to North Da-
kota.
The Grafton monument committee.
Which is collecting funds for the erec-
ton OF a memorial to the dead soldier
boys of Company c expects to have
the monument up for dedication by
July 4.
Fat Phalen, a former resident of o.
nabrock, Cavalier county, was killed
In battle in the Philippines. He was
a member of Troop 1, third cavalry,
and was shot and killed by the side of
Fred Gull, another Osnabrock bow with
whom he enlisted.
A brakeman by the name of Alex
Osmondson, while switching in the
Great Northern yards at Minot, was
blown from the top of a box car into
n river and almost instantly killed.
lie fell about twenty-five feet, striking
the ice with great force. He resided
at Larimore and left a wife and one
child.
In the district court at Forman Lewis
Demorest, a half-breed, charged with
committing rape on Mrs. Mary Longe,
set up as his defense that he was insane
and that the woman's husband put
him up to commit the crime, which de-
tense is not considered very good by
the legal fraternity.
Carl N%ordtveldt died at the hospital
in jamestown last week. Nordtveldt
was the insane person who attempted
suicide by cutting his throat, and who
put up such a stiff fight against Sheriff
Jones of Wahpeton en- route to the
hospital. His death was due to in
Jurles inflicted upon himself and the
exposure from jumping into the icy
waters of the James river.
Osnabrock, Cavalier county, people
have received particulars of the death
of Corporal Phalen of that place in the
Philippines. He died from injuries
received January End, after being in
the hospital at Manila a week. Phalen
in company with twelve cavalrymen
OF his regiment were drawn into am
bush by the insurgents, and the list OF
casualties included the whole number.
His comrade, Fred M. Gull, another
Osnabrock boy, had his rifle shot out
of his hands, but the extent of his in
]urles have so far not been ascertained.
Frank Gray, for many years a resi-
dent of Wahpeton, committed suicide
in a saloon in New York city on March
6, by taking carbolic acid in a glass OF
beer. His remains were taken to
Pennington, N. j., the place Of his
birth, for burial. Gray was a lawyer,
and a victim of the drink habit. Al
the time of his death Gray was en-
ployed as a clerk at the New York Cen
trail freight Office. In his pocket were
found two letters, one addressed to
the superintendent of the office where
he was employed, and the other to his
cousin. In both letters he expressed
his thanks for kind treatment, and
said ut is useless for me to fight
against it drink longer. feel just
flied in the step I am about to take and
have no fear of the end. My friends
have done everything possible for me
but it has been of no avail"
A FRIGHTFUL BLUNDER.
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