Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-18
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Fargo. N. D Oct. 11-A sad accident
occurred last night at one Of the local
hotels, when ]. w. Brown a well known
collector for the Rumley company came
in on one Of the late trains and suffering.
from an acute attack Of Indigestion, took
too large dose of strychnine.' Before
going to his room the deceased remark.
ed to the clerk that he was unwell and
suffering from indigestion and shortly
a-terward he was heard moaning in hts
room, and when help reached him he had
was only able to explain that he had
taken an overdose Of the poison, and
passed away very quickly.
He leaves a lie who is matron OF
the Comstock hotel in Moorhead and
daughter Mrs. Tracey, VINO lives in De-
wills Lake. Both were notified and the
body given over to Undertaken Wasem.
There will be private funeral service
tomorrow afternoon at o'clock at the
undertaking parlors and interment will
be made in Riverside cemetery.
jamestown, N D., oct. ia south
bound freight heavily laden with grain
met with a bad spill on the jamestown
and Northern branch o. the N. P. Wed
nesday afternoon ABOUT two miles north
of Pingree, when six cars of wheat were
demolished and the grain spilled along
the track. The wrecking crew was sent
to the repair the damage and gathered
up the 5000 bushels or more of valuable
grain. The Leeds passenger train was
stopped north of the wreck and the pas.
sengers transferred to the Pingree-Wil.
ton train and brought to this city.
Jamestown, Oct. u-W4th the Sargent
county board of insanity commissioners
divided On the question: Of William
Krause's sanity, question has arisen
over what to do with the man. He was
originally arrested for wrecking the in
terror Of the Lutheran church at Della
mere last August. On being arraigned
he was declared insane and later his
case was before Judge Allen Of the dis
trict court. He desired to plead guilty
but Judge Allen held he was not SUBJ
ject for the criminal courts 20 deal with
and he was sent back to the insanity
commission.
The commission then decided by a
| vote Of 2 to l that he was crazy, Diff.
guilty wlll be had in securing place
Tor him at jamestown because of the
! crowded conditions of the institution.
| Fort Smith, Ark, Oct. 1.-The Kansa:
City & Southern express train was helc
up last night between Hatfield and Meta
The express car was entered by three
bandits but express messenger Merrill
Berget, hid the valuable packages ant
| terrifying himself opened fire on thu
robbers, wounding one of them, who wa:
later captured, the other two escaping
Out of ammunition the bandits bea
the express messenger into insensibilit,
with their revolvers, but failed to secure
| any money or valuables.
Minneapolis Oct. LA shortage of TO-.
900 threshermen in North Dakota was
reported to the civil and commerce asso:
citation today and some of the directors
and officers held meeting at the COM
mercial club to map out plan to allevi-
ate the situation. The secretary Of the
Fargo commercial club informed them
that three fourths of the crop is still in
the shock and that loss Of millions
of dollars will be suffered if enough la
Dor IS not rushed into the state to take
care of the grain during the next 30
days.
The Fargo club believes that railroad
| laborers could be pressed into service
and asked the cooperation of the asso-
citation in securing, the permission of
| the railroads to let, the men cease rail-
road work. and go into the fields.
Under the law the railroads are not
allowed to give free fares or pay for
transportation. It was suggested that the
4 argo commercial club pay fares of lab
orers into North Dakota If the Civic
and Commerce league can induce men
to go. The association will request com
naercial clubs in Minnesota and South
Dakota to help supply laborers for
N'SAeAi OphO1u. lie dISU CUILIIleTClul
club stated that from $3.50 to 81 a day
will be paid to threshermen.
Hansboro. N. D.. Oct. 12-Wm Schmit
transient harvester whose home is sup
posed to be in Milwaukee. was found
dead by one of his companions. At the
inquest it developed that Schmit with
three others had gone to Cartwright.
Manitoba, and all had INDUCED in mixed
drinks, more or less both at Cartwright
and on the way back to Hansboro.
Schmit and his two companions went
to sleep in a small barn Monday night
and the next morning Schmit was found
to be dead.
Chicago, Oct. Elm an address here
today Colonel Roosevelt listed Governor
Deneen of Illinois as a member of the
Ananias club, severely criticizing the
captain Of the ship Of that state.
Constantinople, Oct 12-rhe troops at
Berna were relieved today by Turkish
reinforcements. Fighting continues and
the Bulgarfans have destroyed two large
bridges today in the region of Kodum.