The Dickinson press., 1916-08-19
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STATE NEWS T

10 STATE NEWS NOTES Q
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Alexander Heralla, a Finlander, is
in a hospital at Devils Lake with both
feet cut off as the result of an at
tempt to get a ride on a freight
train. -.
A convict who escaped from the
~penitentiary at Deer Lodge, Mont,
and escaped a second time from his
captors, was recaptured near Het-
finger recently.
Mrs. Frank A. Campbell, wife of a
farmer near Hettinger, saw her hus-
band killed by lightning while he was
attempting to get a team of horses
away from a wire fence.
The new automobile belonging to
S. E. Herrick of Parshall was burned
while he was driving from Elbowoods
to his home town. The fire started
from the %backfring of the engine.
Terrorizing over so laborers riding
on a freight train at Grand Forks,
several holdup men, claimed to be
I. w. w. agitators, forced several to
leap from the train after they had
been relieved of their v%aluables.
R. Petrick of Wolford, prominent
farmer, was perhaps fatally injured
by a bullet fired by Nelson Forester,
an I. w. w, during a disagreement
over wages. Forester is held pend
ing the outcome Of Petrick's mi uries.
It was not a niger in a woodpile
but a real live negro which Harold
Connolly of Devils Lake found in the
basement of the Bell drug store. The
negro said he was looking for his ice
tongs. Connolly let him tell it to
the police.
Frank Phillips, bound for Chaffee
from South st. Paul, where he had
marketed cattle, fell from a Northern
Pacific train ear Casselton and was
unconscious 10 hours. He returned
to his home at Chaffee and will re-
cover, no bones being broken.
Floored by unruly colts, Mrs.
seriously injured when the animals
trampled her, as she lay unconscious
in their stall. The woman was at
tempting to feed the animals when
they attacked her. Internal injuries
are feared.
Geo. w. Taylor of New Rockford,
engineer who has been engaged in in
stalling the electric light plant, has
completed his work and will install a
big engine for a concern at Wilton.
When this work is completed he in
tends to begin the manufacture of
Ignite briquets.
The Sunlight Hat Company of
establish a factory at Bismarck as
soon as suitable quarters can be pro-
vided. This company manufactures
hats which are distributed throughout
the northwest. It employs 80 girls
and has an annual payroll of $25,O0O.
Jimmy Smith of Minot, employ
ment agent, is being sued by a party
of Greeks for the return of So each
which he collected for landing jobs
for them on the Great Northern. He
had told the Greeks that he had to
pay 81 each to land the jobs. In an
argument he struck one of them and
was fined $25.
Attacked by a swarm of mad bees,
Mrs. B. Hoffman of ~Cooperstown was
nearly killed, but the attending ply
sicians say she will recover from the
poison. Mrs. Hoffman shook a tree
on which the bees had alighted-and
several of them fell on her. They be-
came excited, and soon Mrs. Hoffman
was fighting the whole swarm.
- One thousand dollars worth of
silks and other merchandise vas
stolen by burglars who raided two
stores at Paramount recently. The
men escaped from the city in auto
mobiles. The men showed remark
able knowledge of the value of mer-
Misunderstanding only the most ex-
pensive materials.
Fred Ellingson, residing near Mad
dock, is dead as a result of injuries
received during the recent storm hit
ting that district. Ellingson Was
caught by a flying timber, being hit
on the head, the skull being frac-
tured. Several other storm victims
in that locality are recovering. Ell
lingson's death makes the third re-
sulting from the storm.
Damage actions for an aggregate
of $125,000, growing out of a cross
ing accident at Berthold, N. D., in