The Dickinson press., 1916-08-26
STATE NEWS IT.
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legs broken when he got in the way
of a large cake of ice hat was being
unloaded from a wagon.
Prof. J. H. %Schlenvogt of the agri-
cultural department of the Grand
Forks schools suffered a painful acct
dent when a 400-pound barrel of oil
fell on his foot, crushing it badly.
Petitions are being circulated wei
Mercer county for the redistricting of
the county into five commissioner dis
tricts. At present there are three
commissioners and it is claimed that
there is entirely too much work for
that nuraber of men.
Well diggers engaged in sinking a
shaft at Muster, hit a pocket of
natural gas at a depth of only 81
feet, and two workmen were almost
overcome by the poisonous fumes be-
fore being rescued. The extent of
the gas deposit is to be investigated.
Severt johnson was painfully in
jured while raking hay on the farm
east of the river near Cooperstown.
The team ran away, throwing him
violently from the seat, his head
striking one Of the wheels and cut
ting an eight-inch cash in his scalp.
The Bismarck Commercial Club last
week took over the management of
the gasoline ferry over the Missouri
river at Bismarck, thus insuring con-
slant service across the river.
Private owners had failed to operate
a ferry for several days, with the re-
suit that tourists were held up-this
point being on the Red Trail.
Archie Currier, a farmer living
near Starkweather, dropping Is feet
from a ladder, injuring his arm,
worked about his home all day, and
not till the afternoon of the succeed
ing day did he inquire of a physician
to determine just how badly he had
been hurt. The doctor found the arm
broken.
The nine-months-old daughter of
Fred M. Chapek of Anamoose was
brought to Minot suffering from a
head of wheat which the child swal-
lowed but which went through the
windpipe into the bronchial tubes
leading to the lungs. The child was
nearly dead, being hardly able to
breathe. The babe was placed in a
hospital, where a specialist, by the
aid of modern Instruments, was able
to locate, the wheat and remove it.
The head was half broken off and
contained seven grains of wheat. The
mother supposed that the babe had
swallowed some slippery elm.
During the recent storm the hand
some Albert church, a short distance
south of the jacobson place at Mad
dock, was entirely torn to pieces
and scattered over the church lot and
over the adjoining fields. The organ,
the furniture, in fact everything in
and about the building was crushed
or smashed into kindling wood. The
whole pieces Of furniture about the
place was a few camp chairs, and the
body part of the large bell. Fortu-
nately for the congregation there
was a $4,000 tornado insurance on the
building and furniture-and this will
help some in rebuilding it.
After half a dozen men had tried
to stop a horse which had bolted with
the rider, who was unable to stop him,
Joe Fix, a member Of the city street de-
partment's gang Of laborers at
Grand Forks, undoubtedly saved the
life of the boy. He saw the horse
coming towards him. He seized his
shovel, welding it as q buldgeon and
struck the animal a terrific blow m
the head, telling it. Men nearby
rushed to the spot and held the horse
down while others entangled the boys
foot from the stirrup. He was more
frightened than hurt. When released
the horse scrambled to it's feet, APP
parently uninjured.
Donald Currier of Williston, eleven,
was drowned in al attempt to rescue
his brother, two years younger, from
the backwater of the Missouri river.
The latter was saved by companions.
Fred Kern, residing south of Elliott,
waking up about 4:45 a.. m. and not
finding his wife in bed went around
the house and discovered his wife
PROSTATE in the yard, having cut her
throat in a fit of melancholia. The
family physician vas sent for but she
was beyond aid and died at $3.50 a.
M, conscious but unable to speak.
She used an old butcher knife as the
instrument of death. Her baby was
only two weeks old and it was sup
posed %puerperal fever resulted in the
mental depression. Deceased was a
young woman only nineteen years old
and the tragedy has cast a shadow
over that home.
Benjamin Paine, ,well-digger of
Alfred, LaMoure county, and Gus
Berlinke, Kansas City, NO., a helper,
were killed by dynamite gas while
boring. a well near Streeter. The men
had gone down to the depth of thirty
feet when they encountered a rock,
After testing the hole for gas after
using dynamite and finding no trace
of it, a harness was fastened to Ber-
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