The Dickinson press., 1916-03-04

farmer living near Maxbass, was
operated on last week for spinal
trouble. He has been laid up for the
past two or three years.
The depot 1T Maddox was broken
into and a case of whiskey stolen,
which was consigned to a farmer out
north of the town. The cash drawer
was pried open but nothing found.
Jack Foote of Raub met with a
painful accident. He was driving to
neighbor's home and had a loaded
gun in the bottom of the hay rack. In
I some manner the gun was discharged
shooting him in the arm. !,
The engineer on a 500 freight that
arrived at Lansford Saturday night
broke his leg at the tank at Greene,
where the engine had run for water.
He returned to Lansford and the fire.
man took charge of the engine.
Perjury, alleged to have been COM
mitted two years ago, will be the
cause of the arrest of Peter Shafer
of Dogden, as soon as he has finished
a 30-day sentence in Jail for stabbing
his common wife with butcher knife.
The Clarence Sanderson farm home
near Willow caught fire during the
storm the other day and came near
burning down, with Mrs. Sanderson
sick in bed. They carried her and a
newly born babe to the barn while
the fire was being put out.
Fire which broke out in the Ulmer
garage at Hazen completely destroyed
the building, with about twenty autos
which were stored there. The fire
also spread to the electric light plant
and it was totally consumed. Loss is
100000, with no insurance.
/ Harry Kranick, aged rs, a farmer
near Beach, was securing load Of
coal from a Ignite mine when a
great mass of coal and dirt fell from
the top of the tunnel, burying him.
When others dug their way through
to him he was dead of suffocation.
He leaves a wife and one child.
Clarence Darrow, Chicago socialist,
the defender of Haywood, Mover,
Pettibone and Mcnamara, it is rum
ored, will open the campaign of the
Nonpartisan league by speech in
Fargo on March S1st. Points in the
state that will be visited are Grand
Forks, Devils Lake, Minot, Williston,
Valley City, Bismarck and Dickinson.
Firemen battled six hours with
flames that they confined to the base
ment of the Stutsman county court
house. The building was saved and
the loss held to about $4,000. The
origin of the fire is not definitely
known, but it is thought spontaneous
combustion in oilsoaked rags caused
the blaze.
| Ed. Abel, employed on the Case
farm two miles southeast of Mcleod,
was shot while combing his hair be-
fore mirror last Friday morning,
by the accidental discharge of a
rusty pistol in the hands of the four
year old son of Mr.. Case, who was
playing on the floor behind him. The
bullet caused serious wound, enter
ing just below his right ear and lodg-
ing in his head.
A Albert Briggs, who as second man
in the Regan-Lyness elevator at
Hamberg, is charged with cashing
bogus grain checks in the absence Of
the regular buyer, warrant for
whose arrest was issued recently, was
located by information obtained by
Deputy Sheriff o. A. Axness of Ham
berg and the sheriff of Ransom county
captured him at Buttzville.
To jump from a second story win
dow and sustain a cash on the right
side Of his abdomen, then walk a.mile
to neighbours farm during 20 be-
low zero weather, clad in a night
shirt only, all while sound asleep, was
the record established by John Kuck,
a farmer near New Leipzig "A ply
sician was called and found Rocks