Little Girl Grasps Wire; Electrocuted
(By the Associated Press)
Fargo, N.D. June 29—A coroner's jury was empaneled this morning to investigate the death of Irene Bergman, 10, who was instantly killed here last night when she grasped a guy wire carrying a heavy electric current as she played on the street. The guy wire ran from an electric light pole to the ground. It became detached and it is believed to have swung against a live wire, according to neighbors.
James Fadella, neighbor, who grasped the wire in freeing the dead girl's grip on it only suffered scorched hands.
The Bismarck Tribune, 6-30-1922
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Liquor Flood Goes In Sewer
Mixed by a deputy United States marshal an old-fashioned cocktail today rolled down Bismarck sewers to the Big Muddy.
Beer, whiskey, wine, brandy, confiscated in the Slope country in raids by prohibition officers was poured into sewers in the federal building yesterday by Deputy United States Marshal Walker, acting under an order of the federal court.
All the liquor had been poisoned in accordance with federal law before it was destroyed and had been held for some time at the federal building here.
Several hundred gallons were dumped.
The Bismarck Tribune, 6/22/1928
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Madame Massey is Brought to the Penitentiary to Serve a Year for Sale of Booze.
The "hollow" in Fargo has been deprived of one of its colored belles by the relentless arm of the prohibition law. Madame Massey was today brought into the penitentiary by Sheriff Twitchell of Cass county to serve a year for selling intoxicating liquors contrary to law. She has the distinction of being the second person to be sentenced to the penitentiary for that offense and the further distinction of being the only female prisoner at the institution at present time. She is not a particularly welcome visitor for the reason that there are not the accommodations for female prisoners that there might be, as they have been rara aves in the history of the institution, the last one having been discharged several years ago.
The madame is a tall and rather angular female, and her belongings when she arrived today were done up in a little "telescope". The sheriff placed her in a hack at the depot when the train arrived, a heavy and drizzling rain falling, and took her at once to the penitentiary where she was transferred to the custody of the prison authorities.
The Bismarck Daily Tribune, 6-15-1901
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Rattlesnake Bite
Dickinson, June 9—Ab Murray of South Heart was the victim of a rattlesnake yesterday while getting out cedar posts in the Bad Lands, having received a bad bite in the shin. Dr. Davis was called over the wire from Belfield and Ab is now reported to be getting along all right.
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Autos must not go faster than eight miles per hour in Fargo.
The Bismarck Daily Tribune, 6-7-1905
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The gentleman hog which has worried the citizens of Bismarck so much by prowling around back yards during the past year, died suddenly on Sunday. Somebody shot him.
The Bismarck Weekly Tribune, 6-28-1878
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