Mother Confesses Strangling Child

CARRINGTON—(AP)—Foster county States Attorney C.W. Burnham said Monday that Mrs. Chester Short, Carrington, confessed to him Saturday night that she strangled her 14-month-old daughter, Judy Ann, Friday afternoon.

Mrs. Short earlier explained the death by saying the child slipped down in her high chair and suffocated, Burnham said. The states attorney said that report baffled doctors, who called him in to investigate.

The woman's husband is in the army, Burnham said.

The states attorney blamed the strangling death on domestic difficulties.

Funeral services were held here Sunday for the child.

The Bismarck Tribune, 8/30/1948
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Fair Huron Bather Bitten in the Heel; Teeth Running Wild

Huron S.D., Aug. 2—A winsome Huron girl came in from a dip in Lake Byron with the imprint of a human set of molars in one of her dainty heels and swore that some man had bitten her. A searching party discovered the teeth which did the deed—they were false—but it was not until some days later that a M. A. Muraine, a local insurance dealer, claimed the teeth, and also testified that they were not in their accustomed place when they bit the pretty miss.

Bismarck Tribune, 8-2-1917
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New Salem Doctor Is Still at Large

Dr. Steven Fisher, New Salem doctor who is wanted on a charge of performing a criminal operation in Morton county, is still at large, State's Attorney Kelsch said today.

Dr. Fisher is charged with second degree murder as the result of the death of Mrs. Lawrence Burley, New Salem schoolteacher-wife, in Bismarck June 17.

Sherif Handtmann, who arrived in New Salem Wendesday with a warrant, found that Dr. Fisher had learned of the planned arrest the preceding day and had left.

Lawrence Burley, husband of the deceased, decided to place the murder charge against the New Salem doctor as a result of statements made to him by his wife while she lay near death in Bismarck, the state's attorney said.

Funeral services for the deceased were held Wednesday at New Salem.

The Bismarck Tribune, 6/22/1928
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Found Frozen On Prairie

Mandan—John Ellis, one of the early residents of Morton county, was found frozen to death on the road about five miles north of Judson.

Mr. Ellis, who was in Judson during the day, was apparently in the best of health and along toward evening he started to walk to his home about five miles north of that place. His body was found by the roadside in teh morning.

It was the belief of physicians that he was stricken with heart failure and probably...{illegible}

The Almont Arena, 3-11-1911 (Source)

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Brushed from the running board of an automobile by a passing truck, Eugene, 11, and Herbert, 12, sons of Mrs. Lydia Guenther, Mandan, are in a Mandan hospital suffering from injuries sustained in the accident last night. Eugene has a badly fractured right thighbone, and Herbert received severe lacerations on his hips.

Bismarck Tribune, 8/29/1929
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Plaza Farmer Killed

Plaza N.D., June 25—(AP)—Ray Ballard, farmer residing 10 miles north and one mile west of here, died Thursday afternoon at his farm home as a result of injuries received when a team with which he was operating a cultivator ran away late this forenoon. Ballard was thrown under the cultivator and his head was crushed.

The Bismarck Tribune, 6/25/1931
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