Thomas Miller is in the penitentiary, brought in by Sheriff Lamb. Miller is the man who stole a quantity of grain to pay for the expenses of his honeymoon and got caught. He pleaded guilty to grand larceny and will spend a year of his honeymoon in the penitentiary.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 12-12-1900
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Killdeer—Just as he was about to stoop and pick up what he thought was an old glove lying in his lawn, Judge Washburn looked again, dodged as a rattlesnake raised its head. The judge dispatched the unwanted guest with a rake.
The Bismarck Trigune, 8/23/1937
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At Pembina, N.D., Al Boyer gave his 5-year-old son a dose of
carbolic acid by mistake for castor oil. The boy lived only a couple hours afterward.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 12-8-1908
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Woman Hurt, Auto Speeder Keeps Going
Mrs. H. A. Ziller of McKenzie Badly Injured in Accident East of the City
Mrs. H. A. Ziller of McKenzie sustained a badly crushed hand and lost a finger in addition to receiving bruises and cuts early last night near the penitentiary when a large automobile crashed into their car as Rev. and Mrs. Ziller and family were returning to their home after visiting in Bismarck.
Rev. Ziller stated that they saw the large car approaching at a high rate of speed and had turned out to one side of the road as far as possible, but that the big car crashed into them, completely wrecking their car and throwing the occupants out, and then without halting to offer assistance sped onward.
Mrs. Ziller was brought to the Bismarck hospital by another car which passed shortly after the accident.
Bismarck Tribune, 11/7/1923
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Eight Murdered in One Household
Brutal Slaughter at Midway on Turtle Lake Farm Most Terrible Yet Recorded
A heinous murder, unparalleled in brutality and pitiful circumstances in the state, occurred at Turtle Lake last Thursday when a father, mother, five girls and the hired hand were killed with a shotgun or a hatchet. An eight-months-old infant is the sole survivor of the prosperous family.
The father, Jacob Wolfe, aged 41, Mrs. Wolfe, aged 35; Bertha, 13; Maria, 10; Edna, 8; and Lydia, 6, were all shot, and Martha, 3, was killed by a blow from a hatchet. Jake Hofer, the chore boy, aged 13, was shot through the back. Emma, the surviving baby, scantily covered and in a heatless room near an open window, was found Saturday, slowly starving to death. She is now sole owner of the well equipped farm valued at $30,000.
Slope County News, 4/30/1920
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VICTIMS OF MINE EXPLOSION
AND BIG PRAIRIE FIRE HERE
Three Men Badly Burned by Accident at Dodge in Local Hospital
Escaping from a blazing coal mine only to kindle a prairie fire which swept over an area a mile square, and finally forced to leap into an ice-cold pond to save themselves, R.A. Norton, Paul Fritz, and Leo O'Brien, Dodge coal miners, reached the Bismarck hospital Friday afternoon with their faces and hands and portions of their bodies burned to a raw blister.
According to William Thurston, owner of the mine in which the men were employed, and Dr. E. T. Eade of Halliday, who accompanied the trio to Bismarck, the miners were engaged in testing some black powder by laying trains on the floor of a mine level when the powder communicated with a tin cask which had sprung a leak. The cask exploded, igniting a larger barrel of powder, and the blasting explosive was showered on the three men, who rushed from the mine tearing their burning garments from them as they ran.
Fritz was the first man to think of the pond, and he plunged in head-first. After he had obtained relief, he turned to the rescue of his frantic comrades, pitching O'Brien into the water, and then delivering Norton, who, rolling in the grass to extinguish the flames, had kindled a roaring prairie fire which pursued him and added new torments.
After the trio had saved themselves they were compelled to pitch in with others attracted to the scene by their cries and fight a prairie fire which quickly swept over an area 1 1-2 miles long and a mile wide. After the excitement was over, attention was given to the miners' burns, which were found so serious that it was decided to remove them to the hospital here. It is probable that skin-grafting whill be necessary in all of the cases, and that the men's faces will be badly scarred for life.
Bismarck Tribune, 11-24-1917
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