Some scape grace stole a pouch of fifteen ivory balls from the Sheridan House this week and sold it for twenty-five cents at the Merchants, which of course turned it over to Mr. Bly.
Bismarck Tribune, 1-21-1881
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Cow Takes Bump: Stops Train and Saves Life of Toddling Youngster
Benedict, N.D., Dec 5—A peaceable old mooley cow by sacrificing her life at an opportune time undoubtedly saved little Elmo Lillehaugen, two year old son of Mr. and Mrs. E M Lillehaugen, from death under the wheels of a Soo line freight engine.
Little Elmo had set out on an exploring expedition which carried him onto the tracks of the Soo line, down which he was toddling oblivious to the rumble of a freight train thundering down upon him through a cut only 100 yards distant. The train crew did not see the youngster. They did, however, discover the cow, which ambled out onto the track just as the train left the cut. The engineer immediately threw on the air, and the train came to a stop after it had bunted the bossy into eternity, and with the pilot of the engine within a few feet of the paralyzed youngster, who had discovered his danger too late to act.
Both the engineer and fireman declare that but for the cow's sacrifice, the youngster would have been killed, as it would have been impossible for them to have stopped in time to save him, had they not seen the cow first. The frantic mother had witnessed the whole scene from the doorway of her home, and it was a very grateful woman who bundled in her arms a badly frightened small boy.
Bismarck Tribune, 12-5-1917
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Starvation Claims Life of Mother
Children Found Without Food—Mother Died an Hour After Family Found
Cando, N.D., Dec 27—When neighbors visited the family of a man named Weigel, who, with his wife and seven children has been living in a house provided free of charge by George McWilliams, a farmer northeast of the city, they found the mother in a dying condition and the children scantily clothed with no food in the house. It is believed the mother died of starvation as she lived but an hour after she was found. No attempt had been made to place the blame but feeling is running high in that community against the husband.
Bismarck Tribune, 12-27-1921
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Taken To The Pen.
Yesterday afternoon Deputy Sheriff Redmon and lady attendant arrived from Fargo with Mrs. Forester, who was recently sentenced to the pen for four and one-half years for shot lifting by Judge Pollock.
Mrs. Forrester will have but one other of her sex in the penitentiary to prevent her from being the only representative of her sex there.
It was feared that there would be a good deal of shoplifting in Fargo during the holidays but from reports it seems that the severe sentence that Mrs. Forester received a sort of fear her been inoculated into those whom the authorities and merchants feared.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 12-27-1904
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Mrs. C Reinhart Suffers Injury
Badly Injured In Falling Down A Flight of Stairs Wednesday.
Fell Backward, Breaking Her Wrist and a Bone in the Shoulder
Mrs. Charles Reinhart, who lives at 214 Ninth street south, is in St. Ansgar's hospital today as the result of injuries which she received when she fell down stairs at her home Wednesday afternoon. She suffered a broken right shoulder and wrist.
It seems that Mrs. Reinhart was going upstairs and in some way lost her balance and fell down backwards, striking in such a way as to break the shoulder and wrist so badly that the bones protruded through the flesh.
The injured woman, who lives alone, called for help but no one heard her and she finally managed to get to her feet and get outside and over to a neighbor's house.
Moorhead Daily News, 12/20/1923
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Kicks Lady And Fined $10
Napoleon, N.D. Dec 29—It cost Martin Gunseth just $10.00 for kicking Mrs. Christ Schock in the shins.
"Well, she was trying to unhitch mine team, and I couldn't stop her," he said.
"Shouldn't kick a lady, anyway, $10.00," said the judge.
Bismarck Tribune, 12/29/1921
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