MANY FOOLED AND NEW SALEM MAN SAVES $22
"April fool" was worth $22 to a New Salem man.
He reported to local police that he had lost his pocketbook. A search was started. The man retraced his visits in the city yesterday, and on a writing table in the postoffice he found his pocketbook containing $22.
"Everybody must have thought it was an April fool joke and wouldn't pick it up," remarked a policeman.
They did not learn the man's name.
Bismarck Tribune, 4/2/1921
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KILLED INSTANTLY
Orrin, N.D., May 4—A son of Martin Koller was almost instantly killed when the horse he was leading to water, ran away and dragged him through a barbed wire fence, his head being almost severed from the body.
Bismarck Tribune, 5/4/1921
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Not a single case appeared on the docket in police court this morning. A lone drunk was taken in tow early this morning at at the present time is sleeping off his jag. When arrested he had the sum of 20 cents in his pocket.
Fargo Forum and Daily Republican, 2/5/1915
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TOO NEAR THE ENGINE
Horrible Accident Befalls an Iowa Man at Crosby
Crosby—Theodore Berglund, aged 25, was killed when his clothes became entangled in the gearing of a tractor engine. He was thrown to the ground, one drive wheel passing over his head and mashed it almost to a pulp. Berglund recently came here from Joice, Ia., and the remains will be shipped there for burial.
Turtle Mountain Star, 5/9/1912
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Ole K. Thoe, one of the oldest and best known residents of
Fordville, suffered the loss of his right hand when the member was caught in the grinders of a food mill.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 3/11/1915
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Beadspread Rope Fatal To Guest Escaping From Fire
Grand Forks, April 9—F.J. Stansberry, Minneapolis, Minn, was killed shortly after 4 o'clock this morning when he attempted to escape from a room on the third floor of a hotel during a small basement fire. Bedsheets which he had roped together and tied to the window broke under the weight of his body and he plunged three stories down striking head first on an iron grating.
The fire was confined to a small storage room in the basement. The electric light meters in this room were quickly burned out plunging the hotel into darkness which made it difficult for people to get out. There were no signs of a panic, however.
Bismarck Tribune, 4/9/1920
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