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TERRIBLE ACCIDENT
Death of Johnny Humbert—Shot Accidentally by a Son of General Carlin.
Gen. Carlin and family arrived from the east Monday evening, and in Company with the Misses Jennings and Seidmore, left for Standing Rock Tuesday morning. While stopping a few moments at Fort Lincoln, a little son of Gen. Carlin picked up a carbine and commenced playing with it. Some one suggested taking it away from him, but it was remarked that it was not loaded and he would not harm it. About this time the gun was discharged, the ball entering the neck of little Johnny Humbert, oldest child of Capt. James Humbert, severing the jugular vein. Of course he lived but a moment. We will not attempt to picture the distress of the parents of the two children, or the gloom that accident cast over the post at Fort Lincoln. The General's party had intended to remain a day at Ft. Lincoln, but they could not do so, and pursued their journey in sadness.
Bismarck Tri-Weekly Tribune, 7/25/1877
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Mr. Hemp of this place, is talking of bringing a damage suit against the harvesting machine companies, on the charge that they are now making the machines to run too quietly and noiselessly. Mr. Hemp says in former times when it commenced to get dry, all he had to do was to hitch on to the old mower, go out and cut hay for half a day, and the result would be that the noise and racket of the mower, together with the scent of the cut grass, would in nine case out of ten produce rain inside of twenty-four hours; but that scheme don't work now any longer, since everything has been too much monkeyed with, and what they call improved.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 7/28/1894
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George Fifer of Ramsey county, in 1893, killed a wild goose and in cleaning found a kernel of a very peculiar kind of wheat. He saved it and planted it the following spring, raising four heads, one of which contained 109 kernels. He has continued to plant what he had harvested the previous year, and this season has one and one-half acres in. He says that in ordinary seasons this wheat will yeild from forty to sixty bushels to the acre. He intends to place it on the market in 1899 and will sell it for seed at $2 per bushel. The wheat is of a dark red color, and as hard as Fife.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 7/24/1897
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A BAD SWEDE.
Fargo, July 23.—A special to the Argus from Lake Park says suspicion rests on John Ellis, a Swede, fifty-three years old, for murdering his wife and he is now under arrest. He reported that she hung herself during his absence but the neighbors did not believe it and it was found he was in prison in Sweden ten years for killing a man there. He came to Minnesota five years ago with his daughter leaving his wife in the old country. He is said to cohabited with the daughter until his wife came here, two years later. A boy three years old is the result of this. Circumstances are said to be developing rapidly around the accused. The coroner was summoned before the burial of the wife but did not hold an inquest.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 7/25/1884
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When Misses Vera Markell and Orpha Williams returned to their school in Maryville Sunday afternoon they found that during their absence, someone had entered the building and turned everything upside down, even in the living rooms overhead. The school house at Rolla has also recently been broken into, and although no apparent theft has occurred, nor any material damage been done, nevertheless, the mere entry of a public building is a serious offence, and those contemplating such acts should take warning in time.
Turtle Mountain Star, 6-19-1913
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Denis Hosier, a Romanian living west of Velva, got full while celebrating the arrival of some fellow countrymen and was found dead in his shack a short time later.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 7/24/1905
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