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Arnold Lofsteness of Granville was was hit in the eye by a chip while chopping kindling. At the present time it is not known whether the eye can be saved or not.

Bismarck Tribune, 10/21/1914
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W. A. Phillips is nearly recovered from an accident at the Gull River Lumber company's yards. He came near losing the fingers of one hand by too close contact with the wood saw.

Jamestown Alert, 11/12/1896
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Pillsbury Lad Killed; Injury Is Self-Inflicted

State's Attorney Englert and Coroner Holberg were called to Pillsbury Tuesday evening to act upon the case of the 13-year-old Everett boy who had shot himself with a revolver.

Report is that the two boys were left at home while their parents went to church. During a scuffle their bed was broken down, and one of the boys went to a trunk and secured a revolver which which he shot himself in the head. He expired before the parents could return home. Mr. Everett, father of the lad, runs an elevator at Pillsbury.

The coroner and state's attorney decided it was a plain case of self-inflicted injury, and that nothing was to be done further than holding the last sad rites in connection with the fatal shooting of the unfortunate lad.

Valley City Weekly Times-Record, 12/7/1916
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Richard Boyle has come in from the farm and will shortly return to work for the N.P. jerking lightning.

Bismarck Tribune, 11/9/1905
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James Duffee was arrested at Minnewaukan for horse stealing. Twenty minutes after being lodged in jail, he smashed a hole through the upper part of the jail door with an iron bar wrenched from one of the cell doors and skipped.

Jamestown Alert, 11/12/1885
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Caught in a belt and hurled against the machine with such a force that his skull was crushed, both jaws and both arms broken, W. M. Scherer was instantly killed, near Center.

Bismarck Tribune, 10/21/1914
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