Martin Gilbrandson, a
Lisbon farmer, went to
Sheldon a few nights ago on a spree, having about $300 in his pocket. When he recovered consciousness he found himself in a boxcar in Duluth and all of his money gone. Since his departure his wife has also disappeared.
Jamestown Alert, 11/5/1896
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HAND IS BLOWN OFF BY DYNAMITE
Underwood, N.D., Feb 14—The second coal mine accident in a short period of time occurred here when Melvin Webster lost his right hand by an explosion of dynamite at the Wagner mine, where he was working. The explosion occurred when he fell down while carrying a stick of dynamite in his hand.
Bimarck Tribune, 2/14/1921
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Out of His Head.
The fireman on the west bound train named Mike Kearney, went out of his head yesterday. He had been sick with the Red river fever and this was his first trip out. When he reached here he showed signs of it but it was not until he arrived at Alsop that he became unmanageable. Here he jumped from the engine and ran out on the prairie. The passenger train proceeded on without him and the men on a freight corralled him and brought him to Jamestown where he was kept in the cooler until this afternoon when he was taken to Fargo by John Moore. He probably went to work too soon, and more rest will bring him out all right.
Jamestown Alert, 2/3/1882
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Engineer J. D. Wells of the Fargo electric light company was caught between a belt and pulled and drawn several times around the revolving shaft. His arm was nearly torn off and his chest bruised and broken. He cannot live.
Jamestown Alert, 11/5/1896
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ALL THOUGHT IT WAS LOADED
SOME THOUGHT ANARCHISTS HAD BEEN DISCOVERED—GIVE LOTS OF ROOM
Saturday afternoon J. P. Pippinger, one of Williams county's substantial farmers, was in town and thereby hangs a story.
He was walking along the street and in front of the Smith jewelry store he spied a little capsul-shaped piece of steel about the size of your finger lying on the walk. The piece of steel was rounded at both ends and in one of the ends there was a small opening, which was securely closed in some manner. He examined the find and the question arose, of course, in his mind, as to what it really was. He went into the postoffice and asked Postmaster Metzger if he thought it was a bomb, or an infernal machine. Instantly the postmaster had visions of anarchists, wrecked buildings, draped carriages, and the people walking slow. He advised "Pip" to get hence with his infernal machine. He went—went into one of the local banks. Same result. Hardware store the same. The thing looked innocent enough till it was suggested that it might be "loaded". He met the Graphic reported who stopped long enough to suggest that it might be the bottled campaign speech left over from last fall, and then moved forward—rapidly. J. B. not to be left in the dark as to what he really had in his possession, went into a drug store and asked what it might be. The clerk said it might be almost anything, but was nothing more than a "Carbonette," used in recharging seltzer bottles, and was not at all dangerous unless used too frequently in mixing high balls. Instantly there was a quietude in the erstwhile believed anarchist-infected district.
Williston Graphic, 2/6/1913
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Sheriff McKenzie was called upon Saturday night to quiet a disturbance. One of the parties attacked him with a knife, inflicting a severe wound under the right eye. McKenzie in defending himself dealt a blow upon the man's head that will probably place him under doctor's care for several days. The disturbance was quieted.
Bismarck Tribune, 11/11/1881
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