SUDDEN DEATH ABOARD TRAIN
ANDREW PFANDA OF CULBERTSON SUCCUMBED TO APPENDICITIS WHILE ENROUTE TO HOSPITAL
Away from his mother, on board train No. 6, enroute from Culbertson to Williston where he was hurrying to receive medical aid, Andrew Pfanda passed into eternity unnoticed until he had been dead for some time. With his head in his hand he had been resting wearily against the window and the two men who were attending him sat apart thinking he had dropped asleep. A passenger going thru the car noticed the peculiar appearance of his face and calling the conductor's attention to him it was found that the man was dead. Pfanda had been working with Bob Fitzsimmons crowd of bridge carpenters at Culbertson and on Tuesday was taken with a severe attack of cramps. He went to a drug store where he took a dose of Jamaica ginger without receiving relief and was later treated by a local physician. Not becoming any better he was placed in care of two of his fellow workers and placed aboard the train for Williston where he hoped to receive relief. Coroner Thomas met the train upon being notified and after an examination it was found unnecessary to hold a post-mortem examination. Dr Belyea found that the deceased undoubtedly had died from appendicitis which had developed some time ago and not being treated soon developed with fatal results. Young Pfanda lived with his mother on a homestead twenty miles north of Culbertson. She arrived here Wednesday night and her statement to Dr. Belyea confimed {sp} his diagnosis.
Williston Graphic, 8/29/1907
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Charley, son of F. C. Wyankoop, 614 Third street, was bitten by a dog Tuesday. The case is being watched as biting dogs at this season of the year are looked upon with suspicion. It is claimed this dog has bitten others recently.
Bismarck Tribune, 8/6/1913
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KILLED IN BROTHEL
YOUNG WOMAN KILLED IN DRUNKEN BRAWL AT MARMARTH—ANOTHER WOMAN HELD FOR CRIME.
Marmarth, N.D., Aug. 20—In a drunken brawl which culminated in a shooting affray, a young woman about 22 years of age, was shot and instantly killed in a result in North Marmarth Monday afternoon. The victim is unknown except to the inmates of the house, and had just arrived here a few days ago from Terry, Mont. A woman named Maude Livingston is locked up in the city jail awaiting the results of the coroner's jury and hearing.
Bismarck Tribune, 8/2/1908
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Speaking of the murder and suicide near
Wahpeton, the Globe says: When Fisher's trunk was opened Monday by Coroner Kauffman and
Sheriff Moody they found written on a tablet, "In memory of Claus Fisher. I will shoot and kill Annie Heinrich and myself. I want my money to be used in erecting tombstones at the head of Annie's grave and my grave." Money and notes to the amount of $552.19 was found in the trunk.
Bismarck Tribune, 8/23/1901
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Someone poisoned a fine setter belonging to Mayor Halstead of Jamestown a day or so ago and the mayor offers $100 reward for discovery of the poison fiend.
Bismarck Tribune, 8/21/1894
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Sheldon, N.D.—Imitating his parents, who frequently burned smudges about the farm yard as a guard against mosquitoes, the three-year-old son of Martin Thompson, residing near here, build a bonfire under a team of horses in the barn, destroying the structure and cremating several animals. The lad piled dry hay under the team while the horses were being pestered by mosquitoes, and the flames had a good started when other members of the family discovered the fire. The boy escaped injury.
Valley City Times-Record, 8/14/1913
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