Homesteader Found Dead.
Harvey.—Jacob Olschlager, a single man of about 35 years of age, was found dead in bed in his home, situated about fifteen miles southwest of Harvey. He was living alone on his farm, and until some two weeks ago, had apparently been enjoying good health. A few days before his death he had complained of what he termed stomach cramps to one of his neighbors of not feeling very well.
Turtle Mountain Star, 1/12/1911
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A man about 65 years old named E T Church, having gone several miles with an ox team for wood, was overtaken by the darkness of the night up near Esler's ranch Thursday evening. He unhitched his team and turned the oxen loose, starting on foot thinking he could reach home the sooner in that way, but he became bewildered and though he passed near his house did not see it. Finally lost and exhausted he laid down on the prairie in the snow where he was found about nine o'clock the next morning almost dead, his hands and feet being frozen, and he unconscious. At last report he was in a very precarious condition, having lain exposed to the cold all night, and the wonder is that he survived until morning.
Jamestown Alert, 1/19/1883
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Husband at Homestead.
Goshen, In., August 6.—Not until she was on her death-bed, and but two hours before she expired was it known that Mrs. Matilda Jacobs, a well known Goshen woman was the wife of Henry King of Homestead, N.D. Just before her death Mrs. Jacobs startled her relatives by telling them she had a husband.
Her strength was so exhausted that she was unable to give details. There is no record of such a marriage having been performed in this county and her relatives think the union must have been a common law one.
Her body has been placed in a receiving vault awaiting the arrival of King. Under the Indiana law he will inherit her estate, which is of considerable value.
Hankinson News, 8/9/1906
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New Salem—Riding in a hayrack and holding the end of his gun, Fred Schneider lost some fingers and a part of his hand when the gun was accidentally discharged.
Turtle Mountain Star, 1/22/1922
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WIFE WAS DEAD
Napoleon Resident Awakened to Find She Had Expired.
Napoleon, N.D., Dec. 19.—Awakened during the night by a strange noise during the night by a strange noise Tully Williams of this city found that his wife, lying at his side, had died. They had retired only two hours before, and she had, at that time, made no complaint, only declaring that she seemed hungry, but not wishing to eat as she had partaken of a big supper just two or three hours earlier.
Heart failure was the cause of her very sudden demise.
Grand Forks Evening Times, 12/19/1911
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Shoots His Daughter
Bismarck, N.D., Dec. 12.—Miss Anna Nellson, a young girl residing near Glencoe, was brought to this city suffering from a wound accidentally inflicted by a shotgun in the hands of her father.
The story of the accident as told by an eyewitness is that the hired man on the farm was cleaning the gun when Mr. Nellson, the father of the injured girl, did not thoroughly understand the mechanism of the firearm and took over the job. In some unaccountable manner the gun was discharged, the charge entering the girl's right leg between the knee and thigh. A large hole was blown in the limb and a part of the bone shot away.
The injury was entirely accidental, but it was another case of "didn't know it was loaded." The girl was taken to the Bismarck hospital, where an operation for amputation of the limb will be performed as soon as she is in a condition to undergo it.
Williston Graphic, 12/30/1909
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