CASHIER CREMATED
Gasoline Explosion Causes Death in a Bank.
Gilbert Jacobson, cashier of the cashier of the Fort Ransom State bank at Fort Ransom, an inland town about 10 miles northwest of Lisbon, was burned to death in the bank building Monday evening. He was alone in the building at the time and it is believed that he was cleaning the inkwells of the bank with gasoline. The room became filled with the gasoline vapor and there was an explosion that filled the small structure with a burst of flame.
Citizens of Fort Ransom saw the fire and knowing that Jacobson was in the bank battered down the door which was locked. Jacobson's body was recovered but life was extinct. He was horribly burned. The bank building was entirely destroyed. It is believed, however, that the books and money of the bank were all safely locked in the vault before the fire.
Jacobson was 28 years of age and he leaves a widow and three children.
The Wahpeton Times, 3/12/1914
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B. B. Johnson, an Icelander who was somewhat flighty and troublesome to friends about town, has been taken to
Jamestown asylum. He is harmless and will be able to earn his living there, and be taken care of.
Pembina Pioneer Express, 2/22/1901
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N.M. McLeod, a member of the bridge gang now working on the new
C.N.R. bridge over the Red river at
Emerson, fell from the lower chord of the structure on Monday afternoon to the ice below, a disance of 45 feet. A misstep being the cause of the accident. Mr. McLeod was taken to the
St. Boniface hospital at Winnipeg on Tuesday and there under the ex-ray it was found that outside of a fractured ankle he was not seriously hurt.
The Pembina Pioneer Express, 3/20/1914
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"Tiger Bill" to Asylum.
"Tiger Bill" Hurlburt, a well known Devils Lake barber, has been committed to the insane asylum. Strong drink caused his downfall. He formerly worked at his trade in Minot and while here recently became so obstreperous that he was placed in jail.
Ward County Independent, 3/18/1915
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Valuable Pigs Burned.
Fargo, N.D., March 12.—An early morning fire destroyed the model hog house and twenty-seven valuable hogs on the Darling farm, one mile south of here.
Wahpeton Times, 3/14/1907
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Quite a sensation was created Wednesday morning when the news was spread around that one of the boys of Henry Zoerb had wandered away the evening before and not been seen since. The boy is about fifteen years old and mentally not accountable for what he does at times. The relatives and near-by friends searched all night for the boy. A large number turned out and searched the woods along the river but he could not be found anywhere. About twelve o'clock he was located at Chas. Kern's place, two miles west of town, having walked as far as Martel's near the Geroux bridge and turned back. He was thinly clad but the night was not a cold one and he had not suffered much.
Pembina Pioneer Express, 3/2/1906
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