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Word was received here Sunday that Theodore Thompson and son Tillman who reside on a farm near Esmond, were killed by lightning during the thunder storm Saturday afternoon. Mr. Thompson is well known south of Churchs Ferry, having worked some five years ago for Geo. McDonell and Anton Blegen, and about that time was married to Miss Sarah Lundy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Lundy. Mrs. Thompson was in Culbertson Mont., at the time of the accident and it was not until Tuesday that she could be located. It seems that Mr. Thompson and his son by a former wife were caught out during the storm and sought shelter in a neighbor's barn, and just as they entered the building the barn was struck, killing both of them and a horse belonging to the neighbor.
Devils Lake Inter-Ocean, 7/30/1909
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Shot His Own Son.
Long Prairie, Minn., Aug. 22.—Silas J. Davis, formerly sheriff of Todd county, accidentally shot his son George, aged 12 years, mistaking the boy for an owl on the fence. He shot him through the left side just above the heart with a 44-calibre Winchester. The boy still lives, but is in critical condition.
Bismarck Weekly Tribune, 8/24/1894
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Instant Death In Explosion
Tragedy Occurred on Wiese Farm Southwest of Eldridge Sunday
Jamestown, N.D., Dec. 18—Emil F. Wiese, a prominent farmer living seven and one-half miles southwest of Eldridge, Stutsman county, was instantly killed at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon in an attempt to thaw out a cap on a metal gasoline barrel with a blow torch. The intense heat from the torch exploded the cap, blowing his head from the lower jaw up. The body saturated with gasoline and horribly burned, was found a distance of 16 to 18 feet from the tank over which Weise was working. A widow and a five-months-old baby survive, she being prostrate over the tragedy.
Mrs. Wiese, hearing the explosion rushed to the scene to discovered the gruesome remains of her husband. She walked a distance of a mile and a half and notified neighboring farmers.
Beach Advance, 12/20/1916
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Died.
Herbert Clarence Gooding, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Gooding, of Fort Lincoln, died Aug. 5, and was buried the same day. It was peculiarly sad, as it was his eighth birthday. Deceased was sick but three days. The numerous Bismarck friends of Mr. and Mrs. Gooding will learn of their bereavement with deep regret.
Bismarck Weekly Tribune, 8/9/1889
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Three Drunks Up—Three drunks were haled before Police Magistrate J. R. Church this morning. One was discharged on a promise of future abstinence. Two others were committed to the county jail but on a promise to leave the city at once, were given suspended sentences.
Grand Forks Herald, 7/10/1917
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Dakota Doings.
It has been learned that Mrs. O'Brien, the patient at the Yaukton {sp} insane asylum reported as having died, in reality committed suicide.
George Smart was seriously injured at Grand Forks while assisting to move a marble slab from a dray, the slab falling on him and fracturing his collar bone.
The farmers of Potter county say there is no more trouble to be feared from the glanders, and no quarantine will be asked for. The diseased animals have been killed.
During the electric storm of Sunday night a cyclone passed over Miller, demolishing the residence and barn of John Scott. The family escaped by taking refuge in the cellar.
Mrs. Alice Cook, the victim of last January's Blizzard, in which, it will be remembered, she lost a part of each foot, has sufficiently recovered to be elected Mercer county superintendent of schools.
Jamestown Weekly Alert, 7/5/1888
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