Suicide at Minnewaukan.
William Fowler an old resident of Minnewaukan, who had been in ill health suicided by cutting his throat Friday. He was a retired merchant and had accumulated quite a sum of money. He invested considerable money in an Alaska transportation scheme which did not turn out very well. However it is said that he still had about $10,000 left. A few days ago the doctor told him that he had only a short time to live and it is supposed that this had a depressing effect on Mr. Fowler and prompted his rash act.
Jamestown Weekly Alert, 11/3/1898
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Cremated Before Husband's Eyes
Mistakes Gasoline for Kerosene With Deadly Result—Body is Burned to a Crisp
R. E. Walker, funeral director and embalmer in the Overstad & Hoverson undertaking parlors, received a call from Wibaux last Sunday afternoon, urging that he hasten there at once.
On his arrival in Wibaux he was taken to the home of John Inman, where Mrs. Inman lay cold in death, having succumbed to burns received from the explosion of a gasoline can which she mistook for kerosene when lighting the fire at about 7:00 o'clock that morning.
At the time of the explosion Mr. Inman was in the next room and, on hearing the report and the agonizing screams for help, rushed to her assistance—but all too late, the body by this time being enveloped in flames and, with the exception of her feet, which were incased in shoes, the unfortunate woman was burned to a crisp before the flames could be extinguished.
Physicians were immediately called, but nothing could be done to prevent her untimely and tragic death. However, her suffering was relieved with opiates and, conscious all the while, she lived until 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon, when death claimed its own, forever relieving her of all earthly suffering.
She leaves to mourn her loss a husband and two small children, one two and the other three years old. The body was embalmed by Mr. Walker and shipped to Anoka, Minn., her former home, for burial.
Golden Valley Chronicle, 12/8/1911
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CONDUCTOR ROSS HURT.
He was thrown from a train at Petersburg Friday
Conductor James Ross, in charge of an extra freight train from Devils Lake to Carman, met with a serious accident last Friday. The train broke in two at Petersburg. The forward end stopped at the station, and just as Mr. Ross stepped out of the caboose, the two sections came together with a crash, throwing the conductor violently to the ground. Mr. Ross sustained serious injuries but fortunately no bones were broken. He is now at his home in Devils Lake, and it will be some time before he will be able to resume his run, but as he carries an accident policy he will suffer no pecuniary loss by his enforced idleness.
Devils Lake Inter-Ocean, 12/9/1898
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George White, Frank Squires and John Patterson, prisoners confined in the county jail at
Ellendale, escaped. They took the hinges off a door.
The Bad Lands Cow Boy, 12/24/1885
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Died:—Of
cholera infantum, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Halvorson. Funeral services were held at the home and internment was made in
the cemetery located in
Sioux Trail township. The bereaved parents have the sympathy of the entire community.
Williston Graphic, 9/18/1913
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Charles Lee was decided insane at an inquiry of the board Monday night and will be placed in the asylum at Jamestown. He had been about town a couple of days since his return from Miles City Saturday, said that he had eaten nothing for three days, and told things so improbably and talked to eratically
{sp} that he was jailed and fed. His case is one that appeals to the writer as being particularly pathetic: a negro, tempestuous and rough, ignorant, driven on by his own headstrong desires, justifying himself always in his unruly acts by his wild reasoning, he spent the greater part of the last three years in jail on one charge or another, because his condut
{sp} did not conform to law. He was becoming possessed of some property of stock on an up-river ranch when he first offended the dignity of the state by cohabiting with a white woman, to clear himself from which charge he signed away or mortgaged his property to lawyers; then, smarting under injustice, and not understanding the full significance of deeds of writing, he attempted to extricate himself by violence. He was jailed repeatedly. Never reasoning from a correct premise nor appreciating the sequence of a cause—never having been strong in reason—he battered his poor intellect against elements of which he knew nothing, until, like a caged animal or a man haunted by an incubus, his trouble absorbed his mind. A strong man, constantly groping for justification of his acts, dreaming and worrying, melancholia got him. He reminds one of a great, badgered, hopeless animal, unsafe at large. Poor devil, I say.
Golden Valley Chronicle, 9/22/1911
A telegram was received Monday from the superintendent of the insane asylum as Jamestown, stating that Charles Lee was dead. Lee was sent there in September, 1911, after a series of stormy transactions with neighbors and county officials, and had been a dreaded man. It was one reported that he had been shot in self defense by a guard of the institution, but that was found to be in error; even at that time he was nearly helpless from paralysis, an ailment from which he died.
Golden Valley Chronicle, 12/13/1912
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