After preparing dinner, Mrs. Croto of the Stargeat
{sp?} farm on the Forest Reserve near
Amidon, went out to call her grandson. They returned to find the ohuse
{sp} burned to the ground.
Bismarck Tribune, 7/10/1915
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SERIOUSLY INJURED
BOWBELLS, July 26.—Mayor Frank Smith of Bowbells was seriously injured by the explosion of wood alcohol used in generating heat for a gasoline stove. The burning fluid was thrown in his face. His hair was entirely burned off, and his face was also very badly burned.
Devils Lake Inter-Ocean, 7/26/1912
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FATHER FRANCIS DROWNED
Wednesday night, Father Francis of Richardton, N. D., was drowned, it is believed, while bathing in Devils Lake near the monastery. He went alone in the water. Another priest became anxious upon his non-appearance and went to the lake where he found Father Francis' clothes ten feet from the shore. Two tracks of foot prints into the water were found, but with one track leading out, and it was apparently that he went in and came out, and then went in again, failing to return. A party of searchers went out during the night, and the lake was dragged in the vicinity, but no trace of the priest's body was found. Francis was about 30 years old, and belonged to the Order of Saint Benedict. Father Francis was in Fairmount several weeks ago assisting Bishop O'Reilly of Fargo in the confirmation, and his many friends here are grieved to hear of his untimely death.—Fairmount News
Wahpeton Times, 7/28/1910
Ed.: Devils Lake and Assumption Abbey are not near each other; either the lake is Abbey Lake, or Father Francis was at St. Galls in Devils Lake.
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Attached By Wild Cats In Field.
Jow Tax, who is working for Jake Marto, while out in the field plowing was overtaken and chased by two wild cats or lynx, having a very narrow escape from serious injury as the animals were very savage and at the time Mr. Tax did not have anything to protect himself with. He rode one of the horses he was using to the house, and the animals kept right after him until within a short distance from the house, Mr. Marto and Joe shot at them, but failed to get them.—White Earth Record.
Ward County Indepdendent, 6/15/1911
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SHOT AND KILLED SELF
REFUSAL OF GIRL TO RECEIVE HIS ATTENTION THE CAUSE
Belfield, N. D., July 15.—At the home of Mrs. Carl Hamilton, north of Gorham, Victor Olson, a young homesteader, shot and killed himself, when Mrs. Hamilton's daughter, Hellen, a young lady 17 years old, refused his attentions as a suitor for his hand. His parents live at Anoka, Minn.
Bismarck Tribune, 7/15/1913
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Carrington—Frank Pergundy, 12, was shot in the back by a 22 rifle which accidentally exploded while he and his brother were playing with it. Thick clothing saved him from serious injury.
Grand Forks Herald, 5/26/1917
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