WHISKEY VS. COFFEE.
Mixture of Drinks Cause Fatal Fight Between Two Men.
Fergus Falls, Minn., Aug. 30—Peter Kanti, a Finlander residing in the town of Deer Creek, received probably fatal injuries at the hands of Henry Mork and John Hakkila, his neighbors, last night.
The two men had been drinking, and went to Kanti's home, where they were hospitably received and treated to coffee. They added some whisky to the coffee, and after drinking a quantity of the mixture, began discussing their relative strength. Mr. Kanti, who is rather an elderly man, stated that he was something of an athlete in his younger days in Finland, and was by no means a weakling yet. The discussion became animated and a scuffle followed.
Kanti was knocked down and the two men are alleged to have kicked and otherwise abused him until his face and head were one mass of cuts and bruises. His wife interfered and was also injured.
A physician was summoned and is doubtful as to whether Kanti will recover. Sheriff Albertson went to Deer Creek and arrested Mork and Hakkila, and they are being held without bail to await developments.
Grand Forks Evening Times, 8/30/1906
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Doctor Pence of
Balfour, was called to administer to some Russian children who had been poisoned by eating
water hemlock, says the
Statesman. One died a few minutes after the doctor called. To the other two antidotes were administered and they recovered. The doctor took some of the poisonous vegetables and sent them to Prof. Bolley of the
State Agricultural college at Fargo, with a history of the case. He received word back that the poisonous vegetables were water hemlock and that those that had eaten of the same whether human beings or stock generally went their way to the world beyond and asked the doctor what his method of treatment was that had been so successful with the two children that recovered. A few days after the children recovered they were brought to town to see Dr. Pence. One little girl ran out of doors and pulled some weeds out of a pond at the edge of the street. The athletic young doctor gathered the little tot in and turned her over his knee and gave her a good spanking.
Grand Forks Evening Times, 8/30/1906
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SHOT THROUGH LEG
Jamestown, N. D., July 14.—Harold Olson, aged 13, while hunting gophers near Melville, was shot through the leg by the accidental discharge of a gun held by a companion.
Bismarck Tribune, 7/15/1913
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Fairdale. — Alexander Campbell is completely paralyzed as a result of an accident which happened when driving a load of machinery and twine, he gave too much road to a passing automobile. The horses slipped on the side of the grade throwing the wagon and pinning Mr. Campbell beneath the awful weight. He managed to extricate himself and then crawled on his hands and knees to the Tom Ryan farm half a mile away. One vertebrae of the backbone was crushed and may result in permanent injury.
The Hope Pioneer, 8/29/1912
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MET WITH SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
Elgin Livermore Shot in Left Arm.
Elgin Livermore who lives on a claim 14 miles north of town met with quite a serious accident last Sunday. He was removing a shot gun from his wagon when in some way the trigger was caught and exploded the charge in the gun which entered his left arm tearing the muscles loose and fracturing the bone. Dr. Melvin was summoned as soon as possible and dressed the wound. The young man was then brot {sp} to town and cared for by his parents that night. The next morning he took the train for Glendive where he will enter the hospital for treatment. The physicians hope to save the arm tho {sp}, as yet it is questionable.
Golden Valley Chronicle, 9/5/1907
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A harvest hand named Verge Nye, a man apparently about 25 years of age, was riding from Wahpeton to Fargo in an empty freight car on the Milwaukee freight train that arrived in Fargo about 11 o'clock Friday night. When the train reached the Sperry siding where there is only an elevator, two men got into the car where the man was and shot him five times in the breast and body, robbed him of his money and threw him out of the car. The wounded man, thought suffering untold agonies, made his way by crawling and walking at intervals to the Sperry farm which he reached Sunday morning. He was driven to Abercrombie as soon as possible and was given medical aid, but he had lost so much blood and his wounds were of such a character that death soon came to his relief.
Bismarck Tribune, 9/5/1898
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