Mrs. Clarence Ruschke appeared in court today in an action against Mrs. W. Lafey. The case will be heard by another justice on a change of venue.
DOMESTIC CASE BEFORE COURT
The case of Mrs. Clarence Rusche against Mrs. Wilfred Lafey, in which the former had the defendant arrested for using obscene language in public in the presence of women, was brought before Police Magistrate J. R. Purcell this morning.
Judge Purcell granted a change of venue to the court of the next nearest justice.
Grand Forks Herald, 12/31/1918
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Double Murder in Dakota.
Grand Forks Special:—News has just been received from Strabane, this county, near Larimore, on the line of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba, of the murder of Mrs. C. G. Snell and her little six-year-old boy. She was the wife of Rev. Snell, who had been absent holding public meetings at Mayville for two weeks. The murder was done with an ax and knife. The woman and boy were found in bed dead by a neighbor's dog, frozen. The cattle were almost starved. The woman wounded on the head as with an axe, and had a knife stab in her throat. A hired man, George Miller, a young man, is missing with one team. Suspicion rests upon him, also upon another man named McCaffery, who was arrested. The object of the double murder is supposed to have been a few hundred dollars in money. The team was brought to this city last Monday morning all covered with frost, and left by a young man supposed to be Miller. He said he was going to Winnipeg. He has not been seen since.
Griggs County Courier, 2/13/1885
Captured.
THE MURDERER OF THE SNELL FAMILY ARRESTED.
Georg {sp} Miller, the murder {sp} from Grand Forks, Dak., was arrested at Anoka by Deputy Sheriff McLaren, Brainard {sp}. The murderer is said to be a poor, half-witted young mon {sp}, and his story of the affair is as follows:
"I never drank a drop of liquor in my life until New Year's night, when I was persuaded to do so by an old bachelor at a dance. On the day before the night of the scrape I was in town and bought a bottle of whisky, and coming home late I put it in the barn and went to the house. When I got in the house she (Mrs. Snell), commenced to abuse me for being out so late, and of going to a dance. That made me awful mad, and I went back to the barn and drank nearly all the whisky and went back to the house and stared {sp} up to go to bed, but I changed my mind. So I went in and killed her with an axe." He was then asked what he killed the boy with? his answer was that he didn't know.
An exchange says of the murderer: The young man had the utmost confidence not only of Mr. Snell but the neighborhood. He was to all outward appearances a model young man—conducted the family devotions in Mr. Snell's absence, asked blessings at meals, and was seemingly a devout reader of the bible. He was considered a valuable man in the place."
Griggs County Courier, 2/13/1885
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MURDERER COMMITTED SUICIDE.
Slayer of Dr. Drake Found Dead Southwest of Ashley.
While a posse was scouring the country in all directions for Henry Fulkerson, the murderer of Dr. I. L. Drake of Minneapolis, at a hotel at Ashley a week ago Monday, his body was lying cold in death in a field eight miles southwest of there. He had committed suicide by shooting himself through the head.
The discovery was made Sunday afternoon by a Venturia farmer, who at once notified authorities. Sheriff Emanuel Hildebrant, accompanied by A. Cling, coroner, and C. S. Johnstone and two other citizens, drove to the place and found that the dead man was Fulkerson. The body was taken to the courthouse and an inquest was held Monday.
Judging from an investigation at the scene where the body was found, and the fact that it was some distance from the highway, leads to the believe {sp} that the fugitive lost his way and as he was nearly overcome by the extreme cold he shot himself rather than freeze to death. His revolver was found nearby.
From letters found on his person and at the place where he lodged it develops that he had a brother, W. H. Fulkerson, at Cleopatra, McLean county, Ky., another brother, Marshal Fulkerson, of Church, Grayson county, Ky., besides a sister and other relatives in that locality.
The remains of Dr. Drake were taken to Minneapolis and his funeral was held from the masonic temple Saturday afternoon.
Oakes Times, 2/1/1906
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A
Drayton man saw a groundhog out looking for his shadow on Groundhog day and killed it after a hand to hand conflict.
Bismarck Tribune, 2/14/1911
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NOTICE — WARNING.
It has been brought to the notice of the County Board of Health that several persons in the county have recently lost hogs by cholera and have not properly destroyed the carcasses. All such dead hogs should be immediately burned and not buried or left lying on the ground. By order of the Board of Health. Anyone failing to comply with this order is liable to fine or imprisonment or both under the law.
Signed,
—L. B. Greene, Supt. County Board of Health.
Monango, N. D., Feb. 3, 1914.
Oakes Times, 2/5/1914
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Mrs. J. H. Hull of
Marshalltown, Iowa, drank chloroform with suicidal intent after quarreling with her husband over his failure to purchase a chicken. She will recover.
Golden Valley Chronicle, 1/31/1907
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