The baby daughter of E. E. Morris had a narrow escape from choking yesterday. The little one swallowed a good sized piece of raw potato which lodged in the throat, and defied all efforts to remove it for two hours until Dr. Bentley was called and removed it. The little one is all right today.
Bismarck Weekly Tribune, 3/18/1898
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One of the worst wrecks for a small one that it has ever been our lot to see, occurred Saturday afternoon, four-and-a-half miles west of here. A steer thought he was "as big a man as the engine" and came nearly proving it, the effect being disastrous on both sides. The engine and tender were completely disabled and ditched, four empty freight cars were badly demoralized and two more ran off the track. C. S. Grindall, of the E S G Beaver creek ranch, engineer White and the fireman were in the cab and all escaped unharmed, though how they did it after seeing the wreck, is a mystery. The loss will be about $4,000.
The Bad Lands Cow Boy, 4/16/1885
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Bootlegger Suicided
Eugene Young, a transient arrested in this city last fall for selling liquor to Indians, and sentenced to sixty days in jail, was let out of jail on February 10th, and was killed by a Great Northern train east of Aberdeen last Thursday. Testimony introduced at the inquest showed that the man deliberately walked in front of the train, and the theory is that he was demented or wanted to die.—Mobridge Bulletin.
Sioux County Pioneer, 4/21/1916
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Deliberate Suicide.
Rolla.—Peter Hietala, a Finlander, made elaborate preparation for his suicide, which occurred at his farm 12 miles east of here. He put on his best clothes and left full directions for the disposition of his body. On the door of his house he pinned up a notice that no one except his brothers were to enter. The notice was read by one of his neighbors, and he immediately notified several other neighbors, who returned with him to the house and broke in the door. They found Hietala lying dead on the floor, and a bullet wound in his forehead, and a revolver clutched in his right hand. Hietala was a widower about 40 years of age, and no cause for his suicide can be imagined. Two brothers live in the state, August Hietala, at Brochet, and Abram Hietala, at Stanley.
Williston Graphic, 4/20/1906
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Mandan—A balky mule used to haul coal in a coal mine at
New Salem was responsible for the fact that Meady Morrelle, 35, miner, is in a hospital here with his right leg amputated at the knee.
Sioux County Pioneer, 12/22/1921
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David Ruttle, living two miles east of
Johnstown, committed suicide by cutting his throat. Financial embarrassment is supposed to be the cause. He leaves a young wife, having been married only about two months.
Griggs County Courier, 4/16/1897
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