Couple Convicted
Convicted on the charge of fornication, and sentenced to serve 30 days in the Fargo jail and pay a fine of $100, Miss Leonora Adams, 21 years old, and Will Bicken, 20, both of Hope, were brought to Fargo from Steele county by Sheriff Gilbert N. Grimsen to serve their sentences in the Cass county jail. Sentence was passed by G. A. Montieth of Finley, justice of the peace for Steele county.
Ward County Independent, 6/5/1919
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Grand Forks Plaindealer: Samuel Shannon, on his return from
Ojata yesterday about 5 p.m., picked up a curious looking object near the university, and while in the act of investigating its properties, it gave a sudden report and a No. 22 bullet became instantly lodged in the base of his little finger of the left hand. Moved by fright and smarting with pain, he hurried to the office of Dr. Duggan, where the bullett
{sp} was extracted, the wound dressed and the broken bone splinted. The bone was badly broken and splintered and it may yet become necessary to amputate the finger.
Jamestown Weekly alert, 6/30/1887
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BELL BOY IS SHOT.
Lad Neglects to Tell Fellow Employe Gun Is Loaded.
Elmer Norson, eighteen years old, whose home is at Benson, Minn., but who has been working as a bell boy at a Fargo hotel, was shot and seriously wounded by the accidental discharge of a revolver which he was exhibiting to a fellow employe. The gun was loaded, but when Norson handed it to his companion he failed to tell him the fact. The latter pointed the pistol downward and pulled the trigger, the ball penetrating the fleshy part of Norson's leg. Unless blood poisoning intervenes the physicians say the boy will recover.
Bowbells Tribune, 5/31/1907
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BOY LOSES RIGHT ARM
MOTT, N. D., July 3.—Walter Banning, aged 7, had his right arm torn off four inches below the shoulder when it was caught in the belting of a gasoline pumping engine. The boy's clothing was torn from his body and he received a bad cut in the back of his head. He lives five miles south of Mott, and was rushed into town in an automobile. He is in a critical condition, although he was conscious when he arrived in the city.
Devil's Lake Weekly world, 7/5/1912
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KILLED BY LIGHTNING
A Bolt of Lightning Strikes William Naze and Kills Him Instantly.
Mrs. Naze, His Wife, Stunned By the Shock But Recovers.
Four Horses are also Killed and Another Escapes Unhurt.
William Naze, a farmer residing about four miles from Montpelier was struck by lightning about 4 o'clock Friday afternoon and instantly killed together with four horses of the five horse team he was driving. He was driving towards the barn, seated on a sulky plow, with which he had been breaking new land when the bolt fell. He was struck on one side of the face, and the lightning glanced down the side of his body to the plow seat. It went through the seat making a large hole through the same. A cap Mr. Naze wore was torn in many pieces, otherwise his body was not mutilated.
Mrs. Naze, wife of the deceased man, was feeding chickens from a header box near by. The shock caused by the lightning stunned her into unconsciousness and she fell to the ground. When she recovered, the smell of smoke attracted her attention. Her first thought was that the barn was on fire. On going around the building she was horrified to find the body of her husband. His clothing was on fire, the lightning having started the flames. She put out the blaze and notified Prosper Naze, a brother of the deceased, of the facts.
Mr. Naze was about 30 years of age. He was married and leaves a wife, and two children aged respectively two and four years, to mourn his loss. He was industrious and had, by careful farming and good management, become possessed of a good farm with improvements and was considered to be in excellent circumstances. He was a good neighbor and popular among the farmers of Montpelier. He has many relatives in the vicinity of his home among them Jules Naze, the Montpelier merchant. He was of Belgian descent. His wife was a Miss Comber.
The funeral of William Naze at Montpelier Saturday last, was largely attended. The unusually sad circumstances of his death, and the sympathy of many acquaintances drew the farmers and neighbors to attend the last rights from many miles around. The clothing which had caught fire after the lightning stroke, had burned severely the skin and flesh of the body. The hole in the temple caused by the stroke bled constantly. Mrs. Naze recovered from the shock without injury. In addition to the four horses, a cold running along side was also killed.
Jamestown Weekly Alert, 6/29/1899
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A prisoner named Ed. Heerman, at Devils Lake, made a desperate attack on Sheriff Magness throwing some blinding substance in the sheriff's eyes and striking him with an iron weapon in the face, knocking a revolver out of his hand. The janitor picked up the revolver and shot Heerman so that he died in a few hours.
Langdon Courier Democrat, 6/11/1891
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