ECLIPSE TODAY.
There will be an annular eclipse of the sun this morning beginning at about 8:40 and lasting until about 11:30 o'clock. This will be quite an extensive eclipse, about seven digits of the sun's surface being in the shadow of this latitude. This will be a very interesting phenomenon and will be the only one of the kind until December 25, and smoked window glass should be provided for the proper study of the eclipse. It will be visible in all North America. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Neptune and Jupiter will be visible, nestled closely together in the west shortly after sunset. The phenomenon, it is declared, will not occur again in 100 years.
Bismarck Tribune, 6/28/1908
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FARMER WAS KILLED.
Kramer, N. D., April 5.—Louis Volbrecht, prominent farmer, was instantly killed when he fell off a load of hay and broke his neck. A wife and three children survive.
Jamestown Weekly Alert, 4/7/1921
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Monday morning our citizens were startled by the news that Peter Birch had been shot. As luck would have it Dr. Robarts happened to come in on the east-bound train and, taking charge of the case, found that the ball had gone through the biceps muscle, entered his side under his arm and going around under the skin to within an inch and a half of the backbone, where it emerged. The account as told by Peter, which as follows, the other participators in the affair having gone to Mandan as witnesses at court, only his side can be learned. Peter states that at about half past twelve o'clock Monday morning he was in Bob. Roberts' saloon, in company with Roberts and Wm. Jones. That Roberts suggested playing a joke on some one in MacDonald's restaurant by cutting down the hammock in which he was sleeping. Peter started with Bob to the restaurant and the hammock was cut down. Bob asked Peter to take the knife back to the saloon and Peter started back in the company with Jones. The latter asked Peter who was running the restaurant now and Peter told him that he had been cooking there for about a week. This led to what Peter thought was playful banter when Jones struck him on the forehead with the but
{sp} of his revolver. His eyes were blinded with blood, but he attempted to ward off other blows, when Jones shot. Attempting then to run, he was struck several more times on the back of the head, there being eight gashes extending to the skull. Peter did not know he was shot until the morning when he found his arm covered with blood and examining it, found he was shot. He further added that he was perfectly sober, only having two drinks early in the evening. This is one side of the case and we will gladly publish the other. We have few comments to make, as there were no witnesses. Both men have reputations for peaceable dispositions. Jones is well liked and every one is anxious to heard his side of the story. Peter is as harmless a man as ever lived, he being his own worst enemy. The principal point we make is the one so often mentioned in the
Cow Boy, that of carrying revolvers in town. Every shooting affray we know of has been caused by whiskey, coupled with the senseless custom of "packing a gun." We have many times mentioned our opinion and cannot sufficiently condemn a practice that no one can say has ever resulted in good and many times results fatally.
[since writing the above, Sheriff Harmon arrived in Medora with a warrant for the arrest of Peter Birch. Probably for assault and battery. Jones was arrested at Mandan and released on his own recognizance. Sheriff Harmon returned this morning to Mandan. Birch was unable to be moved.]
The Bad Lands Cow Boy, 8/13/1885
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This story comes from
Parshall among the news aftermath of the recent storm which swept that city: When the recenty
{sp} heavy storm hit Parshall, Charles Pierce, local agent of the International Oil company, was sitting in his office. The office was smashed to bits, and Pierce, a stove, and a 1,800-pound save were blown some 60 feet away. The safe fell on Pierce's leg, but that limb was artificial, so Pierce left it there and hopped to his home.
Sioux County Pioneer, 7/17/1919
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A bunch of greasy fortune telling Gypsies, traveling in Packard cars, were allowed to execute their parasitical ways upon the people of
Marmarth.
Ward County Independent, 6/5/1919
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SEVERELY CRUSHED BY THRESHING RIG
Man Caught Between Engine and Separator Suffered Terrible Injuries.
Rugby, N. D., Sept. 10.—Edward Lommen, of Flora, N. D. was brought to the hospital here with a broken leg, broken arm and several ribs broken. Lommen, who was working on a threshing rig, accidentally got caught between the bumper and the engine when they were coupling up and as a result suffered the injuries.
Local physicians deemed best not to reduce the fractures for a day or two, owing to his physical condition, due to the terrible shock and loss of blood, one of the ribs puncturing a lung. His condition is not very critical and it is believed that he will fully recover.
Bismarck Tribune, 9/11/1914
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