A man named Hunter went to his father's house at Grand Forks in an intoxicated condition a few days ago and getting into a dispute attacked the old man and pummeled him severely. He also struck his mother and sister, felling them to the floor. He was choking the old man when a younger son struck him with a club. He was arrested and lodged in jail.
The Bad Lands Cow Boy, 4/1/1886
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HOLDUP AT FARGO
H. W. Hoffman of That City Forced to Give Up All He Had.
Fargo, N. D. Feb. 27.—With two revolvers pointed at his head H. W. Hoffman was compelled to lie down beside the sidewalk on Fifth avenue between Ninth and Tenth street south while he was robbed of his money and watch.
Mr. Hoffman, who lately moved into the city from the country, was returning from the city to his home at 517 Tenth street south on the evening named when he noticed two men standing on the sidewalk. He thought nothing of this at the time, but just as he came up to them one man stepped to one side of the walk and the other took the other side and he saw that they wore masks. He was told he would be killed if he made an outcry and they brandished the guns they had in their hands.
At the word of command Mr. Hoffman laid down beside the walk and then the two men went through him. All the money he had in his pocket was $1.25 and this they took together with his watch.
They did not attempt to abuse him in any way, but before leaving informed him that they would be watching him and that he had better go on his way home without making any outcry until they were out of sight.
He cannot give a very good description of the two men.
Grand Forks Evening Times, 2/27/1913
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A man was severely frozen near
Highmore last week, and died from the effects next day. He was intoxicated at the time, and the widow has begun suit against the liquor seller, John Zwight, for damages to the amount of $4,000.
The Bad Lands Cow Boy, 4/17/1884
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A Hypnotist.
Out at Minot the people are greatly amused over the experience of a hypnotist from a neighboring village and one of his local subjects. The subject, who is a clerk, obeyed all the instructions of the "professor" at the first evening's entertainment—went to sleep, went fishing, barked like a dog, picked strawberries from the floor and did the other things that a well-regulated hypnotic subject is supposed to do. At the command of the hypnotist he found the prettiest girl in the hall and kissed her, and was awakened, to his intense confusion, as he was repeating the performance. On the next evening he again acted as a subject, and was even more satisfactory than before. An osculatory number was on the program this time and the subject well performed his part, but he failed to obey the command to quit and wake up. On the contrary, he gave evidence of an intention to continue this part of the program until the supply of pretty girls was exhausted, and the professor had to restrain him by force. The subject was not violent, but failed utterly to respond to any further commands by the entertainer.
At length, with visions of the gallows before him, the unfortunate hypnotist announced that he could do nothing more and that from the condition of the patient he feared that the services of a physician would be necessary at once, and he did not know that even a physician could do anything. A messenger was about to be dispatched for the nearest doctor when the patient, having no inclination for drugs, remarked that he would prefer cigars, and the agony of the professor was over. When he next essays a public entertainment he will demand a bond that the subject will not play possum.
Cooperstown Courier, 3/5/1903
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LAWRENCE MARLENEE AND THE BEAR
Ward County Farmer Has Clothes Torn Off From Him and is Severely Bitten on Arm by Vicious Animal.
Lawrence Marlenee, a farmer living near Sawyer, was attacked by a nearly full grown bear, which he has had in captivity. The man's clothes were torn from his body and his arm was badly lacerated by the enraged brute. The bear was a cub a year ago when John Marlenee captured it in British Columbia and brot {sp} it to this country. Lawrence has kept the animal chained, and altho {sp} it is partially tamed it has never become perfectly subdued. When Lawrence arrived home from Velva the other day, the bear had become free from its chan {sp} and Lawrence tried to chain the animal up again. The bear attacked him and tore nearly every stitch from his body and wounded him horribly in the arm, the flesh being torn an inch deep.
After Lawrence had appealed in vain to the hired man to assist him in letting loose of the bear, he managed to get out of the clutches of the animal and went after him again. He struck the bear over the head with a stick and knocked him senseless, when he chained him securely.
Ward County Independent, 4/6/1911
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BABY IS DROWNED.
Falls Into Pond Near His Home While at Play.
Pierre, S. D., April 16.—The three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A Johnson of Farmington township. Sully county, wandered from the house and was missed within a few minutes. A searc hby {sp} his mother located his body in a small pond near the house into which he had fallen in his play.
Wahpeton Times, 4/18/1907
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