Walter South, a youth who lives in
Hettinger county, became broken hearted because a pretty school teacher failed to return his love and tried to kill himself. He returned to his uncle's home late at night, left a note of farewell, secured a big revolver from a trunk and hiked out two miles to a school house, where he tried to pull off the brain-blowing stunt. The gun failed to work and the youth was found in a sad state of mind early the next morning.
Ward County Independent, 6/12/1913
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No Blood.
Two women who reside south of the track furnished a little work for the police yesterday evening by working up a lively difference of opinion. Each informed the police that she had been "called out of her name" and but for the timely arbitration of the knights of the star a genuine old time hair pull would have been the result.
Bismarck Tribune, 7/17/1885
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Hans Olson, a motorist demonstrated the well known fact that two bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time, when he attempted to displace a team of horses. He was pitched from his machine beneath the horses and trampled until he was unconscious.
Ward County Independent, 6/8/1911
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BORCHARDT IS DEAD; 'JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE'
Witnesses Testify to Dangerous Character of Slain Anamoose Man
Anamoose, N.D., June 2.—Charles Borchardt, shot last Tuesday by Henry Panke, when the former attempted to enter the latter's farm home near here, died Friday. The coroner's jury today returned a verdict of justifiable homicide.
Half a dozen witnesses testified that Borchardt was a dangerous character.
Last spring, according to the witnesses, 18 citizens of the neighborhood drew up a proclamation, demanding that Borchardt leave that part of the country, because of his unwelcome attentions to Mrs. Panke. He had been gone some months, when he returned Tuesday, attempted to force his way into Panko's home, and was shot.
Bismarck Tribune, 6/2/1917
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Corporal Francis, of Company B,
Twelfth infantry, U.S.A., while bathing in the Missouri river, at the mouth of
Bad river, near Pierre, got beyond his depth and drowned before the eyes of his brother soldiers. The troops have been dragging the river for his body but in vain. It is an old saying that "the Missouri never gives up its dead."
Jamestown Weekly Alert, 7/31/1890
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Stabbing Affray.
Moorhead, Minn., July 20.— At 9 o'clock this morning a Swede named Carl Eklund stabbed a Norwegian named Ole Jacobson with a pocket knife, cutting him the mouth and again in the left breast just above the nipple. The stabbing took place in the town of Alliance, twenty miles south of Moorhead, on a farm. The two men are farm laborers and were plowing. Eklund, who is represented to be a small man, was in the lead and stopped to repair his plow. Jacobson came along and drove right onto Eklund's plow. Eklund became enraged and kicked one of the horses of Jacobson's team, when it is stated Jacobson struck Eklund in the face with his fist, whereupon Eklund said if Jacobson should strike him again he would cut him with a knife he was using in cutting leather to mend the plow. It is assumed Jacobson did strike him again when Eklund struck twice with the knife. The gash in the breast is two inches deep and penetrated the lung. The wounded man rode in a buggy all the way to Moorhead arriving before 1 p.m. covered with his blood. He was taken to the hospital, his wounds dressed and his ante-mortem statement taken by the coroner as the attending physicians have doubts of his recovery.
Bismarck Tribune, 7/21/1885
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