Aneta Panorama: Peter G. Thompson, living one and a half miles north of
Lee, dropped dead Tuesday afternoon while helping one of his neighbors unhitch a team of horses. We have not learned the cause of his death, but it was probably heart failure. He leaves a wife and large family.
Bismarck Tribune, 7/16/1900
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Abe Kilbury, an aged
Velva farmer, while helping Andrew Wold with a gas tractor, fell in front of the plows and was dragged for a distance. His right leg was badly cut, his hip dislocated and he was painfully bruised. His escape from death was miraculous.
Ward County Independent, 6/12/1913
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Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Strong, of Black, reached
Villard, last evening in search of their son Al, a boy about sixteen years of age, who left home suddenly and mysteriously yesterday. For the past few weeks the boy had been working at Minot for Waldref Bros., in the brick yard. He was at minot during the stay of Taylor's "praying band," and was a constant visitor at the camp meeting, during which, it seems, that Mr. Taylor obtained an undue influence over the boy, and completely "turned his head," by the constant exhortations for him to join the army of "
solid Multoons," and inviting him to attend the proposed great camp meeting in Jamestown, for which place it is supposed the boy has struck out. Mr. and Mrs. Strong are extremely lenient and kind to their children, and Al has never had the least greivance to complain of. His visits at the camp meeting simply inspired him with develish
{sp} notions instead of Christian love, and boy-like he allowed the worst impulses to control him. If Bro. Taylor's religious teaching has this influence over the youth of the country we would advise him to resign the ministry and engage in some honorable pursuit.
Jamestown Weekly Alert, 7/14/1887
The action of malicious individuals who carved the ropes and cut a hole in Rev. B. S. Taylor's tent last week caused the greatest indignation among our citizens, and relief, so far as damage is concerned, was forthcoming. This is the meanest and most contemptible outrage possible for any set of cowardly curs to commit, and it would be no surprise to us and simply and act of justice, if the guilty parties, when discovered, are strung up to a telegraph pole to die the death of the dogs they are.
Jamestown Weekly Alert, 7/14/1887
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Jim Keegan, a local character, was arrested upon complaint of J. H. Tompkins, charged with resorting to a room over the postoffice with a young girl for immoral purposes.
Ward County Independent, 6/8/1911
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A Meteoric Shower.
The Sandborn Enterprise in a former issue made mention of "mud balls" which fell with hail during the storm on the night of July 6th. The Enterprises says it was erroneously informed as to the substance of which three remarkable globules are composed, the coating of soil taken on when they struck the ground evidently misleading our informant. Our friend, Emil Djuberg, has kindly presented to us a handful of these stones, evidently of meteoric origin. They range in size from a small pea to an inch in diameter, and in appearance resemble iron bullets, only that they have an irregular surface bery much like that of a sycamore ball. Our theory is that an aerolite or meteoric stone in a semi-molten state was precipitated into the storm cloud and at the moment of contact an explosion occurred, scattering the aerolite into fragments, which being instantly cooled, gave them the spherical form as of molten iron dropped into water. So far as we have been able to definitely trace it the phenomenon is confined to one section, or more accurately, to a quarter section of land, although rumor has it that other places in the storm's path received a shower of this novel "hail." On the farm of Alfred Andserson the morning after the storm the ground was covered with these extraordinary and mysterious arrivals from space, the lighter ones lying on the surface, the heavier ones imbedded an inch or two in the plowed g5round, the holes plainly indicating where they were to be found, a dozen or more in a space of a foot square. On breaking one open a small, hard centre is found to be the nucleus upon which the outer portion has been deposited or formed, the whole, in substance and weight, resembling iron-ore. Verily, it was a strange freak of nature.
Jamestown Weekly Alert, 7/31/1890
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ELEVATOR BURSTS; A MAN IS KILLED
THOUSANDS OF BUSHELS OF WHEAT DUMPED ON GROUND—DAMAGE IS HEAVY
Bismarck, N.D., July 10.—The west end of the Lonk elevator at Mandan let go Friday afternoon with a report that was heard all over town. Thousands of bushels of wheat were dumped on the ground while several thousand dollars damages was done to the building.
In making an examination to find the cause of the accident, the searchers came across the body of a man under the wheat. It was at first thought that he could be revived, but all efforts were in vain.
A card from an employment agency on the body showed that he had shipped from Duluth for Richardton, N.D., recently and gave the man's name as J. Kelly. Physicians say Kelly had recently been under the influence of liquor.
The body is being held pending word from the Duluth police department.
Williston Graphic, 7/15/1909
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