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Newspaper
Bismarck Weekly Tribune
Location
Bismarck, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1899
Page
6
A tense incident unfolds as a guest experiences a fatal collapse during an evening event at the Newthwake Book and SHUR Com pany premises near Bayto. The scene involves emergency responders, officials, and a large crowd with witnesses describing the sudden collapse and ensuing distress. Local authorities began investigations into the circumstances of the death.
The legible portions describe a court case with a colonel and family tensions. The text mentions a phrase about pleading in a cage and a 10 o'clock deadline, with scattered references to a party and a family gathering. The overall sense is a damaged report of a legal proceeding and domestic conflict.
An old clipping blends advertisements for Hall’s Catarrh Cure and Valley City wholesale drugs with court records. The notice lists F. M. Cheoney and partners, plus medical products by Hall’s and West & Co. Then it reports several local convictions including Lawrence Gente for assault with a deadly weapon, Taryes Mughy for first degree robbery, Murphy for coercion to reveal funds, and other penitentiary terms for related offenses.
In a conference yesterday in Montreal, representatives from the Migrants Association discussed settling Eastern Europeans. The delegation led by Yang of Bhekinsiin and Nagel St. Danky outlined aims to aid families expected to move in spring. Officials expect strong action toward peaceful settlement and improved provisions for newcomers.
Fragmentary newspaper items discuss Spain's perceived needs, a Barcelona visitor praising Electric Bitters, a historical letters page claiming Roosevelt quotes, a beauty tonic ad campaign for Cascarets, and the death of Mrs Elizabeth White of Westown after a dining incident. The mixed snippets mention health cures, historical debates, and local obituary details with several named places and people.
An old newspaper advertisement touts Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as a cure for burns sores corns and skin eruptions with claims of rapid healing. It also promotes One Minute Cough Tare for throat and lung relief and notes a Christmas misdeed incident and a remedy against grippe and aftereffects. Invalid or unclear portions are omitted.
Official figures show the Northern Pacific hauled nearly three million bushels of wheat to date, more than any previous year. Most stock sits in warehouses while demand grows as traders expect continued movement to markets into spring.
A railroad death on the Northern Pacific line in Carlnas is described with chaotic, partially legible notes about a brakeman dying after an incident near a station. Witnesses describe a derailment like sound and a body found on a track, while other items mention Augustine Murphy funeral rites in Duluth and various notices, ads, and public notices interjected in the page.
What is Shiloh is pitched as a grand old remedy for coughs colds and consumption used worldwide for half a century. It claims to have cured numerous incipient consumption cases and relieved advanced ones. Money back guarantee offered if unsatisfied with results. Beardsley Drugist 4th Street.
WM Barr of Wisconsin arrives in Fargo after delivering cattle train from South Dakota. He shipped Vermont cattle halfway across the nation, plans to repeat voyage, profit wide. Also notes on remedies and local notices about infant teething and cough cures.
The following named pupils in the lower grades in Bismarck schools received certificates of merit from Supt. Edick for being neither absent nor tardy during the term ending December 22. Those listed include Ethelyn Dawson, Helen Gunelburg, Tone Hutchinson, Wells Hutchinson, Reba Harris, Helen Hoskins, Roy Logan, Frank Richholt, Clinton Swett.
Notice seeks a missing bay horse with white face and four white feet, shod in front, weight about 1000 pounds. Last seen near the Grand Pacific hotel around November 15. Finder should notify Henry Tatley at the Grand Pacific hotel and will receive a reward.
The North American Publishing Co of Chicago invites a reliable agent to cover every county or township in the state. They promote Vitalogy, a health encyclopedia by Wood and Taddock, with over $50,000 spent on it and a guaranteed salary plus a permanent position. An example agent earned $1,000 in under five months and another sold 75 copies in three weeks. Write to the Chicago address to secure restricted territories and authorized book sales only through firm reps.
Bismarck Tribune readers are offered a special package combining one year of the Orange Judd Farmer with the Orange Judd Farmer western edition and the Near Book, priced 1.35 for all three, with the local rate emphasized. Dr King s New Life Pills advertised as a remedy for headaches, blood purifying and health building, sold by P Remington, druggist, at 25 cents with money back guarantee if not cured.
Washington Irving Cigar story line noted. The text describes a merchant case, a writ of mandamus sought by Merchant through counsel Smith Stiamel, directed at Judge Pollock, with the matter heard at a special term and an appeal to the supreme court pending before Judges Lauder and Pollock. Madge Bartholomew and Clerk Hos king had returned from Fargo.
In a stay matter Judge Pollock ruled that an perfected appeal and supersedeas bond suspended proceedings and left the injunction unenforceable. The mandamus request aimed to overturn Pollock’s ruling by upholding the demurrer. Judges Bartholomew and Young said the supreme court lacks jurisdiction for the writ, citing State v Nelson County which limits habeas and injunction writs to publici juris and sovereignty concerns.
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