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Newspaper
The Bowbells Tribune
Location
Bowbells, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1908
Page
5
John Allen of ten miles northwest of Dennybrook shot his sister Miss Ruen after finding her dancing with Kohler at the Auen farm dance. He then killed himself with a 32 caliber pistol. The Ruen farm near Donnybrook is the scene of the tragedy. all involved are known locally.
B R Bradley of McHenry ends a ten year battle against a Northern Pacific rule forcing leakage release or 20 percent excess freight on flax shipments. The ICC ruling states such charges violate the commerce act and Bradley seeks refunds for hundreds of thousands of dollars paid over the past decade, urging affected shippers to report details to recover funds.
Members of the Mouse River Lodge of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers protest police brutality against Fireman McKay of the Great Northern Railway in Minot, call for removal of officers, and urge city officials to appoint new ones. A copy to be filed with the city council and printed in Minot daily papers.
Martin Polaski a Geneseo blacksmith married recently was killed by George Goosby a ruffian running a blind pig at Hamlin. Goosby ran amuck injuring several. Polaski died from brain concussion after being trampled. Polaski leaves a wife and large family in dire financial straits. United Goosby jailed at Forman.
Judge Winchester orders a recanvass of Burnt Creek township Burleigh county votes from the recent Republican primaries. Emilin Hanson seeks correction after three votes for her were omitted in the precinct canvass. Judge Burke to preside. recount to occur in the court room with Newton and Dullam for the petitioner.
Frank Carlson of Connecticut, recently arrived in Minot, was robbed of 800 dollars after arriving to view a quarter section near Don Lace. A hotel employee allegedly suggested a plan to recover the money with a 100 dollar bounty, and an investigation has begun. Carlson is described as a wealthy man with local friends.
Peter Wedeman longtime Jamestown resident aged eighty five died after a long decline from old age. Born in New York May 15 1826 he moved to Jamestown in 1876 and married Jane Evanson in 1845 before moving to Wisconsin then back to Jamestown. He served as a Civil War corporal and leaves nine children four of whom survive. Funeral Tuesday at 10 am Congregational church with G A R honors burial at Highland Home Cemetery.
Dr. Blackburn of Olga forfeited a 350 cash bond and did not appear in district court at Langdon on a blind pigging charge. His trial had begun Saturday, and he is reportedly in Western Canada after being seen in Rolla Sunday night. Bench warrant issued for his arrest. Collins Van guilty of petit larceny in dynamo theft case. A civil case proceeding and State v William Anderson set for trial.
Police investigate break in at The Great Northern station Botineau where burglars took $30 from the safe and fled. Detectives pursue suspects believed linked to a Northwest crime gang active in the region.
The second week of State U summer school closes with about 200 enrolled. Courses in Latin, history, English, sociology, music, art, and more are offered under the state department of education and local counties. Mid term exams July 18. daily assemblies feature speakers including Prof. Koch, Rev. Miller, Mrs. Burrows, and Miss Fulton.
Pastore of three Grand Forks churches leads a campaign against gambling targeting slot machines and pool rooms. Rev. F. E. R. Miller of First Baptist and Rev. W. H. Matthews of the Presbyterian organize the effort condemning slots as recruiting dens. They argue machines pay in cigars and candy to lure youths.
Grand Forks city council last week gave final reading and unanimous approval to a franchise for five local men to build a street railway system. A stock company will form and a new line will connect East Grand Forks with the existing UND route. The plan aims to lay rails before downtown paving proceeds.
A compilation of North Dakota developments across towns and counties. Dickinson’s land office sees robust activity while premises fear liquor sellers due to injunctions. Infrastructure expands with a Dickinson depot and Williston staging for hospital efforts. Roads, bonds, and local contests frame summer civic life with awards, elections, and farm elevator dividends noted.
Burglars broke into the Clifford annex office of Doctors Saunderson and Fletcher in Grand Forks, stealing 25 dollars in cash and 25 dollars worth of gold plate. They used skeleton keys to force the safe, smashed the interior, and left no trace. Police report no discoveries yet linking to the crime, with the only out-of-place item the hammer used.
Kate Wagner sues Albert W. Wagner for divorce on habitual intoxication grounds. The pair met through a matrimonial agency after his bachelor life ended in 1894 and wed in Indiana. The court found testimony insufficient to prove habitual drunkenness, leaving the marriage intact.
George Stinson who visited Grand Forks in May married Morris Minnesota native Mary Lodge in a Tuesday ceremony. The couple, long separated by five years, plan a 10 000 mile honeymoon via New York and a Buenos Aires ocean steamer, with Stinson once an agent for an American threshing machine company in Argentina.
Bert Powell, a young Black man, narrowly escaped lynching by 101 ranch cowboys and Mexicans last week. He was chased along Fifth Avenue to the Gladstone hotel, aided by Officer Day, and taken to the county jail. Powell faced Justice Carr after the incident.
The Grand Forks board of county commissioners acting as a board of equalization refused the Grand Forks Gas and Electric company’s plea to cut assessed value from 827,795 to 42,795. The company sought removal of the 40,000 stock and bonds item from the assessment, arguing it was not in the city assessor’s return.
In Jefferson near Birmingham July 19 a deputy marshal R Gardner was fatally wounded and at least a dozen miners were shot during an attack on a train carrying strikebreakers to Adarreville. Gov Comer sent cavalry from Montgomery. troops patrolled as violence flared and authorities vowed to prevent train stoppages and armed clashes.
Two young girls in Franklin county Iowa were severely injured when a mowing machine and a spreader malfunctioned. Grace Pratt age ten suffered serious leg injuries while Eleanor Peters age eight or nine was caught in a spreader, breaking both legs above the ankles.
Police discovered Kilanen Panzer, sixty five, and his wife There na, sixty two, in a New York room where both lay unconscious with gas tubes between their lips and their hands clasped, suggesting a suicide pact.
In Panama on July 19, crowds of native women wearing the pollera 65 gathered at the presidential residence to present Domingo de Obaldia with a presidential sash, signaling strong popular support for the newly elected leader.
Seven inmates escaped from the Toronto jail last night by picking a door lock in a cell corridor and breaking through the wall into the scaffold area. The fugitives include known pickpocket Stanley Churchill who is wanted at St. Paul Ming.
Routed by revolutionaries in Tabriz on July 19, Rachin Khan's forces depleted of ammunition fled to the hills. Rachin Khan, commanded by the shah's orders, is missing. The revolutionists seized the town and looted official houses.
Eau Claire officials begin elimination of worthless, ownerless dogs within city limits. Chief of police ordered by council to kill unlicensed dogs in the corporate area.
Delaney, a La Crosse workman on the government dredge Henry Bosse, drowned this morning in the Misglasspot river at Red Wing Minnesota while bathing. He leaves a widow in Cambridge Wisconsin.
Ten year old Edward Larson son of Andrew Larson Red Wing Minnesota was kicked to death by a horse while visiting his uncle in Vans.
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