Valentine Wentz, an assistant pressman of the Leavenworth Times, was recently killed by a shock of electricity.  He was about to adjust a lamp over a press when his hand came in contact with a wire that was partially "dead," the current having been turned off on...

The killing of Sam Wood has been treated by every paper in the state so far as we know as a most unfortunate occurrence - except by the Alliance papers.  It is painful to note how eagerly they pick up the death of their brother reformer to make political capital out...

HIAWATHA - The Kickapoo Indians had a dance Sunday, and did not stop dancing when one of the number fell dead. A half-breed has inspired them with the idea that the white people will turn into buffaloes and deer before spring, and that the negro would disappear. The...

GARDEN CITY - A German, aged about 25 years, John Regier by name, threw himself in front of the east-bound Santa Fe passenger train and was ground to pieces. He was a stranger here, coming from Pueblo about a week ago. He had but $6 on his person when killed. His...

Saturday night the bad feeling of several parties in the north part of town culminated in a shooting affray in which two women were probably fatally shot with a 45 caliber revolver.  The shooting was done by Robert Snider and the women shot were his wife, Lizzie...

Peter Gibson, a deacon in the Colored Baptist Church at Wichita, was arrested a few evenings ago charged with stealing coal from the cars in the Missouri Pacific yards.  For some time parties have been stealing coal there and watchmen have been unable to catch them. ...

Found Dead on His Claim Guthrie, I.T., Dec. 14 - Dr. Martin Cheney, formerly of Kingman, Kan., was found dead on his claim about six miles southeast of here yesterday afternoon.  He had been shot in the head with a rifle and was still warm when it was reported and the...

Five whisky sellers at Hays City were yesterday fined $100 each and given thirty days in jail.  The Wichita Daily Eagle, Wichita, Kansas.  Friday, August 9, 1889.  Page 4. (c) Transcribed by Darren McMannis for the Kansas Council of Genealogical Societies, Inc.

While the people of Dacey, a small town south of Ellsworth, on the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad, were preparing to observe Decoration Day they were startled by the announcement that William Strong had killed his wife, and then going to the house of a...

A terrible cyclone recently swept through Chase County in the vicinity of Strong City.  Many houses were blown down and a great amount of property destroyed.  The residence of Milton Brown was wrecked.  Mr. Brown was killed, his wife fatally and his son, daughter, and...