Giles Smith, of Wyandotte, was sentenced to the penitentiary for seven years for stealing a box of herring and a bottle of gin from a railroad car.  That shows how awful wrong it is to steal from a railroad company.  We think the penalty was a lenient one, for since...

The Lawrence Journal says:  "When an animal is killed or hurt by the cars on the Kansas Pacific the section boss fills out a blank form describing the locality of the accident, etc.  One of the questions in the form is: 'What disposition was made of the animal?'  The...

The Atchison & Nebraska company began work this morning on a new track to connect their line with the Atchison & Santa Fe road.  It will start out from the foot of Commercial street, cut off about six feet from the corner of the depot, and join the Santa Fe...

The Hannibal & Atchison railroad company have purchased eighty acres of land just opposite the foot of Main street, and have already begun work of building a large depot, engine house, etc.  It is probable that the eastern end of the bridge will rest on this tract...

Max Alwens, of the grocery house of Dolan & Quigg, has gone west on a short visit.  It is whispered about that he will not return alone.  Well, Max is a good fellow, and deserves all the good luck and happiness which the boys cordially wish may attend him.  The...

Rooks county is soon to be organized and the county seat located at Stockton.  The Atchison Daily Patriot, Atchison, Kansas.  Friday, October 25, 1872.  Page 4.  © Transcribed by Darren McMannis for the Kansas Council of Genealogical Societies, Inc.

A terrible tornado visited the eastern counties of this State on Saturday last.  At Paola, Ottawa, Garnett and other points much damage was done.  Our Ottawa correspondent tells what happened there.  At Garnett the Catholic church and two houses were blown down...

Last Thursday evening we were visited by a short but sharp storm of lightning, thunder, rain, and hail.  We have seldom, if ever, known the electricity to be so all-pervading, "arching" and disagreeably proximate.  During the storm thirteen ponies were struck by...

Another of those startling and fearful crimes that periodically horrify almost every law abiding community, took place in the township of Osawatomie, three or four miles from the village, just after dark on Tuesday night last. While walking around his out buildings,...

The post office at Peabody was robbed of all its mail matter Thursday night last week. Two peddler who have been floating around Newton and Peabody for some time past, are suspected of the robbery, because they were missed the next morning, and have not been heard of...

A gentleman who was at Eldorado during the late Tornado, says he heard more praying in an hour than he had heart before in that time. Peter Cartwright once said that the only way to get religion into some people was to scare it in. The Emporia News, Emporia, Kansas....

WABAUNSEE, KS – Convicts. Three more convicts have arrived at the penitentiary, delivered by Sheriff Herrick, of Wabaunsee County. One of them, Joseph Huber, is sentenced for one year, and his crime consisted in stealing a pocket book containing $400, from Mr....

KANSAS CITY, MO – Judge Brewer.Before the rebellion and whilst the Pike’s Peak gold excitement was at its highest, there came to our city a young lawyer from New York.He put out his “shingle” and began his trial trip for success.That was David J. Brewer.He was...

A. Goddard, Esq., one of the editors of the Boston Advertiser, writes from Denver to that paper an interesting letter of which the following is an extract: "The wealth of Kansas and Colorado has not yet begun to be estimated.Eastern Kansas, with its glorious history,...

KIT CARSON, KS – Aug. 29. A desperate shooting affair occurred here at one o’clock this afternoon in which two men were killed and one wounded. Sergeant Shreaves of the 7th United States Cavalry, stationed here and Lee Stewart, were gambling in a game of poker, when...

COURTLANDVILLE, NY – July 29. Woman Tarred And Feathered.  A young woman named Melissa Blye was stripped naked and tarred and feathered at Courtlandville last night, by a party of young men, for intimacy with a Mr. Moore, whose wife recently went crazy and drowned...

Proclamation From Napoleon Frenchmen: There are in the life of people solemn moments, when the national honor violently excited presses itself, irresistibly rises above all other interests, and applies itself with the single purpose of directing the destinies of the...

A Grand Hunt For The Murder. LEAVENWORTH.   The awful murder at the Fort was the principal topic of conversation yesterday.  Nearly all the police were at once set to work looking for the murderer, who is supposed to be a soldier named John Malone, who deserted from...

CONTAINS LEAD - Somebody has found out that all the hair restoratives contain primarily lead. Well, what of it? Is that going to prevent bald-headed men and women from resorting to everything advertised to make their hair grow? By no means. If every preparation made...

A few days ago we received a fault-finding article, entitled, “Kansas Blows,” from the Sedalia, Missouri Bazoo. It was from the esteemed pen of its editor and publisher, J. West Goodwin. The article was characterized by disgust rather than malevolence, and is charged...