MOBERLY, MO. Jan. 22.  Shot From Ambush.  Last Saturday night David Mason, from ambush, shot James Hoddick, wounding him so that he died yesterday.  The cause: Hoddick’s alleged betrayal of Mason’s daughter.  Hoddick returned Mason’s fire, but without result. The...

The band boys of Great Bend have practiced on their new music book and pronounce themselves satisfied. There is a yawning chasm however, between their feeling and that of the great throbbing heart of the people. The Hutchinson Gazette, Hutchinson KS. Thursday, January...

One half the members of the territorial legislature of Oklahoma are formally Kansas men, says a Kansas paper. Well, what do people suppose they went there for, any how? The Hutchinson Gazette, Hutchinson KS. Thursday, January 17, 1895. Page 2. (c) Transcribed by...

WICHITA.  County Attorney William Boone done his own pleading in the disbarment trial against him at Wichita this week. It is said that his oratorical ability gained him several points. The Hutchinson Gazette, Hutchinson KS. Thursday, January 17, 1895. Page 3. (c)...

WICHITA.  The police of Wichita are having trouble with housebreakers. They seem to be pretty numerous – thieves, not police. The Hutchinson Gazette, Hutchinson KS. Thursday, January 17, 1895. Page 2. (c) Transcribed by Darren McMannis for the Kansas Council of...

WICHITA.  Edward Clark, a prominent ticket broker and business man of Wichita, died in that city of apoplexy this week. The Hutchinson Gazette, Hutchinson KS. Thursday, January 17, 1895. Page 2. (c) Transcribed by Darren McMannis for the Kansas Council of Genealogical...

SILVER LAKE.  A Silver Lake girl has carved a music rack which sold for $ 65. She will probably marry a man who can’t find the second joint of a duck, and she’ll have to keep on carving all her life. The Hutchinson Gazette, Hutchinson KS. Thursday, January 17, 1895....

Jim McKinney, a bad man from Illinois, and wanted in that state for crimes committed several years ago, was captured in Wichita last Friday. He was taken to Illinois to stand trial. The Hutchinson Gazette, Hutchinson KS. Thursday, January 17, 1895. Page 2. (c)...

A Wichita minister took for his text last Sunday, “Does It Pay.” From the number that are in operation and the number anxious to start, we should answer in the affirmative. – The Peabody Graphic The Hutchinson Gazette, Hutchinson KS. Thursday, January 17, 1895. Page...

A bill is being prepared to make the hotel deadbeat a felon. The author of the bill is a green-eyed Wichita tavern keeper who thinks he is slamming the patrons of the Topeka taverns. – The Kansas City Star. The Hutchinson Gazette, Hutchinson KS. Thursday, January 17,...

Mrs. Eliza Merrick, aged 77 years, met with a horrible death at Okawville, Saturday morning.  While in the house alone she fell into the fire, and was unable to escape.  She endured the tortures for an hour or more but when found she was in the agonies of death.  The...

Luther C. Challiss, a well known citizen and early settler in Atchison, died in that city some days ago. He was prominently connected with railroad building in early Kansas history. In 1864 he made a large fortune in Wall Street, New York city, but the tide turned...

MOUND CITY - Oran Wordon, son of ex-Sheriff Wordon of Mound City, Kas., was almost instantly killed near that place Saturday afternoon by a runaway team.  He was helping his father stack wheat and the team he was driving ran away.  The boy was thrown on his head and...

Anderson Gray, charged with murder in the first degree for being accessory in the murder of E.T. Patten near Conway Springs, had a hearing last week before Justice of the Peace W.E. Cox, at Wellington, and was bound over without bail to await the action of the...

A Family Asphyxiated in a Manner That Aroused Grave Suspicions Independence, Kan., Jan. 2 - At 9 o'clock yesterday morning the home of George W. Read, manager of the Long-Bell Lumber Co., was broken into by Al Brown, Mr. Read's son-in-law, and suspicious neighbors...

A Marion County Murder The murdered man found in the river near Marion, on the 20th ult., proved to be J.T. Hays, who came from Missouri, a short time ago, with a cousin, J.T. Kelly.  They had engaged to do some breaking for Mr. Forney, living north of Marion. ...

SCAMMON - Charles Wade, a striking miner, committed suicide today [June 17] by shooting himself. Before committing the deed he remarked to a friend that rather than starve to death he would kill himself. He left a young wife. The Wichita Daily Eagle, Wichita, Kansas....

A. Benson, in the Leavenworth jail under sentence of death for the murder of Mrs. Mettman, stabbed his guard the other day and then killed himself. The Barton County Democrat, Great Bend, Kansas. December 22, 1892.  Page 2.  © Transcribed by Darren McMannis for the...

Lizzie Williams, an eighteen-year-old negro girl whose home is at Kansas City, shot and killed Ed Parks, a negro lad about the same age, at Coffeyville, recently.  Parks was her sweetheart and was visiting her at her boarding place with the fatal shot was fired.  The...

San Francisco, Dec. 8 - Joseph McKay, who is in jail at Ukiah, Cal., charged with stage robbery, has been found to be the son of Joaquin Miller, "the poet of the Sierras."  The real name of the young man is Harry Miller.  He is 22 years of age and is the son of the...