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...

Wichita, Kan. May 10 - Thomas Smithson, a farmer living near Pratt, a town west of here, was killed in the late gale by the falling of his house, which was blown down. Two members of his family were seriously injured, but not fatally. Several houses in Pratt were...

Calvin Race, an old settler and esteemed citizen, was buried yesterday. He died suddenly of heart disease Sunday night at 11 o'clock. He was justice of the peace for Valley Center township, Sedgwick county, and father of A.C. Race, deputy treasurer of your county. He...

ABILENE.  Hon. J. R. Burton, of Abilene, asserts that the published surmises that he is about to leave Kansas have only the slight foundation that he has made some investments in Colorado. He says that he expects to live, die, and be buried in Kansas; the two latter...

WELLINGTON.  Sumner county has a sheriff so mean that, according to one of the Wellington papers, he compels a poor, demented, defenseless, sick man, who has been adjudged insane by a court and jury, to walk five miles while conveying him to the insane hospital, in...

Larned, Kas., Dec. 24 - Warner Tilter, who killed Horace Tibbs last summer in a dispute over the respective merits of the Sons of Veterans society and the G.A.R., was acquitted to-day.  The Emporia Weekly News, Emporia, Kansas.  December 30, 1886.  Page 2.  ©...

SEDAN, KS - We have just been given the particulars of one of the most terrible murders ever committed in Chautauqua county. The killing took place on the 19th day of February. The circumstances are about as follows: John Hogan with a wife and six children lived in...

IOLA - It was found impossible to keep the school house comfortably warm last Friday, and the school had to be dismissed. The township trustee has been called upon quite frequently during the late cold snap to furnish lodging for tramps. Not enough snow for sleighs...

IOLA - By returns from the patent office, we notice that O.J. Smith, of Iola, has been recently granted a patent on a washing machine.  The Iola Register, Iola, Kansas.  Friday, January 15, 1886.  Page 5. (c) Transcribed by Darren McMannis for the Kansas Council of...

IOLA - In alluding to the report that Commissioner Sparks was in danger of assasination, the Champion remarks that "one thing is certain - they can't blow his brains out."  The Iola Register, Iola, Kansas.  Friday, January 15, 1886.  Page 5. (c) Transcribed by Darren...

IOLA - Several teachers in different parts of the county have told us recently that they use the Register to a large extent in their schools in place of the prescribed school readers.  We are glad to note this.  Not chiefly because it is the Register that is used -...