IOLA - It has been stated to us that "Uncle Mose and Aunt Lucy," the old colored couple living in the southwest part of town, have no means of heating the shanty in which they live except with an old cook stove which is in a very bad state of repair.  If this is true...

Terrible List of Persons Frozen to Death in Southwestern Kansas Men Perish Within a Few Yards Help - Mother and Children Dead KANSAS CITY, Jan. 15 - Specials from Kansas say that the list of casualties resulting from the late blizzard grows alarmingly large.  Two...

KANSAS CITY Jan. 8 - A snow storm vastly more severe than the recent blizzard is raging on the plains to the west.  No western trains arrived or departed last night.  Telegraphic communication with points west has been greatly interrupted, and many railroad wires are...

Jacob Troup starved to death at Lima, Ohio and his remains were buried at public expense.  He had a son in Kansas worth $50,000, who refused to recognize or aid him.  The Goshen Weekly News, Goshen, Indiana.  January 15, 1886.  (c) Transcribed by Darren McMannis for...

A most distressing, and as now reported, a fatal gasoline accident occurred at No. 611 East Central Avenue, near the Santa Fe railway, at 3 o'clock yesterday, in which Miss Emma Shepherd, 14 years old, was frightfully burned. The particulars obtained by an Eagle...

CHARLES SIMMONS, who was recently killed in Shawnee County, by falling from a load of hay, was an Englishman, twenty three years old, and said to have been the last member of the family, on his father's side, so that the lineage is now extinct. His widowed mother and...

Post Office Changes in Kansas during the week ending August 25th, 1883: Established: Parnell, Atchison County, James C. Hotham, Postmaster Washburn, Bourbon County, Loring B. Washburn, Postmaster Yankton, Harper County, Stephen C. Oliver, Postmaster Discontinued:...

ABILENE.  Not Crazy. Mrs. Maggie Crane, through the complaint of Dr. Curtis, was taken before Probate Judge Culbertson last Saturday to have her sanity or insanity passed upon. The case was adjourned by the Judge until nine o’clock, Monday morning, when it was...

The Republicans of Iowa palavered about women’s rights and nominated a man for a superintendent of education. The Democrats said nothing but nominated the man’s wife against him for the same office. The Abilene Reflector, Abilene, Kansas. September 6, 1883.  Page 1. ©...

Josiah Hinman, founder of Montana, Kansas, the first town built in what is now Colorado, died recently at his home in Vergens, Vermont. He was the leader of the first party that left Lawrence, Kan., for Pike’s Peak in May, 1858.  In February, 1859, the new town of...

Dodge City, Kan. Aug. 6 - The severest storm ever known in this section struck this city after midnight last night. The wind gauge at the signal office was blown down, but good judges estimate the velocity at ninety miles per hour. The roar of the tornado was...

NEWTON, KS - Just before going to press we learn that J. Chanter and family, with the exception of his wife, are quite ill, they having ate some canned meat for supper yesterday evening, which is supposed to have been poisonous. The Newton Kansan, Newton Kansas....

Amos M. Spencer, a relative of Mrs. Judge Ruggles, who lived on her farm, was drowned Sunday while bathing in the Neosho river near his home.  It seems that directly below the Ruggles ford there is a deep hole into which the unfortunate man stepped while wading about...

Captain Ferdinand H. Berger, a well known citizen of Atchison county, and a gallant soldier of the 8th Kansas regiment throughout the war, died at Atchison on the 9th from the kick of a runaway horse he had stopped. The Emporia News, Emporia, Kansas. January 17, 1879....

Four Prisoners Get Away Sunday Last Sunday afternoon four of the prisoners confined in the county jail made a successful escapade by cutting a hole through the brick wall.  So quietly was the work done that nothing was known or heard of the escape until the birds had...

A Full List of the Killed on Beaver Creek KIRWIN, KS, Oct. 23, 1878 - After a journey of 300 miles since I wrote you from Oberlin, Decatur county, Kas., dated Oct. 12th, I reached Kirwin late this evening, by way of of the Republican Valley and Red Cloud.  I have no...

Last Saturday our community were both shocked and grieved to learn of the sudden death of W. J. Van Eman, of Grove township.  It appears that Mr. Van Eman had been to the post-office at Netherland, and was returning to his home.  This was on Friday afternoon.  When...

In Troy township last Sunday evening, two young men named respectfully - Prowley and Shanley, had a difference of opinion with regard to the right of possession of some cattle.  It appears that the cattle belonging to Shanley had been trespassing on the premises of...

A Shooting Scrape At Emporia Last Thursday evening, in John Campbell's billiard hall, Frank Gatewood made a murderous assault upon David Campbell, a young man, brother of the proprietor, which ended in the discharge of a load of shot from a shot gun in the hands of...

A Man Carried Twenty Feet by a Whirlwind and Killed Last Saturday our community were both shocked and grieved to learn of the sudden death of W. J. Van Eman, of Grove township. It appears that Mr. Van Eman had been to the post-office at Netherland, and was returning...