Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10

oyer forty ofhsrs seriously injured in railroad
fetaiiy injured IN railroad coliision near Mas
Oct Oct. EA~ason-load OF seven people struck
by locomotive on railroad crossiug near Hoop
g: Nen. three being instantly killed and two
Nov. e-Five men killed and . number Of 9TH
y 81 boiler o.
Nov. A-F1fteen persons killed and others In
1ured in miac explosion near Lock Haven. Pa
steam gauge and lantern works at Rochester.
". ~ Eighty lives lost BY explosion in coal
Nov. i0-Tour persons fatally burned By
after.damp mine explos'on near Boston. Pa.
a.e Nina " I'VE 9n in
Nov. IA crazy woman named Bcrthune.
at Pittsburg. Kan. and her four children per.
ish in their burning dwelling which she had set
Nov: 1s-rhree ! tile girls struck by engine
and killed on railway bridge at, Crcleville, O.
-. Seven men killed in railroc. collision at
Valley Falls, w. Va.
seriously, in railroad accident near Harrison,
O.. House Of Jack Grigc: Bowling G, Green:
per:ons5, except Gregg, who was absent from
home, burned to death.
Nov. 23-Two little children of Carl woeb-
beking, near Waterloo. Ia. suffocated to death
Nov. ss-Three men killed by boiler explosion
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explosion at Centerv lie. Pa. and George Pal
n1er and his 1O-year old daughter killed by
Move r. mSeps Perish in fire in
per mine at Calum0 Mich. Four men killed
and several others dangerously injured by dy-
Mantle explosion near lexington, Ky.
Dec. 4-Five men horribly, three fatally,
burned by molten steel from an overturned
ladle in Pittsburgh. Pa. -. Three colored chill
dwelling near Lexington. Ga.
fatally hurt in railroad collision near Youngs-
town, O....Lake av.gation closed; durn g
the year as boats were lost. valued at s4sa. 4o5:
Dec ioGFiour dust exploded in an oatmeal
buildings and killing three men.
Dec. 1S-Three men lost their lives in q burn
Dec. iaNFour mcn killed by the falling of a
trestle at Stevens Point. Wis.
Dec ia mother and two children Perish in
burning dwelling near Huntington. w. Va.
Dec. 21-Engineer killed and two men fatally
injured by q boiler explosion at Frankfort, Ind
49, Two persons persisted in burning hotel at
Dec. ss-Three nitro-glycerine magazines
at Buchanan Hollow. Pa, blew up. killing two
Dec. 2S-Mississippi steamer Kate Adams
burned near Commerce, Miss. 25 lives lost.
at Boulder, Cal. Mrs. Priestly and grand
daughter burned to death in house at Forest
at Alki Point, w. r.
Dec. 25-Over 25 persons persisted in burning
OF steamer John n. Hanna at PlaQuemine, La.
CRIME.
Jan. 16-A Swede near Princeton, Mimi,
killed his wife and seven children.
s r oG Mccoy H sns haa
children. and burned TO death her husband and
two youngest children Frank Touckner,
himself. James Grinder, Rochester. N Y,
fatally beat MS vile with q hatchet and then
Jan. 27-Three negro prisoners shot to death
by masked men at Plymouth, N; c.
HeD wear S.e~a ,, NO. m. BAN
and then killed himself.
Feb. f8-A. j. Smell. prominent citizen of Chi
Feb. "a farmer named Janauschek, near
New Prague, MIMI, in o quarrel over money,
Feb. 1O-John Buttery, Mechanicsburg, Ind.
shot his step-sister. with whom he was In love,
her anianced and then killed himself.
Feb. l4-At Berlin, Wis, III. w. Hacker, in q
fit of jealousy, killed his sweetheart and then
himself. AT Altoona, Pa, Chester Evev, while
drunk killed h s 17-year-oid daughter and then
Feb. 30. p. Truett, York, Pa, shot his
wife and then killed himself; cause Jealousy:
fatally shot George Abr eht and sister. and then
himself, because The young lady rejected him.
arrest for mu. dering his wife, when taken into
tho presence of his two daughters fatally shot
them both and then killed himself
Mar. 81. L. Gillespie and wife, Chillicothe,
Mo-, fought with knives and fatally wounded
killed i H his wife and them Himself inrS Lane
Apr. 2s-At Cooper. Tex. b. F. Boydston shot
his fiancee and then himself because of post
Apr. e4NJames Smalley, Licking Mo, though
well OF killed his two children and then cut his
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wife and then himself because OF jealousy.
May s1-Geo Thomas. Cincinnati, killed Mag
May 23-W. j. Mcfarland, Cleveland, O..
while drunk shot his wife ana daqghter and then
leaped into q wen with her child in her arms;
both drowned.
May as-Reuben Drake, his wife and two
apoo, Wis. Win am Miller. Brunswick, Mo-,
shot and killed his wife and a man named Nor.
May Se.Joseph sherer. Albany: N. Y. shot
because she would not marry him.
Jun. &C. C. Herbimer, Farchild. Wis, shot
his wife and then himself; domestic troubles.
jun 13-George Taylor, Indianapolis. fatally
self.
Jun. 2o-Mrs. Marck, Pittsburgh. Pa, fatally
poisoned herself and her two children.
Jun. 26-Silas Robinson Minneapolis. fatally
shot his wife, a man named SIS, and then
himself
Jun. a7-Charles Decker, Buena Vista. Ill.
killed his wife ana then himself; family trouble
Jun. ga colore0 boy named Lemuel Dean,
fatally poisoned his father and four other mem.
bers OF the family.
Jul. 3-S. N. Henderson, Trafalgar, Ind.
killed his divorced wife and then imself.
Jul. l7-In duel at Stanton, KY, John Rose
was fatally wounded; s. Hail instantly killed.
Aug. S-In q quarrel at Elkhart, Ind, Benia-
min Scott fatally stabbed throe men.
Aug SIN quarrel at Cincinnati VIM Ach.
land shot and killed two other men and then
shot himself dead.
Aug. ll-While resisting arrest for murder at
shenandoah, Ia, Frank Gallup shot and killed
David Campbell and Bert Rice and was himself
also killed. At Plainville, Conn.,, Geo. Brad.
Icy shot his sweetheart and then himself
Aug. 16-In mt OF jealousy Adolph Hartman,
Navesink. N. j., tried to shoot his mother-tn.
law and then killed his wife and himself
Aug. VA race war in three Louisiana fam
lilies eliminated in the killing of Is negroes.
Sep. IA farm hand at Guide Rock Neb
threw boy INTO Neutrality-suspicious., and was
immediately lynched by his fellow workmen
I'm fight between vigiiantes and horse
thieves near Paladora, Col. all the latter 90
and three OF the former were killed.
Sep. 4-Samuel Seaman louisville XVI
killed his wife for refusing to live with him
and then took his own life.
Sep 6-Anthony Eaher, Newport, r L. shot
wife and then hlmself; jealousy.
Sep. 6-Wm. Server, Elizabethtown. H..
killed his sweetheart IN a at of jealousy and