The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-10
CRIME.

| Jan. l2-Several persons killed at Cimarron.
Kan, in a fight over the county seat question.
Jan. ls-Three men hanged for murder by a
posse of citizens at Tiptonville, Tenn. Two
| brothers at Bolar, Mo-, attempted to elope with
| latter shot and killed the young men and one of
| the girls, and was soon after lynched by mob
-. A widow and her four small children near
| Brookfeld, Mo-, murdered by her cousin.
| Jan. 29-John M. Clayton, recent Republican
| candidate and contestant for Congress in Sec
ond Arkansas district, assassinated at Plum
| merville.
Feb. GIN Philadelphia man named Kayser
killed a young girl, his wife and then himself.
| Feb. I6-Joseph Chemeleck, Chenille. MINI,
| killed his sisterin-law and her two daughters
Me shos and ksd his
and two daughters and then himself.
Feb. 20-Joseph Brogan, Epson, Wis, o
drunken laborer, cut the Threats of his wife and
| his two little boys and then slew himself with
| the same weapon.
Mar. Michael Pebbles, wife and two chill
dren murdered while in bed near Paducah, Ky.
Mar. l2-Capt. F. w. Dawson, editor OF
| Charleston IS c. News and Courier, shot ami
| killed by Dr. T. B. mellow.
| Mar I5-Samuel Rumble italian Canyon, New,
shot and killed his fatheri n-law, his wife, his
brother-in-law and then himself; family trouble.
| Mar 27-Nicholas Mead, hotel waiter in Bos-
| ton, shot Mrs. Samuel Tuck and her boy, and
| then killed himself.
Apr 27-Nine men killed in fight between
| cowboys and settlers in Oklahoma.
May ga man named Welwick, Blair. La,
shot his wife and two children. set fire to his
residence and then shot himself.
| May William Gilmore, Albany, Ga. killed
his wife and then committed suicide; domestic
| trouble.
killed his wife, % years old, and then fatally
wounded himself: Jealousy. -. In a quarrel at a
dance near Portsmouth, o., Harry Nichols shot
| and killed two brothers named Cooper
| May l2-Moritz Blanc, Cincinnati, shot and
| killed his wife, his seven-yearold daughter and
| then himself; jealousy.
May l3-George Loomis, osceola, Wis, killed
| his wife and then himself; supposed insanity
George Ward, Memphis, Tenn, killed his
wife because she refused to live with MIN and
| then took his own life.
insane murdered his wife with a razor and then
killed himself.
May 16-James Wealthy, wilkesbarre, Pa,
domestic trouble. -. Robert Day, Loveland, O.,
while drunk killed his aged father and his
| divorced wife.
stabbed Mrs. Scherzer and then killed himself;
| Jealousy.
May iS-Three officers killed in riotous dis
turbance at the polls in Forest City, Ark.
| May 22-The body Of DR.. P. H Cronin. who
had mysteriously disappeared over two weeks
before, found in a catch-basin in Chicago the
man having been brutally murdered.
| May 2S-Frank Compton, West Pittston Pa,
| cut his wifes throat and then his own; jealousy.
May 2.-Charles Veite, Grand Rapids, Mich,
/ killed his mother and then committed suicide.
| May -S-AlDerI WILSON, EVanSNllle- mo-, SnOI
his young wife, and then himself: jealousy.
June A. T. Rogers and wife, Topeka, Kan,
fatally shot by burglar.
| July S-R. d. johnson. Palouse City, W. T,
killed his wife son and daughter and then him
| self because, as he stated in note, he did not
| want to live in this sinful world 49,. Charles
Blackmar,l Blackmar, Mich, while drunk ia
| tally shot his aged mother and her grandson.
| then fatally wounded himself.
| July 12-August Rosenberg, Somerville, Mass,
murdered his wife and two children.
| July 2l-Hiram Hoadley, Jr., Edgerton, O.,
| killed his wife, her father and himself; domes-
| tic trouble.
Aug. 5-Martin Burke. the Cronin suspect.
arrived at Chicago from Winnipeg in charge Of
civil officers
Aug ItEI-Judge David S. Terry shot and
| killed by Deputy U. S. Marshal David Nagle at
| Lathrop. Cal
Aug 26-Stage attacked by highwayman be-
| tween Gogebic and Bessemer, Mich, and two
passengers fatally shot. -. -Four men killed and
many others wounded in riot at Jardineville,
\ Ark.
Sept 3o-A. c. Poole. editor Of the Nemon
| La.) News, and Sheriff Lee c. McAlpin fought
1 a duel in which both were killed
| Oct. 2l-Ffank j. Bowman, prominent lawyer,
shot and Killed at Ferguson, Mo-, by B. IL.
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