Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-01-11
CRIME,

| Kan, in fight over the county seat question.
| Jan. l9-Thrce men hanged for murder by
posse Of citizens ut Tiptonville,. Tenn. TWO
brothers ut Bolar, Mo-, attempted to elope win
| two daughters OF Henry Thomas when the
| latter shot and killed the young men and one Of
the girls, and was soon after lynched by mon
IA widow and her four small children near
BrOOkfield Mo- murdered by her cousin.
| Jan. 2g-John NJ Clayton, recent Republican
| candidate and contestant for Congress In Sec
ond Arkansas district, assassinated ut Plum
merville.
Feb. ie-Joseph Chcmeleck, Chenille, Mimi,
| killed his sister.in.law and her two daughters
and then fatally shot himself. Frank L. Sill
vers. Tecumseh, Mich, shot and killed his wife
| and two daughters and then himself
Feb. 0-Joseph Brogan, Upson, Wis.
drunken labOrer, cut the threats OF his wife and
his two little boys and then slew himself with
Mar. 7-Michnei Pebbles, wife and two chill
dren murdered while IN bed near Paducah, ny
Mar. l2--Capt. +. W. Dawson, editor OF
Charleston g. c. News and Courier, shot and
killed by DR.. T. B. mellow.
Mar ib-Samuel Rumble. italian Canyon, New,
shot and killed his fathcrin-law, his wife, his
brotherinlaw and then himself; family trouble ae
ton, shot Mrs. Samuel Tuck and her boy, and
then killed himself.
Apr. 27-Nine men killed in Q fight between
cowboys and settlers in Oklahoma.
May "a man named Welwtck, Blair, La
shot his wife and two children. set fire to his
residence and then shot himself.
NAV lB-Three officers killed in riotous dis
turbance at the polls In Forest City, Ark.
MAY 29-The body Of DR.. p. II. Cronin, who
had mysteriously disappeared over two weeks
before. found In catch'basin In Chicago, the
man having been brutally murdered.
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 rs he stated In o note, he did not
want TO live in this sinful world. Charles
Blaclxmar, Blackmar, Mich, while drunk "a
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'
Aug. 5-Martin Burke the Cronin suspect.
arrived at Chicago from Winnipeg in charge OF
civil officers.
Aug. l4.Ex.!udge David s: Terry shot h ia and q,
Aug. @-Stage attacked by highwayman be.
tween Gogebic and Bessemer, Mich, and two
passengers fatally shot. Four men killed and
many others wounded In u riot OF Jardineville
Ark.
Sept. S0-A. c. Poole. editor Of the Nemon
la News and Sheriff Lee C. McAlpin fought
duel in which both were killed.
Oct 2l-Frank ]. Bowman, prominent lawyer
bnOt anu klliuu Nv CSi6uooAS AA"b W ~ ~
Chambers.
Nov. s-The murdered DR.. Cronin's clothes
and case OF instruments found IN Chicago
catch basin. An old quarrel between Colonel
A. N SwOpe and Colonel w. c. Goodloe tcrmi
mated in desperate encounter at Lexing Son,
KY, in which the former was stabbed to death
and the latter fatally shot.
Nov. 16-Prosecution In Crontn case. Chicago,
rested its case and the defense opened.
Nov. S5-Defense in Cronin case, Chicago
rested their case.
| Nov. g7-Geo Ciough. Rockland, Me-, shot
woman and her niece and then took his own
| life; jealousy.
Nov. .9.-State's Attorney Longenecker te-
gan the opening address in the Cronin case,
Dec. casper Clipsey. st. Louis, fatally slot
| John Arson and his two daughters because his
attentions upon one OF the girls had been forbid
den.
Dec IS-Cronin murder case, Chicago, given
to the jury. -.,,
Dec i6-After seventy hours deliberaticn jury
| in Cronin murder case, Chicago. brought In yer
| diet sentencing Burke. OSullivan and Coughlin
| to Imprisonment for life Kunze for three years
and acquitting Beggs.
Dec 2s-Charles Shelar, Miles, o., killed his
wife and three children and then himself;
domestic troubles.
pee. 9S-WfIliam Major, Mount Vernon, Mich,
killed his wife and daughter and daughters
| child and then himself; domestic troubles.