Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09
CRIME.

| Jan. 12-Several persons killed at Cimarron
| Kan, in fight over the county seat question.
Jan. 19-Three men hanged for murder by q
posse of citizens at Tiptonville, Tenn -. Two
brothers at Bolar, Mo-, attempted to elope with
| 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 moi
"A widow and her four small children near
| Brookfeld, Mo-, murdered by her cousin.
| Jan. 29-John NJ. Clayton, recent Republican
| candidate and contestant for Congress in Sec
ond Arkansas district, assassinated at Plum
/ merville.
Feb. 2-In Philadelphia man named Kayser
| killed young girl, his wife and then himself.
| Feb. 16-JoSeph Chemeleck 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. D-Joseph Brogan, Upson Wis, q
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. +. W. Dawson. editor of
Charleston IS. c. News and Courier, shot and
killed by DR.. T. 3. Mellow
Mar. 15-Samuel Rumble italian CANYON New
shot and killed his father-in-law, his wife, his
brotherin-law and then himself; family trouble
Mar. H-Nicholas Mead, hotel waiter in Bos-
ton shot Mrs Samuel Tuck and her boy, and
then killed himself.
Apr. 27-Nine men killed in a fight between
cowboys and settlers in Oklahoma.
May "a man named WelWlck. Blair, La,
shot his wife and two children, set fire to his
residence and then shot himself.
May fWilliam Gilmore Albany, Ga, killed
his wife and then committed suicide; domestic
trouble.
May 11-Patrick Ford, Chicago, aged 60 years.
killed his wife, % years old, and then fatally
wounded himself; Jealousy. In 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-year-old daughter and
then himself; jealousy.
May l3-CieOrge LoOmiS, OSceola Wis killed
his wife and then himself; supposed insanity
-: George Ward, Memphis Tenn, killed his
vile because she refused to live with him and
then took his own life.
May l5-John Schroeder, Indianapolis, while
killed himself.
May 16-James Wealthy, Wilkesbarre. Pa
killed his wife and then took his own life
domestic trouble. Robert Day Loveland, o.
while drunk killed his aged father and his
divorced wife.
May I7-John Hengle Newark, n. J.. fatally
stabbed Mrs. Scherzer and then killed himself;
jealousy.
May iS-Three officers killed in a 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 brutality murdered.
May 2S-Frank Compton, West Pittston, Pa
cut his wifes throat and then his own; jealousy
May 21-Charles Velte, Grand Rapids, Mich
hlleu us mOLner ana tnen committed suicide.
May 2S-Albert Wilson. Evansville Ind. shot
his young wife. and then himself; jealousy
June A T. Rogers and wife, Topeka, Kan.
fatally shot by burglar
July S-R. ID. johnson, PalouSe CITY, w T
killed his wife, son and daughter, and then him
self, because, as he stated in a note, he did not
want TO live in this sinful world -. Charles
Blackmar, 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 21-Hiram Hoadley, Jr., Edgerton O.
killed his wife, her father and himself; dones-
tic trouble.
Aug. MARTIN Burke. the Cronin suspect.
arrived at Chicago from Winnipeg in charge of
civil officers.
Aug. 14-Ex-Judge David S. Terry shot and
KILLED by Deputy q. S. Marshal David Maggie at
Lathrop, Cal.
Aug. 2-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. So-A. C. Poole. editor Of the Nemon
La) News and Sheriff Lee C. McAlpin fought
duel In which both were killed
Oct sl-Ffank j. Bowman, prominent lawyer
shot and Killed ct Ferguson, No., by B. III