Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-01-12

Aug. st-on the steamer Moravia which
/ riveo at New York from Hamburg ~ deaths
! from cholera occurred
| Sep. 1-Twenty-six persons went down with
banks. near Deer Park. Mich.
Sep. Shine men killed by collision on Clear
| field & Cambria branch of Pennsylvania rail-
Sep. 1c-Ten persons killed in railroad acct
dent near West Cambridge. Mass.
| Sep ga Santa Fee road night express
| wrecked near Usage City, Kan, killing five
persons. - Twelve persons killed In a railroad
| collision near Shreve, Q.
| Sep. 24-Eight persons killed in a railway col
down a shaft in Eureka mine in Bessemer
/ township Mich. and killed
| in in the Norrie mine at Ironwood Mich
Oct. 7-Mr and Mrs. Pearsall and grand
| son persisted in burning home, at Sand Lake,
Oct. s-Near Weston. W Va, four men killed
| Oct 9-Five men killed by collision of steam
| ers. in South Port Townsend. Wash
| Oct I2-Six miners at Port Royal Pa, died
| from drinking beer from a keg in which was
! found a dead snake. Four persons killed at
Kansas City by collision of railroad train and
Oct IS-During fireworks exhibition at Los
| Angeles CAL an explosion killed IL persons.
| Oct 2EAcc.dent on Great Northern road
| near Spokane, Wash; killed seven men
West Manayunk, Pa.
Oct 2CScow directed to lumber camp at Big
! Bay Mich. wrecked on Lake Michigan drown
|
Oct si@Three children of George Cage AID
| their grandmother persisted in burning house
! Nov IO-In a railway collision at Highland
| Center Ia. four persons were burned TO death
| Nov. 17-Fiye men killed by gunpowder ex-
| ploson at Mountain View, Ark. -. Five persons
| kille by cyclone at Harrison, Ark.
| Nov. 19-Steaner Rosa Lee burned at Mem
PMS Nov iSur en ed in railway Collision
| at Aida. Neb. - Prof Ganiard, his wife and
| son and Miss Thompson drowned near Everett,
/
Dec. 6-Four men killed in wreck on the
! Burlington route near Corona, Col
| Dec. S-During season of 1892 80 lives were lost
| in navigating the great lakes
| Dec. 13-f'our persons persisted in cyclone
| near Summit, Miss. Two men killed and two
mortaliy wounded by boiler explosion at Swift's
rolling mill at Newport, Ky
Dec I5CThree persons burned to death at
Union Park. a suburb of St Paul.
family, who p1rtook OF q cake in which rat
poison had been mixed, dled
| Dec 18-Eight men killed and i've injured in
wreck on Great Northern railway at Nelson,
! Mimi.
Dec 2l-wllliam Kohler killed and many 9th
erS fatally burned by explosion OF crude oil tank
at Springfield. o.. -Four men suhocated In
| Dec 22-Three children of NJ lrcus White per-
ished in n burning house at Waverly, Tenn
railroad wreck near HalStcad, Col + our per-
| sons killed Elunira, N Y, by the cars.
Dec ai-Four persons asphyxiated by coal gas
Dec. 37-Three men killed in incendiary fire
| in Milwaukee.
| CRIMES.
| MANY STARTLING ONES IN TIE YEAR HISTORY
Jan 4-CharleS Debair, of ST Louis shot his
! wife fatally then killed himself. :. Eight men
atally shot in quarrel in Clinch county, Ga.
| Jan Give members of the Sims gang
| lynched by mob near Wamack Hill, Ala
Jan Pupils of a school near Topeka, Kan,
Feb. lO-Peter Cassidy cut two men fatally
and was in turn fatally Shot by Guenther near
Feb; Il-..Hamp DISCO his wife and son were
Shot dead by two ;.,3 masked men at ke1 Ark
| Ia. and then himself.
Mar. 3Mary Calvin, of Duquesne, Pa, in
| fit of jealousy, threw bucket of lye her
| husband and two children, all being fatally
| burned.
Washington then took his own life. 80. Four
| negroes killed near Edmonton KY, in fight
| between negroes and white men.
| Mar. 13-Lindsay A. Bennett killed his wife,
then himself at Atlantic Ia
l. I. Waltenbaugh, then shot his wife, then
| killed himself; jealousy.
| dered his wife, shot Edward MacClellane, then
| comm tied suicide: jealousy.
May i6-Ira Mullins, his wife, William Null
| Inns, John Chapel and boy named Moore were
| shot and killed from ambush at Round Gap, Va.
May ls-At De9ison, Tex e; an unknown as
Teen Hawley. leaders in society, also two dis
reputable women Maude Kramer and Rose
May g7-Mrs. Scott and her four daughters
murdered IN their home near Lone tree, KY;
| June Moses Taylor killed his wife and F.
Foster, then himself at Neadmore, ILL.,; jeal-
ousy.
June Al. R Turner and Miss Scneffer killed
| by explosion OF dynamite bomb in the home of
the former ut kensington. Pa; author of crime
unknown
June ll-George Whitstone of Cass county.
Tex killed his two children then himself
sauIt Ste Marie Mich A--''1 - ''i''- -" az
June % August Grutz wounded his mother
in-law seriously, killed his wife and himself at
July s-M: NJ. Pierce, of Pottsboro, Tex
and then himself.
July 6-During riots between workmen and
workmen and five Pinkcrton guards were killed
! July ll-Nine men killed in pitched battle be-
Nene reon a of 1dho and n Blown 1n
July Harmed strikers in Idaho. overtaking
upon item, killing ID.
! July 29-Frank PARROT killed Annie Clover at
on saGasy
killed his fath T then i himself Henry Harris
| HIMSELF insanity.
Aug. l6-In miners attack on convicts' stock
ade at Oliver Springs, Tenn, three of the
Aug. l8.Carroll Rutherford, wealthy negro
| OF Memphis, Tenn. killed his wife, then him
self; jealousy. In fight Coal Creek.
Tenn, with soldiers, II miners killed, and
over 80 wounded.
Liverpool, @. killed his brother-in-law, then
killed his wife and himself -. George Foss
killed Laura Day, his mistress, then himself al
T. W
O boy into threshing nachlne whereupon the
murderer was killed by the boys brother.
Sep. 2-Henry b. Orm killed his mistress,
Dolly Reed, at Denver, Col. then himself -.
Near Steubenville, O., John Skinner shot his
employer, George Feetner the latters wife
and mother then committed suicide. :. William
Lively killed his wife near Pepperel, Mass
then himself
Sep. 3-George Willis shot his wife and Wal
lace Oliver near Center Lsle, N. Y, then killed
himself
Sep. 6-While police were trying to stop
racing at Garfield park, Chicago James NJ.
Brown killed John Powell, fatally wounded DO
liceman H L. Mcdowell. and was himself killed
by Mcdowell
| Sep. l3-Tweive progresSionists killed in
light between rival political factions among the
ChOctawS, near McAliSrer. l. IT Four paSSen-
gers killed by fleeing train robbers in noun
tainS near Fresno Cal
Sep l7-Peter Richardson and Hiram E'eath
erStone, OF Bonnie Terre, Mo, fought with and
killed each other.
| Sep. 19-Nine negroes and two whites killed
in a race war in Calhoun county, Ark
Sep. 2l--Train robbers wrecked night ex-
press near Usage City, Kan: five persons
killed Grand jury found true bills against
l6t Homestead strikers who took part i'll riot OF
July s.
Sep. 2I-Steffen Zecha, of Lake Eirna, Mimi,
killed Mary Mendlick, his sweetheart, then
| himself; jealousy.
| Oct HThree men killed in a general fight al
a meeting in Fulton. Mo.
Oct 5-At Coffeyviile, Kan four citizens and
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