Miscellaneous newspaper articles about
Clear County Colorado
January 26, 1869
The New York Times, New York New York
On Sunday night a man named Maguire was killed by a woman in a saloon in Georgetown, Colorado. (Submitted by S. Williams)
March 29,
1873
Morning Oregonian, Portland Oregon
On the 15th inst., at Georgetown,
Colorado, a doctor named Shea got into a quarrel with a woman of reputed loose
character named Mollie Dean, with whom it appears he had been infatuated, and
after considerable crimination and recrimination, he shot the woman and
instantly killed her. Witnessing the appalling deed he had committed, Shea,
immediately after the death of Mrs. Dean, placed his weapon to his own breast,
fired, and fell dead. (Submitted by S. Williams)
October 13, 1887
Decatur Republican, Decatur Illinois
Mrs. Cora Seifried, of Georgetown, Colo., is in the city on a visit. (Submitted by S. Williams)
May 14, 1889
Daily Republican, Decatur Illinois
Frank J. Hood, editor of the Colorado Miner, Georgetown, Colo., who has been in the city visiting his sister, Mrs. Will Loughbom, will leave for the west tomorrow. (Submitted by S. Williams)
June 4, 1890
The Indiana Gazette, Indiana Pennsylvania
Four Killed by Giant Powder
Georgetown, Colo., June 1-Harry Taylor, William Coughlin,
John Richard and John Mulholland, employed in the Atlantic and Pacific tunnel,
about six miles from here were working with giant powder when an explosion
occurred, resulting in the death of all four. It is supposed that while tamping
holes a premature blast took place, exploding about seventy-five pounds of giant
powder and shaking the earth for miles around. The bodies were torn and mangled
almost beyond recognition. (Submitted by S. Williams)
February 23, 1891
The Salem Daily News, Salem Ohio
To the Bottom of the Bole
Georgetown, Colo., Feb 23-A. Bruce, while being hoisted up
from the lower level in the Silver Glance mine, Saturday night about 11 o'clock,
was tipped out of the bucket when up about 125 feet and down he went to the
bottom. His right shoulder and back are very badly injured and his head was
severely cut. Mr. Bruce is in a precarious condition.
(Submitted by S. Williams)
April 1, 1892
Daily Nevada State Journal, Reno Nevada
A Thousand Dollar Nugget
It has just leaked out that on Wednesday E. Getchel, a
Georgetown miner, found a nugget valued at $1,000 in Devine gulch, one miles
east of Georgetown. When Getchel found the nugget he was sluicing off the
ground, which had been condemned as worked out, for the purpose of filling a
reservoir at the mouth of the gulch. He noticed a few colors, and followed up
the lead to where he found what he was supposed to be a piece of quartz, but was
astonished upon finding it to be gold. Its weight is 56 1/4 ounces. -Georgetown
(Colo) Letter (Submitted by S. Williams)
August 30, 1893
The Wellsboro Agitator, Wellsboro Pennsylvania
Miss Edith Wortendyke started last week for Georgetown, Colo., where she is engaged to teach the coming year at a salary of $75 a month. She expects to stop at the Worlds Fair for a week. (Submitted by S. Williams)
February 27, 1894
Daily Huronite, Huron South Dakota
Secession Advocated
A Petition Which Calls Upon Silver States to Join Mexico
Georgetown, Colo., Feb 27-A petition is being circulated here
which calls upon the silver producing states to secede from the general
government and join the Republic of Mexico. Mayor Parker, who name heads the
petition, says it will be circulated in every mining came in the West.
(Submitted by S. Williams)
July 24, 1898
Idaho Daily Statesman, Boise City Idaho
Woman Accused of Murder
Mystery of the Death of a Colorado Man Cleared Away
Kansas City, July 23-A dispatch to the Times from Sedalia,
Mo., tells of the arrest there today of Mrs. Edna Beaman, a young widow, charged
with complicity in the murder of Gaylord Fish at Georgetown, Colo., on Dec 6,
1897. Mrs. Beaman is alleged to have made a confession today to the detectives
who caused her arrest, and she is said to have so far involved the widow of the
dead man that the Colorado officials have been telegraphed to arrest her.
According to the alleged confession of the woman who was
arrested today, Fish was poisoned to secure $2000 in the Woodmens Lodge for
which his life was insured and the large estate which fell to him upon the death
of his father about a year ago.
Fish was supposed to have died of heart disease, but the
officials of the Woodmen became suspicious and set detectives to work on the
case and the arrest today at Sedalia by Detective L. Collins is the outcome.
(Submitted by S. Williams)
August 4, 1898
The Chief Reporter, Perry Iowa
Arrested For Killing Her Husband
Mrs. Gaylord Fish, of Georgetown, Colo., has been arrested,
being charged with having murdered her husband of Dec. 7, 1897, in order to
obtain his property. The complaint is made by Mrs. Beman of Sedalia, Mo., who
swears that Mrs. Fish chloroformed Mr. Fish while he was asleep. Mrs. Beman was
visiting Mrs. Fish at the time.
May 15, 1899
Steubenville Herald Star, Steubenville Ohio
Freed of a Terrible Charge
Georgetown, Colo., May 15-The trial of Mrs.
Jane Fish, accused of having murdered her husband, Gaylord Fish, by
chloroforming him while he slept, ended in her acquittal. The murder charge was
made by the Woodmen of the World, from which order Mrs. Fish
sought to collect insurance on her husband's life.
(Submitted by S. Williams)
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