Arrival of Baby Monkey
Brother Cash, of the Western Star,
Coldwater, Kansas, makes mention of the arrival of a baby monkey at Pitsburg, Kansas. He must be hard up for news
items when space is given to announce the arrival of a baby monkey. (Richmond Conservator, Ray county, Mo, January
30, 1890, submitted by Lisa Smalley)
MURDERED
FOR HIS MONEY
An Aged Kansas Miser Found Dead
in His House--Robbery the Object
CHEROKEE, KAS., Jan. 20---Rueben
Allison, aged 80, an eccentric miser, was found dead at his home yesterday. He was alive and apparently well Tuesday,
and not being seen about the place Wednesday and Thursday, his neighbors became suspicious as the old man was wont
to keep money hoarded in his house and had been robbed four times in recent years. They forced an entrance yesterday
and found Allison dead in a room in the rear of the house. A sack covered his head. Two bullet wounds, one on the
face and the other near the heart, told the cause of death. In his left hand was a small revolver with one chamber
empty. Robbery undoubtedly prompted the murder, for the house had been thoroughly searched.
(Kansas City Star ~ January 20, 1894)
A
KANSAS WIDOW KILLS HERSELF
Walnut, Kas., Oct. 23---Mrs. Bell
Dix, a widow 35 years old, committed suicide here this morning by cutting her throat with a razor. She was ill
and despondent.
(Kansas City Star ~ October 23, 1900)
A KANSAS
MEAT MARKET MAN KILLS HIMSELF
Pittsburg, Kas., May 4---August
Nagle, owner of a meat market here, committed suicide this morning about 1 o'clock by cutting his throat with a
pocket knife, in the basement under his market. Ill health producing temporary insanity is given as the cause.
(Kansas City Star ~ May 4, 1899)
A FALL OF
SLATE KILLS A KANSAS MINER
Pittsburg, Kas., April 12---Joseph
Wilson, a miner, was killed by a fall of slate in No. 7 mine of the Mount Carmel Coal company at Frontenac about
11 o'clock this morning. No. 7 is a new mine in process of being opened, and it was while engaged in driving an
entry that the accident occurred. He was 53 years old and leaves a wife and two sons. He belonged to the Masons,
the A.O.U.W. and the Knights of Pythian.
(Kansas City Star ~ April 16, 1900)
BABY DROWNS
IN 2-GALLON KETTLE
PITTSBURG, KAS., April 2---Jack
Jewell Trent, the 18-month-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Trent, who live near here, was drowned in a 2-gallon
kettle of water today. The mother, engaged in her work, had left the child a few minutes and upon her return found
the child dead with his head submerged in the kettle.
(Kansas City Star ~ April 3, 1921 ~ Submitted by Lori DeWinkler)
BOAT UPSET;
FOUR DROWNED
Spring River in Kansas Scene of
Tragedy--Man and Wife and Two Others Go Down
Pittsburg, Kas., July 15---Four
persons, all of this city, drowned tonight in Spring river by the upsetting of a boat.
Dead are:
H. A. STAMM and WIFE
MISS KATIE STAMM
LOUISE MYERS
(Kalamazoo Gazette ~ July 16, 1904)
Gas Explosion
Hurts Three
Three people wero dangerously burned,
one perhaps fatally, by the explosion of natural gas at the home of Henry Thomas, in Pittsburg, the other day.
(Alma, Wabaunsee County, Kansas, October 2, 1908, page 2, submitted by Barbara Ziegenmeyer)
A Kansas
Mine Explosion
Pittsburg, Kan.—An explosion of
gas occurred Tuesday in the mine of the Pittsburg Coal company, 18 miles north of the city, fatally injuring a
German miner named Miller, burning John Thompson, another miner, so seriously he may not recover and slightly burning
a third miner, John Cox. The exact cause of tho explosion Is unknown. Miller had Just passed from the main to a
side entry in the mine. The explosion occurred soon after the men were to work in the morning. (Alma, Wabaunsee
County, Kansas October 9, 1908 Page 2, submitted by Barbara Ziegenemeyer)
MURDER
MYSTERY MAY BE CLEARED
Kansas Man Arrested Thought To
Have Part in Slaying Family
Pittsburg, Kan., Jan. 7---By the
arrest of I. Monger tonight the authorities believe they have detained a man implicated in the murders of William
Bork, Mrs. Bork and an infant child in a lonely country road five miles north of here, November 25, 1909.
Monger has long been a neighbor
of the Borks and they quarreled. It is said Monger bore a grudge against Bork and upon this clew officers have
been working since the night of the murders. An officers has been on the trail of Monger constantly ever since
the first suspicion that he might have been implicated in the murders was aroused.
Monger was arrested in Frontenac
by Deputy Sheriff Walsh and Constable Lebec. He denied his guilt. He was taken to the county jail in Girard and
locked up. Officers say another arrest may be made in the case in a few days.
The murders of the Borks were brutal.
They were attacked while driving homeward toward Frontenac in a buggy. All were shot to death with a revolver.
Mrs. Bork's' body was dragged into a cornfield and secreted. Bork's body fell in the road. The child's corpse dropped
into the buggy bed.
(Daily Oklahoman ~ January 8, 1910)
BOER WAR
VETERAN KILLED
An Accidental Explosion In Kansas
Mine Caused One Death
Pittsburg, Kan., Sept. 22---Thomas
Lewis, a miner, was killed yesterday afternoon by the explosion of a shot in the mine. It is supposed that the
drill hit a piece of sulphur with such force as to emit a spark which ignited the powder in the shot.
He was 29 years old, a native of
Wales, and a veteran of the Boer war. He had a number of medals from the English government for valiant service.
(Emporia Gazette ~ September 22, 1906)
LEAVES
$20,000 TO THE INMATES OF POOR FARM
Kansas City, June 28 --- An appeal
in connection with a will which calls for more than $20,000 is to be divided among inmates of the Crawford county,
Kas., poor farm and the Jackson county, Mo., home for the aged, was on file today in the Independence division
of the circuit court.
The will was made by Mrs. Jeanette
Toohey, 71, before her death April 18.
When the document was probated,
it was rejected on the testimony of one of the witnesses to it, Mrs. Stella Parke, who expressed doubt as to Mrs.
Toohey's soundness of mind.
(Hutchinson News ~ June 28, 1930 ~ Submitted by Lori DeWinkler)
MOB HANGS
A NEGRO
Murderer of Policeman is Lynched
at Pittsburg, Kas.---Rope Breaks. Throat Cut
Montgomery Godley, a negro, who
two hours before murdered Policeman Milton Hinkle, was taken from the jail at Pittsburg, Kas., Thursday, and lynched.
The policeman was killed with his own revolver, which the negro took while the policeman was fighting a mob of
negroes.
The mob gathered, overpowered and
captured the officers, took the negro from the jail and strung him up to a telephone pole. The rope broke and the
negro fell to the ground, where one of the members of the mob cut his throat and ended his sufferings.
A large number of negro men and
women from the various mining camps in this vicinity, among them Mont and Joe Godley, brothers, were drinking and
carousing at a ball. Hinkle requested them to be quiet. The Godley brothers answered him in an insulting manner
and he tried to arrest them. They resisted and Hinkle blew his whistle for help. THen he began to use his club
in order to protect himself from the onslaught of the crowd. He was holding his own against three of them when
Mont Godley grabbed the revolver from the policeman's scabbard and, placing the muzzle behind the ear of his victim,
pulled the trigger. Another policeman pursued the negroes, all of whom started to run.
(Daily Register Gazette (Illinois) ~ December 26, 1902 ~ Submitted by Lori DeWinkler)
GOV.
AVERY NOMINATES BRAVE 6-YEAR-OLD LAD
RESCUES SISTER FROM BLAZE
CHEROKEE, Kan. --- Gov. William
H. Avery has nominate David Eugene Crowe, a 6-year-old boy who rescued his three younger sisters from their burning
home, for the Young American Medal for Bravery.
David, who is blind in one eye,
is one of 34 nominees who will be considered for the award. A Justice Department committee headed by FBI chief
J. Edgar Hoover will select the winner.
Avery, in a nominating letter,
described the situation:
"The ceiling and wall of his
home were aflame. Ignoring his own safety and his vision handicap, David ran to an adjoining room where 13-month-old
Sherri was asleep in her crib. Unable to reach over the crib, Davis pushed an easy chair across the room, climbed
up on it and pulled his sister from the crib. He ran out the back door and put Sherrie on the porch, admonishing
her to stay out of the house.
"Then, still barefoot, he
ran back to his sisters' room as the floor began to burn. Wrapping a blanket around 2-year-old Peggy, who was ill,
he lifted her into his arms.
"He then nudged terror-stricken
Leanna, three years old, out of bed. With Peggy in his arms, David pushed Leanna out onto the back porch with Sherrie.
"After telling his sisters
not to move, David started out, still barefoot, in sub-freezing weather, to get their mother, who had taken four
older children to school a short distance away." (Great Bend Daily Tribune ~ November 26, 1965 ~ Submitted
by Lori DeWinkler)
STRANGLES
SELF WITH BELT FROM EASTER DRESS
Pittsburgh - Mrs. Maude McKinney,
48, of nearby Natrona Heights, bought a new Easter dress and planned to visit relatives Sunday.
Saturday her daughter, Alice, 32,
who slept in the same room, found her dead, strangled by a noose fashioned of belts from two dresses. It was tied
to the bedstead.
Anxious not to awaken her mother,
Alice said she had gone to bed without turning on the lights. (Hutchinson News Herald, April 17, 1938, page 1,
transcribed by Peggy Thompson)
