Sedgwick County, Kansas
Newspaper Tidbits
A Kansas Tragedy ~ August 25, 1879
Female Horse Thief "Tom King" Escapes from Jail ~ December 14, 1883
Law & Order League Wants to Close Saloons ~ December 14, 1883
Was It George Gould? An Interesting Railroad Story from Wichita ~ December 14, 1883
William Bodine Died Suddenly on Rock Island Train ~ December 14, 1883
Miss Sievers' Death ~ July 28, 1885
Mary Keach Suicide ~ June 2, 1887
The Suspicious Circumstances of The Deaths of Frank Tucker's Two Children ~ June 7 and 8, 1887
James Fleshman Drowns ~ June 8, 1887
Earnest Schilling Drowns in The "Old Swimming Hole" ~ August 14, 1887
George Alberts Killed Yesterday By A Falling Derrick ~ September 7, 1887
Porter Bissell Takes His Own Life ~ September 14, 1887
Another Cemetery ~ December 1, 1887
Died From His Injuries (Henry Keister) ~ December 11, 1887
After the Jointists Again ~ April 20, 1888
Carried Off By An Eagle--The Sad Fate of a Kansas Baby ~ September 24, 1888
Murdered His Wife (Dr. Nathan C. Hall) ~ February 13, 1889
Harry N. Campbell Deserts His Wife in This City ~ February 13, 1889
The Death of Hattie F. Waller ~ May 2, 1889
John Trahubler Found Hanging In A Shed ~ June 19, 1889
Boy Drowned (Harvey DeCastro) ~ September 5, 1889
George Latham Found Dead ~ September 24, 1889
Otto Burkett's Wife ~ March 10, 1890
Mrs. Augusta Mader Killed by Lightning ~ July 27, 1890
Mrs. Mary A. Lease; Wichita ~ October 18, 1890
Daniel Bonner Found Dead ~ December 30, 1890
Jake Keller Suicide ~ April 16 & 17, 1891
Mrs. Louisa Mead Falls From The Third Floor ~ August 11, 1891
Dr. H. F. Sewell Death ~ September 20, 1891
A Fatal West Side Accident (John Humble) ~ November 15 & 17, 1891
Henry McCain thinks his Powers Limitless ~ January 14, 1892
Grant Myers Suffered from Grippe? ~ January 14, 1892
Ex Sheriff Hays' 2 Year old Son fatally Burned ~ April 28, 1892
Mrs. George W. Wright Attempts Suicide ~ April 28, 1892
John B. Bunn Kills HImself ~ April 27, 1893
Couldn't Convict Doc Snapp ~ October 26, 1893
Returns From A Sad Journey (E. E. Skaats) ~ March 20, 1894
Off To The Asylum ~ March 21, 1894
Did Not Agree ~ (Death of Frank Pixley) ~ July 13, 1894
A Crowd Chase A Man (Billy Myers) for Obscene Conduct ~ July 13, 1894
Married in the Pen ~ December 9, 1894
Lizzie Thomas Jumps From The Lewis Street Bridge ~ July 14, 1895
Kansas Saloon War ~ August 2, 1895
Louis Segerman Committed Suicide ~ August 24, 1895
Mrs. Mary Ellsworth Takes A Novel Method of Committing Suicide ~ November 8, 1895
Henry Bolte Committed Suicide ~ November 19, 1896
Charles Oppenheimer's Infatuation Brought Suicide ~ March 5, 1897
H. H. Holme's Double (Frank G. Pratt) ~ April 23, 1897
Cunningham Depositions ~ May 12, 1897
Miss Eva Beam's Trial ~ September 17, 1897
Killed By A Freight Train (Dick Langdon) ~ February 8, 1898
John Smith Suicides ~ March 9, 1898
Peter Holler From Rome, Italy ~ June 3, 1898
Gus Judy Killed By Train ~ June 5, 1898
Killed By A Horse (Albert Stathem) ~ June 8, 1898
Wichita Overrun by Thieves ~ July 29, 1898
Wichita Banks Consoidates ~ August 30, 1898
Diphtheria Scare at Wichita ~ November 4, 1898
Wichita Case Dismissed Against August Schmidt & J. B. Gano ~ November 4, 1898
Edward Bissell Injured Last Week ~ November 4, 1898
She Took Poison--Ends Her Own Life (Lettie Campbell) ~ December 17, 1898
Clara Eaton Falls 55 Feet To Her Death ~ December 29, 1898
Addie Walton's Verdict Is Suicide ~ February 2, 1899
Michael Stanton Meets With A Horrible Death ~ February 18, 1899
Ralph Piper Commits Suicide ~ March 3, 1899
Sylvia Rogers Victim of the Deadly Dose ~ May 9, 1899
Chas. (Richard) Cook Drowned In a Pond at Maple Grove Cemetery ~ July 8, 1899
Bessie Bayne Victim of Gas Explosion ~ July 21, 1899
Warren Gladwell Fell From A Window ~ August 3, 1899
Judy L. Boyer Dies in Railroad Accident ~ August 3, 1899
Body of John Stead Discovered In An Out House ~ September 6, 1899
H. P. Reed Commits Suicide In His Cell ~ September 9, 1899
Miss Ella Chester Talked to Death ~ September 14, 1899
Arthur Hanes Shot and Killed at Mulvane ~ November 29, 1899
Harry Kistler Accidentally Shot Near Cheney ~ December 1, 1899
George Newell Killed by Discharge of Rifle ~ January 2, 1900
Carey Hotel Sold ~ January 4, 1900
John Bayman Is Dead ~ January 20, 1900
New Bridge in Use ~ June 2, 1900
Strange Man's End (Herbert Stimpson) ~ July 26, 1900
Maud Couchman Ends Her Life ~ December 8, 1900
Great Friend to Wichita - Mr. Davis Secured the University for Friends ~ January 16, 1901
Jerry Simpson Paid $2,400 for a Home ~ February 22, 1901
Ledford of Kansas & his Daring Deeds of Lawlessness in Early Days ~ June 25, 1901
Tornado Unbottles Rain, Sedgwick County, Kansas, Gets A Heavy Downpour ~ July 27, 1901
Nellie Cornelison Cut Her Sister's Throat (Laura Cornelison) ~ January 15, 1902
Death From His Own Hand (George Sutton) ~ February 8, 1902
Kansas Desperadoes Captured ~ April 27, 1902
Little Child Was Drowned ~ June 19, 1902
Hand Organ Man Suicides (John Robbins) ~ June 28, 1902
32 High-Grade Horses Burned in Barn Fire ~ February 19, 1903
Professor Paul Roulet Dies Rather Unexpectedly ~ February 21, 1903
The Same Store Burns ~ May 30, 1903
Unknown Man Died Here Last Evening ~ August 27, 1903
Mother and Child (Mrs. Phoebe Farrow & Child) Crushed To Death ~ September 10, 1903
Nellie Fletcher Attempted Suicide ~ November 7, 1903
Fourteen Year Old Lad (Herbert Ahren) Loses A Foot ~ March 27, 1904
Seven Drown in Kansas ~ August 5, 1905
Motorman Was Badly Frightened ~ May 2, 1906
A Kansas City Negro Shot in Wichita ~ July 2, 1906
Wichita Automobile Company Articles (Schollenberger's) ~ July 11, 1906
Four Drowned in Kansas ~ June 2, 1908
An Oklahoma Suspect Arrested ~ October 9, 1908
City Hall Reform In Full Swing (Hidden Room) Articles ~ September 13, 1910
Officers Raid A Hidden Room In Hotel Eaton ~ September 15, 1910
First Oil Derrick in Wichita Field Going Up ~ March 28, 1914
Put Bell On Church ~ March 28, 1914
Kansas Pioneer a Suicide ~ May 31, 1914
Little Fruit in Sedgwick ~ July 16, 1914
Kansas Woman who Worked Hard on Farm with Husband Inherits $250,000 Fortune ~ May 28, 1915
A Valley Center Family Lost (William Bastow) ~ June 17, 1915
County Poor Farm Articles ~ Beginning July 23, 1916
Kansas Masonic Home Fire ~ December 22, 1916
Powder So Costly They Used The Dice ~ December 23, 1916
Actor Goes To Pulpit (Robert Forrester) ~ December 30, 1916
Hurled To His Death (J. W. Garrett) ~ December 31, 1916
T. W. Fuller Died ~ Brought First Soda Fountain to Wichita ~ January 2, 1917
Hundreds Eat Derby Dinner ~ New $14,000 School Dedicated ~ January 2, 1917
Total Eclipse of Mere Man in Kansas ~ May 7, 1917
Tornado Takes Heavy Toll of Life in Kansas; 30 Known Dead ~ May 26, 1917
Chamberlain Referred to Death of Kansas Youth ~ January 26, 1918
Kansas Girls Work in Fields ~ June 20, 1918
Despondent Man Believed To Be Victim of Acid (George M. Green) ~ December 31, 1918
Short Sentenced For Baby's Death ~ May 15, 1920
Disappears After A Suicide Threat (C. B. Peacock) ~ May 17, 1920
3 Die As Result of Garfield Hall Fire (George, Elvie and Rex Mitchell) ~ December 26, 1920
Trying to Catch Birds, Boy Falls 14 Feet to Death (Lester Roland Cross) ~ December 27, 1920
Dive Into Canal Leads To Death of A. B. Grinnell ~ December 27, 1920
Takes His Own Life With Carbolic Acid (Walter Coleman) ~ December 28, 1920
Is Killed By Shock (Earl Burns) ~ December 28, 1920
IsStricken At Business House (Arthur Huston) ~ December 28, 1920
D. M. Higginson Dies Suddenly of Pneumonia ~ December 28, 1920
Believe Nichols Shot HImself In Calling For Help (Joseph B. Nichols) ~ January 8, 1921
Flood Waters Inundate Kansas Towns, Causing Heavy Property Loss - June 10, 1923
Negro Policeman (H. R. Brown) Shot Here Sunday May Not Recover ~ January 5, 1925
Patrolman (H. R. Brown) Dies After Assailant Admits Shooting ~ January 6, 1925
Wichita Has Lost 12 Policemen Through Death Past Four Years ~ January 7, 1925
Kisses Sons Goodby Year Ago, Returns As State Prisoner ~ February 15, 1925
Boy Dies Playing Hangman (Newton Schneider) ~ August 6, 1926
Seals His Lips With Poison As Poverty Scores (Frank Baer) ~ August 11, 1926
George Theis, Jr., Is Killed By Airplane Propeller ~ August 13, 1926
Forty Years As Mortuary ~ August 28, 1927
Fire Levels Old Fairmount ~ September 4, 1929
Keeps His Eyes On County Dance Halls ~ September 8, 1929
Rescue Buffalo Calf From Irate Parents In Linwood Park Monday ~ June 30, 1931
Coon Bites Woman (Mrs. M. Benoit) ~ July 1, 1931
Wichitan Braves Deadly Sewer Gas To Recover Bodies ~ July 1, 1931
How One Redhead Tangled Up The Whole Police Force ~ September 27, 1931
Children's Orchestra Here Friday (Kansas Masonic Home) ~ April 13, 1933
Isaac Wesley Gill, Pioneer Mortician, Claimed By Death ~ May 8, 1935
New Mortuary (Gordon Funeral Home) Holds "Open House" Sunday ~ June 13, 1936
Gordon Opens New Funeral Home In City ~ June 14, 1936
Burns Cost Life of Wichita Man (Henry Richley) Late Wednesday ~ July 2, 1936
William R. Wilson, Successful Farmer, Is Taken By Death ~ July 5, 1936
Son of Founder of Schulte Is Victim of Blood Poisoning (Joseph Schulte) ~ July 13, 1936
Heart Collapse Fatal To Scout In Kansas Lake (David Fiedler) ~ July 14, 1936
Wichitan Nearly Loses Nose As Catsup Bottle Explodes (James Hanson) ~ July 15, 1936
Dies 24 Hours After Her Brother Passes (Dallie Bunton & Cora Bunton Dilley) July 12, 1936
Wichita Youth of 23 Drowns Sunday In Western Kansas (Harry Schmidt) ~ July 20, 1936
Famous Old Vail Clock Now At Wehling Jewelry Store ~ May 16, 1937
Miss Letha Howell's Death ~ April 25, 1940
Census-Taker Becker Finds 16-Member Wichita Family ~ April 26, 1940
Dan Hammond Buys Interest In Mortuary ~ October 9, 1940
Courthouse Bell Weighing 2 Tons To Salvage Pile ~ October 16, 1942
Falling Roof (Broadview Hotel) Kills Worker (Clyde H. Usrey) ~ July 7, 1950
Old Cowtown Museum Articles ~ Wichita ~ Beginning June 19, 1952
Actor in Wichita Awaiting Beech Plane Delivery (Vince Barnett) ~ March 22, 1954
Brick Funeral Set For Firday ~ November 24, 1955
Wichita Store Founder Walter Innes Dies At 84 ~ March 31, 1958
Kansas, Wichita Exciting To Local Business Woman (Mrs. Millie Gill) ~ July 23, 1962
Pilot Wings Won ~ April 10, 1963
Proud Shocker ~ April 10, 1963
The Red House, One-Time Show Place, Will Disappear From Wichita Scnee ~ April 10, 1963
Lower Plane Flights Due for Officials ~ April 18, 1963
Sprinkler Alarm Sends Firemen to Machine Shop ~ April 18, 1963
Six-Year-Old Youngster Anticipates First Christmas Since Loss of Sight ~ December 10, 1963
Barn Warming ~ December 25, 1963
Fire Blamed On Candle Or Cigarette ~ December 25, 1963
Doctor (Gilbert Jordon) Found Shot To Death ~ December 26, 1963
Wichita Youth Loses Life in Joyland Pool (Ervie Finley, Jr.) ~ June 12, 1965
Kids Re-Create Wichita's Father ~ June 13, 1965
Bank Background Adds Color to Derby's Growth (Bank Robbed) ~ September 29, 1967
Funeral Home Site Adjacent to Cemetery ~ December 24, 1967
4 Wichitans Die in Plane Crash (Mr. and Mrs. Noble & Rev. and Mrs. Landrum) ~ April 21, 1968
Sternberg Mansion (Articles) ~ November 2, 1969
2 Men Awarded Funds for Study ~ September 26, 1971
Texan Killed In Plane Crash Near Mulvane (Paul John Brown) ~ May 27, 1973
2 Tragedies Halt Fly-In (Death of Dr. Herman A. Barnett) ~ May 28, 1973
Wichita - Wellington Run in a Day's Work ~ November 7, 1973
Poisonous Snake Threat Defanged as Controversy Slithering Down ~ November 16, 1973
2 Pizza Giants Merge To Make More Dough ~ September 27, 1974
Kansas Auto Dealer Drowns in Gulf Surf ~ June 11, 1976
Tragedy on Roller Coaster (Monty Stovall) ~ May 26, 1977
Desperate Mother Robs Kansas Bank ~ November 20, 1977
Tragey on Road Strikes Home ~ February 16, 1978
Dr. Gene V. Williams Killed in Balloon Accident ~ July 5, 1979
Student From Wichita Crowned Miss Kansas ~ July 12, 1981
Four Held In Stabbing At Joyland ( Michael King) ~ August 24, 1982
Victim Dies of Wounds in Joyland Shooting (Harold Ray Pruitt, Jr.) ~ March 28, 1989
Wichita Couple Get Married In A Cemetery ~ June 29, 1992
Metropolitan Baptist Gets A Fresh Look ~ 16 July 1995
Wichita at 125 Years; Recalling Some of the Happenings ~ 16 July 1995
Newman College to Undergo Name Change ~ February 24, 1998
Joyland Worker Struck, Killed by Roller Coaster (Kevin Briley) ~ August 28, 1998
Casting a Wide Spell ~ August 21, 2000
John Savute, Jr., and Harold Gillette Killed in Plane Crash ~ January 18, 2001
One Man's Hearse Is Another's SUV ~ September 15, 2003
El Dorado Boy - 11- Dies At Scene Of Head-On Crash ~ 16 Sept 2003
First Electric Guitar Got it's Start at Wichita Club ~ October 15, 2007
Remodel Begins at Masonic Home ~ April 8, 2010
Sam Zelman's Clothing Store ~ Building Plan: Live, Work, Eat ~ January 19, 2011
3 Captured After Derby Shoot-Out
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