Buchanan County, Missouri Genealogy Trails

Newspaper Articles

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CARL FISHER HELD ON ASSAULT CHARGE
Helped Lynch Negro for Similar Crime at St. Joseph

ST. JOSEPH, Mo.. Oct. 2
- Carl Fisher was in Jail here to-day, charged with a crime similar to one for which he helped lynch, a negro attacker November 28, 1933.
Fisher was held in default of $2,000 bond of a charge of assault with intent to attack a woman.
Although a dozen were indicted for participation in the lynching of Lloyd Warner, the negro.
Fisher was the only one to be punished. He served three months in jail upon pleading guilty to theft of a pistol in the mob's raid on the sheriff's quarters.
[Hannibal Evening Courier-Post, Wed. Oct. 2, 1935] C. Horton 0609

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Three Flights at St. Joseph.
St. Joseph, Mo.—Army Dirigible Balloon No. I made three ascensions at the military tournament grounds here Wednesday afternoon.
[Alma, Wabaunsee County, Kansas October 2, 1908 Page 2 - Barb Z- 2009]

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A Trooper Drowned at St. Joseph.
St. Joseph, Mo.—The first accidental death at Camp Everett Penbody, where 6,000 regulars are encamped, occurred Thursday when Private John H. McCawl of Baltimore, Md., Troop M, Seventh cavalry, was drowned in Lake Contrary.
[Alma, Wabaunsee County, Kansas October 2, 1908 Page 2 - Barb Z. -2009]

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A SCANDAL IN AN ASYLUM
Dr. Kuhn Announces a General Shakeup at St. Joseph.
St. Joseph, Missouri.—As a result of sensational disclosures In the trial of a guard, charged with aiding a patient to escape.
Dr. W. F. Kuhn, superintendent of State Hospital for the Insane No. 2, announced Wednesday that there would be a general shaking up at the Institution. Elmer Gulick, a local character, was sentenced to the penitentiary for three years for burglary.
Gov. Folk, upon representation that Gulick was Insane, ordered him sent to the state hospital. Gulick was released one night by B. B. Renfro, a guard, who said Elmer Dykes, another guard, presented an order of release purporting to have the signature of Dr. Kuhn. The superintendent says it was a forgery and Dykes has been held to the grand jury on a felony charge.
Renfro was arrested Tuesday on a similar charge, and other arrests are expected. It developed at the Dykes hearing that outsiders were In the habit of smuggling In whisky to patients through guards.
[Alma, Wabaunsee County, Kansas October 16, 1908 Page 2 - submitted by Barb Z- 2009]

George TAYLOR at St. Joseph's, MO., refused to plead not guilty to attempt to kill, when urged by the court to do so.
He was sent to the penitentiary for two years.
Trenton Sun, Trenton, IL, April 20, 1894 - Candi H. 2009

The St. Joseph Gazette, of Friday last, says: “Yesterday morning, about day-break, the dead body of an unknown man was found on the Cameron Branch of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, near Liberty. The body was cut in two, just above the abdomen and horribly mangled. The body had evidently been run over by a passenger train. Nothing was known as to how the man came upon the track-whether he committed suicide or was killed and the body placed on the track by his murderers.”
The Quincy Whig, Saturday, June 26, 1869, Page1, [transcribed by Debbie Gibson]

The St. Joseph papers say that a grass hopper attacked a little girl in that city, a few days ago, doing considerable injury to her ear.
The Quincy Whig, Saturday, June 26, 1869, Page1, [transcribed by Debbie Gibson]

On Friday morning last, at St. Joseph, a colored woman found a living white babe, about two weeks old, in an empty freight car belonging to the Hannibal and St. Joe railroad company.
The Quincy Whig, Saturday, June 26, 1869, Page1, [transcribed by Debbie Gibson]

Maj. John L. Bittinger has purchased all the stock of the St. Joseph Herald and assumed editorial charge of the paper. he is a fine newspaper man and no doubt will greatly improve the Herald, making it what it should be to represent a growing and prosperous city like St. Joseph.
Richmond Conservator, June 20, 1889 [submitted by Lisa]

Chas. A. Williams, late managing editor of the St. Joseph Herald, has begun suit in the United States circuit court against the Gazette publishing company of that city for libel, laying damages at $50,000.
Richmond Conservator, June 20, 1889 [submitted by Lisa]

The Quincy Daily Whig
Quincy, Ill, May 13, 1908

SIX KILLED

St. Joseph, Mo., May 12 – The train crew of the Burlington passenger train from Omaha this evening reported a race with the cyclone near Island Park, Iowa, barely escaping from the tornado which they reported wrecked a bunk train containing a number of foreigners who had been working on the track. Six men were reported killed and a score injured. The bunk train had been moved from Bartlett, Iowa earlier in the day. [Submitted by Debbie Gibson - 2008]

Postal Thief Arrested. ST JOSEPH, Mo., January 24.
McGinnis Jeffreys, night clerk of the post office here, was arrested tonight by Inspectors Crowall and Boyd, of the post office department, for rifling a registered, letter. The money was placed in a test letter, which was found in his pocket-book and he confessed the crime.
Source: Galveston News January 25, 1883
[submitted by a Friend- 2008]