12 Year Old Boy Killed By Lightning

During a storm in Sedgwick county on the 17th, Johnny Lane, 12 years old, was herding his father's cattle, 12 miles from Wichita, and...

1870 Self-Abortion

LEAVENWORTH. Horrible – We learn that a young woman in the vicinity of Seventeenth and Dacotah streets was taken with the pains of childbirth...

50 Hog Wagons In Barnes

BARNES.  Fifty hog wagons were on the streets of Barnes in one day last week. The Hutchinson Gazette, Hutchinson KS. Thursday, January 31, 1895. Page...

500 Camp Kettles

The Mennonites have left with a Topeka foundry an order for five hundred camp kettles. The Emporia News, Emporia, Kansas. Friday, December 25, 1874....

A Brutal Murder

SEDAN, KS - We have just been given the particulars of one of the most terrible murders ever committed in Chautauqua county. The killing...