NEWSPAPER ARTICLES LEAVENWORTH COUNTY, KANSAS St. Louis, Nov. 18 New Indian War ~ December 17, 1828 Cholera at Fort Riley, Alton Weekly Courier - August 16, 1855 More Indian Diabollsm, Daily State Register, June 2, 1869 A New Railroad Project ~ July 15, 1869 The Lawrence - Park Wedding - October 26, 1882 Powerless Police, April 3, 1888 Running Bloody Fight, April 3, 1888 A Bigamist Captured ~ June 13, 1889 The Kansas Penitentiary Suicide ~ February 17, 1892 Three Men Burned In A Wreck ~ January 3, 1894 Their Second Trip Was Successful ~ May 20, 1894 William Baker, A Coal Miner, Loses His Life in a Mine ~ February 26, 1895 Convicts Escape (John Blankenship & John Finney) ~ April 23, 1897 Enoch Arden Story Stirring Leavenworth ~ March 30, 1899 Shifting Prison Graves ~ December 6, 1899 Estelle Caught, May 15, 1900 Kittie Watkins 114 Years Old ~ June 23, 1900 Two Are Still at Large, November 18, 1900 A Method Whereby Mobs Can Be Suppressed ~ January 25, 1901 Dies of Wounds Received in the Mutiny at Leavenworth Prison (J. B. Waldrupe) - November 16, 1901 Too Much for Kansas Man ~ June 26, 1902 The Planters House Sold Yesterday ~ December 5, 1903 Sidney Cooke Appointed Governor of Soldier's Home ~ January 8, 1904 Counterfeit Dollars ~ January 8, 1904 A Kansas Veteran A Suicide (Charles Jyer) ~ December 3, 1905 A Commercial Club in Linwood ~ October 23, 1908 Mary & Mildred Ward Burned to Death ~ May 4, 1909 Ben Cravens' Career Like That of "Yellow-Back" Fiction Hero, January 26, 1912 Horrors of Prison Told ~ September 4, 1912 No Blame for Motor Death ~ December 4, 1915 A Kansas Hanging? ~ February 18, 1916 Scaffold Built At Leavenworth ~ September 3, 1930 Seven Over Wall of State Prison ~ January 19, 1934 Teacher is Set Free by Two Convicts ~ January 20, 1934 St. Vincent's Orphanage Razed ~ March 11, 1965 Oldest Inmate On Record Dies After His Release ~ November 26, 1965 Kansas Bank Is Robbed Of $10,000 ~ July 9, 1967   back to Index Page    Copyright © 2012 to Kansas Genealogy Trails' Leavenworth County host & all Contributors   All rights reserved