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Kansas State News Highlights a String of Violent Incidents
Reports from Leavenworth, Topeka, and Armou rdale detail a grocer murder mystery resolved by a confession, a fatal shooting in Armourdale, a hotel dispute turning deadly, a fatal sand mine collapse in Douglas County, and a murder mystery near Sheridan’s drive. The piece also covers railroad toll disputes, a bank robbery plot thwarted, a forgery arrest in Topeka, and local government appointments in Hamilton County.
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Leavenworth
John Heigle
Davis
Hunt
Willliam Burrian
Kansas City
Kansas
George Wilson
Wilson
Ruffian
Wyandotte
Fifth Avenue
Topeka
John Goodwin
Milby Parnell
Goodwin
Parnell
United States Land Office
General Land Office
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company
Missouri
California
McMahon
Johnson
Junction City
Robert Swartz
Ellsworth Durbin
Sheridan
Fort Leavenworth
Sarah Osburn
Dutch Lewis
Board of Railroad Commissioners
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Company
Newton
Beloit
Union Pacific
Missouri Pacific
Hutchington
Neosho Falls
J. G. Morgan
Morgan
Fatren
Ira Arnold
Douglas County
Armourdale
Daniel McMahon
E. N. Allen
C. F. Tanner
Hamilton County