Volume 11 , Issue 41

1884 News Notes From njsuttonfamily.org

Mark says, "At the njsuttonfamily.org there are a lot of crime stories in these papers. So E.D. Atchison didn't have a descendant named Roy that had an ice cream shop in Kingman, Kansas did he?"

January 15, 1884, Forty-Sixth Volume, No. 22, News Notes -- "Joe Wander, fireman on the fast midnight train from New York to Buffalo, was blown from the tender and killed near Dale last Wednesday night during the storm.

"Francis York, of Lockport, N.Y., aged twenty-five, employed in the construction of the Junction Railroad, while going to his boarding house last Wednesday night was caught in a snow-drift at Skunk Hollow and frozen to death.

"John H. Thatcher, aged 13 years, an imbecile through spinal disease, set fire to his bed clothing at his home, in Central Falls, R.I., on Wednesday night, and was so badly burned that he died Thursday.

* "E. D. Atchison, a desperate character, was taken from the Monterey (Va.) Jail on Monday night and hanged by a mob. His body was then riddled with bullets. Atchison was incarcerated for stabbing Sidney Ruckman, a prominent citizen, who still lives.

"Hampton Bird and eight members of his family, at Kaufman, Texas, were taken violently ill on New Year's eve night with strong symptoms of poisoning. Tuesday Mr. Bird and two of his daughters died, and the others are in a precarious condition.

"A Sussex County Sensation -- The little village of Hamburg, Sussex county, twelve miles from Newton, has been in excitement during the week over the discovery that Barton E. Rude, a rich young farmer of that village, had eloped with a pretty, rosy checked schoolmarm named Miss Ward. The young lady taught school at Rudeville, a small hamlet near Hamburg, last fall and boarded in Rude's family... It is believed that the couple are living in Jersey City. Mrs. Rude is left with five little children to care for."
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