TRAGEDIES OF YORKTOWN.

A nine-year-old son of Jacob Luther was drowned in Green River, near the Blowout.

A child of Barnhart Wolf's was injured by a reaper so that it died.

A young farmhand at Bauer's let a loaded gun down from his window in

1878. Ostensibly starting off on a hunting trip, the gun was discharged but a short way from the house. Lizzie Bauer ran in the direction whence the report came, and found the young man lying dead.

As Mr. and Mrs. Remedie Miller were walking over the lake after spending Christmas Eve at her brother's, Mike Egert's, she broke through the ice and was drowned.

Gust. Leonhart, while cutting down trees for his cousin, August Mathis, had one fall on him, and he died before help could come.

Gust Swanson, while working for Sam Rapp in Loraine, was killed by lightning while walking in the barnyard.

Peter Brants was found hanging from his buggy dead. No one knows what caused his death.

The first murder in Yorktown township was that of a man named Pierce. He had a lawsuit with one Buckley, at the courthouse in Cambridge. It was in 1861, the hot time preceding the war. The men halted at a boarding house in Annawan on their way home. There they had a savage fight. Pierce was so badly battered that he died soon after he was taken home. Buckley fled the country.

Something like a dozen years ago, two men fought in Annawan till one was dead from blows with a pumphandle.

City Marshal George of Annawan shot and killed a Sheffield miner who resisted arrest.

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