Mrs. Johnson is seventy years old, and she lives twelve miles from Ness City. Last Sunday, the Times tells, the team ran away with the wagon in which she, with her two sons, was riding. One or more wheels passed over a shoulder, an arm and across her body. A shoulder was fractured, a wrist broken, and her body bruised. She is in a critical condition, with Dr. Scott in charge of her case.
Kansas Western World, WaKeeney, Kan., Dec 5, 1885
Submitted by Kim Tarp
LIGHTNING KILLS A KANSAN
Utica, Kas., July 7---During a storm here last night, John Fopps, a farmer living about five miles west of town, was struck and killed by lightning as he was coming from the harvest field. The bolt also killed three horses he was driving.
Kansas City Star - July 7, 1899
Submitted by Submitted by Lori DeWinkler
J. C. HOPPER NOMINATED FOR STATE SENATOR
J. C. Hopper, the Populist nominee for State Senator in the Thirty-eighth district is a Ness County banker. Of course there is no reason a banker should not make just as good a legislator as a man of any other calling; but just think of the fits that would have been thrown in a Populist convention held eight or ten years ago if any delegate had had the temerity to suggest the name of a banker for any such position.
Kansas semi weekly Capital, June 8, 1900, page 4)
Submitted by Peggy Thompson
NESS MAN LOSES LEG
Amputation Follows unexplained Shooting on Highway
Salina, Kas., Nov. 11 - Turner Kackley, of Ness City, mysteriously shot through both ankles while riding in an automobile east of Salina Thursday night, underwent amputation of the right foot last night.
Kackley was found in his car here by filling station attendants. He said he was wounded by a strange man who appeared in the highway with a shotgun.
Two women motorists said they had observed another man with Kackley in his automobile on the highway.
The Hays Daily - November 11, 1929
Submitted by Peggy Thompson.
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