“Bear meat! bear meat! bear meat!Buffalo meat! buffalo meat!Venison! venison! venison!Turkeys, roasting pigs, coons, possums, chickens, ducks, geese, and the finest beef, mutton, veal, pork and lamb in the city, at Blake’s, Saturday and Monday, December 22nd and 24th.” “Go to Blake’s big show and see the Buffalo hanging whole Continue Reading
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Sorrow Upon Sorrow: The Death of Sumner Bostwick
“Samuel Bostwick, an insurance agent, aged 37, married, took strychnine at upper ferry landing at 4 o’clock this afternoon.” “Bostwick took the poison right at the landing. He then started up the hill and dropped at the top. He was seen by passers-by, and it was at first thought he Continue Reading
Tragic Drowning of 12-Year-Old Wells Bostwick in Mead’s Pond
Wells Bostwick, a twelve-year-old son of Sumner Bostwick, a former well-known insurance man, fell into Mead’s brick yard pond, at the head of Mill street, and was drowned, Tuesday evening. The pond in some places is fifteen feet deep and the bank is very slippery. It is thought the boy Continue Reading
Insane Man Reported Slayer of His Niece
“A story of the killing of an 18 year old Kentucky girl, Mary Messer, by her uncle Henry Messer, while insane, was brought to this city early thursday morning by John Messer, a cousin of the girl reported dead.” “The crime, according to the story, was supposed to have been Continue Reading
Romanian Laborer Killed Near Five Mile Church
“Nicholas Stigle, a Roumanian laborer in dodging a handcar stepped directly in front of an N. & W. engine, and was instantly killed near the Five Mile church, north of the city, Tuesday evening.” “Several of Stigle’s fellow laborers saw the accident. They had shouted to him to get off Continue Reading
Got Off Easy: Henderson Fined One Dollar
“Thomas J. Henderson, the famous West Side citizen, was found guilty by the jury Tuesday afternoon of malicious destruction of property. The value of the property destroyed by Henderson was fixed at $25. This made his offense a misdemeanor. Had the value been over $35 Henderson could have been sent Continue Reading
Neighbors Trade Blows, Then Handshakes
“Two neighbors of Carey’s Run, Abraham Miller and Albert Duncan it is said left the city joined hands Thursday night, but en-route agreed to disagree. They fought and fit, tore and hit, and mopped the ground up for a considerable space, and at last again clasped hands over the dark Continue Reading
Dynamite Used to Bring River Victim to Surface
“MAYSVILLE, June 29—The body of John, 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Grimes of Augusta, who drowned in Bracken Creek Wednesday afternoon was recovered yesterday.” “Three dynamite blasts were set off in the creek late Wednesday, but the body failed to come to the surface. The fourth blast yesterday Continue Reading
Gilbert Shopshire’s Pardon After the Jasper Feud
“Governor Foraker has pardoned Gilbert Shopshire out of the Penitentiary, sent there from Pike county four years ago on a fifteen years sentence, for killing two of the Rider family at Jasper, and wounding a third. The tragedy was written up at length in the Times at that time. The Continue Reading
Coroner Makes Another Investigation Today and Sheds Light on Darkness
“The story of the finding of dead body on the West Side, mention of which was made Monday, was thoroughly investigated today by order of the Coroner.” “Sol Hughes and S. F. Royse, the two men who claimed to have found the body, were corralled and, with Undertaker Fuller and Continue Reading