Sensation, Fatality & Crime
A sad accident occurred at Dapto Wednesday. A man named Johann Carl Longren, surveyor, was thrown from his horse, dragged a considerable…
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A Burning Accident
Harriet Sawyers, a school girl, was admitted to the hospital to-day suffering from terrible burns extending over the chest arms, and legs. While lighting a fire at her home her dress caught fire…
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A dreadful accident occurred on the Grand Junction Crossing at Dry Creek on Sunday night. It appears the 10.40 train which leaves North Terrace station for the purpose of conveying workmen on…
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PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, of the United States, had a narrow escape from being killed at Washington. He was driving through the streets in his…
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Yesterday morning two young men named Josiah Cochrane and George Watson were brought into the Dungog Hospital suffering from severe injuries…
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The recent outbreak of smallpox at Gloucester, England, has assumed alarming proportions. Business in the city is quite paralysed in…
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About 6 o'clock last night a little boy seven years of age, son of Mr John Wilson, of John-street, while playing fell against a log, inflicting so severe a cut upon his…
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An open vardict was returned to-day at the inquest on the body of the man Michael Sullivan, who was found flouting in the harbour yesterday…
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A serious accident occurred in London to-day to Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein. The Prince was run over by a cab, and was badly shaken…
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A terrible accident has occurred at the Great Western Flour Mill, Mudgee. George Crossing, the owner, while attempting to fix a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Terrible Shipping Disaster Two Hundred Chinese Drowned. [By Cable.] London
A TERRIBLE being disaster has happened at Woosung, China. The stcamers Newch wang and Onwo came into collision, and the latter Bank…
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On Monday two young men named Josiah Cochrane and George Watson were brought into the Dungog Hospital suffering from severe injuries sustained through an explosion in the Great Cobark…
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Forty of the minors entombed by the explosion at the Micklefield Colliery, Yorkshire, have been rescued. The case of the other entombed…
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William R. Warke, a solicitor of the Irish Court, out of employment for some time, and starving, gave himself into custody in Melbourne recently…
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A number of bandits in Madagascar have maseacred three French settlers at Imerina. The settlers made a heroic resistance, fighting for hours,…
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The little daughter of Mr Gavin Shearer, an hotelkeeper at the Merrywinebene, near Collarendabri, was playing near a burning stump, when…
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At Windermere (Vic.) on Friday a 21 year-old child named Baldorstono, whilst playing in bed with matches set its clothes on fire and was burued…
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A man named Charles Baker has been sentenced in London to seven year penal Servitude for bigamy, He was in Melbourne in 1883 trading…
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A sensational accident is reported from Zeehan, Tasmania. James Whitelaw, secretary of the Amalgamated Misers Association, had a remarkable escape from death. He was coming from the…
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An Irish naturalist once observed a dumlin acting in a very curious manner on the seashore, The bird would alight, then fly a short distance and then alight again, violently…
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