Accident to a Jockey
Yesterday morning Arthur Ryan, while putting the gelding Kotyshi over the hurdles at Randwick, met with a serious accident through the animal falling. Ryan was admitted to St…
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Motoring Fatality
The man who was knocked down by a motorcar in College-street on Monday afternoon, and admitted unconscious to Sydney Hospital, has been identified as John Wol[?]e, of 115…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--When the steamer Monaro was clearing the mouth of the Yarra last night, on her voyage to Sydney, a steerage passenger named M'Corrick fell overboard and…
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The Acting City Coroner (Mr. S. Murphy) yesterday continued the inquest on the body of Frederick Trevellian, 44, who was killed by the collapse of a wall in Pitt-street…
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The man who was knocked down by a motorcar, owned by Mr,. Edmund Play fair, and driven by William Kutnewsky, and who died at the Sydney Hospital on Tuesday evening, has been…
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News comes from Lautoka of the drowning of the O'Dowd Brothers, Dan and Frank. It appears that at the time of the recent gale the brothers were crossing the Ba River on…
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PERTH (W.A.), Wednesday.--Three children were seen playing near a pool at Rocky Crossing, five miles from Albany, at 8.30 this morning. Half an hour later the two younger ones…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatalities and Accidents. Wharf Laborer Injured
John Breen (55), laborer, employed by the Sydney Harbor Trust, was assisting to remove a large piece of iron on the Federal Wharf yesterday morning, when the metal slipped and…
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CONDOBOLIN, Wednesday.--A young man named Fred. Byrnes, employed in the Mount Hope Copper Mine met with a serious accident. He was about to enter a cage to go…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Germania Fatality. Commercial Traveller's Remarkable Death
An Inquest was held this morning into the circumstances touching the death of a commercial traveller, named Charles Edward Good-sir, 26, who shot himself on board the island…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Lisbon Riots. Ten Killed, Four Hundred Injured
LONDON, Wednesday Evening.—The Paris "Matin" states that during the election riots in Lisbon six persons were killed outright, four succumbed later to their wounds, and 400…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Sower of the Wind. [COPYRIGHT.] The Dramatic Story of a Strange Revenge Chapter Xvi a Street Accident
Violet Brunting waited outside the door of the booking office. That morning the disconcerting news had reached her that her lover had been put upon his trial on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident in the City. Fall of a Crane. Laborer's Miraculous Escape
John Newman, 45, a laborer, residing in Moodie-street, Balmain, had a marvellous escape shortly before 4 o'clock this afternoon from instant death…
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When the steamer Peterborough, which was bringing up the shipwrecked passengers, arrived near Kiama, one of her air pumps became choked, and it was found impossible to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Germania Shooting Case. Goodsir Accidentally Killed
This morning Mr. Brown, Relieving City Coroner, held an inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of a commercial traveller named Charles Edward…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Early Bird's" Note-book. Turf Notes and Comments. Randwick Training—Accident to Mother Goose
The Victorian-owned filly Mother Goose, by Wallace-Morisca, trained by J. Scobie, net with a serious accident at Coogee yesterday afternoon. It appears that she was…
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It was reported to the Coroner this morning by Senior-constable Dalsiey that a boy named Charles Toovey Copeman, 5 years of age, lately residing with his mother at Miss…
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Charles Copeman (five), residing at "Allowah" Musgrave-htreet,' Mosman, was missed yesterday afternoon, and- a soarch was immediately commenced for him... About an hour afterwards he…
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A wharf labourer named James Hudson, who resides in Crown-road, Ultimo, met with a painful accident on board the steamer Somerset, lying at Darling Island, this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fell on the Scissors. Extraordinary Accident to a Girl. Fatality at Parramatta
An extraordinary accident happened at Perramatta on Thursday night to a young woman named Annie Selmes, 18, a domestic servant, in the employ of Mrs. Oakes, sen., of May's Hill…
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