Wheelers break records in the six-day contest in Madison Square Garden, New York.
Fair college students engage in a rough-and-tumble chase after the pigskin.
Young man who guyed performers in a New Orleans theatre was severely corrected.
Men used to flock to the beach, now they seek sections were roads are good.
Mr. Albiero of Custer City, Dakota, is treated by three rollicking belles to a change from the usual monotony of a cowboy spree.
Mount Holyoke College, 1898-1899.
She and her friends had been drinking wine, and they gave the sedate hubby an unexpected treat when he arrived at his home in St. Louis Mo.
Her Scheme to Impress All Paris With Her Wealth.
Jim Tuttle startles a faro bank party, at Gold Hill, Neb.
(Scene: - Political Graveyard.)
A Manheim, N.Y., Maiden insert an advertisement in a matrimonial paper and is astonished at the result.
How a Doctor Kept a Morphine Fiend from Killing Him With a Long-Bladed Surgical Instrument.
The "Sawed-Door Game" on a Gudgeon.
Five footlight fairies, whose faces and forms charm audiences in London, Paris and New York.
Her struggle was useless, the life-blood was pouring from a gaping wound in her throat.
These implements, with nitro-glycerine and a little horse sense, can open any safe - How the up-to-date burglar keeps a little ahead of the safe builder.
A Fancy For Horse-Show Week.
Mattie Salter killed by her brother, who didn’t know it was loaded, Sandersville, Ga.
Merry Christmas!
Public Morality Must Suffer at the Hands of Our Newspaper Scandalmongers.
First Time Here of the Amusement Colossus of the West.
Take your gun with you if you're going to play on that banjo.
The Married Mens' Lodge-Night Hook-and-Ladder Cab Co. - No More Latch-Keys Needed.
Two girls, who had been ill-treated by a fake mesmerist, get revenge in Indianapolis, Ind.
Policemen of Aurora Ill. Break into a famous resort during an orgy and capture some well-known young men of the town.
She was perched upon the knee of her gentleman friend at Saginaw, Mich., enjoying her delicious sweetness of mingled champagne and kisses.
How a plucky New Brunswick, N. J., girl won a wager from one of her doubting companions.
How Miss Livingston, the well-known singer, resented an insult at Macon, Ga.
A father of Indianapolis, Ind., catches his daughter drinking wine with a jovial crowd at a notorious local roadhouse.
Tariff.
St Valentine's Day.
An unsympathetic husband, who was in desperate need of money, sells his pretty wife to the highest bidder, at Guthrie Okla.
A World’s Fair Tyrolese beauty captures the love and caresses of an alleged faithless husband and is discovered by his wife.
It is more than simple, my dear. It is idiotic.
Actress Dorothy Morton cowhided in Heucks’ Theatre, Cincinnati, by irate chorus girls.
Dizzy cigarette girls have a most hilarious time in the Lyceum Opera House, this city.
A little incident that marred actor Lawrence Hanley’s wedding night in Terre Haute, Ind.
A "Life-Saving-Mattress-and-Net-Brigade" for inexperienced Riders.
Young and Ardent Bob Toppin, a Newark, N. J., youth, does some tall climbing in order to meet his sweetheart, pretty Miss Hobbie, a parson’s daughter.
The amateur camera fiend carries his deadly machine in all sorts of disguises, nowadays.
How a loving West Virginia couple escaped from an obdurate father and were married.
You will Miss the Treat of Your LIfe if You Fail to Read It.
The Misses Franklin, of Glenn Falls, Conn., armed with pistol and axe, put a burglar to flight minus two fingers.
She backed Harrison, and had to wheel Henry Singer in a barrow, at Atlantic City, N. J.
Beguileth his victim that he listeneth unto him.
Had Miss Baker looked under the bed before making her toilet she would have postponed it.
Wine suppers, fine dresses and rolls of greenbacks cause a young and fascinating Cincinnati girl to cast aside the mantle of virtue.
William Peters, a Cincinnati dude, tries to mash Maggie Bolton but gets mashed instead.
Ha-Ha! No You Don't.
Charles Emmons takes possessions of a Springfield, Mass., church and turns it into a fort.
The Post Office Department will pay the sum of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD, each, for the capture of Joseph Killoran, Harry Russell, and Charles Allen.
The Rev. G. W. Kling, pastor of the Crawford M. E. Church at West Marietta, O., is in a peck of trouble.
The attempted abduction of Miss Hildreth, a Chesterfield, N.H., girl, by her lover, Fayette Haskins.
Two of the charming girls who pose as "living pictures" in Rice's "1492" have a wordy war, which ends in a hand-to-hand conflict.
A Widow and Her Pretty Daughter Caught Thieving in Men’s Attire in Tecumseh, Mich.
Miss Lily Dunkley, a Miles City, Mont., girl, refuses to marry Charles Snyder and he tries to kill her.
Miss Lily Dunkley, a Miles City, Mont., girl, refuses to marry Charles Snyder and he tries to kill her.
Pete Baker thrashes H. J. Jenkins for trying to flirt with the actor’s daughter in Dayton, O.
Miss Alice Jackman, a St. Louis heiress, claims to have been abducted a second time.
The novel bating match in Van Wert, Ohio, between a Marion gorilla and a Fort Wayne, Indiana Canine.
Burglars in Massachusetts utilize the flying wheels in their midnight depredations.
J. Williams and A. Jabes, two Salt Lake City, Utah, Men, carve each other in a frightful manner.
The Crofut & Knapp Company.
Gertie Carmo, a Female Aeronaut and Trapeze Performer, Hurled to the Ground and Instantly Killed in Detroit, Mich.
In 1898, the Reverend Prescott F. Jernegan founded the Electrolytic Marine Salts Company to extract gold from seawater. When the gold ran out, so did Rev. Jernegan, taking the company’s capital.
Fresh Young Fellow Gets Six Inches of Cold Steel at a Sporting Resort, Seattle, Wash.
A simple schoolgirl prank spawned a new belief with millions of followers.
Poster for the 1898 Broadway show "Have You Seen Smith?"
Buffalo, New York, May 1893.
Two Little Gem Theatre, Buffalo, N. Y., Soubrettes have a scrap on account of a man.
Kyana, Indiana, 1890 - The women of Kyana, Ind., go to the railroad depot and demolish a cargo of liquor.
Ruined and Despondent Ronald Kennedy, a Philadelphia speculator, kills broker Charles H. Page, and then commits suicide.
The question of who was more beautiful, Lillian Russel or Lola Montez was settled by two cowpokes in the Nevada desert in the 1890s.
Denver Col., October 1892 – Correspondent Jake Hirsh cowhided by indignant Lizzie Gonzales, an actress, in Denver.
Pretty Ida Lawrence gets arrested while entertaining some hackmen in Cincinnati, O.
An unruly horse causes great excitement in the Metropolitan Opera House, this city.
Crush, Texas, September 15, 1896

In the Jaw of the Man-Eaters.
James E. Hamilton of Lake Worth, Florida, is Devoured by Sharks. [more]
Terrific But Vain Fight of a Mail Carrier With Man-Eaters.
A special form Jacksonville, Fla. Oct 20, says: The dread of the mail carriers on the Florida southeast coast are the Hillsboro and New River inlets, which have to be crossed by small boats. Here the dark waters of the Everglades empty into the Atlantic with tremendous force at this season, and if the ocean is rough the meeting of the cross currents produces heavy and dangerous seas. Sharks of the fiercest kind fill the inlets.
James E. Hamilton, the mail carrier from Miami to Lake Worth, was an athletic young man and carried the light mail on his shoulders, waking the entire distance. Seventy-five miles, on the beach. He left Lake Worth on Tuesday, in the morning, and should have reached the Refuge Station, twenty-five miles distant, that afternoon.
Late at night a fisherman named Waring came to the station and told the story of Hamilton’s horrible death. Waring was about one-half mile from Hillsboro Inlet when he saw Hamilton get into his boat to cross. He noted that the sharks were about in unusual numbers, and just as Hamilton reached the center of the crossing a huge one drove at the boat and bit a piece off the gunwale.
Hamilton struck at the sharks, but nothing could drive them off. Soon both oars were bitten in two, and then the fierce tigers of the sea seemed perfectly ravenous. The tore at the boat, snapped at one another, and the water for yards around was dyed with their blood. The boat began to fill, and the sharks scenting their prey, redoubled their dashes.
Hamilton stood on the middle seat as if stupefied glaring at them. Looking up and seeing Waring, he cried out to him, but in vain. Even as he shouted a huge monster dashed up and hit the partially filled boat a tremendous blow, throwing Hamilton out into the midst of the monsters.
A cry of agony was heard as he went down, and the devourers had him piecemeal before the horror-stricken spectator could take in the full measure of the tragedy. As soon as Waring recovered his senses he went to the station and told of the affair. A searching party went out at once but nothing was found save the remnants of the boat cast on the shore.
Reprinted from National Police Gazette, November 19,1887.


