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

A Widow and Her Pretty Daughter Caught Thieving in Men’s Attire in Tecumseh, Mich. [more]
Mrs. Alice Church, a comely widow, thirty-eight years of age, and Bessie Church her daughter, eighteen years of age, were arrested recently in Tecumseh, Mich. In the act of committing a burglary. They were dressed in men’s clothes.
The two women moved in the best society, were members of the church, active in charitable work and eminently respectable as to conduct. The women confess their guilt, stat that they have committed a score of burglaries and will gladly accept any punishment that is meted out to them. It was at first believe that they were insane, but that theory has been abandoned.
Mrs. Church and her daughter have live in Tecumseh several years. Both dressed well and the girl is not only unusually bright, but quite handsome. They numbered among their friends nearly all the best people in Tecumseh. They lived modestly and stated that their income came from the life insurance of the late Mr. Church. Mrs. Church was popular with the beaux of the town, but it was observed that she froze them with dignity when they became too demonstrative.
Early in the summer the home of a prominent family was entered one evening and some jewelry and wearing apparel were taken. No trace of the burglars could be discovered. About the time the incident was dropping out of the public mind another house was entered. Some money and jewelry was taken from this house, and, as before, the family were absent the evening of the occurrence. The station was watched and all the roads out of town guarded, but now burglars were arrested. The town police were puzzled.
The burglaries followed each other in quick succession during July and August. The whole town was excited. Strangers were eyed with suspicion and citizens lay in ambush night after night without accomplishing anything.
All the houses were entree in the same manner through the back door or a window opening on a porch. Occasionally groceries and food were taken. This led to the belief that the burglars were tramps. There was a secession of night work during September but early this month the burglaries resumed. The houses were entered usually during the absence of a family, but in many instances houses were robbed in which several men were sleeping.
Last week the home of the late Judge Stacey, occupied by Mrs. Stacy and her daughter, was broken into and robbed of goods valued at $500. A reward was offered and a score of amateur detectives set to work and beyond arresting a few trams who were clearly innocent nothing came of it.
Relatives then decided to take turns watching the house. About 1 o’clock the other morning one of the watchers observed what he supposed were two men approaching the house. He got a shotgun and waited. The burglars lifted a window and boldly entered. The man with the shotgun decided to wait until they entered the dining-room, when he could get a better light on the targets. The tow figures entered the dining-room, and as the watcher aimed the gun the light fell on the face of Widow Church. He could barely believe his eyes. It was Mrs. Church and her daughter dressed up in men’s clothes.
He lowered the gun, approached and arrested both. They screamed, but recovered their composure, and in the presence of Mrs. Stacy confess to all the burglaries.
The women had a preliminary examination, at which the whole town was present. They were held for trial. It is said that they stole to keep form starving, and that a false pride prevented them from telling their friends of their condition.
Reprinted from National Police Gazette, November 4, 1893.


