Thursday, June 19, 2008

Found All His Stock Dead

New York, 1895

William Johnson, the colored man who left his home at Glen Cove Landing suddenly about two weeks ago, leaving all his live stock locked up without food, returned late on Saturday night. He walked from Jamaica to Glen Cove. He found twenty-five pigeons, twelve hens and two dogs dead. He disappeared again the same night.


Fell and Fractured Her Skull

Mrs. Mary Burgus of Long Island City, while on her way home fell on Jane street and fractured her skull. She was taken to St. John's hospital.


How Boys Made Money

Constables Ashmead and Baylis on Saturday arrested Philip Linz, William Muse, William Rose, Frank Kople, John Kirne, William Carroll and Thomas Carroll, for stealing coal from the cars of the Jamaica yard of the Long Island railroad. The coal the boys sold for twenty cents a bag. Linz was sent to the county jail for ten days, Muse and Rose was fined $3 each, and the others were discharged.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 29, 1895, p. 1.

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