Saturday, July 5, 2008

Corporal Dowling's Leg Broken

New York, 1895

Corporal Patrick Dowling of Company A, United States engineers, at Willets' Point, while playing handball Tuesday morning slipped and fell, breaking his right leg below the knee.


Wholesale Dog Poisoning

There was a wholesale poisoning of dogs in Sag Harbor Sunday night. Some person distributed meat containing strychnine through the streets, which resulted in the death of 25 dogs.


Captain McNicoll Dies Suddenly

Captain William McNicoll of the canal boat Mary Pierson, lying at New's coal dock on the Hunter's Point side of Newtown creek, died suddenly Saturday morning.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, April 26, 1895, p. 1.

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