NEW YORK, July 25. Captain Webb, the well-known swimmer, was drowned yesterday in his attempt swim through the whirlpool and rapids of Niagara Falls. Captain Webb left the Canada side of Niagara below the falls in small boat and … Read More
EXECUTION OF GOUGH. The execution of Alfred Gough, aged 34, hawker, for the murder of Eleanor Windle, a little girl at Brimington, on the 20th of August, took place at eight o’clock Monday morning last. Full details of the … Read More
A terrible disaster happened Sunday night on the Bridge, daring the height a furious gale which swept over Dundee. At a few minutes after seven o’clock passenger train from Edinburgh signalled from the Fife side; it was seen running … Read More
Queen Victoria born 24th May, 1819. Prince of Wales, born 9th November, 1841 Princess of Wales, born December 1, 1844 Princess Royal (Crown Princess of Prussia) born 21 November, 1840 Princess Alice (Princess Louis of Hesse,) born 25 April, … Read More
MURDERER SENTENCED TO DEATH, PAINFUL SCENE At the Yorkshire on Saturday, before Mr Justice Stephen, John Henry Wood, was placed at the bar, with the murder of John Coe, at Rotherham, near Sheffield, on the 19th February last. The … Read More
Visiting the new picture at Eckington on Christmas Day. Sergt. Bramley asked manageress told him that she did not know where it was. The manager Frank Poile of Ridgeway was summoned before the Eckington magistrates on Monday, for using the … Read More
The final ceremony of placing the Cleopatra Needle into position on the Waterloo steps of the Thames embankment took place yesterday afternoon and was most successfully accomplished. The Needle was resting horizontally on the great wooden structure which had … Read More
Notable amongst Mosborough’s residents in the late eighteenth century was Captain Thomas Hare (c.1743-1796), about whom little is known, but whose legacy lives on in the Mosborough landscape at a place called “Captain’s Croft” and an adjoining footpath, known locally … Read More
AN ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO – By an Officer Hail to the Lads of Waterloo, Who bravely fought, ’tis very true; Though really that is nothing new, As former deeds, did plainly shew ; Hail to the … Read More
Within the week just past, an event has taken place our social history which will mark off the future more definitely than ever from the past- The object for which have so frequently pleaded has been achieved. The last public … Read More