A swell society woman of Buffalo broke away from her fastenings the other night, and after she had imbibed several drinks, she dropped into a resort where really good women do not go. There, she kept her little racket up, and as she was a liberal spender, no objection was made to anything she did. She capped the climax, however, when she climbed on a billiard table and danced the “buck” to music furnished by a negro banjoist, who was playing for the drinks. She finally got too gay and took a pair of curtains out of the place. For that, she was arrested, and the next morning, her husband got her out of court by paying a fine.

National Police Gazette, January 9, 1897.

Twenty-two girl students of Alma College, at Elmira, N, Y., are shivering In their shoes for fear their names will be known, and they will have to explain the part they took in a football game in the college dining room the other night, in which a large number of panes  of window glass were shattered and the chandelier demolished. One of the girls said she thought it was a cruel shame the girls could not play football the same as the boys. Some of her friends decided to have the game, and for that purpose “filched” the ball belonging to the boys. When lights were out, they cleared the big dining room, and from the wreck seen, it is evident they must have had a very fast game, as the place, according to the janitor, was strewn with pieces of dress goods and the like. Three of the girls whose faces bore marks of the struggle have been called upon by the woman principal to explain.

National Police Gazette, December 15, 1894.

A sad disaster occurred on the North River, off New York city, on the afternoon of August 28th, when the steamer Riverdale, burst her boiler and sunk in mid-stream. The steamer was nearly Opposite the foot of Twelfth Street, and was about 150 rods from the shore, when a dull, heavy sound, like the fall of a ponderous hammer, was heard, followed by the uprising of a dense cloud of smoke, steam, and flying splinters. The pilot-house and smokestack were thrown high In the air, and the vessel soon began to sink, disappearing from view within ten minutes. About one-half of the persons on board had distributed themselves upon the upper decks, fore and aft, while several women and children were in the after cabin. Many of them were blown into the air or thrown into the river by the shock, two being killed outright by the explosion, and a third drowned. while two others died within a few hours from their Injuries. Fiffteen more persons were injured. and the loss of life would have been much greater If a large fleet of tug-boats and row-boats which was near by hand not gone immediately to the rescue.

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, September 8, 1883.

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, September 24, 1887.

A wolf in search of a square meal helps himself to a baby; Clintonville, PA.

A one year old baby was taken from its cradle by a wolf, during the absence from the house of its parents, who reside on the mountain near Clintonville, Cambria County, Penn., and no traces of the body or any portion of it have ever been found.

National Police Gazette, January 1, 1881.