GERMAN SOLDIERS' TRIALS
New York Times. Feb 18, 1890.
In September, 1880, the great manoeuvres of the year were held near Friburg, in the Province of Baden, and the One Hundred and Thirteenth Regiment of infantry was stationed in the city. One afternoon, during a sham fight, a Hauptmann, commanding four companies, was shot from his horse and died shortly afterward.
[PDF, Timeline]
MOSES SHEPPARD'S ASYLUM.
New York Times. May 11, 1890
BALTIMORE, May 10. -- The Sheppard Asylum near this city has a history which is probably unequaled. It has been in the course of construction for nearly thirty years and it is now gravely announced that the Trustees will have a part of it ready for use in 1892 "if nothing should arise to interfere with their plans." The asylum is about twelve miles from the city.
[PDF, Timeline]
HARRIS TO BE EXAMINED
New York Times. Mar 23, 1891
OCEAN GROVE, N.J., March 22. -- District Attorney Nicoll of New-York City has decided to investigate the case of the death of Mary Helen Potts-Harris, the beautiful young girl who died at the fashionable boarding school in that city from alleged morphine poisoning. Mrs. Potts, the mother of the dead girl, has been summoned to attend the investigation, which will begin to-morrow.
[PDF, Timeline]
ESTHER AND HER HENRY
New York Times. Dec 13, 1892
There was nothing in the appearance of Miss Esther Jacobs, plaintiff in the fifty-thousand-dollar breach of promise suit brought by her against Henry B. Sire to indicate, as she took a seat in the Superior Court room, Part I., yesterday morning that she carried a bleading heart. On the contrary, she seemed to be in the possession of excellent health and a mind free from eare.
[PDF, Timeline]
A TALE OF A MILKMAN.
New York Times. Jan 10, 1892
Many of the New-York milkmen make a specialty of serving, in scaled bottles, a quality of milk superior to that which they dip out of their cans at a customer's door. Of course, they charge more for the bottled milk, and in some cases it is worth more, for there must be in this large town some honest milk dealers. There is a milkman in Harlem, however, who has excited the interest and curiosity of one or two residents of One Hundred and Twentieth Street, near Eighth Avenue.
[PDF, Timeline]
ELEVATED RAILROAD DECISIONS.
New York Times. Jan 27, 1892
ALBANY, Jan. 26 -- Judge Haight wrote an opinion in the appeal of Mary J.Odell vs. the New-York Elevated Railroad Company and Manhattan Elevated Railroad Company, appellants, in which the Second Division to-day reversed the judgment of the lower court, which awarded $1,200 damages and enjoined the defendants from further operation of the road in front of plaintiff's premises unless, within a time fixed, they pay the plaintiff the sum of $4,000, the value of the easement appurtenant to the premises.
[PDF, Timeline]
