Real Talk!

I thought the world had just recently gone crazy… but a couple of times, now, I’ve gone to the Google News Archives and searched… the results could be from today’s news!

March 23, 1899, More Fire Victims Found in ruins of NEW YORK Hotel fire

Jan 6, 1887 13 Bodies drawn from the ashes and debris of Ohio train wreck

January 16, 1892, Man, once a lawyer and respected citizen of Baltimore, but whom drink had dragged down to the level of a Bowery loafer, was found with his throat out from ear to ear

December 15, 1898, The list of victims of the disaster caused by the bursting of the huge gas tank swelled to six yesterday, the frightfully mutilated bodies of two more men and a boy were taken from the ruins

October 10, 1899, MURDER MYSTERY CLUES; Another Portion of a Human Leg Found TIED UP LIKE OTHER PIECES Woman Discovered It in an Ashbarrel Under the Stoop of a House

April 4, 1895, MURDERER; Confesses He Killed Woman After a Quarrel He Choked Her to Death

July 29, 1883, foolhardy attempt to swim the Whirlpool Rapids and Whirlpool of the Niagara River- body found nearly four miles below the treacherous maelstrom which he was so confident of passing with his life.

September 4, 1893, Alleged poisoner commits suicide in his cell in the county jail last night

December 11, 1893, Wednesday PARIS, Dec. 10 -- Auguste Vaillant, alias Marchal, a resident of the suburb, Choisyle-Roi, is the Anarchist who threw the bomb in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday.

March 28, 1895, KILLED HER, THEN HIMSELF; HIS FINGERS CLUTCHED A REVOLVER Her Apartment the Scene of the Tragedy -- No Cause Known for the Act -- Said that He Was in Love with Her.

Jun 28, 1897 LOWER PORTION OF BODY TAKEN FROM EAST RIVER RECOVERED. New York Murder Mystery Deepens--It Is Now Deemed Certain That the Man Was Killed--No Indications of the Dissecting Knife--Part of the Body Found on Land Eight Miles from Where the First Find Was Made.

March 22, 1892, SEVEN CHICAGO ALDERMEN INDICTED FOR BRIBERY

August 21, 1891, The dead body of one of the wealthiest citizens of Omaha, Neb., and an influential Director in the Linseed Oil Trust, was found this afternoon in his room at the Grand Pacific Hotel. The general supposition is that the death was that of a suicide.

August 18, 1890 FOUND DEAD IN HIS ROOM;BANKER, HANGS HIMSELF.

April 10, 1900 Capt. of First United States Artillery, found dead in his room at the Auditorium Annex late last night. There was a bullet wound in his right temple.

April 20, 1883 FOUND DEAD IN THE STREET.; THE DEATH OF CHARLES STROBEL PROBABLY CAUSED BY A FALL.

March 27, 1887 AN UNKNOWN WOMAN MEETS A FRIGHTFUL FATE. AFTER A DESPERATE STRUGGLE IN THE DARKNESS SHE FALLS BLEEDING FROM A DOZEN STABS WITH A KNIFE.

June 22, 1881 SKELETON FOUND IN A QUARRY IN GENESEE COUNTY.

December 7, 1891, SKULL FOUND

June 15, 1879 The Forty-second-street tragedy is still the sensation of the police and the public, and the chief actor in it is still as free, and apparently as safe from justice, as when woman's bruised and swollen body lay tied to the bedstead in her room.

August 31, 1895 body FOUND in the water off the lower end of South Beach, S.I.

September 14, 1878 the trial of Rev. Hayden charged with murder,filled with sensational details to-day

January 2, 1894 Fugitive Man Who Shot Fred Walters with the Help of Accomplices Yet Unnamed Tried to Swindle Two Insurance Companies Out of $50,000

May 11, 1893 body found floating in the Hudson River this morning, a bullet in his head, and his skull fractured.

November 15, 1878 the Stewart body-snatching case to make public the fact which it has known for several days that not only has the body been found but the perpetrators have been discovered.

January 17, 1898 Mutilated Body of 5 year old Missing Child Found in a Creek

June 4, 1896 Prof.Mott the only witness on the stand yesterday in the trial of a woman for the murder of her mother

November 3, 1899 ART STUDENT MURDERED found floating in Bay by a fisherman on Wednesday.

September 3, 1877, AT THE TURKISH HEAD-QUARTERS.; EXAMINATION OF RUSSIAN SPIES SINGULAR DOCUMENTS FOUND

December 30, 1888, THE MUTILATED BODY OF AN 8 YEAR OLD BOY FOUND IN BRADFORD.

October 12, 1884, HIDDEN UNDER A HAYMOW; GIRL'S BODY FOUND BUT THE MYSTERY NOT SOLVED.

July 26, 1886, MATTIE RANDELL AVENGED; HER MURDERER FOUND DANGLING TO A TREE.

Oct 13, 1900 Clues found to hiding place defaulting Elizabethport bank clerk

Nov 17, 1879 AN ADIRONDACK MYSTERY, SKELETON FOUND BY CREEK,

Nov 29, 1888 Trunks containing 1500 pounds of smuggled opium put into evidence.

Aug 13, 1876 BARBER PRONOUNCED GUILTY OF MURDERING A LITTLE GIRL 7 OR 8 YEARS OLD

December 30, 1893, DESERTED COOK MAY BE ALIVE; COLGATE'S NAME ON A LETTER FOUND IN A BOTTLE. Hunters Left Him to Die in the Snow in the Bitter Root Mountains

November 15, 1877 CLOSE OF THE TRIAL OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BANKRUPT SECURITY LIFE AND ANNUITY COMPANY

May 12, 1882 ASSASSINS NOT FOUND; A GROWING FEELING THAT THEY HAVE ESCAPED.

February 3, 1883, PEDDLER KILLED; FOUND MURDERED ON THE ROADSIDE.

Dec 15, 1890 COMPLICATIONS FOUND IN THE REPUBLICAN DILEMMA. THREE PROPOSITIONS TO GIVE FINANCIAL RELIEF -- THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE AND THE SILVER ADVOCATES DISTURB ALL CALCULATIONS.

August 9, 1886, THE TRUNK OF A MAN FOUND IN A BOX

July 29, 1885, SOUTH AMERICAN STATES FAVOR AN INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION AND A UNIFORM SILVER COINAGE. Judge Solon Thatcher, of Kansas, a member of the commission appointed to visit Mexico and South America in the interest of trade between those countries and the United States, arrived in Washington to-day from London and called upon the Secretary of State.

July 25, 1875 a broker doing business at No. 67 Wall street, was arraigned, charged

July 3, 1880 BODY, WITH SHATTERED HEAD, TAKEN FROM THE WELL

January 2, 1894 Whole Family Found Dead and Dying with Gas Stoves in Full Blast.

June 13, 1899, PARTS OF BODY RECOVERED; Man Found Dismembered at Bay Ridge Still Unidentified.

October 4, 1875 THREE BULLETS FOUND IN THE MURDERED WOMAN'S HEAD

June 6, 1887 MISSING 10 YEAR OLD CHILD IS FOUND AT LAST. BODY DISCOVERED IN THE SWAMPS NEAR RICHMOND CREEK, MUCH DISFIGURED.

August 4, 1881 BODY FOUND FLOATING IN THE RIVER

August 29, 1891, FILTH FOUND EVERYWHERE- DRAINAGES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION PERMITTED TO POLLUTE THE WATERS OF THE EAST, MIDDLE, AND WEST BRANCHES OF THE RIVER.

March 18, 1876, BODY FOUND NOT SATISFACTORILY IDENTIFIED

January 9, 1886 TRACES OF ARSENIC FOUND IN BODY

Jan 13, 1883 FRAGMENTS OF ABOUT 8 BODIES FOUND YESTERDAY

Dec 26, 1897 ONE BODY FOUND. Rumor of a Can of Oil Being Taken Into the Building.

Jan 10, 1884 DETECTIVES STILL FOLLOWING EVERY CLUE. MISSING MAN REPORTED IN SEVERAL PLACES, BUT THE FEARS OF HIS FRIENDS GROWING STRONGER.

May 7, 1880, BODY OF A WOMAN FOUND IN A PATCH OF WOODS- FRIGHTFULLY DISFIGURED

May 24, 1899 Unable to Trace the 20 month old Child That Was Kidnapped. THE MOTHER SERIOUSLY ILL

May 29, 1876, CHILD MURDERS.; TWO INFANTS FOUND STRANGLED IN A SWAMP

April 3, 1891, SHE CUT HER OWN THROAT; FOUND IN BED UNCONCIOUS. QUEER ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE OF A WELL-TO-DO BROOKLYN WIDOW

April 12, 1885, ex-President of the Marine Bank found guilty of misapplying its funds and making false entries on the books, with intent to defraud the bank and deceive the Bank Examiner.

March 23, 1890 Sheriff And Co-Defendants guilty of divorce conspiracy and murder

April 8, 1884 Man found dead in New-Brighton, Staten Island, authorities to warrant the conclusion that the death was the result of a duel

May 30, 1880 West Point Cadet Found Guilty of Self-Mutilation

December 9, 1884, The body of a newly-born male child, which had been murdered immediately after birth, was found at an early hour yesterday morning on the sidewalk in front of an open lot on the east side of Pleasant-avenue

September 17, 1894 DRIVEN MAD BY HEADACHES; A CLEVELAND BROKER FOUND DEAD

August 6, 1880, missing child who disappeared two weeks ago found with an insane woman 16 miles north

August 2, 1905, KIDNAPS CHILD FROM DIVORCED HUSBAND- Former wife takes daughter by Force and Flees.

November 30, 1906, CHILD WHO SLAYED INTRUDER IS ARRESTED TO-DAY.; Fires 4 Shots at Man Who Threatened Women in Her Home

September 10, 1911 KIDNAPPED CHILD SLAIN.; Body of Seven-Year-Old Girl, Taken from Her Bed, Found in Lake.

September 10, 1909 CHILD LURED AWAY AS CHUM LOOKS ON Was at Threshold of Parents' Home When Induced to Go with Stranger. KIDNAPPED, SAYS FATHER Playmate of Missing Girl Let Her Go, Thinking Abductor a Relative

February 19, 1889, NINETEEN BODIES FOUND; A TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE

January 23, 1892, GROSS MISMANAGEMENT FOUND-NEW-YORK LIFE'S OFFICERS TERRIBLY REBUKED.

March 23, 1883, CHILD aged 6 months and 14 days, who died on Wednesday is SAID TO HAVE BEEN POISONED.

February 24, 1885 DISMEMBERED ON THE RAILS.; PORTIONS OF THE BODY FOUND ON TWO DIFFERENT ROADS.

September 1, 1891, Two more bodies were found yesterday in the ruins of the Taylor Building on Park Place.

October 13, 1875, TWO ESSENTIAL LINKS OF EVIDENCE FOUND THE MURDERER'S WEAPON AND HIS HANDKERCHIEF

July 8, 1876, A LADY FOUND DEAD.; THE BODY SUBMERGED IN WATER

October 25, 1919, three-year-old N.J. boy who was kidnapped by an unknown woman from his home fourteen days ago seen in Ohio

December 28, 1900, Prominent Mason, Found Shot in the Head and Will Probably Die.

Apr 25, 1895 Additional Evidence in Murder Case BLOOD STAINS FOUND IN THE CHURCH.

September 26, 1888, trusted cashier for the law firm of Shipman, Barlow, Larocque Choate, committed suicide yesterday believed to have been insane

October 25, 1890, The body of a murdered man was found floating in a sack in an eddy in the river. There is every indication that another foul crime has been committed

March 6, 1896, ON TRIAL FOR MANSLAUGHTER.; The Mother of His Dead 9 month old son Testifies in His Favor.

July 10, 1886 YOUNG GIRL FOUND DYING WITH THREE WOUNDS IN HER HEAD.

March 1, 1879, WOMAN'S DISFIGURED BODY FOUND IN A TRUNK.

September 8, 1907 A thirteen months' old child was instantly killed early to-day in a shooting-the uncle of the child, has been committed to jail without bail charged with murder.

May 17, 1893 MAN DEAD; FOUND, IN THE HUDSON, A BULLET IN HIS HEAD.

September 20, 1897 Fragments of Plaster Cast Found Which May Have Inclosed the Murdered Man's Head. IN A POOL AT WOODSIDE A Little Girl Discovered Them in a Swamp.

January 19, 1898, DEPOSITED HER BABY.; An Arizona Woman Pledges a Child to Pay for Her Husband's Liquor.

February 16, 1892 NEW TYPHUS FEVER CASES; NINE MORE FOUND IN THIS CITY YESTERDAY.

December 24, 1882 Child 2 years old, dies from terrible burns about the face, neck, left arm.

December 20, 1884, The plates on which counterfeit ten-dollar silver certificates were printed,found,buried in the woods.

Aug 17, 1898 LUMPS OF ARSENIC ARE FOUND IN THE FATAL CHOCOLATE.

February 20, 1877 DEAD BODY FOUND OF YOUNG GIRL FOUND IN THE OLD QUARANTINE GROUNDS FULLY IDENTIFIED

May 2, 1885, STILL ANOTHER BODY FOUND IN A TRUNK. MAN STRANGLED AND SHIPPED TO PITTSBURG FROM CHICAGO

November 29, 1886, FOUND DEAD IN THE WOODS.; THE MYSTERIOUS FATE OF A YOUNG AND PRETTY ACTRESS.

August 9, 1882, UNIDENTIFIED BODY FOUND IN PLEASANT-AVENUE

December 29, 1895 STRANGE DEATH; Found Lying on the Area of Residence -- His Card in Her Pocketbook but He Denies that He Knew Her.

November 19, 1893, DRUGGIST'S FATAL MISTAKE.; A Brooklyn Child Dies in Great Agony as a Result of the Blunder.

October 19, 1894, GIRL FOUND DEAD IN A BATHHOUSE; CHLOROFORM AND THEN MAN SHOOTS HIMSELF.

December 3, 1900, MYSTERY IN A DROWNING Policeman’s body found floating in the East River

May 29, 1879, A WOMAN'S MYSTERIOUS DEATH.; SHE IS FOUND DEAD WITH FIVE GHASTLY WOUNDS ON HER BODY.

June 28, 1897, Portion of Man’s Body Found Saturday Picked Up in the Harlem Woods.

Jan 4, 1898 FIVE-YEAR-OLD BOY GIVEN WHISKY Remains Unconscious Over Fifty Hours

March 11, 1890 UNKNOWN WOMAN'S BODY IN AN ELDRIDGE-STREET COAL BIN

June 14, 1893, SAVINGS INSTITUTION UNDER EXAMINATION. FUNDS FOUND TO BE $70,800 SHORT.

May 30, 1875 SILK SMUGGLERS. THIRTY-THREE NEW INDICTMENTS FOUND

February 23, 1884 TRAGIC END; FOUND FLOATING IN THE WATER OF THE HUDSON.

February 22, 1898 MORE DIVERS ARE NEEDED.; Gen. Lee Says 143 Bodies Were Found and 100 More Are in the Wreck.

October 28, 1895, TWO BOMBS FOUND IN MADISON, WIS.; One in the Capitol Park and the Other in a Tailor's Premises.

January 20, 1881 a child 5-years and 4 months old, was found yesterday by a Police officer abandoned in an unoccupied room in tenement

Nov 21, 1901 MOTHER HELD AS CHILD'S SLAYER.
Estranged wife, involved with evil man, charged with murdering her child, 5-year, although she had claimed someone HAD STOLEN THE BABY

June 10, 1890 Abduction Case Suspended- Estranged Husband/Father kidnapped his own child- baby now returned to mother

November 15, 1934 unclad body of a child found yesterday in a shallow grave in the grounds of a hospital on the outskirts of the city was positively identified today as that of Dorothy Ann Distelhurst, who disappeared on Sept. 19 while on her way home from kindergarten.

Mar 20, 1909 Parents fail to recover kidnapped boy

Feb 23, 1929 Girl, Returned by Couple, Says Watchman Lured Her With Candy-Victim Coached in Stories; Motive for Abduction Remains Obscure

August 4, 1937 Kidnappers tore 2 1/2 year old boy, from the arms of his mother this afternoon

August 20, 1897 five-year-old abducted last Monday morning while playing in the vicinity of his home. Rescued from His Abductors in the Woods Near Albany. UNCLE UNDER ARREST.

October 12, 1920, 15 month old boy taken from his crib in second floor room of his home, man claims to have smothered him and tells police chief where he is buried but search proves unsuccessful.

Feb 2, 1918 Missing 3 year old girl may have been spotted with mystery woman- appeared drugged

April 3, 1927, 6 year old girl seized from foster parents after found burned and bruised, doctor certifies 11 contusions and 3 partly healed head wounds on the child’s body

Aug 16, 1952 Four insurance men testified today that the aunt accused of poisoning 2 year old had policies totaling $5,500 on the child when she died.

Aug 15, 1937 MAN CONFESSES RAPE MURDER OF 4 Year OLD CHILD-body found yesterday in a lonely marshland shack

December 28, 1900 CHILD RECOVERED.; Mother Gave Him Up When Run Down by the Police

December 4, 1914, WOMAN ON STAND.; Admits Advertising for a Child ;- Says It Was to Gratify a Whim.

May 28, 1913, FIND CHILD, BUT NOT HER GIRL ABDUCTOR

January 3, 1895, A Woman is being held was held on the charge of kidnapping her daughter

May 12, 1877 ABDUCTION OF A CHILD; SHE IS TAKEN AWAY BY A FEMALE RELATIVE

May 10, 1891 bold attempt to kidnap a child was made in this place this afternoon Several gypsy women have been through this region for two or three days- the abductor was stopped and the child returned to its parents

Aug 7, 1899 OFFICIAL MURDERS A 13 YEARS OLD GIRL- BEHEADED IN WASHINGTON

November 11, 1913 Deranged by Grief for Lost Baby, She Thought Kidnapped 3-Year Old Girl Was Her Daughter.

June 5, 1959 BOY, 15, ADMITS SEX SLAYING OF CHILD 3

May 19, 1935, GIRL, 8, VANISHES; ABDUCTION FEARED

Dec 26, 1949 CONFESSES HE SHOT CHILD TAVERN BANDIT AND PAL ADMIT 15 ROBBERIES Arm of Victim, 6, Is Shattered

May 17, 1889 EIGHT-YEAR-OLD GIRL LOCKED ALONE IN A ROOM EVERY DAY AND NIGHT.

August 26, 1923, women steal babies abnormal maternal instinct amounting to "mother mania" remains the principal explanation

March 30, 1914 PIG'S EYE GIVES SIGHT.; Transfer of Cornea from Animal to Child Proves Successful.

September 18, 1874 MURDERED CHILD FOUND IN A LUMBER-YARD.

January 16, 1871 THE STARVED CHILD.; An Unnatural Mother Verdict

January 14, 1861, Murder. A MAN CUTS THE THROAT OF HIS OWN CHILD AND SURRENDERS HIMSELF TO THE AUTHORITIES.

January 31, 1867, Clergyman who whipped his little boy to death was sentenced on Saturday to imprisonment in the State Prison at Auburn for four years and three months.

August 15, 1870, After weeks of ?? anguish, happiness is at last restored to the bereaved family, and the parents clear their little one in their arms. Two arrests have been made.

September 14, 1870 lad aged fifteen, who is afflicted with lameness, was arraigned on a charge of feloniously assaulting a girl two years old

November 12, 1865 Child Found in the Woods-particulars of the case show terrible suffering of a little child, or it may be an instance of cruel desertion by some inhuman parent, with a view of putting an end to her innocent offspring.

March 22, 1899 Three Year Old Boy abducted from Chicago found in Ohio

Jul 13, 1896 MOTHER DESERTS HER 4 YEAR OLD AGAIN

May 31, 1910, GIRL'S BODY FOUND IN A CISTERN; 8 year old’s mutilated and decomposed body under one of the parish houses of St. John's Roman Catholic Church.

YUP… I THINK THE WORLD HAS BEEN CRAZY FOR A LONG WHILE NOW!