Murderous despair in Keffeldorf Woman and Children
A London evening paper reports a distressed Keffeldorf widow whose husband fled due to debt plans to kill her three children and herself. The family were found hanged later, indicating a fatal family tragedy with no sound or discovery at the time.
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Keffeldorcf
Toulon
Riviera
Genoa
Marseilles
Missisippi
Kappa
Amsterdam
Peterbourgh
Holstein
Brunswick
Hay
Brirtitus
Bay of Biscay
Coromandel
Domingo
Martinico
Bourdeaux
Rochelle
Namz
Severe Scottish weather halts farming across Scotland
Edinburgh reports weeks of unusually severe weather with heavy snow across the hills. Plowing and barley sowing delayed, and reports from Tweedale Selkirk and nearby counties note deep snow and daily sheep and lamb losses.
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Edinburgh
Tweedale
Selkirk
Two Men Die and Fall Ill After Convoy Incident
Canterbury May 5 Two men Culman Moon and Christopher Barrett of Folkstone were returning from escorting a Smuggler to London. Moon died suddenly in the coach near Rochester while Barrett lies critically ill in the city, attributed to excessive drinking.
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Country News
Canterbury
London
Culman Moon
Christoper Barret
Folkstone
Rochester
Preventing Prefing in the Sea Service
London reports discuss the disadvant ages of prefing sea service and the mixing of diseased or dispirited men with capable sailors. It argues necessity drives the practice, but laws could defend against necessity by making the sea service more acceptable to sailors.
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Great Britain
Paris
Father Berruyer
Benedict XIV
Rome
France
Christendom
Earl of
Loudoun
America
Thomas Pownall
Burford
Mr. Dutton
Nicodemus
Black ‘Chance
Mr. Cornwall
Redstreak
Regulus
Porus
Marksman
Fafon
Old Crab
Ashburn
Charles Sedley
Mr. Meynell
St. Dunstan’s
Henry Deane
Haberdasher
Cheapside
Ann Meredith
Meredith
Hofier
Fleet-street
Fifield
Wiltshire
Hungerford
Henry Hungerford
Duke of Somerset
St. Alban’s Street
Alfton
Rowland Alfton
Brussels
Flanders
Duke de Richelieu
Minorca
Toulon
Mediterranean
Levant
Portmahon
Capt. Cole
Providence
Seville
London
Sea Service
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Somerstet House
Richmond Park
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South Carolina
Peter Burrel
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Lord Cathcart
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Prince George
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Thomas Gordon
Lord George Beauclerk
Robert Harpur
William Bainbridge
John Bird
Cornwallis
Robert Carr
Fair of
John Winter
Otway
William Hamilton
Armstrong
Collin Campbell
Charles Pertis
Richard Baillie
Royal American Regiment
William Nicholson
George Tuting
John M’kenaie
George Wirgman
Stevenson
Merchant-Taylors Hall
R. Pauls
Courge
Dry Boyce
Durham
Ely
Norwich
Peterborough
Litchfield
Coventry
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Chester
Gloucester
Wiles
William Moreton
Thomas Harrison
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Countess of
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George Wakefield
Thomas Linsey
Simpson
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Diocese of
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Jesus College, Oxford
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Payn
Jersey
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Thomas Havers
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