Word: victims
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Dukes, the member of the Pennsylvania legislature who shot and killed Capt. A. C. Nutt at Uniontown, Pa., some months since, was shot and killed last night by a son of his victim...
...jubilant sophomores. When the procession reached the college campus the effigy of Legendre was deposited upon the fatal scaffold, near which stood the sacrificial altar with its colored fires. As the students gathered around the scene of death the haruspex, Henry A. Bostwick, pronounced the doom of the victim in verse. The victim was this time represented by a goat, and he was allowed to choose between three fates-either to become a dude, to go to Harvard and be "culchawed," or to be burned upon the altar. At the mention of the first fate the goat trembled visibly...
Memorial Hall has been made the victim of several "improvements" during the recess. Part of the woodwork at the west end of the hall has been painted over with a dark red colored pattern which does not seem to be favorably received by the average art critic who boards at the hall. The posts at the east end are now being gilded with an alarming yellow color. The new desks and railing in the auditor's office have been finished. The most popular improvement of all, however, is the placing of a new clock on the west gallery...
...terrible murder was committed in East Watertown last evening, the victim being Mrs. Etta G. Carlton. The crime was committed with a large cobble stone. No trace has been found of the murderer, and the whole affair is a mystery...
...this kind that caused the atelier of Paul Delaroche to be closed when that master went to Italy, taking his pupil Gerome with him. The rising Russian painter, Basile Vereschagin, on entering the studio of Picot to learn the rudiments of his art, refused to be made the victim of the rough treatment to which it was proposed to subject him. This consisted in attaching the new-comer's head downwards to a ladder, and then blowing tobacco smoke up his nose - an invention truly worthy of "Fox's Book of Martyrs." Vereschagin, at this proposition, opened his blue eyes...