I need some advice on what would be an effective procedure to find a newspaper account of an accident that happened between 1870 and 1880. I have Timothy BURKE b. 1862 Ireland, immigrated @1866. He is in the 1870 census - Oshkosh, Winnebago. However, in the 1880 census he is listed as "leg taken off". I'm guessing that it was an accident - railroad??? - and that it may have made the local newspaper. He is in Chicago by 1890 (no, I didn't find that in the non-existent 1890 census, he was a witness at a wedding). Kelly Ward, Schoolcraft, Michigan