I absolutely love how they used to write news.

Ulrich Schermetzler lost an ox in a queer manner the other day.
He had tied his oxen to a fence, while he went down to the river bank,
a fishing. Returning to his team, after a short space of time, he found
one of the oxen had become entangled in the rope in some way as to hang
himself. The general verdict is that he died of strangulation.
It may have been suicide.
Manitowoc Lake Shore Times, Tuesday, May 1, 1883 P.4