The following conditions can also sometimes cause heart palpitations: 1  an overactive thyroid (hyperthyroidism) â where the thyroid gland produces too much of the thyroid hormones. 2  a low blood sugar level (hypoglycaemia) â this is most commonly associated with diabetes. 3  anaemia â a reduced number of red blood cells.
Colonel Crawford was captured by the Indians after the battle, and seven days later he was tortured and burned at the stake on the banks of Tymochtee Creek in present-day northeastern Wyandot County. As the centenary of the burning approached, a movement arose to commemorate Crawford's death with a monument.
Abraham Lincoln Papers. On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, Our American Cousin, President Abraham Lincoln was shot. Accompanying him at Ford's Theater that night were his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, a twenty-eight year-old officer named Major Henry R. Rathbone, and Rathbone's fiancee, Clara Harris. After the play was in progress, a figure with a drawn derringer pistol stepped into the presidential box, aimed, and fired.