[ London Times ]
This newspaper, most correctly known simply as The Times, began publication in 1785 and continues to this day.
The July 9, 1785 edition of The Times carried the following brief notice of a woman who was, basically, frightened to death by a Newfoundland dog:
Thursday morning died Mrs. Walker of Laurence Pountey-Hill. Her death was occasioned by the wanton behaviour of a neighbour, who in a joke set a large Newfoundland dog at her; the fright it occasioned threw her into fits, and not withstanding the immediate assistance of the faculty, she died in less than two hours.
See this item from The Times in 1867 for a similar incident.