American Submarine Company’s Bold Sebastopol Salvage Venture
An account of the American Submarine Exploring Company led by Colonel John E. Gowen lifting sunken Russian ships at Sebastopol during 1857–60. It details docks, immense lifting chains, diving labor, explosive charges, and perilous accidents, including a fatal diver’s death, with outcomes and Gowen’s later recognition.
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England
Great Eastern
Neptune
Ketupchie
Vladimer
Sebastopol
Constantine
Fort Nicholas
Odessa
Gowen
Paris
Petersburg
Crimea
Victoria of
Alexander
St. Stanislaus
Emperor
France
Sultan Abdul of
Victor Emanuel
Europe
Mystery Woman Found in Mystic River at Medford
A woman about forty five is found floating in the Mystic River near Custer's mill Medford. The body appears frozen and entangled by clothing. Chief Saville and Officer Grady take the body to the undertaker for autopsy to determine cause of death.
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Jennie Clark
Lynn
Mystic River
Medford
Somerville
Saville
Grady
Nichole
Sullivan
Honeymoon Ends in Theft as Brooklyn Trader Defrauds
William E. Barnes, a Brooklyn swindler using bogus checks on the Chemical Bank of New York, was traced to Philadelphia where he was arrested. The couple’s honeymoon was interrupted. their trunks and wardrobes, supplied by local clothiers, were recovered. Barnes’s wife Mary Mount, ignorant of his crimes, was turned from her father’s Degraw Street home and sought shelter with her uncle on Bridge Street after reporting to police.
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New York Sun
William E. Barnes
Brooklyn
Chemical Bank of New York
Philadelphia
Saratoga
Looney
Barnes
I Husband
Degraw Street
Mary A. Mount
Samuel Mount
Long Island
Police
Campbell
Bridge Street
Monongahela Coal Miners End Strike Over Wages
The Monongahela valley coal miners resume work after operators concede to pay three cents more per bushel and an extra half cent per ounce. About 7000 men were out, with many under contract to deliver coal downriver.
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Pittseurg
Penn
Monongahela Valley
Mob overpowers jail to seize accused child abuser
Kansas City dispatch reports that Gus Howard, a Black man accused of outraging a twelve year old Tuesday, was captured and smuggled into jail after a mob of about three thousand gathered at the jail. The mob overwhelmed the jailer and forced access to the prisoner.
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Kansas City
Gus Howard
Enterprising Boston Capitalists Propose Brooklyn Elevated Railroad
Brooklyn eyes a proposed Kings County Elevated Railroad backed by Boston capitalists. Subscriptions reached 1 million dollars after months of doubt, with key backers including Moses Kimball John Wooldridge and Edward A Abbott. Local opposition remains strong as a court and city commission weigh approval.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Boston
Howell
Felix Campbell
Justus W. Adams
John Y. Cuyler
Charles J. Lowery
Nathaniel Clement
John Newton
New York
Fatal snipe shooting shocks Kentucky judges
A shooting outside the Capital Hotel in Frankfort fatally wounded Judge Elliott as Colonel Buford confessed a premeditated murder in a dramatic snipe hunt incident. Buford, claiming a Judas kiss provoked the killing, described intent to illustrate that judges could not rob and assassinate with impunity. He faced arrest after the confession.
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Frankfort
Judge Elliott
Judge Hines
Capital Hotel
Buford
Judge Killott
Luis
Elliott
Hines
Butord
Pryor
Eliott
Juage Elliott
Juage
Annie O. Wallace
Judge Pryor
Henry
Famine in Egypt Reports Dire Desolation Across Villages
A letter from Arment Upper Egypt dated February 24 describes acute famine in the Nue Valley. Villagers sit naked and eat roots, women and children fight over scraps of bread, and inland hamlets are said to be starving like dogs.
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New York
Arment
Upper Egypt
Nue Valley
Small-Pox Outbreak Hits Nebraska Settlement
Over one hundred cases of small-pox and more than forty deaths have afflicted Fairnpura Nebraska during winter. Officials blame doctors ignorance and city council inefficiency. No meetings or schools for over two months. Disease wanes now and residents hope the worst has passed.
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Nebraska
Fairnpura
Neb
Death of J. Stuart and James Drummond Attested by Coincidence
James Stuart a leading banker and senior partner of J. & J. Stuart of New York and Manchester died in New York at seventy seven. A curious coincidence ties his death to longtime employee James Drummond who served the house forty five years and died at eighty one after a chat foretelling their shared fate.
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James Stuart
J. & J. Stuart
New York
Manchester
England
Mr. Stuart
James Drummond
Stuart
Jimmy
Lotteries in Louisiana Must Go
Governor Nicholls has approved repealing the state lottery charter. The act will be published in the official journal on Monday.
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Louisiana
New Orleans
Nicholls
Handel and Haydn Society’s Bach Passion Revival in Boston
Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society, the city’s historic music institution, prepares a Good Friday performance of Bach's Saint Matthew Passion in full. The piece marks a milestone for a group born from the Massachusetts Musical Society in 1807, tracing its roots through early concerts, reforms, and a lasting tradition of sacred music and large public audiences.
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Handel and Jayda Society
Handel and Haydn Society
Handel
Haydn
Boston
Hsndes and Haydn Society
Ube
Carl Zerrana
Hande and
Haydns
Elopement Extraordinary Daughter of Ex-Governor Marries Coachman
Nelile Hubbard youngest daughter of ex Governor Richard D Hubbard elopes with and marries her father's coachman Frederick Shepard. The couple wed privately in Springfield on March 1 and returned to face a distressed Hubbard family who seek reconciliation, later fleeing on the New York train.
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Hartrorp
Conn
Nelile
Richard D. Hubbard
Nelie
Frederick Shepard
Hackman
Hubbard
Springfield
New York
Shepard
Ihe
Remarkable Railroad Accident in North Carolina
A North Carolina Rail Road collision near Coleman's station saw a third or fourth car derail from a moving train of ten to fifteen cars. The car ran four miles on cross-ties before a cattle guard tipped it, overturning the car and throwing three others from the track. No injuries occurred. One rail-car section disappeared and cuts on decayed cross-ties show the wheels traveled on one side then jumped to the other.
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New Orleans
North Carolina
Coleman
Charlotte
Salisbury
Directors Elected At Chicago Burlington And Quincy
Chicago Cuscaco March 26 At a stock holders meeting of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company the following directors were elected John M Forbes Ridney Bartlett Charles J Payne Jd Coolidge John L Gard ner Jr Henry 5 Russell John N A Griswold Peter Geddes Charles E Perkins James M Walker and Edward Bangs The only new director is Mr Bangs who replaces Robert Harris resigned A resolution was adopted prohib s in passes and one forbidding labor on the Sabbath
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Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Cuscaco
John M. Forbes
Ridney Bartlett
Charles J. Payne
J. Jd. Coolidge
John L. Gardner
Henry 5. Russell
John N. A. Griswold
Peter Geddes
Charles E. Perkins
James M. Walker
Edward Bangs
Mr. Bangs
Robert Harris
General Shields Honored at His Home in Jefferson City
Mexican veterans of Jefferson City and Missouri assembly members greeted General Shields at the railway depot, escorted to the hall of the house of representatives where he was received and honored.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Assembly
House of Representatives
Speech on veterans benefits and sectional tension in national politics
The speaker recalled his brief U S Senate term representing Minnesota and urged passing laws to aid Mexican War veterans. He warned sectional prejudice hampers liberty and blocks needed legislation, noting the era’s slavery debates as less perilous than current issues in the forty sixth Congress. His remarks were concise and well received.
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United Stats Senate
Senate
Minnesota
Ubon
Negro superstition mars Virginia gallows ball after executions
A New York Sun report describes a nocturnal celebration after two black men Patrick Smith and Julius Christian were hanged for murder in Virginia. The event featured a barn, torches, a makeshift orchestra, dancing, and a voodoo ritual involving a charm said to guard against poison, with attendees claiming the gallows victims walked at the grave and a fearsome resurrectionist interference.
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Virginia
Patrick Smith
Julius Christian
Marder
Parmenia
Sinwith
Christian
Voudou
New York
Wallace Committees Question Gorham On Political Contributions
Washington March 26 ex Secretary of the Senate Gorham testified before the Wallace Jaycees committee about sending circulars to departmental clerks for political contributions during his tenure with the Republican national committee. He described salary-based pledges, the involvement of Interior Department clerks, and a total of about 106000 raised from federal sources with 6700 deposited in a bank that later failed. A Philly visit is scheduled Friday and Saturday for further testimony.
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George
Gorham
United States Senate
Washington, D. C
Wallace
Jace Teller
National Republican Committee
Waddell
Shenandoah
Ohio
Indiana
Messrs
Garland
McDonald
Hoar
Cameron
Philadelphia
Perea Kerns
Baptized Minstrel Senator Bob Hart Embraces Gospel Ministry
Ex minstrel star James M. Sutherland known as Bob Hart was baptized at Berean Baptist Church New York by Rev John Quincy Adams. After a long life of public performance and dissipation Hart quit the stage, signed the temperance pledge, and vows to devote himself to gospel ministry under strong hopes he will become a notable clergyman.
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Berean Baptist Church
New York
Bob Hart
James M. Sutherland
John Quincy Adams
Supeed
Christ
Adams
Sutherland
Hackensack
Billy Dwyer
Dwyer
Evans
Lincoln Affray Between Two Workers at Senator Glasier’s Yard
In Lincoln York county yesterday Joseph Smith and John Bryson, both employed by Senator Glasier, quarreled. Smith attacked Bryson with an axe, injuring his face lip cheek and head. Bryson bled from ears nose and mouth and lies in a precarious condition. Smith fled. constables seek him.
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St. Joan
N. B
Lincoln
York County
Joseph Smith
John Bryson
Senator Glasier
Smith
Bryson
Arthur Glasier
One More Unfortunate Treasurer Arrested in New York
Richard Morton former treasurer of the Atlantic Insurance Company of New York was arrested here today. He fled to Canada last August with between $30,000 and $40,000 in short in his accounts and claims to have compromised matters with the company while in Canada. He arrived two days ago and stayed at 217 Illinois Street where an acquaintance saw him and notified the company in New York.
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Carcano
Richard Morton
Atlantic Insurance Company of
New York
Canada
Ilinois Street
European tensions and economic woes raise alarms
In foreign dispatches from Lespos and London dated March 27, authorities warn of likely English involvement in Afghanistan and Burwab, with Russia pressuring East Roumelia. Afghan fighting, ongoing debts, and a demonetization shock shrink business. The Duke of Connaught faces opposition to a special grant amid marriage treaties and dowry provisions. The Catholic vs state education clash in France threatens church liberty if rights are denied, and Paris confirms a new French cable venture. London reports failed talks with Yakoob Khan, British island moves, Alsace Lorraine autonomy, and the sultan in need of funds selling plate to raise money.
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Lespos
England
Afghanistan
Zainland
Burmik
Russia
Turkey
Bulgaria
Burwab
South Africa
Thither
Jodis
Duke of Connaught
French Republic
Londown
Paris
Gambetti
Grev
France
Slere
United States
Republic
Greenbackers plan to retire national bank notes
New York March 26. The Greenbackers propose a bill to retire all national bank notes and replace them with United States notes that serve as full legal tender for debts. The treasury would cancel bank notes, fund government expenses, and buy gold and silver to circulate new money. Surplus coins would buy and cancel bonds, with a gold piece called the quint eagle and full weight subsidiary coins as tender. The new currency would equal the current national bank currency.
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New York
Treasury
United States
Ship sinking plot leads to Mat e hold in Philadelphia
Chief Mate John Redstone of the Elisabeth Hamilton was held in 5000 bail for further hearing after being charged with conspiring with Captain Rim bellime and Carpenter E J Hutchinson to sink the ship off Madeira. Testimony alleges holes in the hull, cut masts, and arson aboard the petroleum laden vessel cleared for Trieste. The captain and carpenter were landed by a British steamer after the wreck.
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Philadelphia
Penn
John Redstone
Elisabeth Hamilton
Madeira
United States
Bell
H. Rimbellime
E. J. Hutchinson
Trieste
The Colored School Problem in New York
A mass meeting of colored citizens protests a board of education proposal to abolish or consolidate colored public schools. It argues for maintaining separate schools or a mixed system with colored teachers and pupils in combined classes, emphasizing the need to protect opportunities for colored students and staff.
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New York
Board of Education
Pennsylvania Railroad Elects Officers for Present Year
Philadelphia March 26 The board of directors elected officials for the year including President Thomas A Scott First vice president George B Roberts Second vice president Edin Smith Third vice president A J Cassatt Assistant secretary John Lesley Secretaries and other officers named in the list for the current year.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Philadelphia
The
Pennsylvania Railroad Today
Thomas A. Scott
George B. Roberts
Edin Smith
A. J. Cassatt
Secrea
Sone Lesley
Sssistant
Johm
New Planing Machine Patent Awarded in New Hampshire
Ports Moor TH, N. H., March 27. Mr Augustne Stevenson of Kittery has been awarded a patent for a surface planer. He claims it will plane timber curved at any grade. Thirteen new points were claimed and allowed. He is constructing a new working model for further development.
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Ports Moor TH
N. H
Augustne Stevenson
Kittery
Stevenson
Amy
Atow Dasa
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Charlies Nolen
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Jacob Guid
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Christopher Lincoln
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