Trial of Mirsky and Associates at St Petersburg Court
A trial in the civil and criminal courthouse in St Petersburg heard Leon Mirsky and seven associates charged with belonging to an illegal secret society and aiding Mirsky in evading justice after an attempted daylight assassination of General Drenteln. Mirsky admitted belonging to the political society but denied criminal aims, while Tarkhoff faced forgery charges. The court heard 60 witnesses for the prosecution and 40 for the defense, with Mirsky delivering a defiant closing speech before a verdict. Mirsky and several co-defendants were condemned, Mirsky to hard labor without a fixed term and Tarkhoff to Siberia. Gourko later mitigated sentences for Mirsky’s companions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mirsky
Drentein
St. Petersburg
Leon Mirsky
Olga Semenskoi
Hippolyte Golovin
Olchin
N. Vereschagin
Eugene Beklemisheff
Uri Tarkhoff
Leutenant
Gregory Levenson
General Drenteln
Tarkhoff
Summer Garden
Winter Palace
Gaguria
Ina Droshky
Taganrog
Pletneif
Niets
Drenteln
Guard
Timachoff
Count Perovsky
Barantzeff
Mordvino
Sky
Heny
Isky
Tam
St. Petersbore
Dreateln
Armas
Los Tad O
Sare
Taman
Lama Soct
People
Siberia
Gourko
Tal
Forty Years in a Cave Hermit of Pike County
A New York press feature profiles Austin Sheldon, a Connecticut-born hermit living forty years in a Lehman township cave after falling for a planned marriage, being swindled, and moving to Pike County. He survives wildfires and rattlesnakes, recalls biblical mastery, and plans temporarily to move to Bedford, Connecticut, at seventy three with hopes of remarriage for money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lehman Township
Pike County
Penn
Austin Sheldon
Connecticut
New York
Roth
Sunny Creek
Bradford
Conn
Sheldon
Julia Ann Tuttle
Milford
Venn
Chick
Mr. Sheldon
United States
General Grant
Abraham Lincoln
Bedford
Cearn
English Lady Dies After Pill-Box Explosion
A London physician prescribed six dozen pills to a woman who lacked pockets. She hid a pill-box in her bosom and later exploded, destroying her dress and injuring her seriously. The pills contained oxide of silver that had detonated, killing her shortly after.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Colonization Movements for Western Settlement Rise
A survey of colonization efforts aims to move labor from crowded eastern cities to rich prairie lands in Minnesota Kansas and Texas. The Irish Catholic Association promotes 160 acre homesteads with early land payments and church support while projects in Nemaha County Goffstown and Kansas offer railroad linked farms. Texas promises cheap living with farms 1000 dollars could secure a home and yield income, plus school lands and favorable tariffs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irish Catholic Colonization Association
United States
Minnesota
Swift County
Graceville
St. Adrian
Avoca
Nobles County
Father Bodfish
Kansas
Union Pacific Railroad
Nemaha
Goffstown
Goff
Goff & Donohoe
Jay Gould
Union Pacific
Omaha
St. Joseph
Kearney Junction
Denver
Frankfort
Central Branch
Messrs
Donohoe
Texas
San Antonio
Galveston, Harrisburg and
Mexico
Tennessee
Cumberland
No feasible title found from provided fragment
No readable, complete facts to summarize. The fragment references homesteads, subsistence, fertility, and a dream of peaceful life under vines and fig trees, but lacks identifiable people, places, dates, or organizations to form a proper news card.
The Last Years of Calcraft the Hangman of England
The piece recalls Calcraft’s forty six year tenure as England’s hangman, his rise with Greenacre and Courvoisier, Muller’s 1864 execution, and the 1868 abolition of public hangings. It notes crowds at Newgate, Calcraft’s continued reputation, and his succession by Marwood as public executions waned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calcraft
England
London
River Lee
Fleet Street
Ludgate Hill
Old Bailey
James Greenacre
Hannah Brown
Courvoisier
Maller
Greenacre
Francois Benjamin Courvoisier
William Russell
William
Norfolk Street
Park Lane
Lord William
Courgoisier
Jack Ketch
Tyburn
Newgate
Manchester
Franz Muller
America
Briggs
North London
Muller
Governor Wall
Bellingham
Percival
Cato-street
Fauntleroy
Bishops
Forgotten Paris Suit In Montijo Biographies
In the London World account the defunct Countess Montijo’s Paris court suit is recalled. Relatives claimed illegitimacy of her and her sister to a count’s property, the court ruling the reputed father could plead desaveu de paternite, a memory Napoleon III disliked, with police erasing related law papers before his marriage announcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Countess Montijo
Paris
Louis Philippe
Napoleon III
Solomon Glass
Little Rock Gazette
Oman
Napoleon
Josephine de Beauharis
Josephine
Maria Louisa
Ireland Rights and Land Drainage Discussed by Bright Reply
John George McCarthy urged John Bright to back a Peel era plan to drain Irish waste lands. Bright doubted success and warned landowners’ rights may trump people’s lives, urging political unity and strong government action for Ireland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John George McCarthy
Mallow
Ireland
Robert Peel
John Bright
House of Commons
Liberal Party
Boss of His Own Stomach Anecdote Sparks Velvet World Mockery
The London World mocks a scene at a fashionable dinner where a Chicago banker, ostentatiously rich and over dressed, eats little and rejects dishes. A hostess’s attempt to flatter him backfires when he blurts a garbled boast about his purse and his own stomach, revealing vulgar boasting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London World
Chicago
Mr. Anson
Iwoller
Soumniniok
Uniform Sentence for Crime Proposed by Warden
The piece argues for fixed sentences by crime with mitigating factors. Ward en Chamberlain urges specific punishments per offense to curb inconsistent rulings, citing highway robbery and prior offenders. Lawyers split. some favor graded laws linking punishment to offense, others caution on practical limits. The article also discusses how age, circumstances, and prior records influence sentencing and mercy. A humorous court scene with the Finch brothers ends in a dismissal due to identification uncertainty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Courts of Justice
Warden Chamberlain
GLOBE
Ees
Richard Vaux
Bar of Justice
Finch brothers twins baffle Westport constable
Westport Connecticut constable Gorman could not tell the Finch brothers apart after observing a man on a bridge speed past warnings. The brothers, identical in dress and habits since childhood, share a house and the same wife and family, making identification near impossible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westport
Conn
Gorman
Saugatuck
Nothce
Finch Brothers
Norwalk
Eto Leane
Commion
The Great Claimant in Dartmoor Prison Life
An inmate known as the Claimant caused trouble at Dartmoor. He pressed home secretary interviews, gained lenient treatment from governors, and exploited privileges such as choir admission and extra rations. Transferred to Portsmouth, he remains an unpopular figure among staff for poor order, disturbed sleep, and slovenly cell upkeep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dartmoor
Portsmouth
Kenealy
Harris
Castro
Orton
Mr. Whalley
Home Secretary
Curious Brooklyn Damsel Loses Eye By Neighbor Bowshot
In New York Truth, Elizabeth McCauley sues neighbor Mr. Lewis F. Booth of 105 Green Avenue, Brooklyn, after a boy’s arrow through a fence strikes her eye during an attempted peep at his yard. Damages sought were $5000. jury awards $1 for an eye glass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
New York
Elizabeth McCauley
Lewis F. Booth
Green Avenue
Miss McCauley
Booth
City Court of
Two Nimrod liars duel in a city station tale
An exchange at Millbrae station recounts two boastful hunters trading tall lies about ducks snipe and feats at long ranges. One claims sleeping through morning lines while the other brags of stuffing birds for a gun maker as they ride the last train car into the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Millbrae
Frisco Nimrod
Hunter No
Duck Devastator
No. 1
Hwang
Free Press
Lewis Street
Jim
Ballad of Blue China and Odd Humors Across Town
A collage of verse and prose items including lines on Blue China porcelain, a comical street scene on Lewis Street with rag tag boys, a domestic anecdote about a boarder and pastry, and a memory of Webster. Also a tale of a Paris passport joke, a quirky matrimony tale, and gossip from clerical blunders.
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Tribunal of Justice
Miraky
Irsky
Tisselmann
Crant
Lincoln
Hayes
The
Catholic Colonization Society
Europe
Great Southern
None
Haeig Pr
Edgeware Road
Dr. Dodd
St. Sepulchre's
Napoleon Iit
Eugenie
Shayl
Reform School
Reformatory
Suc
Constable Gorman
Justice Finch
Finch
Nimrod
Ballad of
Blue
China
Scribner's
Noah
Pia
Olan
Fang
Edward Dear
Webster
Bassett
United States Senate
Bualldog
Montmartre
Noone
Brittany
Germany
Leperello
Millietre
San Bruno
Stanger
Jong Hill
Sonny
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