Dozen Men Die in Vincennes Boiler Explosion
A boiler explosion at the Vincennes Paper Mill in Indiana kills twelve workers and injures many others. A survivor, Charles Conners, was hurled about fifty feet while a boiler catapulted through a roof 150 feet away. The blast demolished the boiler room and damaged the Harrison home, once residence of the late President William Henry Harrison. Estimated property loss reaches $50,000.
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Vincennes
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Vincennes Paper Mill
Charles Conners
Harrison
William Henry Harrison
Northwestern Territory
Lynch Him Kill Him Threats at Cannonsburg Arrest
Elmo Dempster, a Black man, charged with killing Mrs. Samuel Pears and two children near Cannonsburg and fatally wounding another, was arrested in Washington. A mob tried to seize him on the way. deputies fought them off with revolvers, and the crowd followed to the courthouse before the prisoner was moved to jail.
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Washington
Elmo Dempster
Cannonsburg
Samuel Pears
Tribute of Negroes honors Stonewall Jackson with a church memorial
In Roanoke Virginia a memorial window to General Thomas Stonewall Jackson was unveiled at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church (negro) on Sunday. The window financed entirely by black congregants and dedicated by pastor Rev Li. L. Downing, with services attended by mixed races and Confederate groups from Roanoke and Salem. Downing’s parents had once taught Jackson as slaves in Lexington, reflecting a lifelong ambition to pay tribute to the Confederate commander.
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Downing
Jackson
Lexington
Husband Horrified by Family Tragedy in Cannonsburg
Samuel Pears returned home in Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania to find his wife and two children dead and a third child dying from bullet wounds. An attempt to set fire to the house was thwarted when Pears put out a blaze started in a bedroom.Mrs Pears was shot through the breast. Margaret five and Dwight eleven months were shot through the head. Robert survived with a bullet in his lungs.
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Cannonsburg
Samuel Pears
Washington County
Pears
Dwight
Robert
Tree Falls on Boy Crushes Leg Then Amputates and Death Follows
In Boswell I T two youngsters Moody brothers sawed a tree four miles south when it fell trapping the older boy and crush turning the leg to pulp below the knee. Doctors amputated but the loss of blood caused the death. In Mexico a Presbyterian synod session adjourned after a week with reorganizations of missionary boards and other business.
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Moody
City of Mexico
Presbyterian Synod
Mexican Home Missionary Board
Presbyterian Home Missionary Board
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