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Wall Street Crime and New York Politics Stir Public Fray
The piece surveys Democratic gains in New York amid fears of civil war echoes. It details Ward and Warner credit schemes at Grant & Ward, astonishing profits, and lurid comparisons to fables. It notes other events including a steam-drum explosion, smallpox debt fears in Montreal, Ward’s prison sentence, McClellan’s funeral, and a dramatic bridge disaster at East Saginaw with multiple drownings.
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Hill
New York
New York Star
Ward
Warner
Grant & Ward
Star
Jack
Wall Street
Twenty-Sixth Street
Gen. McClellan
Madison Square Presbyterian Church
Loyal Legion
Meagher
Genus
Hancock
McCook
Joaeph E. Johnston
Fitz John Porter
Trentona
East Saginaw
Mich
C. C. McDonald
Genessee Avenue Bridge