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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 25, 1776
Page
1
Extra edition reports in Mantua a wedding crowd collapse after a floor gave way. 66 people killed and 16 or 17 seriously wounded as guests fell to the cellar below. bride and mother died, bridegroom Finzi escaped. The note adds further Paris and Dublin items and general unrest.
London Gazette reports General Carleton’s letters detailing captures near Montreal, a fort at the Cedars, and Indian forces moving toward British troops. Burgoyne and Hessian reinforcements arrive. Commodore Itham convoy sails with troops. ships report healthy garrisons and ongoing North American preparations. Local notices announce name change rights, a burgess election writ, and meteorological storms affecting Antwerp and Dutch frontier towns.
Mail from Vigliant J Warsaw reports Poland unrest as rural crowds resisted a religiously stirred massacre of Jews. Russian commandant deployed troops and cannons, one assailant killed. Leghorn notes the Bey of Alders seeks satisfaction from the Bey of Pontus over Africa campaign costs. Hamburg reports Grand Duke of Russia soon to marry. Dispatches from Gibraltar outline Colonel Cornwallis and General Irwin plans to review Ireland garrisons and fortifications. A new vessel for transporting horses for the army is approved. French ships and transports bound for Cap Francois encountered at sea with favorable winds. Barcelona letters say three Spanish warships captured three Moorish corsairs.
In Newcastle area a night burglary at Hawshill near Corfenside saw three men break into a house housing a man his wife and a servant. They seized the wife cried out. the husband was found in another bed and hoodwinked with a pitch fork to his breast. They looted about seven pounds in cash and notes plus clothing linen and a bottle of rum and wine and fled with threats to the servant. The incident occurred in the early morning hours.
In Boston County of Lancaster a notice states the Corora out of the Boreveh or Fathin intends to form part of the church yard with iron palisades. Those wishing to contract to furnish the palisades should contact the Dunnenfons with a detailed proposal and a bill of a potential evognes of the time.
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