LYNCHING OF NELSON HOWARD AT MOUND CITY ILL
Nelson Howard colored was taken from the Mound City jail by a masked mob from Cairo and hanged. The crime cited is the shooting murder of white man John Kane on the Fourth. Kane and Howard rode a Wabash train from Cairo to Mound City amid arguing and a drunken quarrel. Howard killed Kane after a struggle and was then lynched by the mob.
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Mound City
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Cigepab
Johnn Kane
Cairo
Wabash Road
Jug
Allegré
Neas Z
Howard
John Kane
Kane
Grand Chain
Nobod
Fire and mob rule hit Astoria after drunken fishermen riot
An Astoria dispatch reports Greek and other foreign fishermen looted vessels during a Tuesday fire, police recaptured several thieves, and a mob closed three saloons. Locals formed a special force, arrests followed, and stolen property was restored as citizens prepared to rebuild.
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San Francico
Cal
Astoria
The Mansion House Cook Rages at Court Arrest Bid
A 50 year old, nearly 200 pound cook at the Mansion House, Mary Driscoll of Hodson Massachusetts, attacked the judge with insults after her brother Patrick was fined for drunkenness. She fled the room and attempted self harm from a third story window before being arrested and later fined a nominal sum for contempt of court.
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Paul Revere
Barbarous Treatment of a Boy Before Squire Goleman
A Memphis & Charleston Railroad machinist is accused of savagely beating his ten year old stepson Jose Maynard around Christmas. He allegedly whipped him with a rawhide until bleeding and toasted him before the fire while the mother hid her face. The case is with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Animals and being prosecuted.
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Albritton
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To
Duel near Waynerhero Virginia ends with injury to Elam
In Staurros Va on July 2 two Richmond editors Bierne and Elam dueled near New Hope in a colt sixes eight paces. Elam was wounded in the upper thigh, Bierne unhurt. The duel followed political editorials in The Whig and The Star. No arrests, no immediate investigation planned. Elam transported toward Governor Lewis residence for treatment.
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Van
Richmond
Bierne
Staurros
Elam
New Hope
John Lewis
H. J. Lewis
Bienne
West Virginia
Colt
J. F. Lewis
Bierzo
Lewis
Lam
John F. Lewis
Post Republic
Rockingham County
Blerne
Calamity at Glasgow Daphne launch sinks with many dead
Intelligence from Glasgow says the steamship Daphne capsized during launch on the Clyde. Estimates report about 150 drowned, with 52 bodies recovered so far and divers continuing to search the wreck as preparations to raise it proceed.
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Glasgow
Daphne
Lospon
Scotland
Illinois Insurance Report Highlights 1882 State Results
State Auditor C P Swigert releases the fifteenth annual insurance report for Illinois. It shows 1882 fire and marine risks written, premiums collected, losses incurred, and an apparent state profit of 3,004,518.41. The report notes risks in force and net assets per 109 insured.
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C. P. Swigert
Sebe
Toe Habijti Aroe
Concen
Aone
Dlinois
Tragic Wagon Crash Kills Six In Cincinnati
Thunderbolt Express struck a huckster wagon carrying Henry Kracke and his family en route to a farm near Winton Place. All except driver William Bertsch were killed. Bertsch injured. Crashed wagon shattered. bodies found along roadside at night.
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Cincinnati
Thunderbolt Express
New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railway
William Bertsch
Bertsch
Henry Krocke
Winton Place
Henry Kracke
John
Annie
Maggie
Lizzie
Three Years En Masque at Wells Street Bridge
A seventeen year old girl dressed as a man was arrested at the Wells street bridge in Chicago. She claimed to have worn male clothing for three years and served on lake vessels to earn an honest living. She gave the name Frank Chambers, refused her true name, and said only her mother is dead.
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Wells Street Bridge
Chicago
Frank Chambers
Fatal Boating Accident Near Batavia
A catastrophic Sunday boating accident on Tonawanda Creek near Batavia Genesee County capsized the Stranger, a Catamaran-like vessel. Twenty eight aboard. four drowned Eugene Hamley Clarke Tenney Bridget Flannery Jene Maloney all residents except Maloney from Crittenden Pa. Inquest underway as crowds gather.
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Borrao
Batavia
Genesee County
Tonawanda Creek
Whisky Run
Panic at a Saturday Hop in City Hall
A stairway collapse at Professor Robinson's Saturday hop in Atlanta injures multiple attendees. Among the injured are two daughters of Philip Heldlingsfeller and others named, with several sent to assist and spectators fleeing as horses trample away. Hanlan has won $53,000 in six years of rowing.
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Atlanta
Geneva
Robinson
City Hall
Philip Heldlingsfeller
T. L. Crosby
J. J. Jordan
Pierce Weston
Hanlan
Swedish Emigrant Arrests Spark New Hampshire Row
The Swedish and Norwegian Minister questioned Washington over arrests of Swedish emigrants by Suncook manufacturers. Many were held for debt after being brought from Scandinavia with interpreters, claiming passage money debts. About 165 Swedes entered. over half left, leaving creditors around $1000.
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Washington
Suncook
Scandinavia
Drunken teen husband Shoots Wife in Fatal Home Tragedy
Agnes Wynne aged eighteen died after her husband James Wynne aged seventeen, drunk, fired a revolver at her as she lay with their baby. He sought a physician after the shot and was arrested. two playmates witnessed the event. a three month old child was orphaned.
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New York
Agnes Wynne
James i. Wynne
Trains Hit Nightcar on Wabash Line in Chicago
A stock yard transfer car crossing the Wabash tracks at Fortieth Street Chicago was struck by a passenger train and demolished. Eight passengers escaped fatal injury though Mrs. Thomas Metzger suffered serious cuts and bruises. A four year old boy burned to death at Petersburg Menard County after his clothes caught fire from a candle. Curran post office in Sangamon County was broken into and $300 in money and stamps stolen. Cairo division railroad shops at Carmi White County shut down briefly, leaving about forty men unemployed. A Moline iron works company executed a $70,000 trust deed and mortgage to trustees including the Keater Lumber Co. for protection of several investors. Mrs. Liza Smith died suddenly near Edinburgh Christian County while seated with her daughters. Mechanicsburg sees a three legged kitten attracting curiosity. Bloomington elder Archibald Bowen died recently at eighty.
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Chicago
Thomas Metzger
Philip Rainy
Petersburg
Menarch County
Curran
Sangamon County
Springfield
Cairo
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad
Carmi
White County
Moline
Rock Island County
Malleable Iron Works
George R. Hill
S. W. Wheelock
A. L. Carson
Keater Lumber Company
C. F. Hemingway
Casper Johnson
Moline National Bank
Liza Smith
Thomas Smith
Edinburgh
Christian County
Mechanicsburg
Sangamon
Archibald Bowen
Bloomington
Sweeper Tom's Dollar on the Sixth Avenue El
A New York Tribune vignette recalls a night at a downtown Sixth Avenue Elevated station where a ticket seller and a witty black sweeper share a humorous tale of a man’s scheme to earn and spend a dollar. The reporter departs as the sweep er regales with a drawled yarn about fooling his wife and a quick exit to catch a departing train.
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Sixth Avenue
Oman
Sonny
Tom
Marie Henery
Dollah
Lothario
N. Y. Tribune
Ludicrous Blunder Confuses Paris News Paragraphs
A Paris newspaper blunder mixes two items after a ministerial crisis. An incorrect note claims Thiers was forming a new cabinet, provoking the king’s unrest. A separate paragraph about a murder case is muddled by swapped addresses, revealing tensions between the king and Thiers.
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Paris
Thiers
Senator West Recovered After Narrow Bath Escape
Sojourning at Hot Springs, Senator West fell unconscious while bathing alone. The attendant arrived minutes later to find him insensible. A physician was summoned and the Missouri senator was eventually restored to consciousness and fully recovered.
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Hot Springs
Colonel West
Missouri
Kansas City Times
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