Destructive Fire Destroys Arcole Iron Works Store Room
Fire at the Arcole Iron Works complex in Madison gutted the store, office, and warehouse. The blaze began about Sabbath’s dawn, destroying dry goods hardware crockery groceries and 160 barrels of pork with losses estimated at 5 to 7 thousand dollars. Four men pursued the incendiary. two sleeping clerks narrowly escaped suffocation.
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Arcole Iron Works
Madison
D&c
Geauga Gazelle
Norwalk Legislature Adjourns to June for Redistricting
NORWALK, rea. 24, 1832. The Legislature adjourned on the 10th inst to meet again on the first Monday of June for districting the state. On the 4th, appointments were made: Seany Brown, Treasurer of State, and Waary W. Gautt, Keeper of the Ohio Penitentiary.
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Agai
Seany Brown
Waaray W. Gautt
Ghio Penitentiary
Monongahela Bridge Destroyed By Late Freshets
The Monongahela bridge, built in 1818 at $140,000, collapsed on Saturday at about 9 am as the first section failed, sending a coal wagon and five horses into the river. A man and a boy aboard were rescued with no injuries, four horses survived, and owners consider repair or rebuilding.
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Pirtssuren
Monongahela Bridge
Jacob Beltzhoever
Democrat
THE FLOOD HITS PITTSBURGH AREA AND SURROUNDINGS
From Cooks Register February 14 reports the greatest flood yet seen in the west, with the Allegheny rising to 46 feet above low water. Homes and factories within 200 yards of the water’s edge inundated as boats ferried inhabitants to safety. Smoky Island houses swept away and the aqueduct faced extreme danger but remained standing as waters fell.
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Cooks Register
Birmingham
America
Pittsburgh
Canal Banks Swept and Dams Destroyed in Ohio Floods
Distressing flood reports from Mount Vernon Gazette and Ohio papers describe wide damage. Warrenton and Wheeling towns on the Ohio River were destroyed, with dozens of houses lost and several drownings confirmed. Stage travel failed at Alum Creek. two horses drowned and baggage lost. Cleveland Herald notes extensive flood damage along the Cuyahoga River and canal injuries, including a mill swept away on Black River at Elyria and bridges ruined. Miami Canal breaches near Cincinnati threaten navigation for weeks.
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Ohio
Nimishillen
Fogle
Walhending
Anit
Portage
Newman’s Creek
Mount Vernon Gaz
New York
Wheeling
Warrentown
Marietta
Mt. Vernon
Cleaveland Herald
Cuyahoga River
Black River
Elyria
Ely
Dayton
Miami Canal
Cincinnati
O. S. Journal
Rumors and notes from an early American press
The piece surveys political rumors about diplomacy and cabinet positions, reports on an earthquake near Montreal with property damage, and cites figures on flour exports from Wheeling. It covers state population in Lower Canada, Massachusetts and U.S. House representation, and legislative actions in Pennsylvania, along with public health notes on smallpox and cholera quarantine. It mentions a fatal stage accident in Columbus and plans for a Hudson River rail corridor and Ohio Falls bridge charter.
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Rives
France
England
van Buren
Livingston
State Department
Tazewell
Montreal
Louisville
Pittsburgh
Wheeling
House of Representatives
Massachusetts
United States
Senate
Lower Canada
Pennsylvania
U.S
Congress
Albany
Bank of the
U. S
Assembly
Board of Health of
New York
Europe
Massachusetts State Prison
Archibald Graham
Cincinnati
Columbus
Kentucky
Indiana
Ohio
Falls
Hadson River
Connecticut
Boston Morning Post
Priner
Early 19th Century News Roundup From U S Papers
Massachusetts petitions rail road bills between Boston and Salem. Foreign ownership figures from U S Bank stack show 470 foreigners and 3602 US citizens. North Carolina bans black preaching. Collected obits report Mortis death by tree, Clark death by falling ax, and a suicide in Dalton & Co. workers. Eccentric New England figure known as the long legged man described. Indiana passes canal bill for Wabash and Erie linking Wabash River to Lake Erie, with St Joseph feeder noted.
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Boston
Salon
Massachusetts
Mt Jg
New York Custom House
Pittsburgh Gazette
Congress
U.S. Bank
United States
North Carolin
le Roy Gazette
Sanuel Mortis
Henry Clark
Homburg
Berg County
N.Y
Wabash and Erie Canal
Indiana
Wabash River
Lake Erie
St. Joseph
Munition project spans lake Erie to Indiana line
The report notes a munition project extending from Lake Erie and New York into Indiana interior with part through Ohio. The Buffalo Journal urges speedy completion. In village news a marriage occurs as Inez Preston marries Mr Travis Adams, and Meg Mr Anam Kine weds Miss Luar Hamris in Peru township.
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Lake Erie
New York
Indiana
Ohio
Buffalo
Inez
Preston
Travis Apams
Bannary Barns
Peru Township
Araunah Fatun
Anam Kine
Luar Harnis
Public sale notices in Huron County Ohio 1832
Two writs of Venditioni Exponas from the Court of Common Pleas authorize sheriff John Miller to publically sell lands in Norwalk and Florence Ohio. The first sale on February 22 covers East part of lot 32, Section 1, T3 R23, totaling 50 acres to satisfy a judgment for Aaron Lamb against Abel Tracy. The second notices on February 24 and 25 list a cast iron forge bellows and an ox cart at Cyrus Butler’s dwelling, and a copper still and worm plus a Franklin stove at O Jenney’s tin shop, all for Sylvanus Penniman’s suit.
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Shevie Sales
Court of Common Pleas
County of Huron
State of
Ohio
Norwalk
Section
Said
Aaron Lamb
Abel Tracy
John Miller
Sherif
Huron
Cyrus Butter
Florence
O. Jenney
Norvalk
Sylvanus J. Penniman
Cyrus Butler
Nuton
K. Wurlburt, & Co
Joan Miller
Muron County
John Vanhorn
New Huven
Huron County
New Heven
Vanhorn
New Haven
John M. Beymer
Wlisha Steward
J. Burrown
Five for the Union Canal Lottery Draws in Philadelphia
The document announces Class No 5 of the Union Canal Lottery with a capital prize of 20 900 dollars and total prizes reaching a million. Tickets cost five dollars and the draw is set for March 10 in Philadelphia. managers Yates & Mintyres and agent Dr George A Cook are named alongside the location at No 68 Wood Street, Pittsburgh. Separately a Ohio partition petition concerns Timothy Baker seeking division of 1768 acres in Fitchville with 279.25 acres in severalty, and notices of lawsuits regarding John Vanhorn estates in New Haven, plus an administrator notice for Willisha Steward in Norwalk, dated 1832.
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Yates & Mintyre
George A. Cook
Wood Street
Pittsburgh
Union Canal
Philadelphia
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Court of Common ‘Pleas
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Ridgefield Township
Alan
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Ridgefeld
Isaac A. Mills
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