President Delivers Peace Terms to Black Hawk and Son
The President met Black Hawk and the Prophet with their sons to discuss peace and jail terms. He ordered them to Fort Monroe, conditional on treaty compliance, while portraying the frontier violence as the fault of all parties and seeking calm among the tribes. The Prophet urged immediate return to their people, and Black Hawk signaled a wish to visit home.
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Black Hawk
Prophet
Fort Monroe
Keobuck
AE Ae Ee
Tale
Ap Eam
Globe
Disappearance of Joseph L. Frothingham Near Whitesboro
Utica Sentinel reports Joseph L. Frothingham vanished after leaving his boarding house on the evening of the 8th while en route to procure light. He had been in town to receive about seventy dollars at a bank and was expected to lodge at the Oneida Institute or with a neighbor. Local search and inquiries follow as the case remains unresolved.
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George Hazard
Frothingham
Whitesborough
Ife
Miller’s Bridge
Utica Sentinel
Joseph L. Frothingham
Oneida Institute
Porter’s Ill Health and Call to Sustain His Service
The letter from Commonvent Porter describes grave illness and an unhealthy view from his window with many unburied bodies at the graveyard. The piece argues for provisions to keep Commodore Porter in Constantinople to protect American interests as trade with the Black Sea expands and the Sultan treaty benefits depend on active leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weman
Black Sea
Constantinople
Commodore Porter
Gobe
Fire alarms quick as basements blaze at Broadway porter house
Fire found about 4 pm in the basement of a two story brick building at 410 Broadway. Engines arrived swiftly and extinguished the fire with minor house damage. Furniture of a moving family was damaged by water. Incendiary fire started by a candle on straw beds in the cellar.
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Broadway
Standard
Destructive City Fire Ravages Homes and Stock
A large blaze destroyed Kipp and Brown stables killing 52 horses of which three were gaiged. Firemen battled unrelenting flames as wooden buildings adjacent burned. About 40 houses burned and residents watched the scattered furniture amid the calamity. authorities called it the worst fire in a decade.
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Anxovier
Kipp and Brown
Bank and
Tudson
Teauth
Flammond
Kipp
Brown
Destructive Fire Ravages Greenwich Stages Stables Block
The New York Spectator reports a four block fire that destroyed 130 to 150 houses, damaged four squares from Hudson to Washington streets, with 750 people left homeless and losses estimated at 200k to 250k, possibly under insured, starting near Kipp & Browns stables. A Cumberland fire address follows detailing townwide destruction, 75 houses burned, 150 buildings destroyed, 272k in losses, and appeals for aid.
American Benevolence Aids Suffering Cumberland Village
A Cumberland notice outlines relief efforts after a village fire reducing homes to ruins. A committee led by John Hoye Thomas J McKaig Richard Beal Rev J H Johns and others will collect and distribute donations to the neediest, pledging faithful accounting and use of all funds.
Orders of the Canal Board to prevent navigation obstruction
The Board of Canal Commissioners in Cincinnati on April 8 1533 orders no boat or float may lie in a lock or other canal area to block passage. It requires mooring to avoid obstruction during low water and mandates removal of obstructions. Violators face a ten dollar debt recovery and seizure until penalties are paid. BENJ TAPPAN President. Inorzase Lapiram Secretary.
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Board of Canal Commissioners
State of
Ohio
Cincinnati
Justice of the Peace
Benj. Tappan
Attest—Inorzase Lapiram
Sec'y
Stage Robbery Report From Chambersburg
The Telegraph boat was found cut open and passengers’ two trunks stolen. Two men with large bundles were seen in West Main Street between 9 and 10 pm, followed by three locals who confronted them in an alley. One man drew a pistol and threatened to shoot if resisted, near Chambersburg.
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Chambersburgh
Benjamin Winters
Robbery In Dark Night Ends With Capture Of Desperado
In a village incident three men chased a robber who seized a pistol. One robber pinned a man against a fence, the victim wrestled the weapon, and another pursued thief. The clash toppled into a cellar hole as the robber was disarmed and held by Mr Winters until aid arrived. Trunks were later found rifled three miles away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Villagy
Winters
Iere
Wintars
Town Elects New Officials and Notices Change
In the town election on the 6th, Joan Bedford is declared mayor with George T. Buchanan as recorder and trustees Cyrus Aurien Isaac M. Waisos Joan Wanton Groven Sucryvreep Opatjan Jexnur elected. An error moved Brigadier General Mills election date to the 25th. Also reported: launch of schooner Commodore Lawrence, laws from the last General Assembly received, Western Hemisphere copy in town, Parley's magazine promotion, and a note on youth rifle encouragement.
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Joan Bedford
Grorce T. Bucnincuam
Cyaus Aurien
Isaac M. Waisos
Joan Wanton
Groren Sucryvreep
Opaptan Jexnur
Mills
Western Hemisphere
Columbus
John Gilbert & Co
Parley’s
New Locomotive Power Sparks German Invention
A watchmaker named Bushmann of Elsenberg near At tenburg Saxony has devised a steamless machine that moves a heavily loaded wagon in a field, outperforming sixteen horses. He rejects offers of 200,000 dollars for the secret, having secured patents from major German authorities. Ramsins notes a method to raise wireworms in gardens by mixing sand, garden earth, and stable manure to produce transparent brittle radishes.
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Bushmann
Elsenberg
Attenburg
Saxony
Itingham Gaz
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New York Spectator
Messrs
Kipp & Brown
Greenwich
Hudson and
Bankstreets
Hudison, Bank
Hammond Streets
Washington
Newark
Cumberland
United States
Wills Creek
Potomac
Alleghany County
Anders Sgnad
Innner
Jonx Becewanan
Apratam Suniver
Tuomas Buchanan
A. W. McDonano
Jonx Mcllexny
Wotan Prict
James Dixon
Frep'x Scarey
Joan Kine
Norwalk
Huron
Commodore Lawrence
C Reed
Messrs. Standart, Wilbur
General Assembly
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