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Tragic railway accident and assorted 19th century woes
Reports recount Mary Long cut in two by a train at Crestline on the 7th while an emigrant from Philadelphia to Chicago. An attempted assassination on Napoleon is noted for the 6th. Other items include a Sitka piracy-related policy, a Belleview mystery suicide, a brutal Cincinnati murder, a fatal sash factory boiler explosion in Philadelphia, a rumor of ex soldiers targeting Jefferson Davis, and related unrest abroad and at home.
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Mary Long
Philadelphia
Chicago
Crestline
Napoleon
Champ du Mars
Czar
Russia
Secretary of the Treasury
America
Sitka
Julia Wiershank
Belleview
Jackson County
Owa
Lilienthal
Cincinnati
Taylor
Ward & Geer
Sansom Street
Philadelpha
Pennsylvania
Jefferson Davis
New York
United States