Numerous deaths and crimes mount in Midwest and West
A broad roundup of suicides murders and disasters includes Marlburg Bros. tobacco heir Louis Marlburg's suicide in Baltimore, a snow slide burying three near Franktown, a Wisconsin marriage ending in a husband’s suicide, and multiple liquor and love tragedy reports across Michigan Iowa and Illinois. The piece also notes political reforms in Maryland and Philadelphia election results with shifts in council majorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herald Fund For the Relief of Ireland
Louis Marlburg
Marlburg Bros
Baltimore
Franktown
Virgina City
Nev
Frank Wann
Elk Grove
Wis
Maryland
Theodore Nelson
East Saginaw
Mich
J. O'Reilly
Louisville
Dallas
Texas
Cyrus T. Hawley
Milwaukee
C. M. Beecher, Jr
C. M. Beecher
Elmira
Indiana News: Murders, Pardons and Fire Losses Across State
Reports from Indianapolis and towns across Indiana recount two murders weekly, a schoolteacher badly injured in Marion county, and a series of incidents from a Ter Reade hub factory fire in Terre Haute to shipyard hopes in New Albany. Other items include pardons for a forgery convict, mining prospecting in Lawrence county, a deadly fall from a train near Palmer, a pocket-picking case in Kokomo, libel suit settlements, and a canal area gas fire in New Albany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
George C. Davison
Marion Township
Shelby County
Bassett
Indiana
Iowa
Keys & Sykes
Terre Haute
Frank Sibley
New Albany
St. Louis
New Orleans
Williams
James M. Crandell
Henry
Crandall
George Hazzard
Wmn. Boyd
Indian Creek
Lawrence County
Coury
G. W. Hensley
Palmer
Frank Springer
Kokomo
Springer
John Carter
Vincennes Sun
Muncie
McCrillis
Coombs
Fort Wayne
Lucinda Fuller
Superior
Cannelton
Gabriel Schmuck
Supreme Court
Adam Ketzner
Milltown
Crawford County
Blue River
Whitemei’s Dam
Vintox
Lafayette
Tippecanoe County
Richard H. Goodman
Vinton
Centra
Explosion Destroys Cistern After Firework Mishap In Street
A firework ignited escaping gas in an open cistern causing a large explosion. Boys Max Palmer and John Brown were blown over telegraph wires, burned, and fell into the cistern. The street and nearby houses suffered severe damage and excitement prevailed while residents sought safety. Palmer injured but recovering. Brown severely burned but not fatally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max
Palmer
Oll
John Brown
Pahner
Brown
Miss Sims Estate Suit Sets Guardian Accounting Precedent
Judge Choate in the United States Circuit Court ordered C DeRossett Lamar to account for Miss Sims’s guardian funds and dismissed Lamar’s cross suit against Mrs Micon. The ruling held Lamar must replenish Miss Sims’s estate from 1856 onward, with interest, despite wartime allegiance issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Choate
United States Circuit Court
Southern States
Ann C. Sims
Alabama
United States Supreme Court
Gazzaway B. Lamar
Georgia
Miss Sims
Lamar
United States Circuit
Hhis
Richmond County
Lamer
Mr. Lamar
United States
Richmond
Confederate States
Simms
Benjamin H. Micon
Simmas
Montgomery County
Ala
Mgr
Micon
New York
C. DeRossett Lamar
How Sam Houston Happened to go to Texas
During his stay in the Cherokee nation west of Arkansas Sam Houston lived with a daughter of an old settler. The article describes the circumstances that led the future general to move toward Texas and his early residence near Fort Smith Arkansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Houston
Texas
Fort Smith
Ark
Cherokee Nation
Arkansas
Captain John Rogers the White Indian Trader Follows Texas Move
Captain John Rogers, an Indian merchant near Fort Gibson, lived with liquor and Indian dress two years. After a sobering episode he vowed to join Texas with John Henry, casting off his attire and embracing a white man’s life to seek fortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Rogers
Fort Gibson
Tennessee
Texas
Mexico
Houston
Grand River
John Henry
Henry
Henry Clay At His First Congressional Address
A Boston crowd gathered to hear Henry Clay in the open air. Jim Burnim, Clay’s foe, interrupted with insults and kisses for Clay’s remarks. Clay finally retorted with a cruel ancient-curse line, promising fiery justice to Burnim at judgment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Clay
Congress
Jim Burnim
Clay
Barnim
Burnim
Has
Mr. Burnim
Hell
Satan
Cro
Cavik
Betsy the Drunken Elephant Night in New York Sun
An Elephant Man recalls Betsy the elephant in Indiana and New York stories of heavy drinking. Betsy drinks whiskey with Long John as tavern staff react with astonishment while elephants show drunken behavior and gentleness toward drunken men. Long John taunts Sultan or Canada as an elephant sways and laughs, showing restraint toward humans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Betsy
Lndiana
Long John
John
Sultan
Canada
Cannon donations for monuments reveal dwindling bronze supply
The War Department reports on condemned cannon donated for monuments from 1868 onward. Bronze cannons total 512,739 pounds with value $111,345. iron 307,084 pounds. By 1879 bronze left 268 and iron 250, while calls persist for 120 more guns for projects including the Lincoln memorial and Gettysburg battle memorial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Lincolnn
Gettysburg
Battfield Memorial Association
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Sullivan Union
J. A. Hays
Sullivan
Odds and
Sy. Petersburg
Russia
Tas
Germany
Ylma
Avrolomna
Michigan
Kansas
Gare
Missouri
Austria
Paris
Ireland
Pearth
Jennie Sumrrh
Emma Abbott
Little Pittsburg
Father de Smet
Black Hills
Jacos Dingledine
Cardinal
Krupp
American Association of Amateur Poets
Chicago
Belper
England
Resin
Cariotte A. Scott
Girton College
Cambridge
Louise
Henry Carstairs Pelly
Bart
Algernon Langham
Maine
Pine Tree
Des Mores
Henry Osporn
F. H. Bowen
Sand Springs
Delaware County
House
Ogde
Itul
Finney
Ogden
Philadelphi
Select Council
Common Council
San Francisco Bulletin
Mapbrip
Andalusia
Madrid
United States District Court
Will Hammond
Pete McCartney
Secret Service
Hammond
Driggs
Boyd
McCartney
Arthur Twist
Logansville
Illinois
Baraboo
Stallman & Hudson
James Davis
Hebron
Ixy
Ifo’cock
Montreal
Can
McGrunicruppy
Pine Ridge Agency
Red Cloud
Ile
Sitting Bull
Canadian Commissioner of Fisheries
Jefferson
Linde
Cass County
Clarke
Garry
Princetown
Ill
A. D. Garvin
Knox County
Mary F. Morris
Columbia City
Indiana State News
Miss Sims’ Fortune
Boston Traveller
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!