Desperados Hanged. Global Turmoil and Local Tensions
Six desperados were hanged at Little Rock on September 3. China and Britain loom in a possible clash, with Pekin officials accused of insolence toward the British envoy. In Louisville a priest transfer sparks excitement while Bishop McCloskey’s actions stir debate. George H. Smith, second LDS president, dies in Salt Lake City.
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Little Rock, Ark
Louisville
McCloskey
George H. Smith
Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints
Salt Lake City
Great Britain
China
Pekin
Self-inflicted death and election notes across states
A. C. Till, conductor and founder of the New York Philharmonic Society, shot himself in Paterson and died. Massachusetts census shows 15 percent population growth since 1870. Reports touch on California election results, postmaster changes, Judge Pottle’s voting case, and editor quarrels amid political critique.
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A. C. Till
New York Philharmonic Society
Paterson
Massachusetts
Salem
Newburyport
Clasping Hands Across a Bloody Chasm
D H Hill, editor of the Southern Home, predicts the fates of Lincoln Stanton Sumner Canby Stevens Blair and Johnson as retaliatory deaths and disabilities mark the end of Southern persecutors. Era of better feeling indeed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D.H. Hill
Southern Home
Lincoln
Stanton
Sumner
Canby
Thad Stevens
Senator Nye
General Blair
Andrew Johnson
South
Dayton Dispatch Reports Colonel Dawson Fatally Stabbed
William Dawson a former colonel of an Indiana regiment was stabbed in the abdomen by James Murphy at a wedding in Barlow's Hall. Murphy was arrested and about three hundred people gathered to lynch him but police halted the mob.
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Lee
Pottle
Bro. Rerick
Lagrange Standard
Earth
Dr. St. Clair
Syine
Dayton
Ohio
William Dawson
Indiana
James Murphy
Barlow’s Hall
Murphy
Dawson
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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
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