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    1. [IRISH-NYC] IA News NYC-US Oct. 3, 1857
    2. Irish-American October 3, 1857 News in New York A man named Hugh MASTERSON had his legs broken on Wednesday, by falling from a new building in Murray Street. He was taken to City Hospital. The store of Mr. LYONS, at Binghamton, N.Y., was catered by burglars a few nights since and robbed of $200 worth of goods. A man named James MORRISON was shot dead last week at a dance-house in Water Street, by the barkeeper, Richard MORRISEY, who is in custody. A man named John FEE, last week, fell from the 3rd story window of a house in Huron Street, Greenpoint, and was dangerously injured. He was conveyed to his residence in 53rd Street, New York. In the Circuit Court of Brooklyn last week, Mrs. Margaret MARSHALL got a verdict of $5,000 damages against the Kerosene Gas Light Co., for the loss of her husband, John MARSHALL, a machinist employed by Guy & Boardman, who was killed by the explosion of a retort at the company's works, at Newtown, on the 10th November. News Around the U.S. A man named Thomas BRODERICK, of Braintree, Mass., a few days ago, accidentally fell from a load of hay, fracturing his skull and causing death soon after. A man named Martin CROWLEY, in Belfast, Me., was killed lately by falling from a high scaffold, and striking his head against the wheel of an express wagon. Col. Samuel NEVERS, an old Revolutionary soldier, died at Sweden, Me., a few days since, at the age of 91 years. He was the first pioneer, having built the first log cabin in that town. Martin GLENN, an Irish laborer, who had been working on a gravel train on the Ohio and Mississippi railway, was run over by the cars, on the 10th Sept., in Storr's township, near Cincinnatti, and literally torn to pieces.

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