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    1. [IRISH-NYC] IA News US Sept. 12, 1857
    2. Irish-American September 12, 1857 News around the US Miss Mary CRAWLEY, of Worcester, Mass., lost her life a few days since by the busting of a can of fluid from which she was pouring some on a fire for the purpose of quickening it. A man named James CORRIGAN died in Hoboken, N.J., on the 31st ult., from the effects of a beating which he received on the previous Wednesday, from one Patrick SCULLION. The latter has been arrested. Hughey HUXFORD, a soldier in the war of the Revolution, died in Baltimore, on the 31st ult., at the advanced age of 101 years. He served under Gen. WARREN at Bunker Hill, and was also at the Battle of Lexington. Mr. John McKENNA, whilst walking in the street, in Baltimore, with his wife, on Sunday week, was fired at by a man named James CLAZEY. The ball entered his neck, inflicting a dangerous wound. The assailant was arrested and locked up. The mail train from Dayton for Sandusky, ran off the track near Castalla, and the engine and baggage car went over an embankment. Henry ROSS, the baggage master, David CASSETT, train boy, and Mr. KUNKLE, the editor of a Sandusky newspaper, were instantly killed and two or three other persons injured.

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