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    1. [IRISH-NYC] IA News NYC Aug. 22, 1857
    2. Irish-American August 22, 1857 News from New York A man named Patrick DRISCOLL was found drowned in the Canal at Buffalo last week. On the 1st inst., a gentleman named CHAPEL, put up at the Mansion House in Buffalo, and was soon after found dead in his room. A dispute occurred last week at Cold Spring, NY, between a man named Michael TALLEN and his brother-in-law, John McKEARN, in which the latter was shot, as is supposed fatally. Two lads, sons of Mr. MAYHAR, a liquor merchant, of Albany, and Mr. FLYNN were drowned in the river on Thursday afternoon of last week, while bathing. Mr. LAIOURETTE has been held to bail to appear at the next Criminal Court of Richmond County, on the charge of being concerned in the attack on the new quarantine buildings at Seguine's Point. News from Other Areas At St. Louis, on the morning of Sunday week, a man named John McCANN was run over by a train on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, and instantly killed. Mrs. Margaret STEPHENSON, of Pittsburgh, Pa., poisoned herself last week, in consequence of a quarrel with her husband. They had only been married a few months. An affray occurred in Baltimore on the night of the 1st inst., when a man named Thomas CONNERY was badly cut with a knife by Lewis SHERMAN. Next morning, CONNERY shot SHERMAN with a gun, inflicting, as is supposed, mortal wounds. In Camden, N.J. on the evening of the 3rd inst., D.W. BELIALE, editor of the Journal, shot Charles D. HINELINE, formerly editor of the Democrat. The attack was made by the latter, who charged BELIALE with the authorship of an article in a Sunday paper. The wound is not dangerous.

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