A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > New York > New York http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=708 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=44692 Submitted by: guest Article Title: New York Daily Times Article Date: October 7 1851 Article Description: News from Philadelphia, Charleston, Baltimore and Washington and local New York News Article Text: An Elglishman named Mallow was drowned in San Francisco Bay, his boat capsized, he was sailing with Captain Paine and a female who were rescured. ********************************************** W.H. McComb, Supercaro of the British barque William of Glasgow was accidently drowned in the harbor. His body was recovered and intered in the city cemetery. **************************************** Captain L. Denman went to San Francisco and disappeared. **************************************** In the town of Hamilton on Feather River a young man by the name of Daniels hung himself in prison with aleather string or rope cut from the legs of his boots. He has been acused and found gulty of stealing a small sum of money on a bar in the vicinity and requested to stand a trial in cour rather than receive the lashes which were his sentence. ******************************************* Trial of Christana Riesters, Philadelphia, Monday Oct 6, 1851. The U.S. Circuit Court have issued a special venue for 100 jurers to be drawn from Lancaster county to try Elijah Lewis and 37 other for treason against the U.S. The trial is set for November 4, 1851. ******************************************* Philadelphia Monday Oct 6, 1851, Edward yates, charged with abstracting a leter from the post office, and Wiliam Steller, for conterfeiting US coin, have had their trials postponed until November. ************************************* Charleston, Monday Oct 6, 1951, The Tuscaloosa Alabama Monitor of October 2, 1851 states that John Kirby, an old and respected man was shot in the court house there on Sept 30, 1851 in the court house. Kirby had indicted Frederick P. Hall for wounding him in April, and during the proceedings a quarrel ensured. Kirby drew a pistol which a bystander named Whitfield attempted to take from him and in the struggle it went off, passing through Kirby's thigh and causing almost instand death, the ball also penetrated Whitefield's leg but not seriously. Kirby's son spsing that Hall shot is father fired at him but missed him and hit a juryman in the leg. The judge ordered the Sheriff to arrest Hall when he surrendered and delivered up his pistol loaded. ***************************************** Baltimore, Saturday Oct 6, 1851, Richmond Thomas, an apprentice in The Richmond Dispatch office was stabbed and killed yesterday by another boy named William Dudlip, formerly of Baltimore, who escaped. They had a difficulty in the theater Saturday nite. ************************************** Baltimore, saturday Oct 6, 1851, Henry C. Clarke, a fugitive from New York, is in prison at New Orleans as a vagrant. ********************************** Washington, Monday Oct 6, 1851 At the final hearing, today Henry Ahua was held to bail in the sum of $1,000, to answer the charge in the December Term of the Criminal Court of lielling the wife of Major Tochman. ***************************************** Baltimore Monday Oct 6, 1851, James S. Beatty, an old and wealthy Baltimore merchant died here last nite. ***********************************************[ - br -]Baltimore, Monday, Oct 6, 1851, William Moran, and two others were drowned at Blackstone, Mass on Friday evening. There were in a chaise on the Railroad bridge, when by some accient they were overturned into the water, a distance of 75 feet and were drowned. ************************************ Mr. F. W. Rice, US Consul at Acapulco, had been detained at Panama, at the house of his father-in-law, Don Mariano Arosemona, by sever sickness. he was rapidly recovering his helth at last accounts. ************************************* John Hays and John Gilbert died on board the Tennessee on the passage from San Francisco to Panama. Baltimore ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NY-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com