The New York Herald Almanac and Financial, Commerical, and Political Register for (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... engineer killed and several passengers injured y a collision on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. near Harper's Ferry. The building of Mr. Tnrgon Ottawa, destroyed by fire, an a man named Bran: Carleton bnmed. Arrival of the Irish Rifle Team in this city. 5---John Msrrin and Wm. Norris, of Tarentum, Pa, drowned at Cape Mafi, N. J. Explosion of nitrolglycerine at He Gate; three men killed an others seriously wounded. 6-Inauguration of the Lafayette status at Union Square, N. Y. Last dag of the international rowing matches on tho chuglkill. 9-Thomas Moore stabbed an killed by Michael McCarthy, in this city. Mr_s. John Jacob Astor robbed 0 $1,600 worth oi' Jewelry at Newport, R. I. John Cunningham killed by a Harlem River freight train. John G. Belder commits suicide in hi_s city. l2--Two men killed by explosion of s locomotive boiler on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, near Frederick, Md. 13Mrs. Foster and daughter, of Canterbury, N. ll. killed big a locomotive while crossing the railroad at sst Concord, N. ll. i4--Conclusion of the Centennial International Rifle Match at Creedmoor. American team victorious by 22 points. 15--Yellow fever rages in Savannah. Presentstion of the Centennial trophy to the American Team at Gilmore's Garden, N. Y. 16-The hundredth anniversary of the battle oi' Harlem Plains, N. Y., celebrated. The boiler of a saw-mill explodes, at Nashville, Tenn., killing two men. 19--Mrs. Levi Hedge commits suicide in Lowell, Mass. Twenty-seven victims of yellow fever buried in Savannah, Ga. 20--End of the campaign against the Sioux. 21-Return rifle match between the Irish Team and American Team, at CX'8dlIi00l'; American Team victorious. J osggh and Terence Smith fall from a scaflold at 1 Clinton...