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Infuriated at Loss of Favorite Pipe, Philadelphia Man Runs Wild

Seventy-Year-Old Fighter Holds 40 Policemen At Bay For Two Hours—Throws Tear Bombs Back At Officers—Finally Dies After Ten Bullet Wounds.

By The Associated Press.

Philadelphia. July 31—Riddled by ten bullets after he had held 40 policemen at bay for two hours in his home last night. Joseph Marino, nearly 70 years old, died early today. Marino became incensed at missing a favorite pipe, his wife said, and chased her to the street with a revolver, firing wildly.

He retreated as police arrived, and barricaded himself in a pool room in the basement of his house. With half a dozen weapons he kept up a rain of bullets at all who approached.

Posted inDaily News True Crime

Chicago Hotel Bandits Slain or Captured in Bloody Battle

HOTEL CLERK IS ALSO KILLED IN BOLD ROBBERY ON GOLD COAST

Death Penalty Will Be Asked by Crowe for Pair Captured After Spectacular Holdup.

CHICAGO, July 30.—(By The Associated Press.)—In movie thriller style, a robber crew, masked and bristling with pistols and shotguns, invaded the exclusive Drake hotel In Chicago’s “Gold Coast” at tea time yesterday, enacting scenes of killing and sanguinary gun fighting that extended subsequently for an hour over northside boulevards.

When the spectacular affair was over, of five robbers, two were dead and one captured; a hotel clerk had been killed; two women Imd been injured: two robbers had escaped with $10,000 and as a finality early today, one of the escaped holdup men was found and the one previously arrested confessed fully.

The robbery was staged within a stone’s throw of tho residential mansions of Chicago’s 400, while hundreds of guests thronged the lobbies and heavy traffic crowded adjacent Michigan Avenue. A dozen policemen were within call.

Posted inUS Civil War

July 28, 1862 – Latest by Evening Papers

The Tribune’s Washington dispatch says a German printer boy who has been a year getting from New Orleans via Richmond, where he was imprisoned three months, has arrived here.

He estimates the number of fighting men at Richmond at 70,000, and confirms the report that four divisions under Longstreet, Ewell, Hill and Jackson are stationed along the railroad from Staunton to Gordonsville, and at Louisa Court House, under Stonewall Jackson, numbering in all. in his opinion, 50,000 men: but it is improbable that these divisions average more than 12,000 after the severe fighting on the Chickahominy. Thirty thousand is probably nearer the number. Their pickets extend to New Market, and their course appears to be up the Shenandoah Valley.

A letter from Norfolk states that there have been several cases of yellow fever there.

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Freaky Storms Hit Many Points In New England

Two to 3-Inch Rainfall Within Few Hours—Strong Wind in Some Localities

Waterville Sewer Overloaded, Damage to Stocks in Basements—Old Orchard Amusement Booth Carried Away by Wind—Man Badly Hurt at Manchester, N. H.—Houses, Barns and Factories Hit by Lightning in Granite State

Waterville, Me., July 22—(AP)—Following several hours of heavy rain, the most severe thunderstorm of the season occurred here tonight, causing such a flood of water that the city sewers were overloaded and some of the store basements filled to a depth of several feet, damaging considerable stocks. Several hens were drowned in the western part of the city. Rainfall of 2.13 inches in three hours broke all local records.

Big Booth Carried Off

Old Orchard, Me., July 22— (AP)—A ten by forty foot amusement booth on the ocean pier here was picked up and hurled bodily into the water by the high wind during a severe thunderstorm today. Jack Bennett, the owner, was not in the booth at the time. His stock of curios, valued at several hundred dollars, was destroyed.

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July 21, 1862 – From Harrison’s Landing

Headquarters Army Potomac, July 18.—A flag of truce went up yesterday from Turkey Island Creek, having on board Gen. Dix, who went to meet Gen. Hill for the purpose of making a permanent arrangement for an exchange of prisoners. The interview was highly satisfactory, but no conclusion being arrived at, the flag of truce will return to-day, when Gen. Lee will be present. Richmond papers of to-day contain accounts of the death of Gen. Twiggs at Augusta, .July 15th.

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July 19, 1862 – Gen. Pope Occupies Gordonsville

GREAT SENSATION AMONG THE SECESH.

New York, July 18.—The New York Tribunes Washington dispatch states: We have advices from Warrenton to-day. The news has been received that Gen. Hatch occupied Gordonsville. This has created great consternation among the leading rebels in Warrenton, who had not the least idea that Gen. Pope would reach that point without a great battle. Index, many of them said, would be held at all hazards, and that no Yankee army would be allowed to take it.