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Fights Dozen Men

Drink Crazed Indian Even Then Succeeds in Kicking One Man Through Windshield of Auto

Lowville, N. Y., Dec. 27.—Bootleg whiskey was the indirect cause of four hours of darkness in this village last night.

Earlier in the evening a young Indian, Paul Arlette, who is alleged to have been In a frenzied condition because of holiday potations, entered an Ice cream store in the neighboring village of Naumberg and threatening to kill all the customers with a knife. He was subdued and bound with ropes only after 12 men had joined In the fray.

Posted inUS Civil War

December 27, 1861 – Wretched Charleston!

It will be remembered that at about the time that the secession movement began, many of the property owners in Charleston, as in other Southern cities, who had been in the habit of insuring against fire in the Northern insurance companies, withdrew their risks from these offices with much insolence and parade, and transferred them to local organizations. Most of the latter have suspended while all tho others now are bankrupted, so that utter ruin must fall on those whose property has by this calamity been destroyed.

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December 26, 1861 – From the Upper Potomac

The Rebels Try to Destroy Dam No. 6.

WILLIAMSPORT, MD., Dec. 20.—Affairs in and around this vicinity are quiet, though we expect to have an exchange of shots with the enemy at Dam No. 5 and Falling Waters. Gen. Jackson’s (rebel) battery is at the former place, including a 12-pounder rifled gun, and the enemy have been at work endeavoring to destroy tho dam there, which now seems to bo the principal object of their demonstrations. Their firing is returned by two Parrott guns belonging to Knapp’s Pennsylvania battery.

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Coolidges Take Part in Christmas Eve Ceremonies

Washington, Dec. 24—The angels’ song at Bethlehem was carolled tonight from the White House to a nation at peace with the world and with good will toward men.

The chief executive of the nation and the first lady of the land joined with a white-vested choir and with thousands who thronged tho White House grounds in observance of another Christmas.

Posted inLocal Histories True Crime

Fight Over Lingerie May End in Death

A battle over a pair of silk bloomers and the mistaking of a uniformed bus driver for a police officer may cost the life of Harriet Wallace, 24, a saleswoman, living at 605 Van Buren St.

The woman leaped from the third floor of apartment 25, 229 Van Buren St., Wednesday, 3:30 a. m., landing on a picket fence 30 feet below. Physicians in Emergency hospital stated she had suffered a fractured leg, a broken nose, numerous contusions and abrasions and possible internal injuries and pronounced her condition grave at noon Wednesday.

A report at police headquarters tells the following story: