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THE FENIaAN CONSPIRACY

... arrest in connection with the Fenian conspiracy was made at Qaeenstown, on Friday night, the person captured being George Francis Train. The circumstances under which the capture was made would appear to Oe these : — About ten or half-past ten o'clock ...

Published: Wednesday 22 January 1868
Newspaper: Blackburn Standard
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1221 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

foreign antJ Colonial

... England. Twenty-five vessels to be sunk at tb* entrance of Southern bar boors, have sailed, laden with stones. Mr. George Francis Train hm addressed a letter from London, to the New York Herald, declaring tbat numbers of vessels are fitting oot with ammuni- ...

Published: Wednesday 11 December 1861
Newspaper: Blackburn Standard
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1125 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

GLEANINGS FROM THE COMIC. PAPERS

... freely, yet tbey are, to a man, money-grubbers. Off the Rails.—The American papers report that our old friend Mr. George Francis Train has become a lunatic, and he is to have a guardian appointed. The information,* except so far ss regards the appointment ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1872
Newspaper: Blackburn Standard
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1376 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

«_..G. F. TRAIN IN PRISON

... «_. G. F. TRAIN IN PRISON. George Francis Train and Johu Wesley Nichols were arrested late on Wednesday afternoon on a charge of publishing an obscene and blasp'iemoua sheet called the Train Ligue. Mr. Anthony J. Comstook, who was instrumental in suppressing ...

Published: Wednesday 08 January 1873
Newspaper: Blackburn Standard
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1564 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NOTES AND QUERIES

... In answer to Peter Simple tramways in the form with which we are accustomed to see tbem are ?? attributed to Mr. George Francis Train, an American, wbo visited this country some twenty years ago, and wbo created a stir on the other side of the Atlantic ...

Published: Saturday 20 August 1887
Newspaper: Blackburn Standard
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2021 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

--Htetgii ami Colonial

... similar action ie to be taken throughout tbe principal cities. On the evening of the 19th inst., by specisl invitation, George Francis Train lectured before tbe remans in Philadelphia. His speech wss highly inflammatory, and gros-ly vituperative towards the ...

Published: Wednesday 08 November 1865
Newspaper: Blackburn Standard
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2288 | Page: 2 | Tags: none