hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
The Daily Dispatch: November 13, 1860., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: November 13, 1860., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Illinois Town (Missouri, United States) or search for Illinois Town (Missouri, United States) in all documents.

Your search returned 2 results in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: November 13, 1860., [Electronic resource], A political Rioter with a sword Blade in his back. (search)
A political Rioter with a sword Blade in his back. --During the election riot at Illinois-town, Ill., a man named John Denoar was stabbed in the back with a sword-cane.--The weapon was driven in about midway of the spinal column, and then broken off within about two inches of the body. It was found impossible to extract the weapon, and Denoar was conveyed from Illinois-town to the Health Office. A physician was called in, and endeavored to pull out the weapon with a small pair of foIllinois-town to the Health Office. A physician was called in, and endeavored to pull out the weapon with a small pair of forceps or pincers. He applied the pincers some half a dozen times, and pulled with all the strength he could command, but so firmly was the steel transfixed in the bone that the pincers invariably slipped off, and the "claws finally became injured in such a manner that the pincers were rendered useless. The Doctor endeavored to loosen the weapon in a variety of ways, but to no purpose. It had been driven in with so much force that it was even more strongly transfixed in the bone than a nail d