EVENTS IN THE NEWS The Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) December 31, 1828 Fire – The Salem Gazette of the 19th, says the Auburn Messenger, relates the alarming circumstance of a fire in the State prison; it originated (by accident as it is supposed) in the paint-shop, communicated to a pile of 400 cords of wood, and the shrieks of 600 confined men, threatened with suffocation and death, were awfully appalling; no prisoner however escaped, and the flames were subdued, after an estimated damage to the State of some $3000. [Submitted by Nancy Piper]

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