The conductor of a freight train was killed when his freight train had eight cars run off the track and smash through the flooring of a bridge near Freemansburg in Northampton County in eastern Pennsylvania.  No other injuries were reported in the evening accident. (By John Osborne)

The morning meeting of series throughout the day called in Boston to commemorate the execution of John Brown ended in significant disorder and the police clearing and closing the Tremont Temple auditorium.  Scores of anti-abolitionists took control of the gathering, calling themselves "Unionists," and despite the protestations of speakers like Frederick Douglass, "passed" a series of resolutions condemning John Brown and advocating compromise with the South.  (By John Osborne)