At around ten o'clock in the evening, near the railroad depot in Rockford, Illinois, a fire broke out in an agricultural machinery factory's paint shop and quickly spread to neighboring concerns.  After three hours, a stone built building slowed the flames enough for firefighters to get it under control.  Scores of reapers were lost in their warehouse and other merchants had heavy losses, including 20,000 bushels of grain and hundreds of barrels of pickled cabbage.  No-one was reported as seriously injured, however.  (By John Osborne) 

James Tracy Hale was a lawyer and state judge born in Towanda, Pennsylvania and practicing in Bellefonte in Centre County.  He had served in the United States Congress as a Republican throughout the Civil War, in the the 36th, 37th, and 38th Congress.  He had just recently returned to Bellefonte from Washington after not seeking re-election when he died of typhoid fever at his home after a short illness.  Buried in the Union Cemetery in Bellefonte, he was fifty-four years old. (By John Osborne) 

While almost the whole town of Morris, Illinois was celebrating on the streets the news of General Lee's surrender in Virginia, several miscreants were taking to the opportunity of make an attempt to rob the local bank.  The bank's cashier reported later that the substantial safe in the Grundy County Bank resisted their efforts.  The would-be robbers, reportedly, only succeeded in breaking a handle on the safe before giving up and fleeing.  No arrest were made immediately.  (By John Osborne) 

A morning fire broke out at the Waterbury Machine Works in Waterbury, Connecticut.  The entire factory was destroyed in the next few hours, with damage estimated at around $50,000.  The neighboring Spectacle Company's workshops were also damaged when the fire spread although most property there was saved.  (By John Osborne)