A patroling police officer discovered a fire at the Exchange Stables on East 24th Street in New York City about one thirty in the morning.  The building, which housed around two hundred horses, was burning fiercely when fire fighters arrived and police and local citizens struggled to released the trapped animals.  In the end, twenty-nine horses perished and police picked up stray horses all over their precinct the next day.  No human injuries were reported but the stable was completely burned out with damage costs estimated at $60,000.  (By John Osborne) 

Twenty-five year old Captain John S. Cady of the 8th Minnesota Regiment was killed during an encounter with Sioux raiders in Kandiyohi County.  The Sioux had stolen horses in Wright County, just fifty miles from St. Paul.  Cady and a small group of his men chased them across Wright and Meeker Counties before engaging them in a firefight.  Hit in the head by a single shot, Cady died almost immediately.  The Sioux escaped. (By John Osborne)   

Near Manville in Rush County, an Indiana deputy sheriff named Frank Stevens and two of his men were escorting the enrolling officer for the draft after various threats had been made on his life.  While the officer was visiting a house, Stevens was shot in ambush from a nearby cornfield and killed.  One of his men was also wounded.  The draft commissioner was forced to escape from the back of the house he was visiting.  Two men were later arrested and cavalry was dispatched to the county to help with enrollment. (By John Osborne)   

Francis Drexel, the seventy-year old retired founder of the powerful Philadelphia banking house, was returning to Philadelphia from a business trip to Pottsville when he fell beneath the wheels of the railroad car as he got down onto the platform.  His leg was severed and he died at his home later that night.  Born in Austria and trained as a portrait painter, Drexell's sons were carrying on the family business.  One son founded Drexell University and another was the father of Saint Katharine Drexell.  (By John Osborne)