Newport Belle
Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, Sunday, 27 June 1858, page 3
INKLINGS
The ferry boat at the foot of Fifth street will ply regularly today and continue until a late hour in the evening. We also learn that the Newport Belle will make regular trips up the Licking to Ingleside every hour in the day. It is a pretty trip up the Licking.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, Friday, 6 January 1860, page 2
Capt. Mead of the ferryboat Newport Belle found a lady's bonnet on fine texture and a black lace veil on the wharf boat a few evenings back. Some think the fair owner drowned as shrieks were head on the wharf on the evening the articles were found, just after the ferryboat had its landing.
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Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, Thursday, 26 October 1860, page 2
CITY AND SUBURBAN
INCURSION UPON THE FERRY BOATS-Yesterday morning a man named Nelson made an incursion upon the ferry boats, robbing the office of the Newport Belle of $25 75, and the Cincinnati Belle of a package of papers of but little value to any body but the owners.
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Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, Sunday, 22 June 1861, page 2
NEWPORT NEWS
THE MILITARY COMING-We noticed yesterday that Captain James Brogan, of the ferry boat Newport Belle, was very busy fitting up his boat for the transportation of troops. He will leave with the Belle this morning at eight o'clock for Camp Clay for the purpose of bringing down to Cincinnati the First Kentucky Regiment, in command of Colonel Guthrie.
Each regiment is to be presented with a flag, which will be done by the Hon. Henry Stanberry, at No 140 Broadway at one o'clock.
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Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, Wednesday, 4 February 1863, page 3
ACCIDENT TO FERRY BOATS-There was but one boat running at the Scott street Ferry yesterday, and on at the Newport Ferry. The Newport Belle is laid up on account of her "doctor" breaking and the Covington had to haul off in consequence of a flat boat running against her rudder, breaking it.
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Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, Tuesday, 5 January 1864, page 3
NEWPORT NEWS
MISHAP TO THE NEWPORT BELLE-Yesterday morning about half-past six o'clock, the ferry boat Newport Belle, while crossing the river, encountered a large field of ice, which gorged around her wheels in such a manner that she could not move them. Being thus at the mercy of the current, the boat drifted down the river about three-quarters of a mile, but finally landed on the Ohio side. She was towed back to Newport by the steamer Windsor.
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Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, Thursday, 21 January 1864, page 3
NEWPORT NEWS
The Covington ferry boats being unable to carry anything but passengers at present, all the vehicles come to the Newport ferry to cross. The Newport Belle is taxed pretty severely to accommodate the throng.
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Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, Monday, 9 July 1866, page 2
NEWPORT
IMPROVEMENT-The ferryboat Newport Belle, has recently undergone extensive repairs, and comes out looking as bright and pretty as when new. Her cabin has been slightly remodeled, which is a decided improvement.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Tuesday, 26 November 1872, page 7
The ferry boat Newport Belle came out of dock on Saturday thoroughly repaired, repainted &c. and has resumed her trips. She is fully prepared for the ice.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Thursday, 24 September 1874, page 4
Yesterday morning about nine o'clock the officers found a man lying drunk in Goodall's stone yard, on Central avenue and conveyed him to the Ninth street Station, Newport. His name was found to be Jerry Cronin, a former collector on the "Newport Belle" plying between this port and our neighboring city. Jerry, well known in the old Thirteenth Ward as a stanch and constant Democrat, has been for some time engaged in the liquor business and was not shrewd enough to know when to stop.
After being conducted to the Station, where he was kept for some time, his condition became so serious that early in the evening he was carried to the Hospital. Here he soon became worse and in spite of careful treatment, fell into a fatal stupor, in which he died about 10 o'clock. The Coroner will hold an inquest this morning to settle the cause of a death about which there is little room for doubt according to the evidence already in.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Friday, 4 April 1879, page 5
BOYTON OUTDONE
Dietrich Bartleman's Two Mile Float in the Ohio River
Dietrich Bartleman, a grocer living on Elm street opposite Wade, had a most wonderful experience yesterday. Be it accident or attempted suicide the case is none the less astonishing in its details. When the Newport Ferry-boat "Newport Belle" left the Cincinnati side yesterday morning at six o'clock this man was seen to board her, but nobody knew who he was. he walked around on the guards of the ferry to the rear, where Captain Croin in collecting the fare found him.
"Its a cold morning" said Bartleman to the Captain. The latter went into the cabin and shut the door after him. He noticed that the man outside had followed him around to the side of the boat. Just as the Captain passed a window he looked through and saw Bartleman whirling into the river. He rang the pilot's bell but the pilot did not heed it because the boys in the cabin frequently ring it for mischief. the Captain then ran into the boiler room and shouted up to the pilot. "Man overboard". The ferry boat was stopped and allowed to swing around.
S Lambert, the clerk, ran out on the guards and saw the man floating rapidly down the river. Captain Croin threw out a life preserver, but too late to reach Bartleman, who was rapidly floating away. Joe Taylor, a deck hand on the ferry, and a man who did not give his name manned a boat and rowed down as far as the Suspension Bridge without being able to see any thing of the unfortunate fellow. Everyone gave him up for downed. Nothing further was heard of him until the afternoon, when it was learned he had been picked out of the river at the Southern Railroad Bridge, two miles and more below the point where he tumbled into the river.
Bartleman declares he fell overboard accidentally. But Captain Cronin says he jumped off. He left home yesterday morning telling his wife he intended to going back of Newport to collect a bill. Bartlemann declares he had no intention of committing suicide.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Thursday, 3 February 1881, page 7
The ferry boat Belle of Newport broke a wheel yesterday and laid up for repairs.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Sunday, 23 March 1884, page 1
The ferry boat Belle, which has been in service for a number of years, was purchased yesterday by Mr. S F Dunn, the coal man.