Turkish Surrender Talks Rise Near Plevna Amid Balkan Turmoil
Russian reports claim Osman Pasha opened negotiations for Plevna surrender while Turkish prisoners may receive food aid. Constantinople orders 150000 civic guards to maintain order as Mehemet Ali struggles to marshal relief. Russians seize Etropel with light losses. Sofia indicates uneasy prospects on the Sophia road to Lovatz.
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Fustchuk
Danube
Osman Pasha
Plevna
Constantinople
Sofia
Mehemet Ali
Tur
Etropel
Marriage of Duke of Norfolk and Lady Flora Hastings
The marriage was solemnized on November 2 with British bishops from Southwark Nottingham and Port Louis confirming. The report notes a royal order about Cuban prisoner shootings and a new French ministry led by Rochebouet with Datilleu as finance minister.
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Duke of Norfolk
Flora Hastings
Chen
Southwark
Nottngham
Port Louis
New York Herald
Cuba
Martinez Campos
MacMahon
France
Grimaudet de Rochebouet
M. Datilleu
Financial Bureau
Guatemala
Ncaneen
Spain
Notable Deaths Sweep Through Political and Military Circles
Reports from Springfield and major cities note the deaths of several prominent figures. Juper Grorce Groywent, former congressman, dies at 91 in Massachusetts. Count Vor Wranerr, aged 93 and Prussian Field Marshal, passes away. Jons L. Pauyx, NY State University chancellor, dead. Stillsox Harcmrys of the St Louis Times and John Cockrell of the Cincinnati Enquirer, along with Joseph Pulitzer of St Louis, are cited in funeral notices. Bishop M. E. Marvin’s passing is reported. Future leadership changes include Hon. John B. Hawley poised to become Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Gen Garant hosted a dinner with French republicans in his honor, with Emile de Girardin and Left leaders in attendance.
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Juper Grorce Groywent
Springfield
Mass
Congress
Count Vor Wranerr
Prussia
Jons ¥. L. Pauyx
New York State University
Stillsox Harcmrys
St. Louis Times
John John Cockrell
The
Cincinnati Enquirer
Joseph Pulitzer
St. Louis
New York
M. E. Marvin
Methodist Episcopal Church South
John B. Hawley
Rock Island
Mr. McCormick
Treasury
Garant
Emile de Girardin
National issues and Grange events in concise dispatches
General Caxares warns U S authorities of armed Mexicans near the Rio Grande and urges enforcement of neutrality laws. The National Grange meets in Cincinnati and elects officers including Master Adams and Overseer Woodman. Also noted are Halifax fishery talks and a Desorse Galt settlement, Fort Leavenworth arrangements for Red Men, and a Deadwood to Bismarck ambush by Indians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caxares
United States
Texas
Rio Grande
United Stattes
Mexico
Tur National Grange
Cincinnati
Tax Fishery Commission
Halifax
Great Britain
Deforse
A. T. Galt
Kellogg
Omer Jostin
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Omaha
Black Hills
Deadwood
Bismarck
Bluffs
Tax National Grange
Mester
Adams
Minnesota
Woodman
Michigan
Mortimer
Houghan
Iowa
Symmes
Kansas
Forsythe
Illinois
McDowell
New York
Kelly
Louisville
Dinwiddie
Indiana
Ceres
Pomona
Flora
Moore
Hall
Financial Distress Across Banks and Firms Reported
Tat banking house W. W. Smith Hamburg Iowa assigned with $100600 debt and $45000 assets. Hannuwson Thompson Clark County Kentucky failed liable for about $275000. The Thord National Bank Chicago suspended toward liquidation and depositors to be paid in full. Funding Association of the United States formed with Hugh McCulloch J Pierpont Morgan Francis C French and Chas Lanier. Tax Central National Bank Chicago closed and to liquidate. Chicago elevators hold 1512274 bushels of grain up from last year’s 4716570.
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Tat Banking House
W. W. Smith
Hamburg
Iowa
Betr
Hannuwson
P. Thompson
Clark County
Tat Thord National Bank
Chicago
United States
Price & Co
Georgetown
Funding Association of the
Hugh McCuiloch
the Treasury
J. Pierpont Morgan
Drexel, Morgan & CC
Francis C. French
New York
Chas, Lanier
Winslow, Lanier & Co
Tax Central National Bank of Chicago
New Jersey Vote Totals and National Political Notes
The late New Jersey election shows McClellan the Democrat leading with 97 830 votes, Newell 85 120, and Greenback Hoxsey 4 588. McClellan’s majority stands at 6 737. Also noted are a Workingmen’s party concession meeting in Newark on December 25 and a Woman Suffrage Association compensation in Washington on January 8. Military and Senate actions on frontier protection and Louisiana matter are reported, with New York Secretary of State results showing Beach 399 001 for the Democrat.
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Thardial
New Jersey
McClellan
Newell
Hoxsey
Tempérance
Workingmen's Party of the
United States
Newark
N. J
Woman-Suffrage Association of
Washington
Gex
Suenman
House Committee On
Texas-Mexico
Senate Committee On Privileges and Elections
Spofford- Kellogg
Louisiana
Senate
New York
Beach
Housa
House
Secretary of the Treasury
Snows
Saisons
Amnery
Anne Domin
Treasury
Congress
Notable Local Crimes Almanac From The Period
A list of sensational crimes and scandals unfolds: Jaites Rotexnvny Hawxixs, 20, jailed for assault in Towrontown Maryland on Ida Schaeffer, 13, in April. Louis F. Theresson of New York, a church vestryman, charged with swindling widows and orphans of about 130000. Snairs, a South Carolina colored congressman, sentenced to three years. I. H. Joxns, a Boston wool broker, vanished leaving firms to remember him. Rosesr L. Case of Security Tire Insurance convicted for false insurance returns. five years. Grance Roper, negro, lynched at Columbia Tennessee.
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Jaites
Towrontown
Ida Schaeffer
Edboelgi
Louis F. Theresson
New York
Snairs
South Carolina
I. H. Joxzs
Boston
Rosesr L. Case
Security Tire Insurance Company
Grance Roper
Columbia, Tenn
Miners Die In Diamond Mine Collapse At Scranton
Two miners were crushed to death when the roof fell at the Diamond mine in Scranton Pennsylvania. The incident follows a string of maritime and industrial disasters reported, including the Strathroy loss in the Gulf of St Lawrence and fires in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
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Strathroy
Montreal
Dundee
Scotland
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Philadelphia
Ninth and
Chestnut Streets
Empire Plow Works
Pittsburgh
United States
Huron
Currituck
North Carolina
Fortress Monroe
Savannah
British Isles
Ramagate
Deal
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Rock Hill
D. C
James River
Lynchburg
Baltimore and Ohio
Harper's Ferry
Cumberland
Richmond
Laura Baxfox
James Murphy
Baltimore
C. H. Northam
New York
New Haven
Senate Discharges Privileges and Elections Committee
In Wepxys Bay on November 21 the Senate adopted Thurman’s resolution to discharge the Privileges and Elections Committee from further consideration of M. C. Butler’s credentials as South Carolina senator by a 36 29 vote aided by Florida’s Conover and absent South Carolina members. House debates Deficiency Act. Crittenden clash with Republicans over presidential policy and budget.
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Senate
Thurman
Committee On
M. C. Butler
Trreamspay
Yeas
South Carolina
Messrs. Davie
Minnois
Conover
Florida
Patterson
Carolina
South
Edmunds
Aoay
Louisianana
Sneeg
Wheeler
Senate Parley and House Action in November Session
The Senate held a long session with repeated Republican adjournment attempts blocked by Democrats. The Thurman resolution passed 28 to 27 as the day ended. The House heard Morrison on currency and considered bills on franking, pensions, saloon taxes, and territorial representation.
The Great Ex-Mac of the Event Ends His Life
Chicago mourns William P. Coolbaugh once a leading banker and political figure born in 1821 in Pike County. He built wealth, led unions in banking and acted as president of Coolbaugh & Co and Union National Bank, shaping Iowa and Illinois finance and policy.
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Chicago
William P
Instituti
Lily
Pike County
Burlington
Iowa
Coolbaugh & Brooks
Coolbaugh & Co
Union National Bank
Glearing-House
National Bankers’ Association For
West
Southwest
Coolbaugh
General Assembly
Illinois
Baltimore
Iowa Senate
Cincinnati
Buchanan
Breckinridge
Lincoln
United States Senate
Tilden
Treasury
Immortal Speech via Mechanical Recording Invention
An early Scientific American note describes a mechanical speech recorder using vibrating plates and indented paper. Voices are captured on slips, then reproduced audibly long after. The piece imagines future uses for letters, books, music, and public speaking with this device.
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Scientific American
Seein Tee
T. Ce Orator
Boston
San Francisco
Mechanical workers trade barbs in a noisy kitchen chorus
A cartoonish dialogue unfolds among a carpet a stove a pipe and tools about wear and injuries. The tack hammer boasts a busy year while the others recount scraps of skin nails and knees, ending with a wheezy mop swooning in delight.
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Turlii Ton Hawk
How Piute Medicine Man Is Chosen After Death
The article explains a Piute ritual where all adults gather and draw stones from a sack to elect the successor to a deceased medicine man or woman. Each person draws a pebble. the holder of the black stone becomes the new doctor. the elected individual must qualify in the role, with greater effort improving standing.
President defends appointments and cabinet choices in transcribed remarks
The article recounts a President defending nominations including Fitzsimmons as Marshal of Georgia and Hilliard as minister, noting Senate power to reject, plus remarks on South representation and peaceful policy. It also describes a mining disaster with fatalities and injured workers at a shaft near the town, detailing rescues and the emotional aftermath.
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Midison
Washington Telegram
Preckisah
Cottesn Sinekian
Jim
Senate
Fitzsimmons
Georgia
United States
Hilliard
South
Brave Denver Boy's Long Trek Back from the Black Hills
A 13 year old boy from Denver rode alone with his pony over 300 miles to find his father in the Black Hills. His father kept the pony, sold it, and the boy, now without support, wanders the camps to earn money by herding horses on the Spearfish in danger from Indian raids. He hopes to buy back his pony and return home before winter.
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Morton
Throckmorton
Earl of Throckmorton
Queen Elizabeth
Yellowstone
Northern Pacific Railroad
Turopoort Roosevelt
New York
United States
Coburn
Maine
Wilson Waddingham
Canadian River
New Mexico
Denver
Col
Black Hills
Deadwood
New York Graphic
Train Becomes Witness in Court Skit at Inquiries
George Francis Train testified, waved off the Bible when asked to affirm, and quipped about his occupation. He described himself as a “bummer and loafer” with no fixed trade, and said he had traveled as a merchant, builder, lecturer, painter, and author. The exchange elicited great laughter as Col. Scovel questioned him about residence and insanity charges tied to his presidential bid.
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Train
Col. Scovel
Madison Square
New
New York Sun
Daniel and Scythes in Salisbury Family Dispute
During a college vacation Daniel and his brother return to their father in Salisbury. The father orders them to mow to repay education costs. Daniel struggles with a faulty scythe, fix attempts fail, and in frustration the father tells him to hang it as he wishes. Daniel then hangs the tool on the next tree and retires.
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Daniel
Salisbury
Dan
Seven Years a Military Prisoner Escapes to France
Lieutenant Lebran of the French artillery, held seven years as a prisoner in Germany, has escaped and reached France. Captured at Sion he was interned at Strasbourg after the armistice signed. He reportedly slapped a German officer in a cafe and was condemned to ten years. he traveled via Austria Italy to Genoa before reaching Marseilles.
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Lebran
Germany
France
Sion
Strasbourg
Marseilles
Austria
Italy
Genoa
Canada prints largest cheese on record at Ingerson factory
The Ing ersoll factory produced a cheese weighing 7 000 pounds with a diameter of 1 foot 10 inches and a circumference of 21 feet. It required 7 000 cows yielding 35 tons of milk to make. Meanwhile a French study links wine spoilage to alkaline glass bottles.
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Canada
Ingersoll
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters Endorsed For Indigestion Relief
An old advertisement extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a prompt anti dyspeptic tonic easing indigestion with heart palpitations vertigo and nausea. It claims to regulate digestion and protect against fevers while boosting vitality. Also touts Doory's Yeast Powder for biscuits and hints at financial morals.
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Hostetter
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