Marriage of Alfonso and Mercedes fixed for February
The weekly leader reports the royal marriage set for February 2 between King Alfonso and Princess Mercedes. Other items include billiards results in New Orleans, Stanley Matthews denying a run for Congress, the arrival of the schooner April in Rio Janeiro, and political and international news from Ottawa, London, and Paris.
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Alfonso
Mercedes
New Orleans
Slosson
Daly
Stanley Matthews
Congress
Rio Janeiro
New York
San Francisco
House of Representatives
Polk
Assassination Night and Lincoln Cabinet Meeting Recalled
A detailed reminiscence describes Washington celebrations after Lee surrender and Lincoln Grant cabinet meeting. It includes William Seward's illness, reconstruction talks, and Lincoln’s final moments with Grant before a theater celebration. A postscript notes Senator Conkling's college boxing tale.
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Lee
Capitol
Washington
Lincoln
Grant
Appomattox
Frederick W. Seward
William TH. Seward
White House
General Grant
Gideon Welles
Stanton
Virginia
Sherman
Frederic Bruce
Fred
President Lincoln
E. E. Briggs
Oliva
The Little Health of Women Review
A Punch summary on Frances Power Cobbe and a conference about the Little Health of Women. It critiques fashionable illness in society, listing causes such as tight lacing, high heels, and improper dress, and calls for reform by women’s rights advocates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Power Cobbe
Miss Cobbe
Punch
Curious Case of Lost Property Rights in Rhode Island
A Rhode Island case involves a finder of a lost safe with unknown ownership. The defendant accepted the safe for use and later discovered a roll of bank bills inside the lining. With no known owner, he kept the money, returned the safe without the bills, and the plaintiff sued for the value of the found money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhode Island
Rights of Finder Against Possessor for Safes for Sale
Legal note states finders generally retain claim to property from someone who holds it for sale, opposing all claimants except the true owner, under customary principles governing possession and recovery of found goods.
Brave Russian Soldier’s Bitterness in Snowbound March
An officer recalls a lone Russian fighter during a winter trek who, despite tattered clothes and bleeding feet, clung to duty and muttered that he would never love another country. The anecdote links harsh mountain crossings to the resolve of soldiers on both sides.
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Gourko
New York Society For the Suppression of Vice
Virginia
Nevada
Virginia City
John
United States
W. E. Chandler
New Hampshire
Hayes
Cincinnati
Colorado Clippings Report Local Color and Notable Facts
Larimer county paid for 1220 hawks heads while smallpox cases decline in Bent county. Greeley ice grows to a foot thick. Idaho property valued at 200000 with 5000 encumbrances max. Miner reviews Clear Creek county mines. Idaho Springs saw 2375 hot baths last year. A New Year catamount was killed seven miles from Greeley.
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Larimer County
Bent County
Greeley
Idaho
Clear Creek County
Idaho Springs
Colorado Springs Debars 87 Students From School Access
Colorado Springs authorities bar 87 children from public school privileges until they receive vaccinations. Fort Collins pays $1.50 more per ton for coal from Boulder County than Cheyenne, 45 miles farther away. Articles of incorporation filed for Longmont and Erie Railroad to build from Longmont to Erie via Rob Roy and Star coal mines with $100,000 capital.
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Colorado Springs
The
Express
Fort Collins
Boulder County
Cheyenne
Longmont and Erie Railroad Company
Longmont
Erie
Rob Roy and
Star
Departing Devils and Spotted Tail Quell Sioux Agency Turmoil
A dispatch from Red Cloud Agency reports twenty to thirty Northern lodges stampeded on the night of the 10th, likely heading toward Sitting Bull or the Little Missouri. In Yankton, twelve insurgents at Spotted Tail Agency revolted, Spotted Tail killed two, the rest fled, and the cause remains unclear.
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Washington
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
James Irwin
Red Cloud Agency
Sitting Bull
Little Missouri
Tongue River
Spotted Tail
Yankton
Western Warriors Specie Correspondence From The Leader
News from Fort Hall expected this week as Major Hart and Major Bryant with 275 troops prepare for a Bannock round up under Gen. Smith. Shoshones at Camp Brown Agency hunt buffalo, snow depth varies along routes, and wildlife dries up the mountains with deer elk and mountain sheep. Miner’s Delight mine at deeper veins shows better prospects while Wyoming weather remains cold and bright in Mormondom. Ranger
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U'ran
Fort Hall
Hart
Smith
14Th Infantry
Bryant
Fifth Cavalry
Camp Brown
Rattlesnake Wills
Wyoming
Green River
Camps Stambaugh
Brown
South Pass City
Stambaugh
Miner’s Delight
Mormondom
Ranger
Slaughtering the Buffalo in Texas at Griffin
The Griffin area hosts about 1,500 buffalo hunters this season. A four acre hide yard near Griffin stores hides worth 1 to 1.60 dollars each for shipment. Hunters use needle guns with telescopes, buy powder by the keg, and load their own cartridges as part of regular business.
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Griffin
Ban nocks and ShoShones face disarmament plan
Gen Sheridan orders troops to Fort Hall to dismount and disarm seven to eight hundred Bannock and Shoshone warriors to prevent spring war paths. Troops will also bar any ponies or guns to malcontents and monitor possible unrest near the Bannock reservation.
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Sheridan
Fort Hall
Col. Smith
Bannock Reservation
Buffalo Hunting Methods and Meat Trade Described
The account notes hunters working with one or two men kill large buffalo herds on small plots. After the first kill the herd gathers, sniffing and pawing the ground, while one hunter shoots until concealed. The rest peel and skin the carcasses, with some claiming skill to skin a young bull in minutes. Meat is saved and sold at market for a good price.
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Tom London Times
Adrianople
England
India
Malta
Russia
New York
Lord Hicks
Agotz
Henrietta Duhrkoop
St. Louis
Gov. McClellan
Trenton
N. J
Philadelphia
Little Mac
Clara
San Francisco
California
Grand Duke MenHonas
Porte
Stettin
MexicAN Mustang Liniment Praised As Universal Healer
An old advertisement extols MexicAN Musta ng Liniment as a universal cure-all for wounds burns sprains and pains claiming it has saved many human and animal lives and restored livestock to usefulness and profit.
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Dillon
Globe and Cunningham
Globe and Globe-Democrat
Brighamt Young
Preeze’s Bank
Novick
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Constantinople
Turkey
St. Petersburg
Gov
Ronsinson
New Haven
Conn
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Germany
Sony
Caribbean Sea
Ward H. Lamoa
Ilinois
Chandler
Pall Mall Gazette
Paris
Isabella
Spain
France
Don Carlos
Supreme Court
Senator Conkling
Colorado
Devils
Red Cloud
North
Old Spotted Tail
Fort Halls
Texas
Bannocks
Estelle
Bristol
R. I
Lambert
Victor Emmanuel
Dennis
Maryland
Baltimore Gazette
Montgomery Blair
Kentucky
Republican Party
Ferrol
Angelia
Iowa
Allison
Dublin
Ilayues
Hampton
Senate
South Carolina
Patterson
Judah P. Benjamin
Bank of England
Sultan
Levant
Devastation
Achilles
Alexandria
Raleigh
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