King Alfonso and Princess Mercedes fixed for February wedding
The weekly notes the marriage of King Alfonso to Princess Mercedes set for February 2. Other items include Slosson winning the second billiards game in New Orleans, and Stanley Matthews denying a Congress run.
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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's Death Reviewed
A dramatic account of Lincoln s assassination night and the jubilation after Lee s surrender in Washington. The piece recalls Cabinet meetings with Grant and Seward, reconstruction talks, and Lincoln s final exchange with Grant as the city celebrated peace.
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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
Little Health of Women and Miss Cobbe’s Conference
The article discusses Miss Frances Power Cobbe's conference and forthcoming paper on the petite sante or little health of women. It lists causes from restrictive dress to fatigue and urges reform by women’s rights advocates to improve fashion’s sanitary impact on British society.
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Frances Power Cobbe
Miss Cobbe
Punch
A Curious Case of Found Money in Rhode Island
A Rhode Island case centers on a finder of lost property with an unknown owner. The plaintiff sold an old safe to a defendant who kept the safe and used it, finding a roll of bank bills inside the lining. When no owner could be identified, the defendant kept the money. The plaintiff demanded the safe and the money’s value, and sued.
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Rhode Island
Right of Finder in Safe Possession Disputed
Authorities generally uphold the finder’s claim against all except the true owner when a safe is supplied for sale or custody, recognizing the finder’s right to retain the property unless ownership is proven.
Russian soldiers endure harsh march amid snow and grit
General Gourko’s brave Russians push through mountain passes in freezing conditions. An officer recalls a lone exhausted soldier with torn clothes and bleeding feet, whose resolve remains intact as he mutters a defiant line about loving his country.
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Gourko
Colorado Clippings Report Local Observations
Larimer county paid for 1220 hawks heads while smallpox declines in Bent county. Greeley ice measures a foot thick and expanding. Idaho hosts $200000 in property with $5000 encumbrance. The Miner praised Clear Creek county mines. Idaho Springs saw 2375 hot bath seekers 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 Schools Debar 87 Pupils Over Vaccination
Colorado Springs school authorities bar 87 children from public school privileges until they are vaccinated. Fort Collins pays 1.50 per ton more for coal from Boulder county than in Cheyenne. Articles of incorporation filed for the Longmont and Erie Railroad Company to build from Longmont to Erie via Rob Roy and Star coal mines with capital stock of 100 000 in shares of 100 each.
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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 Sioux Leave Red Cloud for the North
Dispatch from Red Cloud Agency reports twenty to thirty lodges of Northern Indians stampeding at night on January 10 moving toward Sitting Bull or possibly to Little Missouri or Tongue River to join a camp in that country. Spotted Tail quelled a revolt at Spotted Tail Agency after twelve insurgents challenged legal authorities. He shot two insurgents, the rest fled, and nothing further is known of the dispute.
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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 report from Fort Hall and surrounding region
Specie correspondence describes Major Hart and Major Bryant leading about 275 troops toward Fort Hall for a Bannock roundup Gen Smith to command. Shoshones from Camp Brown Agency hunt buffalo near Rattlesnake Wells while snow and cold bite roads south to Stam baugh Miner's Delight and the nation’s foot. Deer elk and mountain sheep populate the high country as Nuckolls’ Miner's Delight mine shows promise amid falling prices.
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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
The Griffin area hosts 1500 buffalo hunters this season with a four acre trough of hides drying and awaiting shipment. Hides fetch 1 to 1.60 dollars each and hunters use needle guns with telescopes, buying powder by the keg and making their own cartridges.
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Griffin
Ban nocks and Shoshones face military disarmament plan
Fort Hall troops prepare to dismount and disarm seven to eight hundred Bannock and Shoshone warriors to deter a spring outbreak, with orders to seize ponies and guns and to quell any obstreperous tribes amid a lava country stronghold near the Bannock reservation.
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Sheridan
Fort Hall
Col. Smith
Bannock Reservation
Buffalo hunting tactics and market meat value described
The account details lone or paired hunters killing large buffalo herds on small plots, the herd gathering to the carcass, and the use of concealment. It notes quick skinning skills by some, and that meat is saved and sold at good prices in markets.
Mexican Mustan Liniment Proclaimed Cure-All
An old advertisement extols MexicAN Mustang Liniment as a universal healer for humans and animals. It claims to banish all aches and pains from burns to sprains and cuts, praising its lifesaving and restorative powers for people and cattle.
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