Prorogues and political notes reach across capitals
Cheyenne reports Parliament prorogued to December 19 and Grant meets French press. Baker to resign for Constantinople. Russian advances near Pleven. WCTU session ends in Chicago preparing October Baltimore gathering. Paris reporters interview Grant amid French politics. theatre stampede injures several at Niblo's Garden. Cleopatra's needle to stay in Fenet pending salvage suit.
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Womens’ Christian Temperance Union
Chicago
Baltimore
Grant
France
Niblo’s Garden
New York
Fenet
Telische
Pleyna
Pasha
Gourkha
Plevna
Todleben
Senator Mortons Counsel Urges Independence From Party Factions
The senator on his sickbed voices a strong plea for the president to act for the country rather than party interests. He argues that the president, bound by solemn oath and public welfare, should not be a mere tool of Congress or party, and that Republicans should respect principles over faction.
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Morton
Louisiana
Kellogg
Eustis
Senate
Friends of
Penn
Congress
House Committee On Public Lands
Morrison
Illinois
Fuller
Indiana
Gause
Arkansas
Clark
Missouri
Wright
Pennsylvania
Hewitt
Alabama
Smith
Georgia
Ketcham
New York
Pacheco
California
Sapp
Iowa
Welch
Nebraska
Kidder
Dakota
Japan
England
Russia
Corea
Randall
Pacific Railroads
War Claims Committees
Pacific Railroad Committee
Texas Pacific
Potter
Neyy
Sunday Chronicle
Cameron
J. Donald Cameron
Wayne McVeigh
Hartranft
McMichal
Curtin
Evarts
General Sherman Returns to Washington on Indian Question Study
General Sherman returns from a far West tour to study the Indian question and army needs on the frontier. He will report findings to the Secretary of War. Sherman favors frontier defender policy and believes the army should control Indian affairs, and he predicts no further disturbances in Oregon.
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General Sherman
Washington
Secretary of War
Sherman
Oregon
General Sherman on Chief Joseph and Nez Perces
General Sherman argues against releasing Chief Joseph and fellow captives. He praises Joseph as honorable but unsafe to free. He believes Miles's victory over Joseph would better conciliate Indians than treaties.
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Montana
Joseph
Nez Perces
Sherman
Miles
Ingalls Proposes Pension Arrears Grant Bill
Senator Ingalls of Kansas introduces a Senate bill to start pensions from death or discharge for service linked deaths or injuries since March 4 1861. It also provides an $8 monthly pension for Mexican War survivors including officers enlisted men militia and widows not remarried.
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Ingalls
Kansas
Senate
United States
United States Military and Naval Service
Vote Ban urged by Mississippi paper against black electorate
The Vicksburg Commercial warns Warren county's colored men against voting, urging support for the Democratic ticket. It claims "official robbery" and "law lessness" would return, arguing current peace and prosperity depend on white rule and warning of tax increases if negro rule returns.
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Bunty
Bunty’s Gulch
Vicksburg
Miss
Warren County
Edwards
Thomas
Sitting Bull Called Sioux Richelieu Not Chief or Warrior
The article argues Sitting Bull, though not a chief or warrior, holds greater influence over his people than any formal leader. It describes a multi-tribal camp of roughly two thousand, led by a head soldier Long Dog, with no single absolute chief. Sitting Bull is labeled a powerful medicine man whose counsel outweighs that of a cabinet minister.
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Sitting Bull
Napoleon
Richelieu
Long Dog
Siven Long Dog
Custer
the Land Office
Schurz
Telephone origin and the 1837 discovery described
A fragment notes that the telephone idea is not new and cites an 1837 discovery by an American physicist Page who described rapid magnetization and demagnetization of iron bars. The passage implies early groundwork behind modern communications technology.
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Page
Edison advances Bell's telephony toward faithful voice transmission
The article traces a lineage from De la Rive and Reis through Varley and Gray to Bell, crediting Bell with turning the device toward practical voice transmission and noting Mr. T. A. Edison of New York for further substantial improvements that reproduce the human voice with remarkable fidelity.
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de la Rive
Geneva
Phillip Reis
Frederickdorf
Cromwell Varley
Elisha Gray
Graham Bell
T. A. Edison
New York
Bell
Diaries of a Russian Siege Hero Reveals Bayazid Stand
The Moscow Gazette recounts a 3,000 strong Russian garrison’s defense of Bayazid fortress in Armenia against a 20,000 Turkish force. Journal excerpts describe besieging conditions, dwindling rations, brutal Kurdish atrocities, repeated surrenders, and a final relief by General Tergukassoff saving the defenders.
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Bayazid
Armenia
Moscow
Komaroff
Tergukassoff
Wedding of Baron Rothschild and Adele in Paris
A Paris ceremony united Baron Edmond Rothschild and his cousin Adele in a union described as a lavish wedding. The piece notes the Rothschilds historically debated intermarriage to curb degeneration, but records a modern match driven by affection and wealth.
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Edmond
Adele
Louisville Courier- Journal
Paris
Edmond Rothschild
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Weekly Leader
Leader Printing Company
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Salt Lake Tribune
Taylor
the Tribune
Tie
Trussia
Holland
Department of State
Hague
Asia Minor
Jaspin Duran
Fernandina
Fla
Straaker Randall
Seales
North Carolina
Boone
Kentucky
Tooker
Mississippi
Morgan
Throckmorton
Texas
Gunter
Beebe
Stewart
Minnesota
Fenn
Idaho
House Committee On Territories
Riddle
Fox
Turney
Jones
Muldrow
Morse
Massachusetts
Bagley
Reed
Maine
Aldrich
Neale
Ohio
Maginnis
Secretary of the Interior
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Wallula
Tacoma
Pend Dordilie Lake
Col. Grey
Jacobs
Washington Territory
General Land Office
Tue Committee On Privileges and Elections
Pinchback
Memphis
Gen. Pillow
Forrest
John Welsh
Philadelphia
Thomas Welsh
Buckner
Banking Committee
Buarye
Washingto
Augusta
Canpozo
South Carolina
Columbia
Kellogg and
Elections Committee
Stephens
Murreaur
Frost
Tits Paris Soliel
MacMahon
Alfonso
Madrid
Lima
Panama
Orton
Vassar College
President Barrios
Guatemala
Humos
Presipent McMahon
Gen. Grant
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