General Sheridan and family mourn loss at Nonquitt
The long-time Civil War hero General Sheridan and his wife Misa Trene Rucker face sorrow after illnesses and frequent health scares. The couple, living at Nonquitt, raised children who attend the Academy of the Visitation. Washington society recalls his simple, neighborly hospitality and recent appearances, including a Green Parlor reception and a peg-in-brief gathering with the Palmers.
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Lepoe
Misa Trene Rucker
Genera Rucker
C.S. A
St. Louis
Sulla
Nonquitt
Academy of the Visitation
Connecticut Avenue
Sheridan
Green
Jacent
Blue
White House
Washington
General Sheridan
Wick
Palmer
Women's International Congress
Boy Attacked by a Wolf Near Centerville Sheep Losses Rise
North of town farmers report wolves and a cub killed lambs over two weeks. Henry Kinley’s son escaped a mother wolf after a cub bit the boy’s courage and a tree saved him. A posse gathers, wolves suspected to have strayed from Michigan pineries or from a settler’s loose stock.
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Henry Kinley
Kinley
Kin
Pineries
Michigan
Wharton
Kansas
Annexation Move in Africa Sparks British Debate
The article reports on a proposed transfer of control over a vast African region by royal decree to a company empowered to levy taxes and maintain an armed force. It notes opposition from leading journals, concerns of unknown rights and governance, and potential impacts on trade routes from Zanzibar to the equatorial lakes. The Sultan of Zanzibar has reportedly given consent, framing a plan tied to routes and hunting grounds while provoking questions about motives behind the enterprise.
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New York
Arto
Perteles
Germany
England
Bultan
Zanzibar
Zanzibar, Seaboard
Great Equatorial Lakes
Quenton
The Wett-Bred Girl and Equal Rights Debate in Boston
A fragment from a Boston Courier piece contrasts a socially restrictive woman with broader debates on gender. It cites a speaker's view of unequal upbringing, noting boys forced into work early while girls remain sheltered, and warns about precociousness and home instincts.
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Fiske
Kennan reports Siberia exile system prison conditions
The Century Magazine prints Kennan's second paper on Siberia and exile, noting wide foreign attention. In Tiumen he observes overcrowded prisons with typhus outbreaks, three hundred prisoners dying yearly, and authorities failing to provide adequate space, while women inmates largely accompany banished husbands.
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Century
George Kencan
Siberia
Lberals
Geneva
Kennan
Tiumen
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