News of the Week in brief across cities and nations
Reports from New York, Philadelphia, and Boston cover murders, fires, and accidents. Notable items include Emil Andre killing his wife in New York, a New York Bible reading policy decision, Cuban relief expeditions, a fatal stabbing in Alleghany City, and a series of weather and crime anecdotes. Also noted are the Young Men's Christian Association gathering in Lowell, Ku Klux prisoners arriving in Albany, and the death of comedian Joseph Jefferson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Emil.Andre
New York
New York State
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Alleghany City
Ambrose Lynch
Wm. Hetfield
Lynch
Broadway
Paterson
N.J
The
Young Men’s Christian Association
Lowell
Maes
H. Thane Miller
Cincinnati
Albany
N. Y
Charleston
Joseph Jefferson
Jefferson
Metropolis
James Gordon Bennett
Greenwood Cemetery
Fred Kramer
Richard D. Maxwell
Pittsburgh
Theepublicans of
Maine
Sid Perhem
Forneyan
A. Scott
Tennnre CP Crapuin
Eighty-seventh Regiment
Henry Ward Beecher
Margaret Richardson
Bainbridge Wadleigh
New Hampshire
New United States
James W. Patter
West Conshocken
Imperial Band
Herr Strauss
Mme
Pescha Leutner
Horace Greeley
Slaughter of the Communists The Triple Execution at Satory
Paris reports three condemned Communards walk to the poteaux z and die in quick, brutal fashion as crowds chant Vive la Commune. Separate Paris dispatch describes a deadly Macao emigrant trade incident on the Don Juan where 650 coolies are imprisoned and perished in a shipboard fire and crush.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Satory
Cure for Sick Headache with Potassium Bromide
An article advises that nervous or sick headaches can be cured if treated promptly with twenty grains of bromide of potassium dissolved in water. Use on onset, sleep two to three hours, and most cases need one or two doses. the substance is described as harmless in ordinary amounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kate Kousen
Chicago
Michigan
Henry Fish
Port Huron
Whitaker
California
Utah
R. ¢. Gordon
St. Louis
Bennett Pieters
Red Jacket
Charles T. Askins
St. Clair County
Ill
Kennedy
Logan
Rockford
Jacksonville
Studebaker Brothers
South Bend
Ind
Paxton
Cincinnati
J. J. Thompson
Christie M. E. Chapel
Thomas Bond
Fort Buford
Camp Cook
Fort Sully
Indianapolis
New York and Western Railway
Indiana
Iowa
Illinois
Ohio
Continental Railway Company
Pennsylvania
New York
Council Bluffs
Dr. Berkely
Baltimore
Huston
St. Louis Fair Grounds
Louisville
Flippen
Memphis
Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Grant
Teves
Saboula
Big Tree
Texas
Missouri, Kansas and Texas
McAlister
Sherman
McGowan Sentenced in Cincinnati for Concealed Weapons
Tom McGowan, the man connected to Vallandigham by a fatal accidental shooting, was sentenced last week to thirty days in the Cincinnati work house for carrying concealed weapons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom McGowan
Vallandigham
Cincinnati
England's Railways Fail Quick War Mobilization
The piece notes a Whit Monday drill for London volunteers near Chatham or Aldershot was foregone after Southwestern railroad officials said only 2,500 of 12,000 troops could be moved in two days. It contrasts British rail limits with American capacity and adds a sobering view from the London News on wartime mobilization.
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China
Westphalia
Sasebe Zorillo
Spain
Yokohama
Japan
United States
Dominion
Windlabes
Bowen
Virginiis
Cambridge
Canada
Germany
Kaiser William
San Juan
New York Herald
Russia
Fred Grant
Moscow
Alexis
Washington
Livingstone
Africa
Prague
Bohemia
Bremen
Sherman
Vienna
Bagdad
Bassorah
Zorilla
Baron D’itajuba
England
Dorking
London
Chatham
Aldershot
Southwestern
London News
America
Grammar exam quip about the noun bachelor
A young girl in grammar class was asked why the noun bachelor is singular. She blushed and replied, Because it's very singular they don't get married. The moment ended with laughter as she rose to leave.
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Dixon Sun
W. M. Kennedy
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Brooklyn
East New York
la Grave
Europe
New York Orangemen
White Lake
Sullivan County
Port Jarvis
Hornellsville
Boston
Dutch Heinrich
Sing Sing
C. B. Frothingham
Tom Thumb
Thomas
St. Petersburg
Sick Es
Erie
Dickinson College
Carlisle
Thomas A. Hendricks
John Atwater
Canton
Michael Noonan
Fort Wayne
Springfield
Peoria
Rock Island
William Thompson
Valentine Fisher
Frank Lower
Detroit
Chanpter & Pomeroy
Arizona
Pene Palaver
Myron Bush
Antwerp
Agricultural Department
Young, Jack
Denton
Parker
Huntsville
Harlan
Washington Chronicle
Howard
House Committee On Pacific Railroads
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Dakota
Washington Territories
Minnesota
Washington Territory
B. R. Cowan
John L. Delano
J. W. Wham
Union Pacific Railroad
War Department
Navy Department
Gulf
Brazil
Fred. Grant
Paris
Cuba
Marseilles
Marshal Bazaine
Versailles
Norman McLeod
Warrington
Lancashire
Society of Jesus
Jesuits
Yeas
Rome
Vatican
Montevideo
Agassiz
Callao
Panama
Wear Department
Plains
Weenee
Internal Revenue
Poteauxz
Selizier
Boin
Boudin
Nous
Che
Macao
China Seas
House of Commons
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