Notable Deaths and Disasters in Week News
Gen Harman Bacar dies in Philadelphia at 75. Fire in Sixe Line, N Y destroys 27 businesses, over 250000 dollars lost. Seward dies in Auburn N Y after brief illness. Monarchist defeats Harry Bassett in two long turf races. Chicago population rises to 367596 since 1871 fire. Multiple fires, robberies, and political tensions dominate the week.
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New York
Island of
Cuba
Wm. H. Seward
Auburn
N. Y
Coal prices rise in England and global unrest noted
A coal price advance in England is reported along with a Birmingham firm winning a Prussian rifle contract for 150000 improved pattern weapons. An assassination attempt on King Amadeus of Spain fails, while a Morley mine disaster kills over forty. German gambling saloons close and Berlin workers plan a general strike amid new wage talks. Famine across Constantinople claims over three million lives.
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England
Birmingham
Amadeus
Spain
Plaza de Oriente
Madrid
Owl
Morely
Berlin
Wales
Constantinople
Chicago Newspaper Union Moves to East Monroe Building
A Chicago correspondent recalls the great fire of 1871 and the Union’s role. The Curiaco Newspaper Union escaped the blaze, lent presses to four papers, then rebuilt at 114 East Monroe Street. It now houses a model, well stocked printing establishment.
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Chicago
Curiaco Newspaper Union
Custom House
Monroe Street
Erening Post
Newsrarek Union
Keening Post
Daily Republican
Inter-Ocean
Daily Staats-Zeitung
Daily
Union
Nhey
West Division
East
Curiaco Newspaperk Union
William H. Seward Dies After Lethal Lung Catarrhal Attack
William H. Seward of Auburn New York died at 5 15 PM after a rapid catarrhal pneumonia attack that followed a prolonged illness. The text details his declining health his final hours and the moments of his death while surrounded by family and aides. It also recounts his birth May 17 1801 in Orange County New York and his career from lawyer to Governor and U S Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson.
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Persia
London
Alex. Cockburn
Geneva
England
Bentinck
Great Britain
Parie
Abolition Society of
Madrid
Cortes
Cuba
Porto Rico
Corunna
Seward
Daily Papers
Lisburn
Ireland
Thiers
Victor Emanuel
France
Napoleon
Republic of Mexico
Lerdo de Tejeda
Prines Freverick Henry Apert
William of Prussia
Berlin
Hyde Park
Department of the Upper Marne
Pope
Rome
Paris
Orsini
Department of the
Gironde
National Assembly
Europe
William H. Seward
Auburn
N. Y
William
New York Times
Mr. Seward
Orange County
William Henry
Union College
Georgia
New York
State Senate
Albany Evening Journal
Marey
Henry Clay
Taylor
United States
Senate
Chicago
Lincoln
Johnson
Boston’s Dog Show Advances in Current Items
Boston is organizing a dog show while Indians in Duluth operate a birch-bark canoe factory. Choctaw county Alabama reportedly has no white residents. Northwestern Kansas shows a gender imbalance with four men per woman. A Spanish castle in St Augustine requires repairs. A New York firm runs with nine divorced husbands in its ranks. A ring in Indiana seeks canal debt relief. Round Valley California Indians face famine due to acorn crop failure and government aid exhausted. Postal Railway Service projects 10 000 miles added this year, up from 8000 last year. A Kansas Pacific train lost a sleeping car overnight. passengers waited sixty miles while the car was recovered.
Foreign Gossip and Royal Etiquette Reflections
A collection of notes on teetotalism Earn GRANVILLE, Queen Victoria’s reception, and international topics. Reports on the Swedish novelist Annie Arden, the French band at the Tuileries, and Mechi on foreign corn prices. Also mentions the Burmese king's ban on liquor, Ruhr literacy, and British iron orders shifting to France. Queen Victoria’s etiquette favors Madame over Your Majesty in interviews.
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London
France
Quueen Victoria
The Chinese Navy and Western Barbs
The article notes China is building a modern navy to match Western power, with twenty steamers manned by natives guarding coastal waters. It mentions plans for iron clad frigates, torpedo experiments, and foreign supervision of training, highlighting Chinese ingenuity in weaponry and naval construction.
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China
John Chinaman
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James Parton
Fanny Fern
James Spalding
New York World
Thurlow Weed
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James Barnes
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Henry Wells
Georg Patterson
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Ark
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Richmond
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Sentinel
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Texas Pacific
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Marshall
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William Frey
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Ruhr
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