General Gordon Appeals for Reinforcements at Khartoum
A page from the Blue Look reports General Gordon’s letters to the government, dated November 4, urging immediate reinforcements for Khartoum as yen to relieve the garrison. He notes insufficient supplies, delays, and praise for Stewart while criticizing Home authorities. He warns Mahdi’s forces near Omdurman and relays orders to bring troops without delay. Observations include Graham, Metemneh, and Sennaar notes, with details of naval support and messenger risks. The piece also covers Georgia and local legislative actions and a Sherman meat market sale.
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Lospex
General Gordon
Government
Khartoum
Gordon
Lord Wolseley
Hln
Dongola
Soudan
Mahdi
Stewart
Gerber
Lupton Bey
Abukol
Metemneh
Abyssinia
Omdurman
Munsho
Berin
Cage
Sennaar
Stakin Bey
Hans
Musselmans
Congress Debates Navy Plans and Postal Reforms
The Senate and House extend Indian boundary investigations and approve amendments to the Post Office Appropriation bill. Discussions cover foreign mail transport costs, contracting, and building leases for post offices. The navy expansion debate centers on armor, speed, and steel cruisers, with amendments on cruiser completion and the Greely relief vessel. A derailment on the Chicago Burlington line injures six near Chariton, Iowa, while a New York farmer treks to Washington with a pig and a rooster to honor a wager.
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Senate
Bone of Representatives
Washington
Dawes
Committee On Indian Affairs
Des Moines
Committee On Appropriations
Messrs
Gorman
Morgan
McPhrson
Secretary of the Treasury
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Postmaster General
Maxey
Mr. Maxey
Frye
Sessalon
Horst
Randall
LeFevre
Germany
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Gernman
Payson
House
Hopkins
Long
Dorsheimer
Congress
Talbot
Boutell
Greely
Wolseley's Offer to Mandi and Dynnamit Era Notes
Parly News reports papers to Parliament will include Wolseley's statement from Dongola offering terms with the Mahdi on condition he become Sultan of Kordofan as General Gordon proposed. Native Sidian contingent sailed from Bombay for Suakitn amid crowds and martial music. Protests over the Lingering Babbscombe murder rehearsal and execution delays, and various international notes from London to Albany and Washington follow, including a Chinese river-blocking warning and a Fenian convention with dynamite discussions.
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Wolseley
Mandi
Loxnox
Parly News
Egypt
Lent Wolseley
Dongola
Gordon
James Russell Lowell
Kensal Green
Lowell
Prince of Wales
Gladstone
Mrs. Lowell
John Lee
Emma Keys
Babbscombe
James G. Cunningham
Harry Burton
Bow Street
Cunning- Mit
Cunningham
St. Petersinne
M. Tolstoi
Interior
Grxeva
Federal Council
Switzerland
United States
Berurny
Kasson
General Sandford
Congo
Vivi
Stanley Pool
Sandford
Shanghai
Woo Sung
Sty
Sedt
John Morrissey
County Carlow
Ireland
Frank Jamica Freed Amid Quiet Cooper County Court Action
In Booxrvilie Missouri on February 24 the Cooper County Circuit Court dismissed the remaining two charges against Frank Jamica, freeing him. Capt Bronaugi, bondman for Jamica, was in Jefferson City to gauge Governor Mamaduke's view on a Minnesota requisition. A separate report from Dallas, Texas notes Yeager, a mail robber, was captured after ambushing a marshal and was killed. Pitts’s body was found near the scene.
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Missouri
Yeager
Hudlon
Booxrvilie
Frank Jamica
Cooper County
Mamaduke
Minnesota
James
P. Bronaugi
Jefferson City
Kwonga
Dalllas
Tex
Yeag
Tor I
United States
Gosling
New Brampels
James Pitts
Marshal Loring
Pitt
Desperado
Will
Manning
Pitts
Jessie James
Little Rock
United States Court For
Westen District of
Arkansas
Indian Territory
Washington
Derby rail accident claims two workers near B N W P line
Henry Case a track laborer was instantly killed yesterday near Derby by a passenger train on the B N W P Railroad. His brother Arthur Decker was fatally injured. The workers were on the track when the train approached, both men leaving large families.
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Blirrato
Henry Case
Derby
Workman
Arthur Decker
Silver Coinage Debates and New Legislation Report
The capital heard talks on suspending silver dollar coinage as part of the Sundry Civil and a Samary Civil bill. Senate cautions that House passage this session is unlikely. Also covered are railroad funding limits, silver purchase suspensions, and a court acquittal expectation in General Swaim’s martial case.
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Columnus
Washington
General Assembly
Turner
Montgomery
Committee On Judiciary
Barger
House
N. m
Ees
Ngtcss
Wasatxaton
Congress
Senate
Pew
Secretary of the ‘Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
Shertam
Pacific Railroad
Lincoln
Swaim
Horrible Crime in Austerlitz Ends in Pursuit to Toronto
In January 1982 Oscar Beckwith alias Charles White strangled and dismembered his companion in Austerlitz New York, burning the head and limbs, and salting the trunk. Detective Gilderslee pursued across Canada with others to Toronto, leading to Beckwith’s capture, while General Horace Capron dies in Washington after Monument duties and a Virginia legislator W A Turner is reported dying.
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Gat
Austerlitz
Columbian County
New York State
Oscar F. Beckwith
Charles White
J. P. Gilderslee
Kinderhook
Pacific
Canada
Canadian Pacific Railway
Stable Perkins
Gravenhurst
Gilversteeve
Haaner
Columbia County
N. Y
Beckwith
River
Parry Sound
Toronto
Capron
WasHinaTox
Horace Capron
Washington Monument
Ilinois
Nashville
Japan
Yezo
Gov It
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Dunkirk
Madel Matter
Dunkirk Printing Company
Orrick
East Second St
Chautauqua Farmer and Dunkirk Journal
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Buffalo Street
Fifth
Sixth Ste
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Stanley
MLD
Physican
OOK
James Irving
Journal Building
Center Street
St. James
Pablo
Snenta
Dawkins
R. Pree
Ee Atera
Honas
Buffalo
Home Daily
Isa Tylee
Baok and
Job Printing
Niewspaper Hhlhive
Erie
Old Maid
Konversaton
Erio
Monroe Block
Ceneral Gordon
Philo
Stephen Parker
Sherman Haa
Bushnell & Rexford
Joseph Schasford
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Villisea
Avery
van Winkle
Oakley
Warett
Sultan of
Albany
Lamont
Arlington
Tooms
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Signal Corps
Ocean City
F. M. Collins
Somer's Point
N. J
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Frank Sames
Sofering
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Democrat
Weston
Gilmer
Braxton
Calhoun
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Chicago
George Q. Cannon
Salt Lake City
West
Cannon
Cleveland
Citizens’ Law and Order League
New York
Citizens’ Law and Order League of the United States
Association
Henney
Tion
A. M. Burton
Wallace
Morris
D. D. Vail
Philadelphia
Johnson
Waltham
Bmass
J. P. Warren
Portland
Arthur
Rollins
Charles Miller
Fim
Arthur, Rollins & Miller
Wm. Ransecher
Ferdinand Kelpin
J. T. Chapman
Liverpool
Bible
Snarrsvill
Court of Common Pleas
Mercer County
Sharpaville
Runa
Honss
Balkesd
General @waim
Murners
Saltr Doras
Norvok
W. A. Turner
House of Delegates
Hood
Evesiogbeerrer
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