London Stars and Chinese Navy News in Brief
Mr Henry Irving and Ellen Terry remain in public view as they tour America with regular ads in London papers. The Chinese navy promotes Triton of Annapolis fame to commander after capturing a French vessel. Ex cadets Sparling Tennant set for China service. MAPLESON edits Semiramide to Linda sparking San Francisco crowd. Fursch Madi wins applause next night. Lorp Lytton plans Glenaverie a modern narrative poem in six monthly parts with March first issue.
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Henry Irving
London
Ellen Terry
America
Naval Caper
Triton
Naval Academy At
Annapolis
Sparling and Tennant
China
Mapleson
San Francisco
Linda
Patti
Fursch-Madi
Lorp Lytton
Glenaverie
Pilgrim at Falstaff Inn Mourns Dickens Loss
Days after Charles Dickens death an Englishman, grieving, visits the John Falstaff Inn. While sharing his sorrow with the waiter, he laments the prominent writer's passing and the inn's claim to supplying Dickens with ale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dickens
John Falstaff
Window memorial for Prof Williams at Yale Battell Chapel
A window in Battell chapel Yale commemorates Samuel Welles Williams LL D MDCCCXIT MDCCCLXXXIV a missionary scholar diplomatist and Yale Chinese language professor The Chinese inscription quotes Confucius praising his earnest activity and just rule as the source text notes.
Notable Premiers and Lords of Age at Power
The passage notes political leaders aged well into their later years. It cites Mr Gladstone at 76, Lord John Russell dying at 90 after a long Commons career, and Lord Palmerston dying as premier at 81. It also mentions Earl Derby, Lord Aberdeen, Lord Melbourne, and Earl Grey as older holders of office.
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Mr. Gladstone
Lord John Russell
House of Lords
House of Commons
Lord Palmerston
Earl Derby
Lord Aberdeen
Lord Melbourne
Earl Gray
Portrait of Lionel Sackville Weest in Royal Court Dress
A Washington correspondent describes Lionel Sackville Weest as middle aged with baldness and gray, his blue eyes weary. He notes his court dress, heavily embroidered in gold bullion, so stiff it resembles a cuirass, with only the back seam visible between the collar and shoulder blade.
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Lionel Sackville Weest
Washington
Longfellow heir discusses authorized biography plans
Ernest Longfellow says royalties for his father's works are unclear after death. He notes no family royalties but other arrangements exist. He mentions bios about his father, while his uncle Samuel Longfellow works on extracts from diaries for a single authorized biography due next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Longfellow
South
New York
Samuel Longfellow
Richelieu Ropinson’s Citizenship Tale Surprises Clerk
An old amusing anecdote recalls Richelieu Ropinson since his first citizenship papers over forty years ago. The clerk’s formal renunciation prompts a humorous aside about punctuation, highlighting a misstep where the phrase but especially to the queen of Great Britain and Ireland so help you God give me a dollar leads to a comma question.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richelieu
Ropinson
Great Britain and Ireland
Enlistment Advice Leads Clerk Eyre to Battle Death
Lizut Col Paitire Eyre, once a Dublin post office clerk, ignored a rebuke and enlisted after being told he would never earn his salt. He later died in the battle of Dulka. A Helena Arkansas wager saw a man drink a gallon of beer in three minutes. The vanilla plant is found growing near the Florida Everglades.
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Lizut
Paitire Eyre
Dulka
Dublin
Eyre
Helena, Ark
Iowa News Items From Across the State
Iowa towns plan city hall and fire company builds. cattle thieves trouble Clear Lake. Dubuque debates a sewer law. Wa pello county pays for 154 arrests. Creston reports prairie fires. Mason City water works pipe bought. Marshalltown boasts brass band. Logano to Missouri Valley line finished. Fremont cattle suffer mad itch. Anamosa prison inmates count seems infidel. Jewell Junction to add two grain elevators. Clinton ends pronouncing bee with quotation sociable. Sibley considers emigration to Oregon. Marshalltown bootleg and coat-tail whisky trade grows. Harlan saloons close after court decision. Council Bluffs trains sixty horses for May. Fort Dodge seeks lines to Gewrie Lehigh and Manson. Fort Dodge rink race Sherling 13:09. Winter hurts state birds. Iowa City May 15 meeting of city superintendents. Deserter from US Cavalry captured at Council Bluffs. Thomas McMillan dies in Marion County. 1864 state senator later acts in 1335. Immigrant movables unload near Paulina. Burlington Rolling Mills begin ten tons daily. J T Gregory hay fire destroys 30 tons near Knoxville. Corydon verdict murder ten years. Governor Sherman notes Iowa Day at New Orleans Exposition. Monroe depot accident leaves one dead. New incorporations filed Beaver Valley and Dublin Cheese. Guthrie Center fire wipes several buildings. Stuart fire damages boarding house and stores. Bigelow derailment saves others. two workers hurt.
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Creston
Mason City
Marshalltown
Logano
Missouri Valley
Fremont County
Anamosa State Prison
Jewell Junction
Clinton
Sibley and Vicinity
Oregon
J. T. Gregory
Knoxville
Marion County
Mr. Gregory
Corydon
State of
Iowa
Elijah Thurman
Elle Vaughan
Miss Vaughan
Thurman
Wayne County
Sherman
Trustees of the Exposition
New Orleans
Mobile
Monroe
Henry Cornelius
Galesburg
I. H. Moore
Nine fires scorch towns with losses in dozens of thousands
A sprawling weekly review item lists March 24 to 27 fire disasters across Lewisburg Tenn Newark N J Yonkers N Y Boston and Clifton Long Island with losses ranging from 10 000 to 50 500 plus. Incendiary origins cited in several cases and insured amounts noted.
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Lewisburg
Tenn
Wm. Neal
Ashland
Mercantile
Boston
Heller & Mery
Ultra Marine Works
Newark
N.J
Clifton
L. I
Fort Madison Youth Dies After Hunting Accident
Hugo Ernst, son of prominent Fort Madison jeweler Theodore Ernst, died from a gunshot wound to the neck after his rifle discharged while removing it from a skiff on March 23. He did not survive to reach his home.
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Hugo Ernst
Theodore Ernst
Fort Madison
Ernst
Debates Over Dong Dang Affair In Chamber of Deputies
On March 26 De La Fosse urged the government to publish the full truth about the Dong Dang affair. Premier Ferry replied with Gen. Neghier's telegram and said measures were ready for dispatch of re- engagements.
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Lang Son
Dong Dang
de sLa Fosse
Ferry
de la Fosse
Granet
Paris
Dong Danz
Tonquin
Rochefort
Chamber of Deputies
Gaulois
Neghier
Figaro
Canton
Gen. Neghier
Senate Confirms Pendleton and Other Nominations in Session
The Senate confirmed Pendleton as minister to Germany and also approved Phelps Jackson McLane and Bert H Hill Jr. Nominations for David Barker Jr. as U S Attorney for Rhode Island were approved. Senate discussed Weil and LaAbra treaty and adjourned repeatedly through March.
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Wasni
Senate
Morgan
Voorhees
Washington
West
Voorhees and
Spooner
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Iowa Railroads Annual Assessment 1885 Completed
The Executive Council finished the annual assessment of Iowa railroads on March 28 1885. It lists the assessed value per mile and the total miles evaluated, detailing the distribution across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Executive Council
Railroads of
War in Egypt Dispatches from Tamai and Suakim
Report from Sveakxim on March 24 details Sappers building a road toward Tamai, a convoy reaching zereba, and Taggiab’s death. Coastal skirmishes yield Arab casualties as British losses climb with 150 men killed in Sunday's Tamai battle. Osman Digna orders Arabs to hinder convoys to starve garrison. Diaries of Gen Gordon arrive in London and may be pruned before printing.
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Zereba
Graham
Osman Digna
McNeeil
Grenadier Guards
Shropshire, Surrey and
Tamai
McNiels Zereba
Suakim
Zerba
Sveakxim
Tamal
Taggiab
Hasheen Zereba
Osman Dignasias
Zerebas
Gordon
London
Curious Mix of News From A Far Country And Farther Topics
A scrambled collection notes ice jam effects on waterfowl slaughter in Chesapeake Bay and a single shot reported killing thirty-two ducks. Minnesota death penalty history linked to 1855 as the last hanging. North Carolina adopts a new state flag design with blue field and gold coat of arms. A Scientific American blurb explains boiler fill via vacuum. Salvation Army revival in Troy descends into panic with injuries before a hymn lifts crowd. An Italian trip vignette recalls Vatican eruption from a hotel vantage. Oil discovery in Wyowing territory describes Arengo basin flow and blackening after exposure. Mrs Snobberly hosts violinist Herr Baenkelsaenger at Fifth Avenue banquet. New York streetcars show dismantled wrecks rebuilt for longevity. A French conjurer’s ring trick uses nested envelopes to hide a ring. Counterfeited banknotes spread across many states led by New York and Illinois. Electric railway claims praise for smoke-free operation and safety advantages, with accidental rail and drawbridge failures cited.
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Chesapeake Bay
Minnesota
William
Williams
Interior Department
North Carolina House of Representatives
Scientific American
Salvation Army
Troy
Salvationists
Arengo
Kira
Bath Creek
New York
Herr Baenkelsaenger
New York Third Avenue
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Merchants’ National Bank
New Bedford
Mess
Pittsburgh National Bank of Commerce
Treasury
America
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F.C. Fischer
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James Ryan
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T. E. Hilton
Marcus Laritzer
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Weekly Review
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Laurel Bough
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Woman Suffrage Party
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Sherman Street
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Decatur
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American Humane Society
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United States Circuit Court
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LaAba
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Mattoon
John Knox Hall
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M. M. Ham
Joseph Lander
State Center
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Nebstew
Ewwesonne
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