Foreign and domestic news highlights and disasters
A crisis in the Spanish Cabinet reshuffles finance and public works ministers. Floods submerge parts of Leicester Derby and Nottingham. Paris hosts a student demo for Professor Robin. Floods and ship disasters lead to many deaths. coal mine explosions and freezing weather cause fatalities. Major fires devastate Barnum style venues and city blocks. tragic railroad and bridge accidents kill and injure numerous people.
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Rublig
Benor'Echegaty
Becérras
Mosquera
Leicester
Derby Sind
Nottinghams
England
Liverpool
Northumberland County
Paris
Robin
Institute
Ben
Seine
Thames
Windsor
Orleans
London
Bowles Bros
Yaameta
Silverdale
Bismark
Sandwich Islands
Hamid
Hig
Rito
President and officials travel. Credit Mobilier adjourns
The President, his son Jesse, and Marshal Sharpe left Washington on the 20th for Covington Kentucky to visit the President's father. The Credit Mobilier Committee adjourned to January 7. News mentions testimony implicating several Congressmen and stock dealings.
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Jesse
Marshal Sharpe
Washington
Covincton
Credit Mobilier Committee
Ames
Louiaiana Committee
Bradley
Supreme Court
New Orleans
Stokes
Congress
Boutiwell
Senate
Henry Wilson
New York Oyer and Terminer Court
George Francis Train
Train Ingue
Tomba
New York
Orton
Whitelaw Reldulty
Tribune Association
Reid
Satanta
Big Tree
St. Louis
Texas
Huntsville
United States
Newcomb
Morgan
Court of Oyer and Terminer
Victoria Woodhull
Tennie C. Claflin
James N. Blood
Luther Challis
Susan B. Anthony
Rochester
N. Y
United States District Court
Erie Railway
Fisk
Memphis
J. J. Murphy
Louisiana Committee Plans Address to Nation on Relief
In Washington the Louisiana Committee agreed to issue an address to the people of the United States detailing the law and facts of the case affecting the state and to petition Congress for relief when its session resumes after the holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana
Washington
United States
Congress
Senate and House Passes and Notices in January Session
In the Senate on the 20th bills passed include extending completion time for the Winona and St Peter Railroad and authorizing Kansas National Bank to rename as First National Bank of Topeka. An $18,790 appropriation for the Texan Commission was approved and 8000 eulogies for Senator Garrett Davis ordered printed. A Special Committee on Arkansas election irregularities was debated. In the House on the 20th bills were introduced to extend entries in the Orange Lands in Kansas and to reform Indian administration, plus a constitutional amendment for direct popular election of President, Vice President and Senators. Adjourned to January 6.
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Jay Gould
Erie Railroad
Boston Board of Aldermen
Merdames
Woodhall
Claflin
Music Hall
George Francis ‘Trai
New York
Boston
Henry L. Pierce
Gaston
Alabama
L. C. Parsons
Robert Barber
R. Whitaker
W. W. Turner
Louisiana
United States
Warmoth
Indiana
Senate
House
Wm. M. Harrison
Arkansas
M. L. Stevenson
E. J. Earl
State Department
Hadley
Johnson
Winona & St Peter
Kansas National Bank
First National Bank of
Acesson
Kansay
Why a vessel can sail close to the wind explained
A naval officer asks for a simple explanation of how ships sail toward the wind. The article separates wind on the sail from sail on the ship, using simple diagrams and position cases to show when the wind presses hardest or not at all on a sail set at various angles to the wind.
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Her
Sail Portrait of Wind Force on a Sail and Track
The article explains wind interaction with a sail using figures to show how wind pressure varies with sail angle. It compares a wind propelled railway truck to a ship, noting sails can drive movement upwind though ships leeward drift occurs, while a truck moves straight along rails.
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Thase
Jvacal Science
Scrupulous German Servant Girl Causes Brooklyn Kitchen Crisis
A Brooklyn household hires a German servant girl so neat she sweeps the sidewalk dirt into a dust pan and dumps it in the backyard barrel. Housekeepers in New York fear culinary labor will drop, sparking protests to hire more help. An editor in Connecticut boasts his head is safe from donkey heels, while a contemporary says he cannot meet ends. Mrs Partington jokes about church attendance and gospel preaching. A steam fire engine is suggested to remove all music from a grand piano.
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New York
St. Louis
Semle
Ohio State Seminiasioners
Ohio
Rand
Rly
New York Paper & Sow
Dothorn
W. J. Florence
Philip 1
Miss Nollsoy
Ace Tress
Eas
Rothern
Lee
Sothern
Neil Bryant
Onis Conners
Billy
Birch
Feronce
Notao
Beymont
Péligander
Colt
Navy
Florence
Hodge
Leo
Central Presbyterian Tabernacle
Brooklyn
T. Dewitt Talmage
New York Herald
Union Poetic Railroad
Owritten
Ace F. Clark
the’ Road
Credit- Mobilier
wDhor
Chicago
Journal of the
Gaye
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Sacortland
Washington
Cresewell
Barprum
New York City
Talmage
Feaban
Academy of Music
Buffalo, Corry & Pittsburgh
Prospect
Centre Street
Leonard
Worth
Union
W. 2
Flagg
Bloomington
Springfield
Ill
Belle Wallace
Gorman Prairie
Lll
Cedar Rapides (Own
Boone
Carroll
Iowa
Helena
Ark
Internal
Reveenue Bureau
Congress
Baptist Church
Trey
Connecticut
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Burt
Ir, Publisker
Hognry
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York City
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Buffalo
Lake Erie
Senate of the United States
Chicago Express
Indianapolis, Erad& Chicago
Indianapolis
Central City
Mich
Cottonwood Creek
Congressional
Bridget
Jady
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