Madrid and European Powers in Spain War Efforts
Foreign reports from Spain on the 23d claim Madrid wired $5,000,000 to Carlist chiefs to end the war. British and Indian Office dispatches note mutinies and arrests in India. Carlists offer amnesty after surrender talks. Austria Russia and England seek new commercial treaties with the Ottoman Empire as Cuban reinforcements fall.
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Tag
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Count de Chamnbord
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William Po Dome
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Duke de Cazes
Franchac
Willi-Thé-Inéererts
London Daily News
Austria
Russia
Sublime Porte
Cuba
Yon “Aruim
Berlin
Over
Yeasel
Sohnbeird
Alabama
Wm. Hf. Blenhart
Rolle
Kuhlmann
Prince Bramarck
Political turmoil and crime reported in late 1800s dispatch
Summary of scattered items: Bristow to reshuffle Texas Treasury officers. Supreme Court denies Granger motion. New York coopers stage lockout. Salt Lake City polygamy indictment of George Reynolds. Booneville implement loan to outsiders. Lizzie Goff dies after attempting to ignite fire. First National Bank Salt Lake City suspends payments. American Bee-Keepers’ session in Pittsburgh. Burke-Kellogg clash in New Orleans. Greencastle fire causes 358 500 loss. Indianapolis forest fires threaten Ohio areas.
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Washington
Coopers
New York City
George Reynolds
Salt Lake City
Ball
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Grange
Booneville
Lizzie Goff
First National Bank
American Bee-Keepers’ Association
Pittsburgh
R. W. Burke
Gov
Léslias
Kentucky
Shelby County
New ,Orleans
Kellorg
Mgs. B.A. Burks
Naturalization Committee
Kelloge
India
Atocha
Burke
Greencastle
Ind
Ao Furniture
Indianapolis
Ohio
Missouri State Grange elects officers in Kansas City session
In Kansas City on the 22d the Missouri State Grange elected officers for the ensuing year led by Master T. R. Allen Overseer John M. Oldham and Lecturer W. Jackson. Other items note Henry Clews & Co. failing and assigning to creditors amid post panic turmoil. Government leaders discuss third term and Union League resolutions. Episcopal General Convention adopts a ritualism carfon and a Cuba incident involving Docking is reported.
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Missouri State Grange
Kansas City
T. R. Allen
John M. Oldham
W. Jackson
W. Cochrane
T.B. Turnbaugh
G. T. Brayton
0. T. Quiesberry
A. M. Coffee
A. Y. McCraynor
Henry Clews
Gov. Dix
New York
National Executive Committee
Union League of America
Baltimore
Bristow
Jewell
Washington Repubblican
United States
Episcopal General Convention
Carfon
Indiana State Officers Vote Totals Reported
Official returns from the recent Indiana election show Bell leading for Governor with 1,402,202 votes and Wikoff at 14,177,202. other state offices list Republican leads over Democrat rivals in Auditor Treasurer Attorney General and Superintendent, with judicial results and city council gains in Baltimore. A Louisiana Democratic and Conservative committee protests Maj. Merritt’s arrest affidavit and military role. Nebraska reports mass hunger in the southwest. Chicago census cites 395,226 residents. Baltimore voters elect Democratic City Council candidates by about 10,000.
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Tenderton
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Glover
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Bloss
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Graham
Supreme Court
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Central Committee
Louisian
Emory
Louis Mertill
U. S. Cavalry
Shreveport
Omaha Dlspatch
Nebraska
Where Did Columbus Land according to Harper’s November
Harper’s November essay on the Bahamas argues Watling's Island is the site Columbus named San Salvador, not Cat Island. It notes Navarette’s Turk’s Island error and reviews Beecher’s evidence that Cat Island cannot fit Columbus’s journal, with Watling's Island matching his described northward voyage and interior lake.
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Harper's
Bahamas
Cat
Columbus
San Salvador
Watling
Navarette
Turk
Irving
Humboldt
Cat Island
Lieut. Beecher
Not Guilty Confederate Soldier Defends Desertion Story
Gen Cullen A Battle recalls a Round Oak Church court martial in 1868 4 winter. Edward Cooper accused of desertion pleads not guilty and cites a personal reason while lacking counsel or witnesses. The tale highlights loyalty and restraint under military law.
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Tuscumbia
Ala
Cullen A
Virginia
Round Oak Church
Confederate States
Edward Cooper
The Confederate Court Pardons Edward in a Soldier’s Tale
In a Civil War scene a Confederate court pardons Edward after hearing a moving letter from his wife Mary and his daughter Lucy. The judge reviews the case, and General Lee’s influence guides the verdict as mercy prevails. A final battlefield moment recalls a lone Confederate at a battery who sacrifices himself to defend Mary and Lucy’s honor.
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Stonewall Jackson
Finn
Dean Epwarg
Ward
Eddie
Lucy
Edward
Mary
Cour
Rugl
Robert E. Lee
Confederacy
Heangtanens
Willy
Eya
Cold Tarbor
Mary and
Fighting With the Feet in Lancashire Kicks Spark Debate
Northern England peppered by deadly street kicking using wooden clogs prompts calls for harsher penalties. Magistrates urge Parliament to empower lash punishment for violent street assaults. Oldham officials warn ordinary imprisonment fails, urging stricter corporal punishment to deter kickers and garroters.
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England
Tenneashire
Oldham
Lancashire
Ingenious Device to Save Water Pipes from Frost Damage
An English inventor proposes a rubber tube air buffer inside water pipes to absorb ice expansion. The tube yields as water freezes, preventing bursts, then expands again when melting. Heat can be conveyed via the tube to thaw frozen pipes, aiding water closets and boiler feeds.
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India
Dfechanical
Penikese Method Encourages Self Study at School Follow ing
At a meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Science Prof Py nam described a school program that avoids texts and forces students to observe directly. Each student studies a fish for two days, then its anatomy, to build self study habits and vertebrate knowledge. The note adds that women educators also conducted original observations before men did, in a class of forty three teachers two dozen gentlemen and twenty one ladies.
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Association For the Advancement of Science
Pynam
Gulary
Early wagons built on uniform wheels and low pole
The passage argues that wagons travel best when all four wheels are equal and the pole sits below the axle, suggesting ancient Eastern vehicles likely embodied near perfect construction principles based on these ideas.
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