British Commons Refuses Censure on Afghan Policy
London reports May 12 14 13 14 details show Lord Hartington states in Commons the government plans in Soudan include withdrawal to Aswan not Khartoum immediate evacuation of Suakim only with a defense. Gladstone defends spending while Conservatives press for censure. tumult over Channel Tunnel and Afghan disputes. riot at Nelson Monument and multiple overseas notes.
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London
Lord Hartington
House of Commons
Khartoum
Wady-Halfa
Egypt
Dongola
Lord Wolseley
Hartington
Sondon
Nile
Spencer
Suakim
England
Osman Digma
el Mehdi
Leutenant
Red Sea
Henry Chaplin
Gladstone
Teddy Spet
George Francis Hamilton
Tories
Stafford Northcote
Consolidated Fund
Lord Hamilton
Russia
Criga
Mamilton
Paruelites
Times
Lord Randolph Churchill
Lord Randolph
House of Lords
Grinville
Earl Kimberly
Lonpox
Tourse of Commons
Janus
Petersburg Arny
Turskiy
Earl Grangillc
Tuasla
Condie Stephen
Peter Lumslen
Tirputz
Peujdch
Muruchak
Eij-Murzhub
Penjdeh
Apringine
Stephen
Englsnd Io
Adisputch
Calcutta
Quetta
Karl Granville
Himelf
Earl of Kimberly
Baron de Staal
M. Lessar
Paris Journal Des Debates
Teap
Mr. Gladstone
Loxpon
Nelson Monument
Trafalgar Square
Nine O'Clok
Northumberland Avenue
Kassala
Tonquin
Buanoitar
Yannas
Negrier
Lonnon
Edward Watkins
Hythe
Rt Mon
Joseph Chamberlain
Board of Trade
France
Loxpox
Eceland
Batoche Battle Ends Rebel Resistance in Manitoba
General Middleton seized Batoche after a bayonet charge driven by the Grenadiers and supporting units. Casualties included several officers and dozens of rebels, with many rebels killed or captured. Riel and leaders reportedly killed or fled as Middleton’s forces bivouacked near Batoche.
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Winnirra
Manitoba
Middleton
Batocha
Ric
Riel
Chidren
Brddleton
Grenadiers
Midland
Winnipeg
Batoche
Tinward
Strawbenzie
John French
Beouts
Fugh
Royal Grenadiers
Brown
Dalton’s
W. H. Kippon
Survayora Corps
Pevate Frazer
Ninetieth Buattation
Prvate Hardisty
Father Moulin
Botoche
Rabela
Flo
Montana
Qu’Appelle
Winnipes
French
Fort Qu’ Appelle
Fitch
Toronto Grenadiers
OtTawa
Carew
Midgeton
Ashley
Winsures
Mikdieton
Middiston
Sterops
North
Bolton
Howard
United States
Anpy
Boomers Again Moving Toward Oklahoma
Twenty seven wagons loaded with Indian supplies from Arkansas City have entered the Oklahoma district near Vienna and Caldwell, with two to three men per wagon. Authorities foresee more boomers crossing into Oklahoma, while Fifth Cavalry under General Wesley Merritt moves to replace the Ninth.
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Oklashoma
Vienna
Kan
Cheyenne Agency
L T
Arkansas City
Oklahoma District
Cheyenne
Caldwell
Oklahoma
Fifth Cavalry
Ganeril Wesley Merritt
Merching
Erection Plan for Major Steel Project Tied to Pittsburgh Capital
Arrangement completed between parties in Breck, Tilnola, St. Louis, and Belleville with Pittsburgh capitalists for a large steel venture. Details are unclear due to damaged text but indicate funding and site plans for a substantial enterprise.
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New ‘Breck, Wonka Ty
Tilnola
St. Louis
Belleville
Pittsburgh
Ike Niko
Tragic infant and mother drown in millpond near Lititz
In Reauina Pennsylvania near Lititz Lancaster County a laborer named Adam Frantz lived with his wife and five children. While he worked the mother, suffering mental distress, led the children to a millpond edge and threw the eldest into the stream, followed by two others and finally the infant and three year old before leaping in herself. Rescuers saved the three oldest but the mother and two youngest perished.
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Bris
Reauina
Aiam Piantz
Lititz
Lancaster County
Binkley's Mill
Three Italians Convicted in Watest Trunk Murder Case
In Chicago on May 12 Giovanni Azzaro Antonio Mercurio and Ignazio Bove confessed in court to murdering Philip Caruso by strangling him in a house on Tilden Street before packing the body into a trunk and shipping it. The trio, with Girardo not present at the moment of death, face murder charges while two men are held as accessories.
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Chicago
Giovanni Azzeo
Antonio Mercurio
Ingarlo Bove
Phillipo Carusotre
Central Station
Gilardo
Carasoa
Turny
Caraso
Tim
Girardo
Tilden Street
Caruso
Augustino Gilardo
Jurado
Dude
Giovanni Azzaro
Innazzio Sygesti
Ignazzjo Bove
Relapse Feared as Grant Worsens and Other News
General Grant’s condition deteriorated with throat swelling and pain, despite morphine, as he slept fitfully and worked on his book. Frost damaged fruit crops in Centralia with mixed losses reported by strawberry growers, while Cobden reports minor berry and tomato damage. At Atlanta, the YMCA convention elected Major Joseph Hardie as chairman and noted 112,000 members in 850 associations. President to send Baylis Hanna to Persia due to Mrs. Heung’s health.
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General Grant
New York
Douglas
Grant
Centralia
the Sentinel
Cobden
Atlarta
Young Men’s Christian Associations
United States
Canada
Joseph Hardie
Selma
Ala
London
Berlin
International Committee
Anant Fous
Naustes
Multiple Disturbing Events Mark Week Ended May 14
A compendium of late 19th century items notes a series of incidents and developments. A mother and her father, Rabbi Guntorf, died by suicide following family tragedy in Fremont Ohio and Indianapolis figures face political requests for foreign assignments. Rail and industrial activity, crop reports, a gas strike in Steubenville, and a fire at Duncansville accompany notices of corporate liabilities, marriages, suicides, and legal actions across several states including Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
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Openheimer
Fremont
Rabbi Guntorf
Connellsville Syndicate
Crane, Jackson & Crans, Books
Wall‘r and Pictures
Dayton
Indiana
Denby
Evansville
Enland
England
Claire
Wis
Grant
Allen Wrieh
Union Theological Seminary
G. L. Parker
Davenport
Fort Madson
Taos
Duncansville
Samuel Black
J.R. Osgood & Co
Boston
Harold B. Wallack
Lester Wallack
St. Louis
Brooklyn
American Congress of Churches
Hartford
Conn
American Tract Society
John F. Franklin
Grand Rapids
Mich
Cipciunati
Charles A. Spencer
Zachariah Nelson
Sheffer
Theodore Sears
Baltimore
Sear
Baker Bros. & Co
Frelinghuysen Dying Slowly in Milk Nourishment
New York and Washington reports on ex Secretary of State Frederick L Frelinghuysen’s failing health. Doctors say nourishment is milk and maladie affects the brain though no paralysis or inflammation is present. His condition is described as mechanical with occasional signs of intelligence.
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New York
Frederick L. Frelinghuysen
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Musser
Watson
New Yorke
David Dudley Field
Languages Club
Ind
Supreme Court
Canailians
Bast
Sisters of Charity
Royg! Grenadiers
Winnipeg Field
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Senincheny
Lincoln Monument Association
Springfield
National Lincoln Monument — Association
Abraham Lincoln
Oakridge Cemetery
Richard J. Oglesby
UL ‘Treat
John T. Stuart
John Willians
Janes C. Conkling
John M. Palmer
Jacob B. Bunn
Ozing NL Hatch
Billion Hay
Shelby M. Cullum
George N. Black
Lince Dubois
John W. Bunn
Aurion, AL
Miinda Brass
George Benham
T. MM. Eckley
McLeansboro
L. A. Abbott
Alton
C. P. Price
Lacon
Roy
Abbott
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Bloomington
C. M. Morton
William Tracey
Granville
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Persia
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Cleveland
Washington
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