Coal as Sun Power Kept in Earths Storehouse, Says Engineer
Mr G A Kegworth argues coal is ancient sun energy stored in plants and released by burning. He explains engines convert coal to heat steam motion then electricity via dynamo and electric lamps. He cites Sir William Armstrong using a waterfall to power a dynamo lighting a library, signaling future coal economy.
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Greek Archbishop of Adrianople beaten to death
The Greek Archbishop of Adrianople was killed by Bulgarians. Port officials appoint commissioners to oversee Asia Minor reforms. Henry Bigelow Williams, a Boston real estate dealer, failed on the 23rd with liabilities at 2,200,091. Thomas Sutton, a ship-owner from Shields and Newcastle, failed on the 20th with liabilities over 600,000.
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Russian Grand Duke exiled over railway pamphlet
The Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia is exiled to Orenburg for promoting a railway from Orenburg to Taskend to push Britain to drop Eastern policy resistance. A Chicago cook dies after a lamp explodes in a restaurant basement. Ballot-box stuffing leads to fines and jail for Roush Scott Brown in Pittsburgh. Chandler elected to US Senate by Michigan Legislature. A Selma train wreck kills three and injures many. superintendent Stanton among the fatally injured.
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Senate report cites clerical error in Hot Springs omission
A Senate special committee report concludes the omission of the Hot Springs section from the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was a clerical error by overworked House enrollers. It states no Senator or Senate officer bears responsibility and the bill’s flow from House to the President’s desk left no Senate involvement.
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Bishops condemn Irish university policy at Maynooth
Eighteen Irish Catholic bishops meet at Maynooth on the eighteenth and adopt resolutions censuring the government over university education. Disruptive scenes in Cairo surround Egypt’s officials, while the Khedive’s guards disperse rioters. In Germany the Reichstag backs socialist law questions and arrests bill. Nubar Pasha resigns at the Khedive’s demand. Burmese king allegedly murders royal princes and seizes ministers. Swiss seek new colony in Georgia. The Shooting Star reaches Delaware Capes with Angell aboard on the way to Philadelphia.
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Turbulent Newswire Mix of Wars Bombs and Assassinations
Intelligence reported uprisings in Mayti with government forces suffering 35 killed and 89 wounded. Prisoners were executed and George Washington colored was hanged after a botched attempt. British and Scottish merchants faced 1 250 000 in liabilities. Other reports covered Nihilist shooting in Russia, Porte dropping minister replacement, Bulgarian Assembly opening, a Brook ton boiler explosion killing 16 and injuring 26, and a Lincoln New Mexico county seat clash with lawyer H J Chapman killed.
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Manr Kents
Astrakhan
Prince Kropotkine
Chaikoff
Russia
Lincoln County
New Mexico
H. J. Chapman
Lincoln
Senate and House actions across Feb 18–24 era in 1879 session
A detailed roll of Senate votes on the Hoone bill to fund the public debt with certificates of deposit, tax amendments, and various appropriation bills. Memorial services were held for Schleicher and Quinn. House actions included juror oath repeal debates and pension arrears measures. The period covers Braden’s naval appointment, Behring voyage bill considerations, Texas and Florida contest events, and remarks on postwar investigations.
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Tursday
Senate
Hoone
Honda
Internal Revenue Laws
Tobreco
Nayr
Provident
United States
Schleicher
Quinn
House
Wis
Spruille Braden
United States Navy
Braden
Post Office
Bhieldamide
Florida
Aise
Inley
Bisbee
Finley
Welah
Williams
Trade and Health Bills Move in Conference Committee
A conference committee was ordered on the controversial Pobaono bill amid votes split on funding for additional wartime bounty and public health provisions. The Civil Appropriation bill faced rule changes and a reduction from 6 36 000 to 18 in amid tense legislative session.
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Contazioni
Iowa News Items Include Suicides Marriages and Fires
Reports from Keokuk County describe farmer Banner of Gorman Township dying by his own hand after a botched suicide attempt and other notes mention a marriage in Iowa despite parental opposition. The item also covers a bank relocation, counterfeit tickets, postal clerks, local politics, a train wreck near Creston, arson at the Metropolitan Hotel in Fort Madison, and a long Brazilian famine analysis with rail relief proposals.
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Gorman
Keokuk County
Towa
Wolk
Mise Dore
Wolff
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Marshall
Iowa
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Astale Reiner
The Brazilian Calamity Described in Tribune Summary
The famine devastated a large Brazilian province with two and a half million people. A drought in 1876-77 ruined crops, leaving 900,000 in the drought area to starve. By 1877 and 1878 refugees crowded towns as food animals perished and migration intensified.
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Brazil
Chicago Tribune
Bats And Their Ways In Natural History
A London Naturalist note describes bat behavior including nocturnal activity, maternal care by female bats, their wandering daytime roosts, and the way young learn to fly. It outlines how mothers provide for offspring until they can fly, and how bats spend winter roosting in caves and willows in groups.
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