Record of global news briefs from 1870s period
Reports on Karen rat plagues in Toungoo territory causing famine and church closures, Mark Grayson planning a world walk, Dominica boiling lake discovery, Canada Denmark arbitration debates, Beecher Tilton trial highlights, a tragic Paris balloon crash with survivor Tissandier, and balloon accident details with high altitude estimates.
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The
Philadelphia Ledger
Mark Grayson
City Hall
New York
Bomwine Laxrt
Joseph Sturge
Birmingham
Tagus
Bristol Mercury
Dominica
Freeland and Nicholls
Gardiner
Mr. Watt
Roseau
Canada
Denmark
Great Britain
United States
Italy
Sweden
Holland
Belgium
Mackenzie
House
Ottawa
Dominion
Copenhagen
Folkthing
Tur Beecher-Tilton
Beecher
Mr. Beecher
Mr. Tilton
Ralph
Mrs. Beech
Paris
Times
Phureday
MM. Tissandier
Croceginelli
Sivel
la Villette
Seine
MM. Croce-Spinelli
Ciron
The Burial Bills Fight in Parliament Premature Second Reading
The article notes a heated debate over Mr Osborne Morgan's Burials Bill with a key division on April 21 in the House of Commons. It also mentions a rival measure by the Church Defence party led by Mr Talbot and a pamphlet from the Liberation Society supporting burial law reforms.
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Osborne Morgan
W. Tart Dyke
House of Commons
W. P. Adam
Liberation Society
Talbot
Morgan
England
Wales
Church of England
Gustave Doré To Illustrate Shakespeare Volume
Art circles report Gustave Doré will be paid ten thousand dollars for illustrating a grand edition of Shakespeare. Plans call for a lavish Victorian volume to be published soon with Doré’s etchings and plates.
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Gustave Doré
Shakespeare
Royal events and reforms fill London society notes
Buckingham Palace prepares for the queen’s Windsor return and nearby ceremonies as the Osborne yacht is readied for June. Sir William Rose named Clerk of the Parliaments. Disraeli relative takes Deputy Clerk post. Arctic expedition planned with two chaplains. a Cambridge scholar dies by suicide in Clare College.
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Windsor
Metropolis
Buckingham Palace
Windsor Castle
Prince
Princess of Wales
Sandringham
Prince of Wales
Osborne
William Rose
K.C.B
John Shaw-Lefevre
Gladstone
Bartle Frere
Suffield
Probyn
Ellis
J. Durst
Duke of Cambridge
Disraeli
Earl of Jersey
Lord
Metropolitan Board of Works
Mansion House
William Codrington
Gourley
M.P
Sclater-Booth
James Hogg
John Gray
Glasnevin
Dublin
John
The
Freeman’s Journal
Carroll
O’connell
Ralph Disraeli
Court of Chancery
House of Lords
Bessemer Saloon Steamboat Company
Board of Trade
Bessemer
Whitsuntide
Norwich
Tillett
Baron Pigott
Metropolitan Asylums Board
Hampstead
Portsmouth
Arthur Holmes
Clare College
Cambridge
Henry Thompson
Manchester
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M. Tissandier
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Croce
Indre
M. Croce-Spinelli
M. Croce- Spinelli
M. Sivel
Feature
M. Gaston Tissandier