President urges U S to suspend transit laws with Canada
The article reports President Grant urging Congress to authorize suspending bond transit laws and restricting Canadian vessels if needed. It notes Canada’s stance on excluding U S citizens from the St Lawrence and compares navigation to free rivers like the Rhine and Danube. It also covers Montgomery’s diplomacy, Alabama claims, and the London mission upheaval including Motley’s recall and Moran's temporary role.
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Grant
Congress
United States
Canada
St. Lawrence River
Rhine
Danube
German Parliament Debates Imprisonment and New Constitution
In the North German Parliament on Saturday debate focused on the late imprisonment of Jacoby by General von Falkenstein and the legality of detention without trial. Ministers discussed a strengthened federal framework and the Bavarian Emperor proposal, with rising opposition to the Bavarian Convention.
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Jacoby
General von Falkenstein
Herr Dunker
Herr Delbruck
Count Bismark
Herr Winthorst
von Delbruck
Lee
Bund
Luitold
Bavaria
Prussia
Versailles
Bismarck Threatens Retirement Over Unaltered South German Convention
Bismark declares he will retire from office unless the South German Convention is adopted unaltered. The exceptional position accorded to Bavaria under the new Federal Treaties has made a bad impression in Wurtemburg, whose Government and people, as they have sacrificed their independence to unity, object to unity being impaired by another minor State.
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Bismark
Bavaria
Wurtemburg
Spain Offers Crown To Duke dAosta In Italy
The 109 Spanish deputation arrived in Florence to offer the Crown to Prince Amadeus. King Alfonso XIII assented and the deed of acceptance was signed at the Pitti Palace after the formal reception by the court authorities. The new king pledged loyalty to constitutional traditions and to the Spanish people.
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Italy
Duke d’Aosta
Florence
Pitti Palace
Zorilla
Amadeus
Duke d'Aosta
Spain
Public calm at Pekin as Rochechouart gains support
A telegram from Pekin reports M Rochechouart returning from Tientsin and praising the new Governor-General with public confidence restored. Gunboats from Britain, the U S A, France and possibly Russia will stay in Tientsin for the winter. A Shanghai message notes a Mongolian Tartar insurrection with 20,000 rebels marching on Durga and Fliagutai aided by 30 guns and 1,000 drilled soldiers with Russian rifles leaving Kualgau on November 21.
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Foreign Office
Wade
Pekin
M. Rochechouart
Tientsin
Shanghai
Mongolia
Durga
Fliagutai
Kualgau
Foreign Miscellany and Notable Orgs in Brief
A rumour divides on Queen Emma’s death while a Grand Trunk collision near Brighton kills three and injures one, with heavy derailment. West Indian federation talk seeks a single Governor General. Reverend Steinbaugh’s Palermo marriage shocks clerical circles. Bismark pleads with Pope to pacify Alsace Lorraine, Lincoln-era brief may echo Poland 1832. Vatican finances show strain despite 3,000,000 francs in gold and Bonaparte's escort.
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Emma
Sandwich Islands
Railway Conniston
Canada
Grand Trunk Railway
Brighton
Colonial Office
West Indian Islands
Brine
Mary A. Steinbaugh
Oberlin College
Palermo
Henry J. Bradford
Alsace
Lorraine
Gregory XVI
Poland
Count Bismark
Paris
Rome
Vatican
Holy Father
Peter Penny
Raphael
Cardinal Bonaparte
Napoleon
Rome Crisis Deepens As Vatican Under Guard
A Rome letter reports the Vatican secured with the Holy Father ill and in alarm amid demonstrations. If attacked, he would retreat to Porto d'Anzio then Malta aboard an English warship. The Quirinal to be occupied by Prince Humbert and wife, visiting Rome mid December, while General Lia Marmora moves to Florence then back at year’s start.
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Piazza Venezia
Vatican
Holy Father
Porto d
Anzio
Malta
Quirinal
Humbert
Rome
Lia Marmora
Florence
Royal visit highlights Windsor and Chiselhurst events
Reports detail a Wednesday visit by Her Majesty to the ex-Empress of the French at Chiselhurst and a return Windsor visit with the Prince Imperial. The Queen and Princess Beatrice inspect the Royal Albert Hall, with the project forecast to finish soon.
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Chiselhurnt
Windsor Castle
Imperial
Prince Arthur
Charles Fitzroy
Miss Phipps
Beatrice
Royal Albert Hall
Osborne
Dean of
Canterbury
Windsor
Prince and Princess of Wales
Sandringham
Princess Louise
St. George’s Chapel
Marquis of Lorn
Dundee
Louise
Balmoral
Abergeldie
Gladstone
London
Atheneum
Edinburgh Review
SH. Newell Martin
Christ’s College
Cambridge
Henry Martin
Welshpool
Royston
Herts
University of London
County Grand Orange Lodge
Belfast
Johnston
George Francis Train
Marseilles
Reform Club
Earl Granville
Forster
George Odger
War Department
Auberon Herbert
W. E. Forster
Lady Braxton’s
Cromer
Norfolk
Motley
Moran
United States Legation
England
Mr. Motley
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Sumner
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China
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