Weekly News Review item on wide range of 19th century events
A long dispatch notes Tyre stock mania in New York, Halloween snowfall on the Atlantic coast, Cornwallis surrender anniversary at Yorktown, a large counterfeit gang in St Louis, a Martinsburg Kentucky jail raid, Grant’s California visit and reception, Ute and Sioux Indian hostilities, balloon tragedy near Lake Michigan, mass hog slaughter in Chicago, and multiple diplomatic and civil events across the era including Ohio election results, naval moves, and Asiatic crises.
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Cornwallis
Yorktown
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Grayson
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Scott County
John W. Kendall
William McMullan
Jack Frost
Memphis
Yellow Jack
Srrorat Acrat Adams
Schurz
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Gunnison Rivers
Merritt
Hume
Morrow
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United States Eleventh Infantry
Morvil
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Maj
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George Burr
John Wise
St. Louis
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Lake Michigan
W. H. Donaldson
Newton Grimwood
Chicago
Wise
Grant
San Francisco
California
Pacific
Sam
Spain
Increased English iron trade and emigration to the United States
The English iron trade gains from large U.S. orders while the wool market rises. Many mill operatives and silk weavers depart for the United States with others to follow, as three English bicyclists and a French champion head to America.
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United States
England
Cuba
St. Petersburg
Kussia
Jamaica
London News
Russia
Corps A'D'armee
Afghanistan
Durixe
Mob Hangs acquitted man Bill Young in Clark County
A Keokuk dispatch reports Bill Young lynched at his home near Luray after an acquittal for the Spencer family murder. A mob of 200 to 500 men, including Detective Lane and some Illinois and Iowa residents, surrounded the house, fired, and, after Young declined to confess, forced him to his death and burned the dwelling.
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Keokuk
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Cahoka
Spencer
Luray
Cahoka §O
Young
Miss Bray
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J. ©. Coffman
Toledo
Swagogrand Grove
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Costa
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Detective Lane
National Militia Proposal Seeks 200000 Man Force
Gen Benet chief of ordnance urges a national militia of about 200,000 by enrolling state militiamen once efficient and under general government pay. Inspectors from regular army and civil life to judge readiness with half from Union and half from former rebel troops. States may withdraw at will under rules, with a $4,000,000 appropriation proposed.
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Ordnance
Col. Benet
Ihs
Advance in Paper Prices Raises Costs for Printers and Creatives
A Cincinnati meeting of print and book paper manufacturers on October 23 approved a further half cent per pound rise, following an earlier late October increase, lifting overall paper prices by about twenty percent over six months. The circular from Kepir's manufacturers warns that ongoing material cost pressures may trigger additional rises if stock prices increase.
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Cincinnati
Crneaimers
Kepir
Pears and a Cent Joke In a Huckster Swap
A man pays 3 cents for a pear and reveals he took a pair, prompting the huckster to acknowledge the dodge. The exchange ends with the buyer keeping the joke and the huckster keeping the extra penny.
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Buster
The Meeker Family Captivity and Susan Johnson’s Role
A Denver Zeitune correspondent recounts the Meeker family release from Ute captivity at Los Pinos. Susan Johnson, Johnsons wife and sister to Ouray, advocates for peace and captives relief amid council factions. Gen Adams ultimately orders release, while the narrative details Meeker and Price women enduring brutal captivity and resistance.
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Adams
Indiana
Grand River
Gen. Adams
Ouray
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Douglass
Misa Meeker
Massacre at the Agency Reported in Meeker Narrative
Josse Meeker recounts Indian anger over land plowings and a secret council that sparked a looming massacre. A woman, Jane Panvitts’s wife, allegedly triggers the unrest as a messenger brings news of soldiers fighting before twenty armed Utes attack the agency, while the author hides with his mother in the kitchen.
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Mr. Price
Jane
Panvitts
Elbridge
Douglass
Indiana
Wash
Utes Massacre Survivor Recalls Flight and Rescue
Josephine Meeker recounts the Ute attack on Douglass’s camp, her family fleeing through smoke and dust, many captured or injured, and eventual rescue by Gen. Adams's force. She describes scenes of firing, coercion by Pursune, and a perilous journey toward Uncompahgre with her mother and Mrs. Price.
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Poraune
Duck
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Johnson
Jack
Ouray
Grand River
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Plateau Craek
Gen. Adams
Bey
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Capt
Cline
Mr. Sherman
Josephine Meekeer
Seeing the Circulation of the Blood by a Greifswald Savant
Dr. C Huter a German savant demonstrates blood circulation by exposing the lip surface under a microscope with a lamp. A stream of blood corpuscles flows through tiny capillaries, white specks marking colorless cells amid the red stream. He claims noting variations aids disease treatment.
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C. Huter
Greifswald
Hater
Selected Miscellany Reflections From Various Authors
A collection of aphorisms and maxims from Richard Buller Sir Thomas Browne Arabic proverb and J Foster. It contrasts wisdom with riches notes on reason experience and self interest. The passages discuss recreation happiness and moral guidance with concise reflective statements.
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Thomas Browne
J. Foster
How We Catch Cold
The London Lancet questions the nature of cold arguing it may be more than a chill. It outlines several possible causes from surface chills to nerve disruption, airborne germs, and overall vitality, then advocates prevention through hygiene, fresh air, water, and steady habits.
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London Lancet
Swiss Prisons and Deadly Reform Debates
Swiss prisons are unsafe with escapes averaging one per year. In 1861 two chained convicts tunneled out of Lucerne, breaking into a smithy to free themselves. Calls grow for a centralized prison system. Uri recently enacted a death penalty for willful murder to be carried out before authorities.
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Switzerland
Lucerne
Uri
Landrath
Pall Malt Gazette
Power of the Press and its Silent Fight Against Evil
A reflective passage praises the steam press as superior to war drafting its moral victory. It extols the printing press as a powerful instrument exposing vice and shaping minds, likening its impact to decisive weaponry while remaining a peaceful force enduring beyond time.
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Chapin
Bath Tramp Brings Oxford Tale and Whisky Oath
A Bath, Maine, tale tells of a rough young tramp dubbed the worst drunkard in America who nonetheless recites classic literature from memory. Though a Bath merchant offered a clerkship, the Oxford graduate refused, declaring he would not trade whisky for a $1,000 daily salary.
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America
Bath
Oxford
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