Prohibition margin, smugglers slain amid border clash
The report notes a 29 438 majority for the Iowa prohibition amendment and a border clash in which nine smugglers were captured and one officer killed. It recounts further dire events from assaults to fires, trials, stabbings, and political moves across the United States and abroad.
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Iowa
Mexico
Walter Mallery
Blanche Douglass
Je Cramer
New Haven
Connectit
Aries Swen
Boston
Cox
E. Stars
John B. Gaines
Louisville
Colpwater
Michigan
Doc. Leighton
Sevier County
Arkansas
George
West McCraven
George McCraven
Purcell Station
Indiana
Andrew MacIntyre
Jack Conelly
Lake Michi- Muskegon
Hilton
Nedafar
Chattanooga
Lopisvtxe
Miss
F. L. Jones
Orr Jones
S N. Stiles
Tariff Commission
Long Branch
Ian
America
Parrie Harson
Clinton
North Carolina
Henry Sellers
J.C. Fusseut
State Credit Democrats
Tennessee
Alexandria
Tuene
San Francisco
Baltimore
Cincinnati
St. Louis
United States
William Morrison
Ilinois
W. C. Kneffner
Congress
Wheeling
Mingo
Bellefontaine
Ohio
Adam Forepaugh
Bolivar
Baptist Council
Greenbush
New York
G. B. Simons
Gus. Wallace
Rior
Erie Railway Company
Jersey City
G. W. Bewrwerr
State National Bank
Elizabeth
New Jersey
Texarkana
Scoville
Guiteau
Sprague
Rhode Island
Des Moines
Wm. Osborn
Edward Norman
N. B. Heartwell
Miss Dana
Judge Na- Pier
A. Farkas
Vicksburg
Mississippi
Autopsy report on Charles Guiteaus body released
The Medical News of Philadelphia provides D. S. Lamb's official autopsy of Charles J. Guiteau. The Army Medical Museum notes delays, a 145 pound, 5 foot 7 inch man with yellow tint, eye and brain findings, skull and fissure details, and early postmortem observations before broader Ohio items and notices follow.
Destructive bombardment and massacre in Alexandria
Telegraph dispatch from July 12 5 50 p m reports batteries destroyed and hundreds killed as explosions engulf Fort Mex and the city. By July 13 the European quarter is burning, mobs pillage, and thousands perish amid chaos and anarchy in Alexandria.
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London
Alexandria
Adjemi
Invincible
Fort Mex
Abdria
Orr
Ras-El-Tin Palace
Helicon
Monarch
Penelope
Dervish Pascha
Ramleh
Port Said
Exchange and Telegraph Office
Alexandria Rage and Palace Attack Amid Wide Devastation
July 14 dispatch reports a massive city fire in Alexandria with two miles of homes burning and extensive looting. Marines occupied Fort Napoleon as 9,000 Egyptians faced a coastal threat while 600 refugees fled. Casualties are estimated around 2,000 with plunder and palace violence amid political pension debates in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexandria
Pelace
Solers
Ras-el-Tin
Fort Napoleon
Admiral Seymour
Senate
George A. Custer
House
Taylor
Garfield
Ohio
Secretary of the Treasury
Texarkana
Texas
Paragon
Traveling cloak guards privacy in sleeping cars
A thin all enclosing cloak buttons from chin to toes, worn by women to undress safely in sleeping cars and at night. It provides full coverage shielding against prying eyes and can be used as a night garment or for day travel, ensuring modesty and security in transit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago News
Thunder storm lesson in Dakota husband killed
A Dakota man who calmed his wife during a thunder storm was struck by lightning and killed instantly while the wife escaped serious injury. The Courier-Journal notes the irony and counsels husbands to avoid sitting on wives laps in storms.
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Scioto County
Adam Escn
Ohio State Fish Hatcheries
Blanchard River
Findlay
Wood County
St. Clairsville
Barton Station
Martie Estlack
Quincy
A. W. Estlack
Logan County
Samuel Houser
Piqua
London
Cixin Hoover
van Wert
Lawrence Shafenburg
Cleveland
Insane
Garfield National Monument Association
Hayes
R. B. Hayes
Amos Townsend
James Perkins
H. B. Payne
Schat Chamberlin
Charles Foster
James G. Blaine
Benjamin Dean
T. P. Handy
J. H. Rhodes
A. B. Cornell
J. H. Wade
John Hay
Enoch T. Carson
D. P. Eells
National Bank of Commerce
J. H.wade
National Garfield Monumental Association
L. P. Sturtevant
Conneaut
Grover McMillan
Canton
Mount Gilead
James Barker
Zanesville
Mount Vernon
Ashland County
John van Voorris
Cleveland, Akron and
Dakota
Courier-Journal
der Wyeek
Seabright
Blaire
Virginia
Wuld
Bae
Broadway rides end careers says NY papers admit
Some New York papers finally acknowledge that a Broadway stage ride can leave a man permanently out of shape for the rest of his life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
No President Has Left the Country While in Office
The remark notes that no sitting U.S. president has ever traveled outside the United States during a term. It emphasizes the rarity of such a move and frames it as a constitutional or historical point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Defenses of Alexandria Map from Chicago Daily News
A map depicts the surrounding terrain of Alexandria including harbors and forts. It marks the forts reportedly attacked by the English fleet and provides a visual guide to the city’s defenses as described in the Chicago Daily News report.
Egyptian bombardment report from Alexandria port
Telegraphs from London and Alexandria describe a two hour bombardment of Alexandria and its forts by a British fleet including the Inflexible Temeraire Penelope Superb Sultan Invincible Alexandria and Monarch. Fort Marsa el Kanat blown up. Ras el Tin Forts suffer. Ada magazine explodes. fortifications and breakwater described with figures. Political turmoil in Egypt persists with Arabi Bey rising and Khedive authority in question.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Seymour
Marsa-el-Kanat
Temeraire
Penelope
Superb
Sultan
Invincible
Alexandria
Monarch
Alexandre
Fort Pharos
The
Geneva Red Cross
Ras-el-Tin
Fort Ada
Vice-Regal Palace
Cairo
Alexandria’s harbor and city growth under the Khedive
Alexandria’s modern harbor rises inside a six mile long bay shaped by Ras-el-Teen and Mara bout Island. The Khedive’s improvements have modernized lighting paving and cleanliness, while new boulevards and rail links connect the Ramidh station to an expanding eastern district. A substantial breakwater project begins near Ras-el-Teen to ease loading and unloading against prevailing north winds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ras-el Deen
Port Said
Mex
Mahmoudieh Canal
Cairo
Ras-el-Teen
Marina
Admiralty Dock
Alexandria
Pharos
Gabari
Mehemet Ali
Eunostus
Khedive
Ramidh
Paris
Hyde Park
Eliot Warburton
Europe
Constantinople
Cape Adjemi
Marabout Island
Suez Canal
Crisis in Egypt Review Traces Path Since 1881 Uprising
A compact survey traces Egypt's crisis from February 1881 when the Cairo troops forced release of officers, through Arabi Bey's rise to power, the Khedive’s concessions, and the organic law that shifted budget control to a Notables chamber and the cabinet, with Britain and France protesting and the army aligning with Arabi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egypt
Cairo
Arabi Bey
Khedive
England
France
Chamber of Notables
Cherif Pasha
Egypts Army Structure in 1870s Organization and Reserves
The text outlines Egypts military setup with nine infantry, two artillery, three coastguard, three cavalry, and four gendarmerie regiments. Active service lasts three to four years, with six years in reserve and potential full field strength of 120,000 in invasion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexandria
Egypt
Tourah
Cairo
Commissariat
Bedaween
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Che Clermont Courier
Yankton
Dakota Territory
Thomas Eagan
Omeca
Wisconsin
WashincTon
Pennsylvania
General Grant
John Miller
Verne Clokey
Rev. Ross
Treland
Cork
Pacific
Skobeleff
Corpora
Alvero
San Luis Potosi
House of Commons
House of Lords
Mohoevaja
St. Petersburg
Iris
Turkey
Len. Wallace
Louis Philippe
Alexandrria
Malta
Pat Crowe
O’ Donovan Rossa
Moscow
Twinery
Bastijeur
Government Printing Office
Hennepin Canal
National Board of Health
Potomac Flats
Plumb
Committee On Public Lands
Missouri
Iron Mountain
Crapo
Randall
Treasury
Harrison
Geological Survey
Yeas
Morrill
United States Supreme Court
Public Printing Office
Baird
Library Committee
Andrew Jackson
Internal Revenue
Hawk
Holman
Cerebellum
Island of Beil
Rolando
Sylvius
Wernicke
Island of
Reil
Young
Ohio State News
George Allen
South & North Alabama
Birmingham
Ala
Quebec
Custom House
Lower Town
Chicago Daily News
Eye
Dervishh Pasha
Dervish Pasha
Chicago Tribune
James Booker
Lisbon Falls
South
Courier-Jour
California
Cowgill
Providence
Ravelieinns
Rochambeau
Frederick Denison
Boston Post
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