Fall of Khartoum and rise of British control in Sudan
A sweeping historical account details the 1885 fall of Khartoum to the Mahdist forces, the death of General Gordon, and the later 1898 British triumph at Omdurman under Kitchener. It traces the Mahdist rise, Abdallah’s rule, and Slatin Pasha’s long captivity before escape, highlighting the strategic and commercial shifts in the Sudan.
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England
London
Gordon
Khartoum
Egypt
Central Africa
Omdurman
Nile
Soudanese
Horatio Herbert Kitchener
G. B
M. G
Ireand
Atock
Sirdar
Khalifa Abdullah
Kordofan
Soudan
Blue Nile
White Nile
Goron
Abdallah
Bahr-el-Ghazal
Darfur
Abyssinia
Low Nile
Fam
Slatin
Rudolph Slatin
Slatin Pasha
Brooklyn’s First Citizen Jaimes Stranahan Statue of Prospect Park
Jaimes T Stranahan born April 25 1808 in Peterboro NY rose from farmer’s son to Brooklyn’s influential civic figure. He shaped waterfront development and park expansion including Prospect Park and Washington Park and helped advance the Greater New York unification idea. Frederick MacMonnies sculpted his bronze statue unveiled June 6 1891 in Prospect Park.
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Brooklyn
Jaimes 8. T. Stranalan
Peterboro
Madison County
N. Y
Rhode Island
Mr. Stranahan
Great Northwest
Stranahan
Prospect Park
Greater New York
New York
First Woman Balloonist goes aloft in 1855 press hail
Mrs Lucretia Bradley Hubbell living in Norwich Conn became the first woman to ascend in a balloon. She rose at Easton Penn on March 25 1855 at age 27. Contemporary papers praised the feat as a marvelous achievement for women.
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Lucretia Bradley Hubbell
Norwich, Conn
Easton
Penn
Hubbell
Evacuation Talks Include Cuban Autonomy in Play
Washington dispatches report Havana backing for a role in shaping evacuation terms. The colonial regime and autonyms coordinate with Spain, creating pressure to settle Cuba's future questions before evacuation. Officials expect evacuation to begin within a month but extend over months due to troop numbers and transport limits.
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Cuba
Washington
Havana
Spain
United States
Unba
Madrid
Santiago Customs Figures Report by Donaldson
Collector Donaldson's report covers the Santiago customs transactions from July 16 to September 1 totaling 107 783 dollars. Payments of 18 101 dollars were made for sanitary and similar purposes, police and municipal salaries, customs officials salaries, and miscellaneous expenses. The annual income of the province is estimated at 2 150 000 dollars.
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Donaldson
Santiago
Province of
Express Train Robbery Near Kansas City by Highwaymen
The Colorado and Coffeyville express train on the Missouri Pacific line left Kansas City at 9:15 PM Friday night was held up six miles from the city. Robbers detached the locomotive and baggage car and blew open the Pacific Express Company car with dynamite. The amount of loot is not yet known.
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Missouri
Colorado and Coffeyville
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Kansas City
Pacific Express Company
Tennessee and Vermont figures to join war department probe
General W H Jackson of Tennessee has received a telegram from President McKinley requesting him to serve on the commission to investigate the war department and will accept. Ex Governor Woodbury of Vermont was offered and confirmed to have accepted a place on the commission at the White House on Wednesday.
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Jackson
Tennessee
Woodbury
Nashville
W. H. Jackson
McKinley
War Department
Vermont
Has a Temple of Serpents in Dahomey Celebrated Site
The article notes a temple of serpents in Dahomey famed for housing over 1,000 snakes of varying sizes. Priests feed them with birds and frogs offered by natives as part of local ritual practice.
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Dahomey
Aided By Mrs Pinkham Testimony From North Dakota
Mrs W E Paxton of Youngtown North Dakota shares a testimonial about recovering after childbirth using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound She describes relief from leucorrhea bearing down pain and headaches after two thirds of a bottle and two more bottles Her letter endorses the remedy for female weakness and praises Mrs Pinkham's guidance with Lynn Mass as address
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W. E. Paxtonx
Youngtown
North Dakota
Dean
Proewam
Lydia E. Pinkham
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Grordon
Chen
Mahdi
Mahdi Khalifat
Hasul
Sayid
Savid Na el Mahdi
Hicks Pacha
Rahad
Raoul Pacha
Meroe
Khedive
Gessi Pacha
Mohammed Ahmad
Africa
Khalifa
Wingite
Baron Heidler
Cairo
Hussein
Assuan
Dervis Ortry
Suatin Pasha
James
T. Atranatian
Tom
Commission
Topeka
Hostetter
TPO
C. CO
al Driggista
Cn Ee
Coban
Alles
Isle of Pines
Havana Provines
G. C
Hood
G.I. Hood&Co
Lowell
Masa
Jinks
Tinks
New York Weekly
Gambriel
Mrs. Pinkham
David H. Munpuy
Newark
Hemphy Company
Chicago
Montreal
Thompson
Dr HA Green
Atlan
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