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The Cairo Bulletin · July 18, 1873
The Queen's Reply on International Arbitration; Don Carlos Issues an Order; Ex-Queen Isabella to Arrive in Brussels
Foreign wire items: Queen Victoria's formal reply favoring international arbitration read to the House of Commons, a harsh order from the Carlist pretender Don Carlos in Spain, and news of ex-Queen Isabella's impending arrival in Brussels.
Rock Island Argus · May 7, 1898
Bread riots and clashes between mobs and police prompted martial law across Tuscany, with anger directed especially at grain speculators.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895
A Spanish diplomat casts doubt on an American steamer captain's account of an incident at sea, in a small diplomatic sparring match tied to the Cuban crisis.
San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895
A fragment of a dispatch reporting that a Spanish court ordered the arrest of two newspaper directors in Madrid for allegedly inciting soldiers, amid fears of unrest.
San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895
A grab-bag of world dispatches from a single day in March 1895 — German parliamentary politics, a royal Italian engagement, arrested Spanish editors, a Scottish thread cartel's price cut, the Garibaldi monument in Rome, and British aid to Newfoundland's fishing fleet.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895
Russian newspapers denounce the peace terms ending the First Sino-Japanese War, foreshadowing the diplomatic crisis over Japan's territorial gains in Manchuria that would soon draw in the European powers.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895
A London cable dispatch reports that Europe's great powers, despite Russian objections over Port Arthur, appear unwilling or unable to interfere with Japan's peace terms against China, then drifts into a wide-ranging roundup of British political, religious, and theatrical gossip of the week.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895
A dispatch from Berlin previewing a contentious Reichstag session over an anti-revolution bill, plus German diplomatic maneuvering on Nicaragua, the Sino-Japanese peace treaty, and Standard Oil's dealings with Russian oil interests.
The Cairo Bulletin · July 20, 1873
The president of the Brooklyn Trust Company, who drowned days earlier at Coney Island, is revealed to have looted the bank of hundreds of thousands of dollars, prompting suspicion his death was suicide rather than accident.
Earliest recovered: January 19, 1867
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