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Scientific American · August 4, 1877
A period editorial on the growing menace of torpedo warfare, calling for American inventors to devise defenses against these new naval weapons—an early glimpse of the arms race that would define modern sea warfare.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 13, 1885 · London, England
An anecdote recalling that Gordon confided a premonition of death before departing for the Sudan and gave away his keepsakes to a friend in anticipation.
The Evening Bulletin · June 23, 1900 · Cleveland, Ohio
General Nelson A. Miles, in Cleveland to observe an ordnance test, gives his measured assessment of the crisis in China.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 13, 1885 · London, England
An account of a tense cabinet session in which military officers pressed for urgent action in the Sudan while ministers, worried by Lord Wolseley's blunt criticism of London's ambiguous orders, urged caution.
The Evening Bulletin · June 23, 1900 · Washington, District of Columbia
Amid fears over the Boxer crisis, Washington quietly prepares to send additional American troops from the Philippines to China.
Daily Inter Mountain · April 11, 1901 · New York, New York
Handwriting experts testified against lawyer Albert T. Patrick in the sensational hearing over the death of Texas millionaire William Marsh Rice, a case that gripped the nation.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · Washington, District of Columbia
Congress debates a bill to restore Ulysses S. Grant's military rank and pension, with lawmakers sparring over whether the measure honors his Civil War service or shields the ailing former president from political embarrassment.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · St. Petersburg, Russia
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 · Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Britain's ambassador pressed the Ottoman government over its continued persecution of Armenians, drawing a promise from Turkish officials to instruct provincial governors accordingly.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 25, 1876 · Andersonville, Georgia
A firsthand account, relayed by the wife of a survivor, of how Confederate guards marked Independence Day 1864 at Andersonville prison by starving the men for three days — a grim footnote to the Civil War's most notorious camp.
The Cairo Bulletin · July 10, 1873
Two linked dispatches from the summer of 1873: the Indian affairs commissioner's planned tour of western tribes, and grim testimony from the military tribunal trying Captain Jack and other Modoc leaders for the killing of General Canby.
San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895 · China
Dispatch on Japan's naval campaign against the Pescadores Islands during the First Sino-Japanese War, a staging step toward the invasion of Formosa (Taiwan).
The Cairo Bulletin · July 13, 1873 · Rome, Italy
A short dispatch reporting the Pope's intention to elevate Archbishop Manning of England and two American archbishops to the rank of cardinal.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · London, United Kingdom
A tantalizing glimpse of a scandal a half-century old: newly surfaced letters in which Lady Byron accused her husband of marrying her purely out of a calculated desire for revenge.
Daily Inter Mountain · July 13, 1900 · Peking, China
During the Boxer Rebellion siege of the foreign legations at Peking, the U.S. tried to get a coded message to its besieged minister through the Chinese envoy in Washington, even as Washington officials privately concluded the legation staff had likely been massacred.
The Evening Bulletin · June 23, 1900 · London, England
Britain's foreign office briefs Parliament on the fighting at Tien Tsin, detailing casualties among British, German, Italian and Russian forces and urgent calls for reinforcements.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 13, 1885 · Khartoum, Sudan
Two British officers who narrowly escaped Khartoum arrive with a first-hand account of the treachery that let Mahdist forces into the city and of Gordon's final moments.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · February 21, 1915 · United Kingdom
A German U-boat torpedoed the British steamer Cambank off the Welsh coast without warning, killing four crew, while a Norwegian vessel also went down after striking a mine — early glimpses of the unrestricted submarine war that would soon draw America into the conflict.
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · Khartoum, Sudan
As General Gordon's fate at Khartoum remained uncertain, opposition papers in London accused the British Government of hiding a letter in which Gordon explained he had sent Colonel Stewart away to save his life while resolving to die at his post himself.
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · London, England
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.
