Wolseley's Jibe at 'Mr. U. S. Grant'
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · United Kingdom
A small historical anecdote comparing British disdain for Grant's title to Lord Howe's famous slight of George Washington a century earlier.
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A COSTLY VICTORY
Daily Inter Mountain · July 13, 1900 · Pekin, China
A battlefield report on General Nieh's costly defeat of Prince Tuan's forces during the Boxer Rebellion, interwoven with a note on Li Hung Chang's uncertain departure from Canton.
LI HUNG CHANG'S ACTION
Daily Inter Mountain · July 13, 1900 · Pekin, China
A German report that Li Hung Chang, acting on a secret imperial edict naming Prince Tuan among the rebels, was dispatching thousands of troops toward Pekin.
DATE OF THE MASSACRE
Daily Inter Mountain · July 13, 1900 · Pekin, China
A short, chilling wire relaying an unconfirmed report that all foreigners in Pekin's besieged legations had been massacred.
Cheered by Campos
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · Santiago, Cuba
A wire dispatch from the Cuban insurrection describes the arrival of a new Spanish commander, a skirmish near Guantanamo, and the grim fate of a band of rebel prisoners abandoned by their own leaders — a vivid, largely forgotten dispatch from the opening months of the Cuban war for independence.
HAVE A BIG PROGRAM
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · Berlin, Germany
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.
First Skirmish at Sea
The Laurens Advertiser · August 5, 1914 · Aland Islands, Sweden
Two terse wire bulletins mark the first naval engagement of the war in the Baltic and Italy's declaration of neutrality.
The Peasants Are Rising
Fergus County Argus · August 29, 1905 · Odessa, Russia
Agrarian revolts spread through southern Russia as peasants destroyed landowners' estates near Elizabethgrad and Alexandria, a small dispatch capturing the unrest that preceded the 1905 Revolution.
Germans Defeated At Ossowetz Fort
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · February 21, 1915 · Ossowetz, Poland
A brief Russian dispatch claiming a German defeat at the Ossowetz fortress in Russian Poland — a small, largely forgotten episode of the Eastern Front's early fighting.
News About Transports
The Evening Bulletin · June 23, 1900 · Manila, Philippines
Routine but revealing dispatch on American troop transports moving between Manila and China amid the Boxer crisis, delayed by storms.
China Pays Off Her Debt
Rock Island Argus · May 7, 1898 · China
China completed payment of the final installment of its war indemnity to Japan, closing out a debt from the Sino-Japanese War.
Czar Rejects Press Law Petition
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · St. Petersburg, Russia
The Russian czar dismissed an appeal from seven journalists and writers seeking looser press restrictions, with a government commission ruling collective petitions illegal and defending the existing censorship regime.
The War's Toll Upon Horses
Mesa Free Press · June 1, 1900 · South Africa
A period reflection on how mechanization was pushing horses out of daily life even as the Boer War created a massive demand for them—and killed them by the thousands.
The Cost of Strong Drink
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876 · England
A fragment of a longer essay on the vast sums spent on alcohol in Britain, comparing the waste to squandered fuel in a steam engine and calling for a more searching inquiry into drink's toll on health, morals, and the public purse.
Birthday of Pius IX
The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · June 16, 1872 · Rome, Italy
A dispatch marking the 80th birthday of Pope Pius IX and the diplomatic ceremony surrounding French ambassadorial credentials, amid hostile coverage from the revolutionary press.
Mid-China Stations Quiet
The Evening Bulletin · June 23, 1900 · Kasheng, China
Presbyterian missionaries in central China report calm, a small reassurance amid the wider Boxer panic.
Madrid Newspaper Editors Ordered Arrested
San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895 · Madrid, Spain
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.
China Secures a Loan in Germany
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · Berlin, Germany
A short financial dispatch on China's post-war borrowing from German banks, part of the scramble by foreign powers to gain financial leverage over Beijing after its defeat by Japan.
Foreign Office Pleads Ignorance
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · London, England
British officials sidestep questions about a diplomatic ultimatum to Nicaragua, a minor but telling episode in Britain's gunboat diplomacy of the 1890s.
New Treaty Ports for China
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · Shanghai, China
A brief dispatch names five Chinese cities reportedly chosen to be opened to foreign commerce as the Sino-Japanese peace terms took shape.