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May 4, 1863 – Rules In Regard To Letters To Go Beyond The Lines
In order to secure the transmission of letters across the lines, the following rules, established by an order of General Dix, must be complied with:
British Strike May Affect Big Tourist Service On Atlantic
New York, May 3.—(AP)—Disruption of what promises to be a record trans-Atlantic tourist service may result if the general strike in England, scheduled to go into effect at midnight, extends through the month of May, shipping line officials and representatives of British seamen said here tonight.
Estimates of the number of tourists going to Europe this summer based on advance bookings, reach as high as a half million persons.
Bookings have been so heavy that several of the larger lines are already sailing ships on an average of one a day.
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May 3, 1863 – Rebels Driven From Williamsburg—Affairs At Newbern
NEW YORK, May 2—The Herald learns that Col. Robert M. Westcott, from Fort Magruder, made an attack with infantry and cavalry on the enemy at Williamsburg, and succeeded in driving the rebels two miles beyond the town.—Our pickets are at present stationed there, and ordered to maintain the position as all hazards.
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May 2, 1863 – Latest News From Madison, WI
[Special Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.]
MADISON, Wis., May 1, 1863.
The national fast was observed here yesterday, by a total suspension of business, and a large attendance at church.
Four companies of the 80th regiment, in camp here, are ordered to St. Louis, and leave to-morrow.
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May 1, 1863 – Adult Minor Soldiers
Judge Ware, in a case that came before him in Portland for the discharge of a young man from the army on account of his age, laid it down as…
Fatal Colliery Explosion
An explosion of fire-damp took place in a colliery at Pemberton, near Wigan, on Friday evening last, by which no less than ten lives have been sacrificed, and six other colliers have been placed on beds of suffering, with scarcely a possibility of recovery.
The colliery is that called Norley-hall, and is worked by the executors of the late Mr. Danglish, of Pemberton. The coal-bed is one of considerable extent, and belongs partly to Reece Bevan, Esq., and partly to the estate of the late Duke of Bridgwater; but Mr. Daglish had power only to take the coal to the boundaries of Mr. Bevan’s estate.
French Guns Quell Riffs Led By Beni
OUJIDA, April 29—(AP)—Tribes which have been dickering with French and Spanish for peace have opened hostilities, necessitating of French artillery reprisals. Several French soldiers were killed or wounded when the…
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Professor Hurt While Defending Lady Passenger
LOS ANGELES, April 28.—Dr. William Denis Ward, head of the classical languages department of Occidental college, was confined to his bed today with a broken arm, received according to police,…
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Serious Insubordination on American Clipper
LONDON, April 24—The American clipper-ship Sovereign of the Seas, Warner, of New York, from Melbourne, reports that a serious affray occurred on board during the passage from Melbourne, arising from the insubordination of some of the crew, who are at present confined on board in irons.
On the 17th March, the ship on the Equator, long. 32, a quarrel took place between two of the steerage passengers, of whom there were seventy-six on board, and one of the crew. The mate interfered, and ordered the seaman on deck, but he refused, and became abusive, when he was put into irons by direction of the captain. After the lapse of about fifteen or twenty minutes, all the crew mustered aft, and demanded of the captain the immediate release of the man, an Englishman, or they said they would take the ship from him, amid loud murmurings and threats. Previously, it should be mentioned, reports had reached the captain of a contemplated attack to seize the ship.
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Airplane Able To Fly To Moon, Says Inventor
Italian Claims Craft Would Go on Indefinitely After Leaving Earth’s Atmosphere.
By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
ROME. April 27.—An airplane which its inventor claims can fly to the moon has been designed by an engineer named Gussalli at Brescia. The principle involved is entirely different from that of the air propeller.
Gussalli’s machine will make use of exhaust gas exploded violently against the fans of a turbine revolving 16,000 times per minute. The reaction against this explosion is calculated to make the plane move independently of a propeller.