Word: gen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Representative J. S. Robinson of Ohio has recently made a valuable contribution to the ethnological collection of the Smithsonian Institute. It consists of a narrow bracelet of copper plated with silver, found in a mound on land along the Scioto river owned by Gen. Robinson, together with the skeletons of three mound builders, pieces of copper armor and curiously-fashioned arrow-heads. The wristlet is deemed especially valuable as an evidence of the ability of the pre-historic race which built the mounds to plate one metal on another...
...private telegram from Colorado announces the death yesterday of Commander Terry of the navy, of consumption. He was a grandson of Maj. Nathaniel Terry of Hartford, Ct., and a cousin of Maj. Gen. Terry...
...Gen. Garibaldi, who has been lying ill with bronchitis at his farm in Caprera, was yesterday pronounced to be in a dangerous condition, and all the members of his family residing in Rome and Genoa were summoned to his bedside. He failed rapidly, and died at 6.30 o'clock last evening...
...trial of Gen. Curtis, on the charge of collecting political assessments from the clerks in the New York Custom House, was in progress yesterday...
Russia is on the verge of a ministerial crisis. Gen. Ignatieff will probably resign...