THE LEAVENWORTH CASE

GETTING THE DATE
1876
  • At Little Big Horn, Souix Indians led by Sitting Bull defeat U.S. soldiers in Custer's Last Stand. The Souix victory is short-lived: public opinion turns against them, and soon they are moved permanently onto a reservation.   [Krista]

    •  1877
  • Alexander Graham Bell, with his assistant Watson, tours the country publicizing his new invention -- the telephone.   [Lauren]

  • A strike on the B&O railroad spreads across 11 states. When Pres. Hayes uses Federal troops to put down the strike, over 100 people are killed.   [Jessica]

  • JUNE 21: 11 members of the Molly Maguires are hanged in Scranton, Pennsylvania, for the murder of coal mining officials and policemen in connection with labor disputes.   [Greg]

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    1878 -- YEAR OF PUBLICATION
  • JANUARY 10: Senator Arlen A. Sargent of California introduces a women's suffrage amendment in Congress.   [Katie P.]

  • Henry George publishes Progress and Poverty, calling for a single tax on land as a means to improve the alarming inequalities in wealth in the U.S. that have come about as a result of industrialization.   [Jessica]

  • Congress passes the Posse Comitatus act, forbidding the American military from acting as a domestic police force.   [Chip]

  • First typeshift typewriters are invented.   [Kerry]

  • Henry James' "Daisy Miller" is published.   [Sean]

  • The first central switchboard for telephone service in New York City is opened.   [Carla]

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    1879
  • First using carbonized cotton for a filter, and then carbonized bamboo, Thomas Edison invents a functioning lightbulb.   [Sergio].

  • FEBRUARY 14: Senator Blanche K. Bruce takes his place in the Senate, and in the history books: he is the first Senator to have been born into slavery.   [Eve]

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    SOME ILLUSTRATIONS
    9 illustrations by G. W. Peters, as published in a 1906 edition of
    The Leavenworth Case (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons)
  • FRONTISPIECE: "I did not go, but stood watching the firelight flicker..."


  • CHAPTER 5: "What was my astonishment to come upon..."


  • CHAPTER 6: "I lifted my hand to knock"


  • CHAPTER 6: "Her whole appearance was so startling..."


  • CHAPTER 9: "...she had something concealed there..."


  • CHAPTER 17: "Go back!" he whispered. "Go back!"


  • CHAPTER 29: "...I turned towards the silent figure..."


  • CHAPTER 30: "I... saw her moving around the room"


  • CHAPTER 32: DON'T LOOK UNTIL YOU'VE SOLVED MYSTERY

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