A Reuter's telegram states that the island of Barbados, in the West Indies, has bean devastated by a hurricane of almost unparalleled violence. ...
Article : 214 wordsWhile proceeding up the White Nile the gunboat Sultan intercepted the dervish garrison of Kedaref, who were making for the river from Kedaref, n position near the ...
Article : 146 wordsSir George Grey, formerly Governor of South Australia, Cape Colony, and New Zealand, and afterwards Premier of the last-named colony, died yesterday, aged 86 years. ...
Article : 120 wordsThe commissioners appointed by the United States Government to conclude a treaty of peace with Spain have sailed for Europe, en route for Paris, where the sittings of the joint ...
Article : 157 wordsThe three powers forming the triple alliance, Germany, Austria, and Italy, have acquiesced in the proposal by "the Czar Nicholas of Russia for a conference to ...
Article : 69 wordsOn receipt of the news of the fall of the dervish garrison at Fashoda, Sir H. H. Kitchener started on the 8th inst. with a gun-boat expedition for Fashoda. ...
Article : 300 wordsThe United States Government has decided to strengthen its position at Manilla in view of the possibility of difficulties arising with the insurgents. ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Sunday paper, the Observe, states that Major Esterhazy, who has become notorious in connection with thw Dreyfus case, is now in London, and has made an important ...
Article : 83 wordsFurther particulars Lave been received respecting the terrible hurricane which has devastated the islands of the West Indies, with the exception of Jamaica. ...
Article : 190 wordsThe anarchists have followed up the assassination of the Empress of Austria by an attempt to murder the Prince of Naples, son of King Humbert, and heir to the throne of ...
Article : 76 wordsCaptain C. J. Coventry is about to proceed to Benin, the barbaric kingdom of West Africa which was conquered by Great Britain last year, for the purpose of ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Swiss Government has taken action against the anarchists who are supposed to have been concerned in the assassination of the Empress of Austria, at Geneva. ...
Article : 111 wordsMuch alarm has been caused by the persistent attempts at train wrecking which have been made lately in tho Midland counties. The Midland Railway Company is taking ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Paris journal, Le Temps, published an important article dealing with the situation at Fashoda. It Says that France attaches real importance ...
Article : 57 wordsA remarkable balloon ascent has been made from the Crystal Palace grounds. It was undertaken for scientific purposes, under the auspices of the British Association. ...
Article : 108 wordsThe first of a series of five matches between the 22 footer Irex, belonging to Mr, Murk Foy, of Sydney, and the Maid of Kent, a boat specially built for the contest by the ...
Article : 189 wordsIt is expected that news will be received on Friday next of Sir Herbert Kitchener's military expedition up the White Nile to Fashoda for the purpose of expelling the ...
Article : 54 wordsGreat Britain has been asked by Chili and the Argentine Republic to arbitrate in the boundary dispute between the two countries, which has for some time past been regarded ...
Article : 44 wordsMount Vesuvius, the celebrated volcano overlooking Naples, is in a dangerously active condition of eruption. The manifestation is greater than any that have occurred since ...
Article : 143 wordsSir William Martin Conway, well known for his explorations in the Himalayas and Spitzbergen, has ascended Mount Illimani, the highest peak in the Bolivian Andes. T[?] ...
Article : 47 wordsThe long list of Alpine fatalities this season has reached a lamentable addition by the sad death of Lady Halle (Madame Norman Neruda), the distinguished violinist, and ...
Article : 93 wordsMr. Wm. Davidson, of Tambo Crossing, met with a painful accident on Monday, which might have resulted very seriously. He was yarding horses just at dusk, and ...
Article : 125 wordsFurther light has been thrown upon tho attempt to poison the Emperor and tho Crown Prince of Korea, on Sunday last, in connection with which 11 court officials have ...
Article : 104 wordsAdvices from China State that riotous mobs have attacked the American and French mission station at Chunking, an important only and river port in the western province ...
Article : 78 wordsThe P. and O. Company's R.M.S. China, which went ashore at Perim, near Aden, in March last, has at length been floated off tho rocks upon which she struck. ...
Article : 45 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: