The feat of crossing and recrossing the English Channel was performed for the first time last night by Mr. C. S. Rolls, the English aeronaut and motorist. Mr. ...
Article : 286 wordsThe British Ambassador at Constantinople, Sir G. A. Lowther, has found it necessary to intervene in several cases in different parts of Turkey, wherein officials ...
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Article : 73 wordsOn the 300th anniversary of the canonisation of Count Carlo Borromeo, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan, who died in 1584, the Pope has issued an encyclical, ...
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Article : 89 wordsM. Veil Picard, a leading French owner of racehorses, is abandoning the turf. He declares that the suppression of the betting ring and the substitution of the ...
Article : 92 wordsA newspaper correspondent at Cairo states that Sir Eldon Gorst, the British Resident, has issued an order that for the future Egyptian natives will not be ...
Article : 112 wordsThe disturbances in the Yemen province of Asia Minor, which were caused by the revolt of the Sheikh Idris, the Assir chieftain, have reached a crisis. The Suez ...
Article : 89 wordsColonel Roosevelt has visited Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, who returned a few days ago from the South of France. The Nationalist native newspapers in ...
Article : 72 wordsGeneral Sir John French, who is inspecting the Canadian military forces, is much struck by the excellent training afforded by the Royal Military College, at Kingston, ...
Article : 95 wordsA notable feat with a dirigible balloon has been achieved by Colonel Capper, Commandant of the Balloon School of Instruction at Aldershot. ...
Article : 159 wordsThe State department of the United States Government has received information from China, where the native population is understood to be seething with ...
Article : 69 wordsice-cream made from rotten eggs has been responsible for an enormous number of poisoning cases throughout the district of Ravenna, in Italy. Eight hundred people ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Canadian Government has made representations to the Imperial Government in favor of the establishment of a joint tribunal for the regulation of ocean freight ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Consuls at Nanking are urging the subjects of the countries which they represent, residing in the city, to leave immediately, in consequence of a warning ...
Article : 58 wordsFormal recognition of the aid rendered to Italy at the time of the Calabrian and Sicilian earthquakes by various countries and their representatives has been made by ...
Article : 78 wordsAn international aviation carnival is to be held at Blackpool. It will open on July 28, and continue until August 20. Prizes amounting to £4,000 are offered. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe anti-Manchu rising in Nanking, the southern capital of China, has been crushed. The authorities have disarmed 7000 of the local troops, and has substituted 8000 ...
Article : 75 wordsThe world's second longest submarine cable has been opened for traffic. It has been laid between Ascension island and Buenos Ayres. ...
Article : 379 wordsIn consequence of the decision by the Court of Appeal last year that funds of a trade union were not applicable to the purpose of financing Parliamentary ...
Article : 106 wordsA desperate resolve was taken by three murderers who had been court-martialled ltai and sentenced to death at Chernigoy, in South-Western Russia They drew lots to ...
Article : 77 wordsIn 1806 a landslip on the Rossberg mountain near Sehwytz, in Switzerland, completely overwhelmed the village of Goldan and three other villages, by which 500 lives ...
Article : 104 wordsA boating accident, caused by foolhardiness, has occurred in the Gulf of Finiaul with the loss of six lives. A boating party from St.Petersburg, comprising five men ...
Article : 106 wordsThe announcement is made that a highly important insurance amalgamation has been arranged. This is the absorption by the Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ltd., ...
Article : 93 wordsSpeaking at a dinner of the Chamber of Commerce, at which he was a guest, yesterday evening, Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener made interesting references to ...
Article : 100 wordsLord Robert Cecil, in the course of an address at Huddersfield, bore eloquent testimony to the efficacy of the steps taken in Huddersfield for the saving of infant live. ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Committee on Foreign Relations of the United States House of Representatives is in favor of the introduction of a bill creating a peace committee to visit foreign ...
Article : 70 wordsA British association of wool buyers has boon constituted at Bradford. The chief object of the association is to conserve the interests of the industry, and ...
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