Vastness of Literature in British Museum Mentioned
Fragmented OCR notes discuss the British Museum housing a colossal literary work. It surveys ancient and modern Chinese press including Pekin Gazette and Shan-Pao, noting massive circulation, native authors, and debates on education and politics in late imperial China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National
L- British Museum
Pearson
Lopagdia
British Museum
Hich
China
Empire
Manchuria
Kaiping
Imperial army buys 100 horses in Ottawa report
A long Ottawa item notes Lieut.-Col. Dent purchasing 100 horses for the Imperial army, while other notes include James Calder & Co. of Hamilton assigning, a new Minto bridge opening planned for June, and various Canadian and British items such as census, rail work, and naval developments.
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Dent
Ottawa
John Calder & Co
Hamilton
Minto
Rideau River
McGill
British Columbia
Winnipeg
Dawson City
Canadian Steam Carriage Company
London
Wm. Macdonald
Moore
Montreal Gas Company
Chatham
Duke and Duchess of Cornwall
York
Lieut. S. Wilkes
Royal Military Colege
Kingson
Ford
India
Blue
Washington
United States
Pierre Brunel
Maisonniuve
Que
Norcross Bros
New York
Park of Montreal
Montreal
Dominion
George Turner Jefferson Blair
Martin McFadyan
Sprucedale
Muskoka
Doe Lake
Dr. Campbell
London Health Board
Col. Peters
Halifax
Admiralty
Kingston
Lord
Lady Minto
Mackenzie & Mann
Inverness and Richmond
Hawkesbury
C. B
Port Hastings
O'Grady Haly
Canada
Unconditional Surrender Demands and Loyalist Pleas
Cape Town dispatch reports the Kimberley South African League urging no settlement with the Boers unless it precludes future hostilities. Natal loyalists push for unconditional British surrender demands in future talks and question loan aid for returning refugees. About 1500 loyalists have returned home, with more expected in months.
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Cape Town
Kimberley
South African League
Natal
British Losses in March in South Africa
A London despatch reports British field losses for March 1900: 14 officers and 151 soldiers killed or died of wounds. 12 officers and 406 soldiers died of disease. 40 soldiers accidentally killed. Three officers and 36 soldiers were missing or prisoner. 129 officers and 2,940 soldiers sent home as invalids, totaling 3,069 active service losses. Hospitalised ranks near 7,000. Since war start to end of March deaths total 694 officers and 14,278 men.
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London
South Africa
England
Blood thicker than water in Pekin farewell
London dispatch reports the American cavalry and artillery transport departed Pekin. British generals staffs and many native officers gathered at American headquarters to bid farewell, illustrating strong camaraderie between English speaking forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Pekin
Times
Judges Salaries and Dominion Fiscal Debates
In the House discussions, a scheme ties judges' salaries to workload with raises for senior Circuit Court Montreal, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court North West Territories, Yukon Territorial Court, and Quebec Superior Court judges. Separate items cover U.S. imports and Yukon telegraph costs, plus Dominion Elections Act amendments and railway rolling stock funding. The Senate approves St Lawrence Lloyds insurance proviso and nickel steel company capital expansion, with Victoria Day expanded as a public and bank holiday and militia pension measures.
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Circuit Court
District of
Montreal
Supreme Court
North-West ‘Territories
Territorial Court
Yukon’ Territory
Superior Court of
Quebec
Terrebonne
U. S
Charlton
Paterson
United States
Yukon
Blair
Royal Party
Borden
Maritime
Rhodes
The British Census Shows London Population Rise
London census figures reveal the administrative County of London at 4,586,034 up 308,717 from 1891. Greydon and West ham are excluded from the tally though part of the house-covered area, with Westham rising 62,405 as the largest increase. Bath Chastier and Huddersfield show declines in this instalment.
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London
Greydon
Westham
Cronje's Wife Reported Insane in Exile
Despatch from Amsterdam, via St. Helena, says Mrs. Cronje, wife of the Boer general captured with him at Paardeberg, is suffering mental distress and believes herself to be ex-Empress Eugenie during the war.
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Amsterdam
St. Helena
Cronje
Gun Carriages To Be Preserved At London Edinburgh Dublin
London dispatch says Rt Hon William St John Brodrick Secretary of War announced in the Commons that the three gun carriages used at Queen Victoria's funeral will be kept. One will go to the Tower of London, another to Edinburgh, and the third to Dublin for deposit.
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Marquis of Bute
Edward
Mme. Patti
Craigy-Nos
Queen Victoria
House of Commons
London
William St. John Brodrick
Tower of London
Edinburgh
Dublin
Wholesale arrests hit St Petersburg over revolution drive
Despatch from St Petersburg reports a wave of arrests and seizures in the alleged revolutionary movement. Several hundred people have been taken in the last 48 hours, including a number of high position and well known individuals.
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St. Petersburg
New British Loan Details Revealed by Chancellor Hicks-Beach
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach announced a 30 million pound war loan. Of this, 11 million goes to the Rothschild syndicate, 10,090,039 to J P Morgan and Co, and 9,000,090 to the Bank of England.
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London
House of Commons
Michael Hicks-Beach
Rothschild Syndicate
J. P. Morgan, and Co
Bank of England
Queen Victoria statue to stand near Parliament buildings
A despatch from Ottawa reports Canadian sculptor Herbert will erect a statue of the Queen on the west mound by the Parliament buildings overlooking the Ottawa River. The pedestal will rise 14 feet with the figure nine feet high.
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Ottawa
Queen
Herbert
Parliament Buildings
Ottawa River
Murder at Waterval Bowen Transvaal
A Cape Town despatch reports a European woman, her son, and a native servant murdered at Waterval Bowen in the Transvaal. The woman was found with a fractured skull, the son with a shattered breast, and the servant shot. The house showed a violent struggle, but nothing was stolen.
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Cape Town
Waterval
Bowen
Ransvaal
Boer Capital Captured in London Dispatch
London report says four Boers killed, five wounded, 118 captured in recent operations. Thirty surrendered, 106,000 rounds, 129 wagons seized. total prisoners in a week reaches 638. Columns under Blood and Pulteney press on. fresh surrenders and stock taken at Tentesberg and Leeuwfontein.
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London
Lord Kitchener
War Office
Vetonia
Roos Senekal
Mr. Schalkburger
Col. Pulteney
Pulteney
Benson
Ben Viljoen
Colomso
Strelpoort
Sir Bindon Blood
Teatherstonhaugh
Tentesberg
Helvetia
Beatsen
Leeuwfontein
Blood
Brodrick declares willingness to fight abroad for imperial position
London despatch reports Secretary of State for War Mr Brodrick at a Guildhall banquet in Surrey challenging critics of his army scheme. He says Britain must be ready to fight on the Nile Yangtse Orange river or Indus to sustain commerce and empire. He asserts his plan is approved by the greatest living military authority and vows to push funding without delay.
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London
Guildhall
Surrey
South Africa
Wheat market firm in Toronto trade on May 7
Toronto markets report firm wheat prices with red and white futures and premiums for grinding in transit. Further notes cover Ontario grain, flour, oats, barley, rye, buckwheat, beans, hay, potatoes, and dried fruit with steady to easy conditions across commodities.
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Toronto
New York
Manitoba
West
Western Ontario
Cell Ag
Lake Ontario
Midland
Chicago
Duluth
Ex-Railway Contractor Rescued After Strychnine Attempt
Brockville despatch reports George T. Lillie drank strychnine to end his life on Monday. His daughter interrupted him. a doctor saved him with antidotes. After recovery he was arrested for unsound mind and may be committed. Earlier he smashed furniture, burned pictures, and threatened his wife. He has had heavy drinking for months.
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Brockville
George T. Lillie
Lillie
Russia to seek 500 million francs loan negotiations
A Berlin despatch reports the Vossische Zeitung says Russia arranged with French bankers for a 500 million franc loan. The rate of the issue is not fixed. The paper notes the loan may not cover Russia’s needs and that talks for an additional loan have begun with American and British bankers.
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Mexico
Constantinople
Copenhagen
Darmstadt
Vienna
Vien-Tsin
Weihaiwei
Galata
Turkey
China
Germany
Britain
Transvaal
Cape Town
Duke of York
Australia
Hong Kong
Pacific
Canada
Russia
France
Mascagni
America
Sialkat
India
Cail Rhoie3
de Boers Mining Company
Kimberley Council
Berlin
2 Vossische Zeitung
Too Late For The Census Triplets For Russell Family
A St John Newfoundland despatch reports Ben J Russell of the CPR round house at St Stephen received three newborns two girls and a boy on Tuesday night increasing his family from eight to eleven The event comes as census figures are being tallied for the region
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St. John
N. B
Ben. J. Russell
C.P.R
St. Stephen
Arnprior Man Injured by Dynamite Drill Incident
Arnprior Ont. dispatch reports seriously injured man Robert Watson after a dynamite drill pierced his body on Monday. Watson faces probable death as another worker named Toker sustained injuries in the same explosion.
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Arnprior
Ont
Robert Watson
Toker
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Hewson & Creswicke
Arristers
Surra& Court of Judicature
Ontario
Ross Block
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Wewson, A. BK. C. Oreewicke
Strathy & Esten Arkisiery
Hight Court O Justice
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Bank of Toronto
Doney
Losa
Stercent
Armatny
Q.C
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Fergy
Ault
Ross’ Block
Ross & Brokowsii
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Conveyancers
Bank of ‘Iironto
Wranch
Coldwater
Money To Soup
Donald Ross
LLB
J. C, Brokowski
Lennox
Ardagh
Cowan & Brown
Haughton Lennox
Alex. Cowan
B. Holford
G. E. J. Brown
LBB
Hinds
Arrie
Lennox & Ardagh
Gravenhuret
Creemore
Jiston
R. T. Banting
Ounty
Bank
P.O
Cooktown
J. C. Smith
Burgeon & OfFice
Owen and Collier
Sthetes
R. W. A. Ross
L.R.C
R. S. Broad
Toronto General Hospital
Emergency Hospital
McCarthy
Nex
McCarthy & Co
Dougal Bros
W. D. Maclaren
Cookstown
E. L. Breruton
Henderson's Hardware Store
Ientrance
Owen Street
Western Insurance CO
F/M. MONTGOMERY
John Rogerson
Fire and Life
P. O. Box
Hugh McKinnon
Gems
Dawson
Great Britain
Benjamin T. @liller
Seattle
Charles B. Gay
Arctic
Nome
American Cigar Co
Havana-American Cigar Co
Tampa
South Chicago
Dominion Elections Act
House
Monk
Nickel-Steel Company
Algoma Iron and Nickel-Steel Company
Fielding
Royal Mint
Pensions
Dr. Porden
North-West Mounted Police
Rockcliffe Range
Quebec Walls
Dr. Borden
City of
Parliament
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G.f
B.y
Cary
St. John, N.B
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