Consul Riley in Zanzibar Shooting Guarded Flag Incident
Judge William G. Riley claims dispatch to Zanzibar under President Grant faced hostility from the sultan and guards. He fired on armed Arabs to defend the American flag, causing the sultanate to back down and Riley to serve five years in Zanzibar amid rising American trade.
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Zanzibar
William G. Riley
Accomac County
New York City
New York Herald
Grant
Riley
Thecom
Department of State
Arnold, Hines & Co
New York
Betram & Co
Salem
Ropes & Co
Boston
Sultem
Virginia
Sultana
Funston
Las Tunas
Cuba
Mendez
Barney Bueno
Troy Polytechnic School
New York State
Barney
Dixie
Formosa Cannibal Village Siege Amid Sacred Gods Visit
Adventurers Ludwig Stoepel and Leonard Walker trek Formosa's Mount Morrison area meeting Malay cannibal tribes. They witness war bands, skull decorations, and cannibal feasts, escape into a hut, are mistaken as gods, freed a captive, and endure a night in a cave before finishing their ascent.
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Yale
Ludwig Stoepel
San Francisco Examiner
Europe
India
China
Manila
Formosa
Leonard Walker
Philippines
Luzon
Mount Morrison
Ghost of the Sea Report of Flying Dutchman Sighted Aboard Albatross
In the south Atlantic the steamship Albatross reports sighting the Flying Dutchman as it kept pace windward while the ship moved 12 knots. The apparition’s sails were full yet no crew appeared, and the tale traces Falkenberg’s cursed voyage and eternal watch.
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London
Cape of Good Hope
South Atlantic Ocean
Falkenberg
M. Jal
Scenes de la Vie Maritime
Cape Horn
High Birth and Crime in Mafia Italy Exposed by World
The New York World details noble criminals amid Mafia power in Italy. Dukes, princes, and counts, including the Notarbartolo and Caracciola lines, face murder, blackmail, and fraud amid Maddalena prison. Count Schleinitz and a Berlin editor share blackmail schemes.
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Maddalena
Italy
New York
Marquis
Londonderry
Duke of
Elchingen
Fyffe
Avalos
Palermo
Rome
Caracciola
Regina Avalos
Regina
Elberfeld
Count Schleinitz
The
Independent
London
Schieinitz
Berlin
Champion Jim Jeffries Childhood Feats of Strength
Story from Tom Jeffries recalls Jim Jeffries defending himself after a teacher hit him with a ball at school. Another tale describes a hammer thrown near him at work that bounced off his chest without injury. A scaffold hook and a buck hunt illustrate similar resilience and extraordinary endurance in the future world heavyweight champion.
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Sand
Tom Jeffries
Jim Jeffries
Bob Fitzsimmons
Professor Baker
Jeffries
East Los Angeles
Jim
New York Telegram
Swish
Tom
Cc. W. Merry
Tehachapi
Cal
Spring Street
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Ecome
Consul Riley
Queen OF
Flying Dutchman
Atlantic
Mafia
New York Weekly Tribune
the Express
Defiance
Ohio
Ourecial
Burdick
Chicago
America
Smyth
Sears, Hoebuck & Co
Sears, Roebuck & CO. Inc
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