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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 08, 1894
Page
3
The fragmentary text references pork weights, irrigation, temple offerings, and a range of topics from military counts to dress codes and factory processes. It mentions ships, confederates, taxes, and varied innovations, but the scrambled OCR yields only disjointed hints rather than a cohesive event or story.
A St Louis Globe Democrat writer recalls Capt. Henry Forbes a retired English officer famed for courage. After capture by natives in Bamangwato country Forbes endures taunting, binding and a planned death by a man-eating lion, which unexpectedly spares him as fear and resolve test his final moments.
The Captain fights a lion trapped by a crowd, frees his arms by breaking a bound leg, then drives an assegai into the beast as it roars. He escapes, reunites with helpers, and returns to the King’s krall after a punitive fight where the chief and doctor are killed. The Captain calls it his most satisfactory double shot.
A London special reports Mr Arthur Balfour leader of the Unionists spoke at length in the House of Commons and in a Manchester meeting on Imperial defence. He warned that any nation denying Britain's sea supremacy could force a collapse without landing a soldier in England. He noted French and Russian dockyard activity and Asia movements as anti English, urged electors to push MPs to speed up naval and military strengthening. He pledged to cooperate with the Government in increasing England's power.
Mile Aimee Rapin, born without hands, stunned London at a recent gallery show with portraits praised for drawing and color. Swiss born, trained in Lausanne and Geneva, she moved to London in 1893 and works for aristocratic patrons. recent pieces include portraits of Princess May and Lord Harrington’s sisters.
Emil Klause, a San Francisco man, lies in a hospital after a Christmas Day skull fracture. Doctors report aphasia and partial paralysis from damage to the left motor brain area. He can utter words though they do not convey his meaning, and he cannot form coherent sentences. He recognizes people and objects but cannot express thoughts clearly.
The Boston Herald reports a renewed push through the National Board of Trade to block or hinder use of the Canadian Pacific railway by New England merchants. It cites past government stance, notes CP rail’s value for New England freight, and argues that forcing a more circuitous route would harm trade without lowering rates. New England business leaders unite against the plan.
The dining room of the Cunard steamer Compania measures 100 by 64 feet and seats 430 people. Germany trains hawks to attack army carrier pigeons and retrieve both pigeons and potential war dispatches for the German lines.
A compilation notes Montreal geologist William Dawson praised in Boston, predicts Rev Dr Mackay may lead Canada’s Presbyterian General Assembly in Halifax. Denial follows about Rev W H Cooper’s son marrying, asserting no Canadian-born children, no son, and bachelor status. A Stratford preacher ties Paul to secret societies, while Lord Elgin reflects on Canadian birth and family. Debates on Queen’s title in Canada persist, with Oxley praised as a rising Canadian writer and a tale of his early clash with Sir Charles H. Tupper.
Private advices aboard the Empress of Japan describe a vast earthquake in Misterios north of the Himalayas. Viceroy Lou Ping Chang appeals for aid as monasteries Hueiyuan and Kemis lie in ruins. Lama priests and villagers are dead or missing. famine looms and the sacred head Shoolhak is reported missing.
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