Typhoid cases in Winnipeg and other Canadian notes
Thirty typhoid cases reported in Winnipeg hospitals as British judge Adam Brown returns from the World’s Fair. Windsor Assizes punishes Vroomar for manslaughter, given four years at Kingston. Cornwall enacts a curfew for under fourteen. Ottawa offers reward for McLeod's killer. Gas prices, factory reopenings, and a Perth region ban on alcohol. Montreal customs seize fixing fluid. Boyd, Ryrie & Campbell linked to charges. Vancouver debates political separation. Canadian and British events span politics, crime, and industry.
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Winnipeg
Adam Brown
Hamilton
Windsor
Falconbridge
Vroomar
James Hickey
Kingston
Cornwall
Ort
Ontario
McLeod
Napanee
Brontreal
Stormont
Canada Cotton Mills
Ont
Northern Pacific
Victoria
B. C
Alphonse Zeevecke
McGill University
Montreal
Kir. W. C. Macdonald
Rome
Paul Larocque
St. Hyacinthe
Sherbrooke
Monseigneur Racine
Aner Light Company
Senohn Boyd
New Brunswick
Ottawa
Leonard Tilley
Peter Mitchell
Fred.Campbell
Boyd, Ryrie & Campbell
Customs Department
Desperate Border Skirmishes at Second Cataract War Camp
In a dusty Nile frontier scene at the Second Cataract Soudan, Egyptian forces guard Sarrass while dervish raids threaten Gemai rail lines. Soudanese fighters earn praise for bravery as clashes unfold with hand to hand combat and vivid desert marches.
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Nile
Gaul
Caesar
Sarrass
Halfah
Gemai
Soudanese
David Bey
Arbush
Ark
London
The
Cornhill Magazine
Lyman Dayton’s Hustle Shapes Minnesota’s Mud Hole Tale
The article recounts pioneer Lyman Dayton founding his fortune near Minnesota’s capital. Dayton and two friends discussed the swampy lowland that would become the business district. Dayton preempted the swamp after racing to the land office at Stillwater, arriving just ahead of his rivals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
Lyman Dayton
Minnesota
Dayton
Land Office
Stillwater
England's imperial policy in Canada sparks alarm in New York
The New York Morning Journal extols wary views of Canada joining imperial federation with Britain. It warns of Vancouver becoming a Pacific Gibraltar and predicts American loss of San Francisco’s status if annexation is resisted. The piece cites Sir Charles Tupper and Douglas Sladen in advocating a strong Canadian port and imperial footholds.
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New York Morning Journal
England
Canada
Charles Tupper
Sir Charles Tupper
Great Britain
New York
Esquimalt
Gibraltar
Pacific
Douglas Sladen
Constantinople
America
Vancouver
China
India
Japan
Sam
San Francisco
Golden Gate
Orient
Canadian Pacific Railway
John Bull
Canadian
United States
Maltas
Atlantic
Hawaii
Fancy
Union
Honolulu
Australia
English Channel
Hong Kong
Seattle
Alaska
Cape Horn
Victoria
Puget Sound
Mediterranean
Burrard Inlet
False Creek
Nancouven
Sladen
Melbourne
Eider Ducks in Icelandic Nests and Down Trade
In Iceland's hollows eider ducks nest in large numbers, with tame females and wary males. Laying lasts six to seven weeks from June, with nests holding ten to sixteen eggs and two females. Down and eggs are harvested in stages, the final down prized as seaweed and grass varieties, fetching four to five dollars per pound, while live birds hold little value beyond their down.
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Iceland
Queen's army and navy or national forces clash in debate
The Spectator notes Cobbett’s outburst shapes public feeling about the army and navy as Queen's forces rather than national ones. It laments indifference among voters and small papers, urging pride in national defense beyond royal framing, citing Rider Haggard as interest.
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Cobbett’s
France
America
Queen’s Army
the Spectator
Brave Government Scout Rescued After Indian Torture Attempt
A Civil War era detachment followed Pawnee scouts to a remote mountain camp where Charley Keats, a government scout attached to Fort Wallace, was captured and set for torture by a host of northern plains Indians. Keats mocked the assailants as the group opened fire, killing seven Indians and wounding two as the attackers scattered.
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Charley Keats
Fort Wallace
Waugh
Railway density and shipwreck crew temperance notes
Belgium has a mile of railway to every four square miles of territory. Persia has twenty miles of railway. Many crew of the wrecked Victoria were teetotalers. A lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars was held on board. For every death during the year teb persons are constantly sick.
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Belgium
Persia
Victoria
Independent Order of Good Templars
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Rideau Range
Vancouver Island
Kamloops
Westmoreland
Bank of England
Camperdown
Valetta
Malta
Miners’ Federation of England
Coal Mine Owners’ Association
Miner’s Association
Pontefract
Yorkshire
Henry Norman
Liberal Party
Mr. Gladstone
Allahabad
Bengal
Oude
North-West
Bombay
Brooklyn
North Brothers Island
Jackson Park
Committee On Territories
House of Representatives
Utah
Milans
Calvin Armstrong
Tipton County
Ind
St. Louis
Frank Shercliff
Kid” McCoy
Pollock
Logan
State Insane Hospital
Indianapolis
J.D. White
Jackson Woods
Thomas Langford
Peter Daly
Baltimore
Secretary of the Navy
U Seaman
Freese
Soo” Pacific Railway
Minneapolis
Pasqua
Detroit
Wabash Railway
Kingsbury
Admiral Mello
Brazil
Rio Janeiro
Prince Bismarck
Kissingen
Friedrichsruhe
Francis Joseph
Guens
Hamburg
Alexandre Petion
San Domingo
Armin
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Fraser Delta
Fraser
Kent
Sussex
Liverpool
Sandwich Islands
Bermuda
Rider Haggard
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