Mysterious Telegram Sends Gunboat Goshawk to Gibraltar
A bogus Admiral telegram ordered the Goshawk gunboat to Gibraltar. The vessel sailed from Queenstown with seventy crew amid stormy seas, returning safely. Admiralty probes the hoax. scurvy inquiry and other news follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queenstown
Admiralty
Gibraltar
Spain
Jacob’s
Plumstead Common
de Morgan
Great Yarmouth
United Yacht Clubs
Kingdom
Ach Yacht Club
Petermann
London
Salford
Crescent
Woodward
Newstreet
Lambethwalk
Lambeth
British National Association of Spiritualists
Home Secretary
Slade
Thomas Hugo
West Mackie
England
Elephant Helps Bus Clear Obstructed London Road
In London an overloaded omnibus stalled on a broken road junction at Waterloo and York streets. An elephant supervised by a keeper used its head to push the bus, passengers, and horses past the obstacle amid cheering by bystanders. The Metropolitan Asylums District reports small-pox spread with high bed occupancy at Homerton and fever hospitals. Authorities debate legality of Battersea pauper school isolation and urge action to accommodate non pauper small-pox patients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Waterloo
York Roads
Stamford Street
Wandsworth Road
Sanger
London
Metropolitan Asylums
Homerton
Local Government Board
Westminster
Battersea
Privy Council
Repentance Trials and Oddities in Late 19th Century News
The New York World cites Moody and Sankey converts facing penalties after confessing to a past crime. Brentzer, acquitted for an Akron Express robbery, admitted guilt and was jailed for perjury after returning to Akron. A Free Church address warns against intemperance and theater drink sales. A sea serpent sighting near Malacca is documented with sworn statements. Scientific notes discuss sympathetic vibrations and mind interactions, urging open inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World
Messrs. Moody and Sankey
the World
Adams Express Company
Akron
Ohio
Brentzer
Chicago
Moody
Free Church Presbytery
Edinburgh
Straits of Malacca
Nestor
Shanghai
John Keiller Webster
James Anderson
North Sand
Barrett
London Institution
Gleanings and Oddities from Diverse Realms
Column collects whimsical items from London and New York including a Thames ice rink at Charing Cross, Westminster roasting-jack powered by water, a moral appeal by Rev Tyng to fund an orphanage, Christmas bloom lists near Worcester, wristlet party games, Ascension island mosquitoes, a London organ grinder scene, and a charitable gesture by a stylish passerby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
London
Thames
Bath
Charingcross
Duke of Westminster
England
Tyng
Worcester
James B. Drew
R.N
Admiralty
Island of
Ascension
Orcan Grinnbder
Philosophical Readings at Victoria Institute Monday
Dr Winn presents Materialistic Philosophy and Mr Laming discusses Causative Energy for Material Creation before the Victoria Philosophical Institute on Monday the 8th.
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