Bordeaux Fire Devours Fifteen Vessels in Night Harbor Blaze
A petroleum explosion on a lighter near Lormont unleashed a rapid fire that swept fifteen moored ships in Bordeaux. Fire engines on steam vessels fought the blaze through the night under the mayor and harbour captain, aided by Custom-house officers. One drowning death reported, and not a single burned vessel was British.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lormont
Messageries Imperiales
Bordeaux
Tur “ Mrractz
St. Januarius
Times
Januarius
Naples
Editorial Moves and Literary Announcements in Good Words
Mr George MacDonald becomes editor of Good Words for the Young. W Kinglake sought for evidence on Bridgwater election matters. George Borwick wins Amsterdam Exhibition baking powder medal and has prior golds. New season titles announced by Stock including Brown and Lynch works, plus Murray's Academy with Byron documents. The Church and the Age essays list features prominent clergy and scholars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George MacDonald
W. Kinglake
Bridgwater
Stock
J. Baldwin Brown
Mornington
T. T. Lynch
Hugh Stowell Brown
George Gilfillan
Fatal firework blast rips through Bayswater tenement
A Friday dawn explosion at No. 69 Moscow Road Bayswater kills the Jack family of three children and a widow amid a crowded four room house with a back parlour and underground kitchen. Firefighters rescue other tenants while questions rise about alarms and hazard from fireworks and gunpowder in the building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow Road
Queen’s Road
Bayswater
Jack
Titheradge
No. 69
Barrett
Captain Lambert
Castle Lambert
Galway
Jackson
Lambert
Engen
Truro-road
Wood-green
Colney
Boyd
Japan
Wood Green
Enson
Mr. Boyd
Dig Moor
Wigan
Brown
Ashton
Man Pretends Burial Service Over Remains
An individual, seeking to dramatize a scene, obtains a white sheet to resemble a surplica and uses a book to pretend he is reading the Burial Service over the deceased, while pressed by Brown.
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Brown
Land Reform Demands and Waterford Election News
A Kanturk labourers club urges a clause in the Irish Land Bill for each worker a livable house and one acre of land at fair rent. Reports cover vacancies in Waterford and Glasgow universities, Mayoral election unrest in London, a fatal cab accident near Clare Market misidentified as Fenian Colonel Kelly, and the inquest confirming the deceased as Edward Martin rather than Colonel Kelly.
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Ireland
Kanturk
County Cork
O’riordan
Erin
Marquis of Hartington
Lismore
British Isles
Waterford
Blake
Moncreiff
Glasgow
Aberdeen
Gordon
Advocate
Disraeli
London
John Stuart Mill
William Thompson
Smith
Jordanhill
Edinburgh
St. Andrews
Prosser James
Playfair
Guildhall
Dakin
Besley
Alderman Besley
Kenlly
Claremarket
King’s College Hospital
Burke
Kelly
Manchester
Brett
Corydon
Edward Martin
Deasy
Colonel Kelly
New York
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