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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1896
Page
3
A British led expedition to recover the Gwalior rajah’s vast jewels, stored in a secret palace chamber before the mutiny, ended in failures and deaths. The treasure, valued at 15 million, vanished amid mutineer plunder and later searches, with years of sightings and wrecks yielding little.
After a native was arrested for double murder at Delhi during the mutiny, an English ensign testified to mistaken identity. Freed, the native claimed rajah soldiers hid treasure in ruins, where wine poisoned all but one. the survivor fled, later provoking a search with 25 percent reward, only to find the treasure vanished.
An article imagines Mars travel by a future high speed electric transport, noting proximity, travel time of about forty minutes, and describing visible Martian features such as the Lake of the Bun and the Hour Glass Sea as seen from approaching the planet.
Richard Mansfeld plans a grand tour with Beatrice Cameron and Garrick stock. opening in Omaha October 6 and ending April 18 in New York. Wilton Lackaye starts a Chicago tour, then a San Francisco flight, with The Social Trust and In Miggoura after. Henry B. Harris and E F Rosenbaum take over Peter Dailey tours. Hilliard tours under Frank L. Perley. Salvini to act Romeo and star in new productions. Holland Brothers open with A Social Highwayman. Fitch's new play and Minnie Stadcliffe join. Harrigan prepares local color pieces. Nellie McHenry rehearses A Night in New York. Heart of the Storm touted as electrical melodrama. Corbett continues A Naval Cadet. Trilby company shrinks to one. Canfield Revival. Ober in The Oldest Man. County Fair updated with new dance.
A Washington letter surveys burial devices from the coffin torpedo that detonates if tampered with to life signals meant to alert when interments occur. It catalogs diverse coffin materials, from glass and paper to plaster and metal, and notes historic practices and fears of premature burial.
An aged black woman nearly 200 pounds and a small white man confronted a wild steer near Halsted Street. The steer charged, the woman clung to a bystander, and the animal charged toward the pair before retreating to a pen. The crowd scattered as the steer calmed and the woman declared she would die protecting the man first.
Washington Letter recounts Miss Loisette Bonaparte of Baltimore engaged to Count Adam Von Moltke son of the Danish ambassador and distant relative of a Prussian marshal. It traces Madame Bonaparte Elizabeth Patterson and Jerome Bonaparte’s American marriage, dispute with Napoleon, exile, and return to Baltimore.
The passage surveys how long famed writers took to produce key works. It cites Cowper on John Gilpin, Longfellow's Dante translation, Hume's History, Cooper's The Spy, Carlyle's Heroes and Hero Worship, More's Utopia, Von Ranke's Lives of the Popes, Webster's dictionary, Keats, Eliot, and Goethe's Faust, noting varied timeframes and working habits.
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