Famous Cartoonist Thomas Nast Carried Off in Ecuador
Thomas Nast, renowned cartoonist, died in Guayaquil after three days of illness from yellow fever. Consul General at Cusco, he was born in Landau Bavaria in 1840 and rose from a humble New York start to national fame. The funeral drew officials and citizens, with prayers offered at the cemetery.
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Ecuador
Thomas Nast
Guayaqui
Moulder
Nastle
Cusyaqull
Landau
Bavaria
United States
Milburn Resigns as Senate Chaplain After Long Service
Rev Whillam Henry Milburn, the blind Senate chaplain, resigns after nearly sixty years of service. A Pennsylvania native in his ninetieth year, Milburn began as a preacher in Illinois and became a pioneer Methodist traveler before his Senate duties.
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Whillam Henry Milburn
Senate
Hirst
Pennsylvania
Tiinois
Filtnate College
Methodist Church
Recount of Irish politics and land reform figures
The text surveys Irish political tensions and figures including Mr. Tunsell, a Liberal Unionist MP tainted by anti home rule views yet advocating land for tenants via government purchase. It notes his past stance against Gladstone’s reform bill and his shift away from outright anti home rule while opposing landlordism. It mentions Mr. Russell as a native of Fife and a strong, original statesman.
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Thomas W. Tunsell
Ireland
Tyrone
Mr. Tunsell
Gladstone's Hill
Russell
Fife
Madras Academy
Save Prince From Attack As Anarchist Arrested Near Bulgarian Residence
Police thwart an assassination attempt on Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria. An anarchist suspect, reportedly signed letter "Anarchiat," was detained in the park near Buxinograd castle where the prince resides after a warning was received.
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Anprenist
Ferdinand of Bulgeria
Prince Ferdinand of
Bulgaria
Twain Wanted Everything
A friend once wrote to Mark Twain seeking his views on a topic and received no reply. After days he sent a second letter and was ignored again. A third note with a stamp elicited a reply: "Paper and stamp received. Please send envelope open."
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Twain
Mark Twain
Pisase
Translation Quips and Oddities From Old Newspapers
The item notes German word play and \"gimcrack\" meanings in London papers. It cites a 1900 plea from Grove New Jersey about Piso's Cure for Consumption. A Germanic-English dictionary is mocked and a Vienna resort tale recounts a tree at Ghillfried growing horizontally from a hollow ledge after a landslip.
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Gimcrack
London Daily Chronicle
Ghillfried
Matsen
Many Offers of Marriage to African Explorer
M. Paw du Chailly, the African explorer, is in St. Petersburg studying Russia and plans to stay years for a travel book. He told an English colony audience at the British American church hall that in West Africa he received about 22 000 marriage offers, including 763 in one day from a Mack King. The king urged him to marry all 22 000, an idea the explorer declined.
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Paul du Chailiu
M. Paw du Chailly
St. Petersburg
Cxar
M. di Chailly
West Africa
Lessened Author's Concert
Brown, author of his first novel, plans private distribution with a publisher. He notes clubmates addresses for sending copies as summer vacation starts. Black reveals he is not going to Bar Harbor, prompting Brown's surprise and the quip that the drinks are on Brown.
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Brown
Black
Bar Harbor
Revolting Execution At Vienna Scaffold Witnessed
A peasant named Zacco Kamenow was executed at Widdin Citadel Vienna after a revolt during the hanging attempt. He drew a concealed poniard wounding three warders and a soldier, was overpowered, and three attempts were made to hang him with the rope failing first twice before life ended. The account blends sensational detail with a graphic scene from the scaffold.
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Widdin
Vienna
Zacco Kame
Actress Murdered by Lover on Kaluga Stage
The celebrated Ruadian prima donna Theodore Kumnova was murdered on stage in Kaluga Russia by rejected lover Count Paul Kremorvic. He followed her for weeks and shot her during a singing performance. The killer, aged, has been described as obsessed.
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Theodore Kumnova
Kaluga
Russia
Paul Kremorvic
Smg
Love
What Might Have Been Colonial Representation in Parliament
A contemplation of how a proposal by the government of Great Britain to favorably consider colony representation in either house of the imperial parliament might have changed colonial history. It speculates on the effect if England had offered a plan to unite original American states under a parliament.
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Cotenintary Chamberlain
Great Bri
England
America
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Piso
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