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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1900
Page
6
The poem paints a still shore near Magdala with oleanders and a calm sea. A lone watchful vulture circles a quiet path as desert silence surrounds the holy ground and a single cuckoo calls to its mate. The speaker recalls faces tied to this sacred landscape.
Dick Templar hides his heartbreak after learning Mrs. O'Brien's husband, Capt. George O'Brien, is killed. At a bustling Wenneker dinner in London, the news unfolds when a cousin is named Gerald Costigan O'Brien, leaving Dick unable to confess his lingering love for Mrs. O'Brien and unsure how to face her afterward.
Dr. Douglas Gray records the valor of black soldiers in the Ashanti campaign who relieved Kumasi alongside British officers. The Central African Rifles and Yaos Atongas Angonis Yorubas Hausas proved disciplined and deadly, marching, firing seven pounders and Maxims, and matching white troops in speed and cost.
Balzac catalogues motives for marriage listing ambitions kindness anger disdain youth ugliness love wisdom and more. The fragment hints at motives ranging from practical to emotional and notes the author as H de Balzac.
The article notes that maps placed Spain at the center of Europe occupying half the page while other countries clustered around the edge. This distorted Filipino students view of Spain's size and Aguinaldo was surprised to learn that the United States covers more area than Spain.
A New York Sun review recalls numerous onstage accidents and deaths in theatre history from Paris Prague London and Sweden. Notable moments include a dagger mishap in Grenelle Paris and a king’s onstage blunder leading to a riot. The piece cites Sarah Bernhardt and Garrick among others.
The Jubilee diamond, touted as the largest and most valuable, weighs 239 karats with famed whiteness and cut. Found June 30, 1893 at Jagersfontein in the Orange Free State, it was carried by a native who later shared it with a manager for a reward. The stone shown in Paris was paste. the real gem remains in secure custody.
The Kolthoff Arctic expedition has brought a male and a female musk ox to Sweden. After acclimatization they will be released in northern mountains. Officials expect rapid population growth and potential commercial value from the animals thick brown wool.
At the San Francisco glass works near Stanford game a roof collapse sent over two hundred spectators into molten vats and flames. Eleven killed and dozens injured as workers and police fought to rescue victims amid a major blaze and chaotic scene.
A Paris dispatch to the Evening Mail says Oscar Wilde has died in an obscure Latin Quarter house from meningitis. He reportedly received into the Catholic church on his deathbed.
Paris November 30 The Senate unanimously adopted a resolution of sympathy for Mr Kruger in the same terms as the Chamber of Deputies. Kruger met with Mr Fallieres after a ten minute interview and will depart Paris tonight by special train for Cologne. Debate in the second chamber praised the Dutch peace intervention offer including sailing Gelderland to escort Kruger.
Victoria B C November 30 ships advices state Field Marshal Count von Waldersee the supreme Allied commander will shortly return home. The reason cited is his disappointment with the American stance upon arrival in China and his expectation that he would receive supreme command there.
Mail advices report a mounting South China revolt. Lam to Chukni Kwang Tung villages resisted rebels for two days, then retreated with 2000 civilians killed or harmed, while rebels suffered 200 losses. Admiral Ho's fleet pursued them, pushed them back, and burned several villages.
A Pekin dispatch reports Col Yorck, German column commander, died in Hiraibai on November 27 from inhaling fumes. His body will arrive in Pekin today.
Boston reports J Thomas Baldwin the famous bandmaster is dead from blood poisoning after a simple injury. Born in Lowell in 1832 he led the large orchestra at the World's Peace jubilee in Boston in 1872.
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