Miscellaneous. Peace or War?
Peace is it or war ? God knows. The sky has a lurid light That comes ere the tempest blows; We hear in the thickening night…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mid North Coast · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1890
16 stories in Mid North Coast's papers
Russia and the Turkish War Indemnity. LONDON
The Porte has not replied to the demand made by the Russian Government for immediate payment of the war indemnity. Russia is reiterating…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Turkey and her War Indemnity. LONDON
The Turkish Government have agreed to pay one-sixth of the balance due in war indemnity in connection with the recent Turko-Russian war…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →All Is Fair in Love and War
"Surely I ought to know every girl in the house by this time," thinks Tom Staunton, as lie stands in a perplexed soliloquy, with his eyes fixed upon a charming little figure dancing a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Collision in the Channel. Seven Soldiers Drowned. a Million Sterling Lost
A cablegram from London dated June 28, stated that a disastrous collision has taken place in the English Channel…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rioting at Leeds. Soldiers Charge the Mob. London
The strike among Gasmen at Leeds assumed such a threatening nature yesterday that the Military were called out to assist the police in restoring…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wounded in a Battle. Queer Sensation of Having a Bullet Enter the Body
A Rhode Island soldier, Lieutenant George B. Peck, jan., in his story of a "Recruit Before Petersburg," describes his experience and observations when first under fire. He felt…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Matabele Soldiers' Dance. Buluwayo, Feb. 13
The "Big Dance" of the Matabele army, held annually at Buluwayo, has been described as the sight of South Africa by those few travellers who have penetrated into these…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Argentine Revolution. Fighting in Buenos Ayres. Heaps of Police and Soldiers Lying Dead in the Streets. London
The revolution in the Argentine Republic continues, and Buenos Ayres, Santa Fe, and Cordova are in a state of seige. Desperate fighting is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mutiny on Board an English Man-of-War. LONDON
News has reached London that a mutiny occurred on board one of the ships of the British Squadron stationed in American waters…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Railway Strike in South Wales. Stations Guarded by Soldiers and Police. London
It is stated that the number of persons affected by the strike in South Wales, is upwards of 70,000. The police and military are engaged in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Elephant Yarns. a Tug-of-war Extraordinary As Told by a Disciple of Munchausen
The London Graphic prints some elephant and crocodile pictures obtained from a certain Major-General Robley, who bases them on an "elephant vara," as he styles it, told him by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Warning to Soldiers
Under this heading Mr. Geo. E. Labertouche, Paying Officer of Imperial Pensions, writes to the Civil and Military Gazette: --…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Remarkable Friendship. the Soldier and the Panther
Thanks to Nelson and other gallant men whose memory England will ever cherish. Napoleon's Egyptian expedition soon ended in disastrous failure. But daring his two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Foundering of an Austrian War Ship. LONDON
The Austrian warship Taurus foundered in the Euxine, and 78 lives were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Dying Soldier's Request. an Exceedingly Sad Incident of the Franco-prussian War
"I had just sold my commission as lieutenant, in the British army when the Franco-Prussian war opened," said an Englishman a few days ago to some friends at the bar of…
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