Trouble in Samoa. War Declared. Ama Bombarded
LATEST news from Apia reports a continuance of the disturbances over the disparted kingship. The Mataala chiefs continued to defy…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1899
399 stories in Murray's papers · page 3 of 20
Cable News. Severe Fighting. Americans and Filipinos. 16 Americans Killed and 130 Wounded. Filipino Losses 200. LONDON, March 26
Further severe fighting has taken place between the United States troops and the Filipinos in the vicinity of Manila. A general advance of the American forces…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →The War in Samoa. Mataafa Not Abandoned by Germany. London
The Berlin Press denies that Germany has abandoned Mataafa. It also accuses Mr. Chamberlain of under rating the preponderance of German interests in Samoa…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War in the Philippines. Removal of the Filipino Capital. London
The Filipino Government has removed its capital to San Fernando, 160 miles north of Manilla…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Soldier's Death. London, March 27
During one of the charges made upon the Filipinos on Sunday Colonel H.C. Egbert, of the 22nd United States Infantry, was fatally wounded…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Soldiers' Graves in South Africa. a Sad Story of Neglect
A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazettes writes as follows from Pretoria:—I have recently made a tour of Bronkhorstspruit the Ingogo Heights, Majuba,…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Just Heard of the War
Odd people live in Some of the remote parts of this section of the State, says a Charleston correspondent of the "New York Sun." Illiterate, they take no interest in mails…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Terrible Murder. Sequel to a Shopkeepers' Feud. Victim Shot and Partly Beheaded. Two Other Persons Wounded
A tragedy occurred on Monday afternoon in the Eastern Market, Melbourne, when an eccentric "astrologer" named Gordon Emery Medor killed the proprietor of a phonographic…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →An Episode in a Great War
Prince de Beaufremont was colonel in the French cavalry, his regiment being one of those disarmed by the Prussians after Napoleon's defeat at Sedan. The Prince was…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The Soldier and the Cow
A soldier once got drank and was put into a cowshed to sleep of the effects of the drink, on some straw. During the night a thief, entered the shed and stole the cow, but…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Samoan Affairs. the War Ended. Apia, May 3
The war is over in Samoa. Mataafa, who is camped outside the lines buildings and forts, promises to remain at peace until the commission gives its decision. The…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Tired of War
Further news from Samoa states that Mataafa's chiefs, whose losses must have been very heavy, are now tired of war…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal. Arrest of Seven Englishmen and a Dane. Charge of Enlisting Troops. LONDON
A serious incident has occurred in connection with the already strained situation in the Transvaal. On Monday night seven Englishmen and a Dane were arrested at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Literature. Queer Pets of Soldiers
Every English regiment that respects itself must associate its destiny with some domestic or trained animal, which in time of peace and in time of war shares its…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →French Postal Strike. Soldiers and Women Employed. London, May 19
The strike of postmen and letter-sorters in Paris, caused by the action of the Senate in rejecting a measure increasing their pay, is ended…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →The Latest War Hero
"Funston has finished the fight" is the purport of the talk everywhere in the United States (reports the New York correspondent of the Westminster Gazette)…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Latest by Telegraph. Preparations for War in the Transvaal. London
Preparations are being made in England for war in the Transvaal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the Transvaal. The Imminence of War. A Leading Uitlander's Opinion
Mr. Woodford Leonard, of Johannesburg, barrister-at-law, who was prominent among the Uitlanders at the time of Dr. Jamison's raid on January…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Song of the Wounded
"Another of the thousand instances of unselfishness which I saw on the battlefield gave me almost as grunt a shuck at the field hospital as the incident of the stenographer had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shot on the Battlefield. a Song of the Wounded
Edward Marshall, the heroic correspondent who insisted on dictating his account of the fight before Santingo while paralysed by a shot in the spine and supposed to be dying…
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