Wagga Tug-of-war. Dinner to the Farmers' Team
Mr. Jas. Angel, the captain of the Farmers' team which was engaged in the Tug-of-war recently held in Wagga, entertained at dinner at Lake Albert yesterday evening the…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1892
51 stories in Riverina's papers · page 2 of 3
The Wagga Tug of War. (To the Editor of the Wagga Express.)
Sir,— In your issue of Thursday, 7th inst., there appears an account of a dinner given to the Farmer's team by their captain, Mr. James Angel, where in his speech he deals…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Wagga Tug-of-war. Presentation of Medals to the English Team
In the tug-of-war contest held recently at the Oddfellows' Hall, Wagga, the team representing England having gained the second prize, were also the winners of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Civil War Scare
BY our telegrams it will be seen that the anti-home-rulers of the province of Ulster are organising and raising funds for a strong resistance to the followers…
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A GOOD deal is said in the German press (the Daily News correspondent remarks) on the intention of the Government to submit to the Reichstag in the autumn a new…
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LORD Wolseley regards the Chinese as the "greatest race in the world," and it is important to observe that this is with him no new or hasty view. It was formed as far…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Serious Revolver Accident. a Girl Dangerously Wounded
A LAMENTABLE revolver accident occurred at Fox-street, Wagga, on Thursday morning, whereby an estimable young lady, named Mary Hoye, suffered dangerous injuries…
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The Vienna "Neue Freie Press" publishes some interesting recollections of the late Max von Forckenbeck. In 1871 Forckenbeck was president of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sympathy with Mr. Prick's Would Be Assassin. Severe Treatment of a Soldier. London, July 25
An incident has occurred at Messrs. Carnegie and Co's Homestead mine, near Pittsburg, which is significant as showing the strong hostility felt by the troops…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At War Against Society
Asked whether he did not regret escaping from the police, he answered, " If society did us much to help the distressed as it does to punish them, many things would not…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Explosion on a Man of War Fifteen French Seamen Seriously Injured
A FEARFUL accident, in which sixteen men barely escaped with their lives, and to the effect of which several may yet succumb, occurred on Monday evening on board the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Pittsburg Strike. the Tortured Soldier. a Claim for Compensation. London, July 29
THE soldier who, for cheering the assassin of Mr. Carnegie's manager at Pittsburg, was strung up by his comrades for half an hour by his thumbs, and then expelled his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mining Riots at Pittsburg. Ill-treatment of a Soldier. London, Aug 1
The case of the private soldier Jams, who was suspended by his thumbs and afterwards drummed out of the regiment for cheering the man who attempted to murder…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Torturing of a Soldier. London, Aug 3
In consequence of the great public outery that has been made regarding the torture inflicted on one of the soldiery sent to Pittsburg to maintain order, who was strung up…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Actions of Wounded Soldiers
Poets and orators, who take a wholly sentimental point of view, ask the world to accept the notion that it is a glorious fortune for the individual…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Physique of Soldiers
No one will deny, we presume, that the Inspector of Military Gymnasia is an authority on the physical capacity of the rank and file of the army. And…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An Extraordinary Shooting Case. a Man Wounded Whilst on Horseback
A TALE calculated to terrify people whose business or pleasure causes them to travel in lonely localities during the dark hours was told at the Melbourne Hospital on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The American Labor War. London, 19th August
American telegrams report that the conflict between militia and the miners of Tennessee, who have risen in arms to clear the mines of that State of convict labor,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Labor Disturbances in America. the Mining Riots in Tennessee. Troops Defeated by the Miners Fifty Soldiers Held As Hostages. London Aug. 18
The disturbances caused by the miners in Tennessee, who have struck work in conse quence of the employment of convict labor at the mines, are assuming very serious…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Maxim's Flying Machine. a Deadly Instrument of War
REPORTS have been current for some time past as to a wonderful flying machine which Mr. Maxim, the inventor of the gun bearing his name, is having constructed at his place…
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