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The wars & local soldiers, 1894

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The Essayist an Incident in the Crimean War

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 14 July 1894 · page 10

A mandate hud gone forth to the effect that a certain suburb of Sebastopol should be raided by a select body of English. The attack was to take place at midday. when…

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Star's Special Cables China and Japan. The Threatened War. Mediation of England. London, July 13

The Australian Star · Saturday 14 July 1894 · page 6

The English Government has offered to mediate between Japan and China in the difficulty arising out of the occupation of Corea by Japanese troops…

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Telegraphic. Special Cables. The Railway Strike in America. Defiant Attitude of the Strikers. A Serious Outlook. Soldiers with Gatlings in the Streets of Chicago. Alarming Developments. Terrible Excesses by the Rioters. Troops Unable to Cope with, the Mobs. London, July 4

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 July 1894 · page 66

The railway strike in America is acute in the Western States. Despite the active efforts of the troops to raise the blockade of the railways, the…

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Cable Messages. The Great Railway Strike. America Convulsed. Famine and Fire. Furious Fighting. Strikers Shot. Almost a State of Civil War

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 July 1894 · page 12

The railway men on strike in America now number 300,000. The railway companies have sustained a loss of £1,125,000. Despite the…

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:Love or War? Which?

Truth · Sunday 15 July 1894 · page 5

Elizabeth Fleming, a stylishly dressed hung woman, appeared before Mr. Addison, S.M., yesterday at the Central Police Court, and charged Thomas Hopkins, a well known…

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The Samoan War

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 July 1894 · page 4

Samoan news received in Sydney yesterday via Auckland by the steamer Wairarapa states that the so-called war still drags its weary length along, being apparently no…

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The Tug of War

Evening News · Monday 16 July 1894 · page 4

The country, on the very eve of a general election, might, under ordinary conditions, be very naturally thought to have made up its mind…

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The War of Railway Rates. Accusations Against the N.s.w. Commissioners

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 July 1894 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday.--There is a tract of New South Wales country south of a line from Jingellic to Coree for which favorable rates are given on the Victorian railways…

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The Samoan War. No End to the Trouble. Inactivity of the Government Party. Villages Burned by the Rebels-- Battle at Fuailolo'u-- Losses of the Government Party

The Australian Star · Tuesday 17 July 1894 · page 4

The so-called civil war still drags its weary length along, being apparently no nearer an and than it was some months ago (says the Samoa HERALD of June 16). At…

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News by Cable. The Strikes in America. a Street Explosion. Soldiers Killed and Wounded

Evening News · Wednesday 18 July 1894 · page 4

LONDON, July 17.—During the movements of the Federal troops in Chicago yesterday a street powder magazine exploded, killing four soldiers and…

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The War of Railway Rates. Overtures Proposed by Victoria. Rebates in Rates

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 July 1894 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The Minister for Railways contemplates making overtures to the New South Wales and South Australian Governments with the object of…

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Our Special Cables the Railway Strike in America. Explosion of a Street Powder Magazine. Four Soldiers Killed--many Injured. Reduction in Railway Wages

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 July 1894 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday.--During the movements of the Federal troops in Chicago yesterday a street powder magazine exploded, killing four soldiers and…

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The Samoan War. Auckland

The Australian Star · Thursday 19 July 1894 · page 5

The latest from Samoa shows that the war is still proceeding in a desultory aud intermittent manner. On June 28 one of the rebels of At[?]a was seen reconnoitring from a…

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Star's Special Cables the Corean War. Attack on a Consul. British Bluejackets Landed. London, July 18

The Australian Star · Thursday 19 July 1894 · page 5

A number of Japanese soldiers made an attack on the British Consul at Seoul, in the Corea. It appears that the Consul, entered the Japanese camp…

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The War in Samoa. Conflicts Between Rebels and Government Troops. Strange Action of a German Warship. a Petition to Annex Samoa Sent to Berlin. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Auckland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 July 1894 · page 6

News from Samoa dated 12th July, received by the Mariposa to-night, states that war is still going on in a desultory, intermittent manner. On 28th June one of the rebels of Atna was observed…

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The War of the Future. a Terrible Picture

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 July 1894 · page 2

Mr. Archibald Forbes, in "Scribner's Magazine" for June, asks: What, will be done with the wounded in the next, groat war? The article will open a good many eyes as…

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A Radical Clergyman Boycotted A Sequel To The Coal War

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 21 July 1894 · page 6

Yesterday afternoon (reports the "Leeds Mercury " of June 2), the Rev. Thomas Home, formerly curate of Whiston, near Rotherham, was presented with…

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Bullet Proof. Herr Dowe's Cuirass. The Inventor's Purpose. " To Make War Ridiculous."

The Australian Star · Saturday 21 July 1894 · page 9

It was on the stage of the Alhambra that I met and talked with Herr Dowe (says a writer in the PALL MALL BUDGET). By this time everyone knows of his performance…

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Pictures of War

Evening News · Monday 23 July 1894 · page 2

A street fight in the little town of Saar. To the noise of the battle cries and the shouts is joined the crashing of timber and the falling of walls. A…

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Special Edition Late Cables The Corean Troubles. War Declaration Doubted

Evening News · Monday 23 July 1894 · page 5

LONDON, July 22.—The Japanese and Chinese Embassies in London do not believe the report that war has been declared between China and…

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