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...blunders,* and undertook to explain the game as to a novice. Mr. Link grew indignant. So did Mr. Summers, petulant tutor. Mr. Link retorted sharply. Mr. Summers arose and shook Mr. Link by the neck in mock fury. Mr. Link collapsed, died two hours later of a ruptured blood vessel. Mr. Summers, pleading "a playful scuffle," was lodged in jail, alleged manslaughterer...
Died. Captain John Bartlett, 83, who introduced 62 years ago the first steam vessel into Newfoundland sealing expeditions; uncle of Captain Robert Abram Bartlett, of Peary's polar expedition, and who himself accompanied Peary on his first expedition; at Fredericton...
...fact that after an ocean voyage there might be those among the participants who would be but too glad to forsake the swaying decks of the good ship for the cobbled streets of Amsterdam the powers that be appear to consider even the slightly unpleasant associations of the vessel more to be sought than the unquestionably more violent swayings of the Dutch pavements...
Slav fishermen and Eskimos, residents on a remote island in Bering Strait, between Siberia and Alaska, learned last week with intense surprise from the first vessel that has visited them in 15 years that Russia, Germany, Austria, Turkey are no longer empires. When the ship's captain attempted to put to sea before all these changes had been satisfactorily explained, the Slavic peasants forcibly restrained him another day, some contending to the last that his answers to their questions proved him a liar or one gone...
Governor H. J. Allen wrote: "With a humility which is after all, the beginning of wisdom a number of students have asked for better opportunities to study international problems. Our vessel sailed out of Shanghai dock, as she had sailed in, to the accompaniment of fire crackers and cordial cheers exchanged between the docks and the decks. The fire cracker seems to be to the Chinese what the Aloha is to the Hawaiian. It's their way of saying welcome and goodbye with emphasis...