Troops Massacred.
London, Dec. 7.–The British foreign office has received news that Lieuts. Keating and Gale and 12 native soldiers were massacred in October last, while parleying with tribesmen of the Niger territory, between Jobba and Ilo.
Source: Troops Massacred, The Lima News, Lima, Ohio, 7 December 1898, p. 1.