Deseret Evening News | 1900-11-03 | Page 21 | The King of Ashantt's Umbrella

I Illic Illa O UP OP The Tho recent relief ot of the cap av capItal avital ital of Ashanti r recalls to mind the fR fe t that this last little war was th the between It and tI it The nt first was wal In C McCarthy and or of his Cann mend were killed lb the commander command skull being afterward rimmed with gold and used u a drinking cup b by bythe the kIn kings ot of Kumasi for tor 90 60 yeal R Forty yr years later the second nd war like I I f ff f 1 f i r A b i ir r f 1 iL r I l I wise ended In disaster anti and In 1173 lord Lard Wolseley had a narrow escape from Ring corr Coffee But the doughty British general captured some valuable plunder der and among It was waa the royal urn um umbrella brella used on occasions of state by King who Is now In exile In Liberia