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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 10, 1876
Page
2
The Actan Free Press shares wartime updates from Serbia and Russia with reports of Turkish forces, diplomacy, and civilian casualties. It also notes wool sales, a Montreal cathedral scaffold collapse, a fatal shooting in Thurlow, tax disputes, a railway collision injuring a passenger, and railway survey plans near Georgetown.
The Department of Public Works advertises for tenders to complete 14 miles of the Pacific Railway from Red River east to Rat Portage. Tenders must be received by September 20. Prospects imply the project will proceed on the whole line without delay.
The spring crops in this vicinity are turning out well with grain of all kinds showing promise of above average yields. Dry weather in the past two weeks has aided harvesting operations.
A private letter from Sibley County Minnesota describes severe grasshopper destruction over a 250 mile stretch. Green vegetation was wiped out along the path of the swarm with fears of a further invasion in the state.
The Guelph Maple Leafs were defeated by the London Tecumsehs in the third game of their series, finishing 6 for Guelph and 5 for London. The outcome threatens Guelph's hold on the championship as the season ends.
A Strathroy man, named Stoddart, was fined 30 dollars plus costs by Mayor Fleming of Sarnia for refusing to pay a Great Western Railway fare from Sarnia to Strathroy about three weeks ago. After a confrontation with train staff, he was later captured and jailed for 50 days. A Belleville reports a typhoid fever-like illness has appeared in horses in that district, presenting as dullness and head droop before constipation, with several fatal cases already observed.
James Kyle and Edward Foley spent ten hours underground on Saturday exploring Toronto sewers to locate a presumed leakage. They crawled through three foot high passages with a brief dinner break and reported the system largely sound though portions held two feet of sewerage.
The report summarizes second and third class teacher examination results from districts including Addington Brant Dondas East Lambton Elgin Glengarry Halton Hamilton Lambton Lanark Lennox London Norfolk North Middlesex Ontario Oxford Perth South Hastings Waterloo Wellington Welland Wentworth. It details pass rates, few first class entries, and extensions of third class certificates for many candidates.
The London Free Press urges the government to hold a second examination for public school teachers at year end so those who failed due to unusually hard papers can obtain certificates without waiting a full year. The paper also notes a beetle, about the size of a common hive, as the cause of apple tree blight.
A Wednesday night spree saw burglars loot Hlota Agricultural Works office stripping a door with tools but leaving only papers and books. They then raided Grant and Co's woollen mill for fourteen cents, Carter and Co.'s office damaged a safe, Perry drugstore escaped with minor losses, and Saleh's store yielded six handkerchiefs and socks from J R Willer's shop amid multiple attempts.
John Mallowsy kienk-thiuf, jailed for thefts, was sent to Penitentiary in Henan Hh. He escaped Thursday by cobbling ropes from his blanket and shirt, using a plank and poles to climb the wall, and walked away by 6 p m. A $50 reward remains offered for his capture.
Burglars broke into the Boot and Shoe Factory of Wy D Hepburn & Co in Preston between Saturday 5 PM and Monday 6 AM. They forced a back window and burst the stock room door with a crowbar, stole boots and a small amount of postage stamps worth about fifteen cents, and failed to open the safe as the bookkeeper had removed the cash earlier.
Despatch from St Paul Minnesota reports incalculable damage from grasshoppers across the north western western and south western borders. Crops damaged heavily but some farmers still hope relief may come. Editorial notes a vast area west of Lake Michigan turning into a desert if the plague continues. In a separate incident in Norway a man Struck his wife with a revolver and iron, neighbors intervened. the ball was removed from her skull and her recovery uncertain. Jealousy cited as motive.
In Windsor this morning Webb Morgan and Switzer robbed a bank, Webb firing a shot that struck the wall. They fled by buggy but were pursued and captured in Sutton's garden as citizens and police converged. Webb born in London Ontario. Morgan from Brooklyn. Switzer recently in Windsor. Trial set for Friday.
The listing shows prices for flours white wheat spring wheat red chaff wheat and oats plus peas potatoes butter hay and bacon. Prices range from about 0 90 to 8 00 per unit with various small adjustments noted for quality and grade.
A missionary in South America discovers a cure and offers a free recipe by mail. The ad urges sending a stamped envelope to Rev Joseryi T Insran in New York for the remedy. It also touts Epps Cocoa as a healthful beverage to build strong constitutions and resist disease, with London and Threadneedle Street labeling.
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