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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 21, 1877
Page
3
Writers urge cheerful views on crops and economy while noting recent rain shortages and slow recovery. The Malton County Council discusses equalization of assessment, debentures for a jail, county buildings, and road repairs, along with court revisions and road tender plans.
The Fishery Commission met at Halifax and adjourned for six weeks. It has agreed on a procedure that pushes judgment to about December 15, aligning with the Wellington Treaty time limit.
The Oka dispute near Montreal escalates with a Roman Catholic church, seminary and presbytery set ablaze. Police move in after Protestant Indian raids on seminary lands, while Indigenous groups deny involvement. The crisis deepens calls for resolution and condemns Canada’s handling of the issue.
George Edgecumb of Dansville faced bigamy charges after his first wife Victoria Bolster, wed in Canada 15 years earlier, learned of his marriage to a second woman who later became his domicile. Edgecumb claimed a Utah divorce. he was held for trial in Dansville with bail set at 1,000.
During a heavy storm in Ottawa last week a basa fish plunged from the sky onto a Sparks Street platform, startling passersby and drawing curious attention from residents and onlookers.
In Newton County Missouri Jesse A Lynch and his wife were sentenced to 60 and 33 years for a tragic case of religious extremism. They claimed to cure by laying on hands and killed a child during a supposed exorcism. The article also notes a new post office at Mansewood and a county lodge meeting agenda. It mentions Torontos Sir John A. Macdonald and others at Brampton, a Toronto horse dealer Joseph Grand, and various publications and advertisements in the era.
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