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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 11, 1901
Page
3
A pasted collage recounts encounters with swindlers, a gas bill dispute, a cobbler, a book from Chicago, and a chitchat about prices and a buggy ride. The narrative voice imitates a dialectal speaker and references theft, deceit, and everyday scams. It mentions a law cost, a chair, a package, and a discussion of a crowded market scene.
A collection of Barrie solicitors advertise loans and legal services. Firms include ARRIETERS Ross Block Dunlop Street Strathy Esten and McCarthy Boys Murchison. Lennox Ardagh Cowan Brown advertise probate guardianship and general solicitor services with money to loan.
County Clerk R. T. Banting will be at his office in the Coat House Barrie every Saturday and will also be reachable at his residence and P O Cooltown.
HYSICIAN AND SURGEON offering expertise in diseases of women and ENT work. Also surgeon to Emergency Hospital, Toronto. Office upstairs in McCarthy Block near Dougall Bros Furniture. Dr W D MacLAREN Dentist Barrie visits Cookstown Wednesdays. Office in Ross Block east of Post Office Barrie.
The Ontario House moved to committee on the Premier's Public Highway bill. An amended plan would allocate the full million dollar appropriation immediately with road designations subject to township approval or arbitration if two thirds disapprove. Fraternal society legislation clarifies they are not ordinary life insurers and fixes winding up rules. Municipal bills pass with liquor fee reform and ongoing trading stamps support cited. Supplementary estimates total 182,884.80 with major items for science building at Toronto University and Niagara frontier policing. Rail subsidies include Bracebridge, Bruce Mines, Port Arthur lines, and a large Manitoulin railway land grant proposal across several districts.
London despatch reports a Singapore dated tale of cannibalism from the Nova Scotian barque Angola wrecked off Cavite on October 23. Two survivors, Johannsen and Marthernu, recount raft drift for 25 days, starvation, muttered killings, and grisly feasts before reaching Soubi Island and Singapore.
Ottawa dispatch reports new commission cuts on Canadian money orders payable in the United States effective April 1. Maximum issue rises to $100 with reduced fees: $5 over 3c, $5-10 6c, $10-30 10c, $30-50 15c, $50-75 25c, $75-100 30c. Rates apply to Canada and US payable orders. US agrees similar postal order reductions.
A Cape Town despatch reports a column that rode from Kimberley to Boshof sweeping the country. It accomplished good work with several Boers killed and prisoners taken. British casualties were one killed and three wounded. Small Boer parties harassed the British flanks and sniping was continuous.
Parliament discusses export apple marking with a clause extending rules to internal trade. Several bills reach third reading including Inland Waters Seamen's Act safety and shipping casualty inquiries. Appellate Court changes in Yukon explained. Exhibits closed on Sundays. trout export questioned. various bills on inspections and weights law presented. Debate on reducing Canada’s parliamentary representation and Senate abolition raised for next session.
A Washington despatch reports a U S Canada agreement cutting postal money order rates from the international one percent to three tenths of one percent. The change expands authorization from 4,000 to 30,000 offices and is expected to triple the business, with about two million dollars moving each way annually.
Consolidated revenue reached 37,918,017 for nine months ending March 31 with ordinary expenditure at 28,627,612, yielding a surplus of 9,290,405. Revenue rose by 1,067,945 year over year driven by post office and miscellaneous receipts. Post office income rose 900 in March and 159,658 for the period. miscellaneous revenue led by March last year’s 42,000 advance. Capital expenditure totaled 7,801,258 vs 6,457,033 prior nine months, while militia spending traced 131,001 less than the prior period.
A Durban dispatch reports Gen. Irench operations in the Western Transvaal where Canadians charged a Boer position in a bold forward move and forced a yield. Many Boers with families surrendered at Melmoth in Zululand, with others following at various locations. Surrenders and misinformation about British proclamations are noted.
Mrs Carrie Nation of Kansas spent an hour and a half in St Louis on Tuesday. She visited two Market street saloons and argued with bartenders, allegedly forced from a saloon named after her at gunpoint. She vowed to close hell holes when she returns from Kansas.
A despatch from Ottawa reports the Russell theatre fully destroyed by fire. Guests in the Russell house were awakened by a loud blast, flames and smoke erupted, and firemen battled a rapidly spreading blaze. The Belle of New York was playing to 1,800 spectators when the fire began, threatening the Russell house and leaving the hotel in darkness as electric wires burned away. The fire was confined to the theatre.
A serious affray occurred around midnight in the rear of the Opera House. Whitten stabbed Auburn multiple times, including a long abdominal wound. Auburn was taken to hospital for stitches and is expected to recover barring complications. Whitten was arrested and remanded until Saturday to await Auburn's condition.
Despatch from Ottawa reports Miss M Coleman of Besserer street was wounded by a stray bullet while entering a Sussex street store on Saturday. It is believed others were firing in the nearby countryside and the bullet, fired into the air, lodged in her hair acting as a cushion.
A married woman Janet Tindall visited the Royal Vaults public-house and asked her husband to return home. She hurled a water bottle through a plate glass window, then reentered as he threw more objects, including water bottles and flower pots. She was committed for trial at the Quarter Sessions.
Ottawa dispatch reports four steamers chartered to sail from St John Newfoundland this month and four next month carrying hay to South Africa. New pressing cuts bulk from 170 180 to about 70 cubic feet per unit, enabling larger Britain shipments and freight savings. Hay must compress to at least 100 cubic feet per ton for South Africa.
A London despatch reports the annual American Society meeting electing the General Committee with Andrew Carnegie among the re-elected. I R Davis succeeds Colonel Taylor who resigned. I Vanduzen, society president, will sail to organize an American Company to cooperate on a memorial to Queen Victoria distinct from the British effort.
A Cape Town despatch reports the Gazette will warn colonists that acts of rebellion after April 12 will not be tried under the last session’s special law. Rebels would be punished under the old common law with death or any term of imprisonment the court may impose.
Despatch from Pietermaritzburg reports Boers in small detachments surrendering to Gen. French's column as daily submissions are accepted. Boers women and children suffer rain and hunger despite aid efforts. Swazis monitor Boer moves. a party of fifteen crosses the border, seven are killed, the rest flee and surrender.
A London despatch reports Col. Plumer within twenty miles of Pietersburg after light resistance. Nylstroom says twenty nine prisoners taken Saturday are sent forth and twenty more have surrendered.
A Times despatch from Kroonstad reports Generals De Wet and Botha have met at Vrede. Boers increase activity after return to northern Orange River Colony. Railways damaged on three consecutive nights.
London April 8 A Liverpool merchant promises a reward of 100 pounds to the officer commanding the company that captures Gen De Wet in South Africa.
The leading markets show wheat quotes firm in Manitoba and Canada with No. 1 hard around 98 1 2c, No. 2 near 94 1 4c, and white and red wheats around 66 1 2c to 67c. Quotations cover millfeed, corn, oats, barley, peas, rye, buckwheat, dairy, dressed hogs, lard, and meats with prices ranging from 3 to 20 plus dollars for various cuts and products. Reports from Chicago Minneapolis and Buffalo give May wheat and corn moves, oats declines, and diverse regional price shifts in grains, dairy, and provisions.
London despatch reports Gen. Kitchener noting Col. Plumer took Piet Poigieter's rust 140 miles from Pretoria without opposition. Gen. French seizes another pom-pom and presses the Boers at Vryheid, capturing guns, prisoners, waggons, and cattle. Some Boer units crossed the Orange River moving north.
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