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Newspaper
Charlottetown Guardian
Location
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Date
Oct 26, 1908
Page
1
Fog and smoke have halted navigation for four days as thirteen ocean liners wait for clearance in Montreal. Four vessels are passenger ships carrying about twelve hundred passengers detained.
Vermont Governor Charles Frouty issued a proclamation suspending all hunting until November 8 to prevent forest fires amid dry conditions. The emergency bill, signed after rapid passage, bans hunting and imposes a $100 fine for violations.
A brief notice states that York Soubre will reopen Tuesday evening with a new program featuring two new reels and Jenette Jone performing a beautiful and picturesque song plus dances. Ken Brander, the Watch, will announce tomorrow's program.
A solemn memorial service yesterday at First Methodist Church honored Rev. Dr. Dobson one year after his passing. The sermon emphasized Christ’s finished work and a life of mission harmony with God, concluding with the Dead March in Saul as four new members joined the church.
A large crowd gathered at the Opera House for a Queens County Moral and Social Reform League meeting. Clergy from various churches spoke on reform. Bishop McDonald and Rev H A Woodruff sent regrets and sympathy. Speakers included Rev H E B Thomas Rev T F Fullerton Rev G R White and others with music by the Fourth Regiment Band.
In Flinis Kansas a physician intervened when a body believed dead was about to be buried. Mrs Thomas Chapman aged sixty was found alive after preparations for burial had begun following a suspected heart attack on Saturday.
An explosion at Hazel Mine near Pittsburg on Saturday afternoon started a fire. The mine employs about eight hundred workers who all escaped to the surface without injury. Estimated loss runs to one million dollars.
Dr Irving J Cook a young New York physician facing manslaughter charges drank poison and shot himself at the Waldorf Astoria. He had been arrested on $10,000 bail for alleged criminal practice connected to the death of a Summit New Jersey woman. The funeral was to begin at 2:30 pm. A physician later revived the corpse after doubts about the body’s rigidity. Mrs Chapman’s recovery is considered possible due to her weak heart.
The body of a tramp killed by a CPR express near Grand Bay is in Toronto morgue. Critics argue over handling as remains, cut up by the train, may have been packed in a coffin but placed in a packing case marked woolen underwear. Alms House Commission Secretary Wetmore arranging funeral details and transfer to a coffin. Interment planned at Municipal Home lot this evening or tomorrow.
Saint John witnesses a dramatic election climax with a massive parade of thirty thousand and four thousand Tory supporters. Earlier incidents include nine year old John Clark drowning at Marple Cove and a man fatally struck by a streetcar. A violent market assault and liquor‑driven disturbance complete a day of unrest and strong clergy criticism of election tactics.
North and west of St Jerome Quebec fires threaten several valleys and Nantes as residents battle the blazes for 48 hours. A south engine arrived to help save homes. a trench was ploughed a mile to stop the flames near a village. Shawbridge fires around the training school are nearly quelled.
Forest fires in the Adirondacks have killed thousands of trout across streams in the burned area. Fishermen report finding dead fish along stream banks and in shallow waters, with pollution from ashes or smoke suspected to be the cause.
In Budapest on October 23 Baron Van Aehrental, foreign minister, told the foreign affairs committee that negotiations with Turkey over Bosnia and Herzegovina and Novi Pazar have not been broken off. He voiced cautious optimism and said Austria Hungary favors an international conference only if prearranged to fit its views. He predicted Serb agitation would fade.
The Atlantic battleship fleet sailed from Yokohama Harbor on a world voyage. Japanese officials and dignitaries watched as the Connecticut led the line of ships, salutes lighting the harbor while a large crowd bid farewell.
The Allan Steamship Company sold the steamer Sarmatian for thirty thousand dollars to an Italian firm to be broken up for scrap. Once a premier vessel in the St. Lawrence trade it carried the Marquis of Lorne and Princess Louise to Quebec when he became governor-general of Canada years ago.
In New York on an autumn day magistrats and court attendants witnessed Pinkey Goldstein claim his horse was at Seward Park tied to a lamp post after a local mind reader allegedly foretold its location. A man named Samuel Molinsky produced the horse, which had followed him home from Hester Street.
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