Pacific cable tender accepted linking Britain Australia and Canada
December dispatch notes a tender of 1 795 000 pounds sterling for a Pacific cable to be Pan British. The line will run nearly 9 000 miles by 1902 linking Britain with Australia and Canada and using Fanning Island as a British anchor after Honolulu could not be used.
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Free Press
Toronto
Britain
Australia
Canada
Konolulu
Sandwich Islands
United States
Fanning Island
Lynch mob burns 16 year old killer in prairie execution
A mob of about 400 men gathered near Simon and Hugo in the Southern States and burned Preston Porter Jr. alive after abducting him from a sheriff and taking him to the crime scene where Louise Frost, an 11 year old girl, was murdered. Porter prayed and begged to be shot as he was tied to a rail and consumed by flames.
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Edmonton Post
Preston Porter, Jr
Louise Frost
Porter
Otter
Hugo
R. W. Frost
Frost
Simon
Limon
Sheriff Freeman
Lake
Freeman
Municipal Affairs in Macleod Nomination Day Report
Last Monday was nomination day in Macleod with residents filing candidacy papers and party officials tallying preliminary results. Local incumbents faced challengers as community leaders urged turnout and orderly proceedings.
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Macleod
Town elects councilmen and elects new mayor in acclimation
Large turnout as ratepayers fill the Town Hall for the annual meeting. Ma yor Genge absent. Mr Grady chairs. New mayor elects and councillors pledge progressive reforms including water works electric light and railway plans. School board members elected by acclamation and financial statements discussed.
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D. G. Grier
Messrs Stedman
Grady
McDonnell
McFarquhar
A. Young
Whiting
Nixon
Messrs
M. C. McLean
J. A. Struthers
H. Bates
Harris
G. McFarquhar
Main Street
Stedman
R. G. McDonnell
Messrs Grady
Sedman
Hicks
Grier
Grier, the Mayor Elect, Thanked the Ratepapers
Mr. Gardiner
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Union Bank
Jung
E. D. Wood
Bannister
SuLicitor
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the Equitable Loan and Buildings Savings Ausan
John Bruce
Lethbridge and
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Cowdry Bros., Bankers— Muncleoil
Harry Whiting
Brompey
Hicks’ Ideal
Amerigan
Bain Wacons
W Meassey
Reapers
Dalky
Thos. Wilton
Sewall & Day
Manilla
McCrea Bros., Macleod
Dadles
Eldredge “B
John Dunlop
Aeanit, Maclerd
the Pacific Cable
Miss O'Neil
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