Winnipeg Market Report on Wheat Prices and Trends
The Winnipeg market notes May and July wheat in Minneapolis and Duluth, Chicago and New York trading, with prices around 1.27 to 1.29 dollars, and a cautious tone on European demand. Manitoba oats show dull demand, while visible supply and shipping figures indicate mixed prospects for export, with price recovery in the latest trading and in-store quotes for Northern and other grades.
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Chicago
Minneapolis
Duluth
T&t
New York
Europe
United States
America
Manitoba
Fort William
Fort Wiilliam
London
Liverpool
England
France
Port Arthur
Winnipeg Market Report From June 1905 Trade Blooming
The Winnipeg market shows higher oat chop and mixed barley prices with broader activity. Grain oily and feed prices vary from $1 to $27 per ton while vegetables decline in value and livestock such as cattle and hogs hold steady with firm rates for best butcher stock.
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Shorts
Northwestern
Fort William Basis
Ontario
Manitoba
Ontaro
Winnipeg
Chinese boycott by Chinese chamber of commerce in Manila
The Chinese chamber of commerce in Manila votes unanimously to align with treaty ports and boycott American merchandise in retaliation for the new exclusion treaty.
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Manila
Chinese Chamber of Commerce
China
Messenger Services in Ottawa Reported by Post Office
Ottawa circular asks Toronto and other messenger firms to detail business nature. It cites exclusive postal rights under section 198 of the Postal Act and suggests sweeping changes could end many messenger firms and boost parcel delivery by the post office.
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Toronto
Post Office Department
Ottawa
Canada
Bell Company Plans $1 Million Stock Increase
A Montreal special reports that Bell Telephone will offer shareholders in a new issue of $1,000,000 stock at 125 to lift capitalization to $8,000,000. The firm had issued $1,000,000 a year earlier as it expanded its business, with capital outlays rising as demand grows.
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Montreal
Bell Telephone Company
Canadian Farmers Lead the British in Cooperation
Earl Derby presiding at the annual agricultural association meeting praised Canadian farmers for being far ahead of British peers in cooperation and commended the system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Earl Derby
The
Agricultural Association
Bold Robbery at Ottawa Jewelry Store Shocks City
An Ottawa Jewelry Manufacturing Co store on a main street was robbed between 11 and 11:30 p m. about $1 000 in watches rings and silverware vanished from the window display. Proprietors Louis and H Pollock were detained for questioning but no jewelry was found on them. The incident follows a incident involving a man named Doran whose behavior is described as unbalanced.
Montreal Fisherman Found Dead Aboard Adrift Boat
Henry Palmer of 57 Gordon Avenue was found dead in a boat adrift opposite Nun's Island at Point St. Charles. He was discovered by Henry Burgess, Henry Howslow, and John Kearney on a pleasure trip who towed the craft ashore and notified police. There were fishing lines and a name tag in his pocket. no violence seen, suspected heart trouble.
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Montreal
Henry Palmer
Nun's Island
Point St. Charles
Henry Burgess
Henry Howslow
John Kearney
Palmer
Gordon Avenue
Sunday Cars for Winnipeg Move Approved by Council
Winnipeg to allow Sunday electric street cars after a heated council vote. A bylaw will be drafted and submitted at the next meeting, granting daily operation to the street railway company. If enacted swiftly, cars could run within three weeks. The yea side included Gibson Fry Wynne Cox Campbell and Finklestein. Latimer Horne Cockburn Sandison Harvey voted nay.
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Winnipeg
Electric Street Railway Company
Gibson
Fry Wynne
Cox
Campbell
Finklestein
Latimer
Horne
Cockburn
Sandison
Harvey
Toronto Observatory Receives Seismograph Request
Professor Omori of the University of Tokio seeks Toronto seismographs for study of earthquakes. He plans to visit India to examine recent calamities and to bring Toronto records and others. Japan leads in seismology as earthquakes claim yearly losses.
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Toronto
Omori
University of Tokio
India
Japan
Nanaimo Mine Closes After Eight Hour Law Fails
Western Fuel company of Nanaimo shuts down No. 1 mine after rejecting a ten percent wage cut amid new eight hour limits. About one thousand workers lose jobs in a town of five thousand as pumps are removed and tools taken out. Owners await repeal of the law, fearing mine collapse and permanent ruin for Nanaimo.
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Vancouver
B. C
Western Fuel Company
Nanaimo
Young man charged with obtaining goods by false pretences
J W Doran aged 19 living with his grandfather at the north channel below was brought before the police court on the charge of obtaining goods by false pretences. He rented a Maitland post office box in March and ordered 3500 feet of wire fence from Oshawa and two large incubators from New York, with stove and utensils sent to Maitland.
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Brockville
J. W. Doran
North Channel
Maitland
Oshawa
New York
Japan’s Victory Reported After Russian Fleet Destruction
May 27 to May 29 dispatches detail Admiral Togo's forces sinking four Russian ships near Okinoshima and Liancourt Rocks, capturing Admiral Nebagatoff and 2,000 others. Telegrams from Yamamoto praise the triumph as Ro jestvensky’s fleet suffers heavy losses and is largely destroyed.
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Tokio
Togo
Okinoshima
Tsushima
Fotilla
Qsth
Liancourt Rocks
Nicholai L
Sendivin
Apraxine
Izumrud
Borodino
Alexander HS
Jemchug
Cruies
Nebogatoff
Rojestvensky
Volkershim
Nebagotoff
Korean
London
Toklo
Daily Express
Gromobol
Vladivostok
Tsu Island
Tokilo
Russia
Tsarskoe Selo
Alexieff
Manchuria
Vodikersa
Family Crushed in C P R Yards at Winnipeg
In Winnipeg near the overhead bridge at the C P R yards Richard Paul a foreman carpenter of 546 Pritchard avenue was killed when a work train shunted gravel cars caught him as he attempted to crawl under a train of standing cars. He died about an hour later from internal injuries a fractured thigh and ankle. He was over fifty and leaves a wife and family.
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Winnipeg
Richard Paul
Pritchard Avenue
Paul
Dr. Knechtel
Mr. Paul
Gen- Ue noGe
Salvers Eye Cargo From Scotsman Wreck
The St Lawrence Floating and Wrecking Co plans to salvage cargo from the Scotsman wrecked six years ago in East Point Straits of Belle Isle. Officials say enough cargo could net about three quarters of a million dollars. copper valued at 200000, plate glass 300000, and other goods worth at least 750000.
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Montreal
St. Lawrence
Dominion
Farmers Seek Road Extension to Elbow Saskatchewan
A large delegation of farmers from the Moosejaw district and Moosejaw citizens urged the board of trade to back a branch road from Moosejaw to the Elbow of the Saskatchewan. A motion passed for twenty five miles of the road to be built this year with claims the line would profit the company from the start. Settlers press for immediate relief as surveyors work in the field.
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Moosejaw
Board of Trade
Saskatchewan
Three Fires Hit Boston in One Hour
Boston firemen battled three fires across the city in a single hour. The Beacon garage on Brimmer street suffered the worst damage, with three large buildings destroyed and about 35 valuable automobiles lost. The total estimated loss from the incidents runs to $150,000.
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Boston
Mass
Beacon Garage
Brimmer Street
Struck Oil Wagon In Dayton Train Fatality
The Pennsylvania passenger train No. 28 from St. Louis struck an oil wagon at Stillwater junction in Dayton Ohio. The oil tank burst and the engine fires ignited the oil, killing engineer Edward Gimby and fireman Charles Pryor of Columbus. The wagon driver escaped injury. The train sustained no damage.
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Dayton
Ohio
Pennsylvania
St. Louis
Stillwater Junction
Edward Gimby
Charles Pryor
Columbus
Prophet’s claim of healing power from Winnipeg preacher
Rev W E Chrimas of Winnipeg says a hand from the unseen touched his brain and he became a prophet. He claims Russia would be defeated by a rising eastern power and predicts Germany will join Russia and France with England leading to a European war as foretold in Daniel.
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W. E. Chrismas
Winnipeg
Russia
Daniel
Germany
France
England
Balkan States
Europe
British Ambassador Returns After Ottawa Talks on Waterways
Sir H Mortmer Durand, the British ambassador, has completed a five week trip abroad and met with Canada’s secretary on the international waterways commission. He plans to visit Acting Secretary Loomis to renew Canada’s case on the commission’s scope. It is believed the U S will stand by its London envoy Mr Choate who stated the commission would investigate and report broadly.
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Washington
H. Mortmer Durand
International Waterways Commission
Loomis
London
Choate
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Thompson, Sons & Co
Jane
Messenger Services and
the Government
Canadian News
Doran
Eganville
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