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Newspaper
Hamiota Herald
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 16, 1902
Page
2
Mollie faces loss and plans departure after her mother's funeral as Hugh Ingelow suspects a widening riddle. A confession note reveals Miriam Dane’s true story while Carl Walraven confronts vanished Miss Dane and a guarded future with Ingelow.
Mr. Carl Walraven sits alone in a Broadway hotel room after breakfast, smoking and watching pedestrians pass. He has just learned of Niziam's funeral, a detail he had not heard about, and he remains in the city after the eventful morning.
In a quiet exchange, characters reveal tension as one admits reading a letter and the other defends their attempt to hide it. The dialogue exposes social etiquette clashes and underlying strain between the speakers.
A Pretoria dispatch reports Boer leaders accepted British terms and peace is arranged. London circles and figures like Frederick Harris circulate unconfirmed telegrams. Central News notes a Pretoria telegram claiming Generals De Wet and Lotha agreed on terms. officials await confirmation amid clubroom excitement.
On Thirteenth Street near Metsraw Street in Detroit a young girl, unnamed, was stabbed and beaten to death just before midnight. Harry Jewell heard cries, saw a man attack, the assailant returned and struck again before fleeing. Police found the victim dead. no murderer yet located.
In Liverpool April 10 a rise in meat prices is linked to prohibitions on Canadian and Argentine cattle rather than American beef interests. First quarter imports fell by over 8,000 head compared with 1901, and South American dead meat trade failed to offset the shortage. Butchers and foreign cattle traders call for allowing South American and Canadian live cattle entry, noting stock disease has disappeared.
Irish Detective Mr John Mallon J P rose to Assistant Commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and earned fame by trapping Fenian leaders and solving the Phoenix Park murders. He seized The Irish People in 1865 after a Meehan led emissary dropped a £5000 cheque, then tracked Carey Brady and their associates, culminating in the 1882 Castle briefing that cracked the case.
In Ottawa on April 11, Minister Borden announced a militia expansion from 25 000 to 100 000 men through rifle clubs. A Ross rifle contract will establish a Quebec factory producing over 15 000 rifles annually with arsenals in Quebec and British Columbia and improvements across branches.
The Duke of Connaught, commander in chief of Ireland’s forces, will have supreme control over all troops assembled in London for the coronation. His authority spans the incoming military units and their deployment for ceremony duties.
William Abraham, M. P., famed Welsh labor figure, returns to Parliament from the United States as a thorough convert to American labor methods and practices.
Montreal wholesale butter dealers report orders to buy all butter possible for sale in large eastern U S cities. The local stock suffices only for local demand amid reports of famine elsewhere.
John McBride a 40 year old former electric street railway conductor committed suicide yesterday morning by drinking a full glass of ammonia. He leaves a wife and several children.
A string of brief items reports on a death in Peterboro Ontario, wage actions by Williams Matock and CPR trackmen, a British army horse sale in British Columbia, mutinous Belgian troops, United Irish league suppression talk, Italian Swiss diplomatic rupture, oil fortunes in Petrolia Ontario, and other scattered notices including a murder in Everett Washington and epidemics in Manitoba.
Ottawa April 10 subscriptions for the fund to erect distinction memorials on the graves of deceased Canadian soldiers in South Africa total 810 dollars Dr Borden has subscribed 75 dollars. Nothing angers a man like the silence of his wife when he attempts to quarrel with her.
Rita May Dickson aged 4 the daughter of John Dickson an electrician died this morning after drinking edye water left on a shelf by her mother in Halifax Nova Scotia. The incident is reported from Halifax on April 10.
Windsor Ontario April 10 Messrs Walker propose to erect an Anglican church at Walkerville as a memorial to the late Hiram Walker.
Brockville April 10. Erriet Nevins a Bell Telephone lineman was working on a cable laden pole when it broke ten feet from the top. He was dashed to the road thirty five feet below and died an hour later. Nevins 26 son of William Nevins Kingston had worked here all winter.
Seventeen sepoys were attacked on April 7 along the Mahmud frontier. Eight soldiers fell dead and three were wounded, with the others fleeing to safety.
The admiralty orders the cruiser Thames to scour the North Atlantic for the missing Allan Line steamer Huronian. This action follows reports of the ship's disappearance and aims to determine its fate and passengers.
In Dunchurch Ontario two men survived a log boom accident while William Craig drowned after their boat was crushed by ice. Allan Craig and Thomas Simpson reached shore after two hours of effort, exhausted from the ordeal.
A school prize went to a bright pupil who wrote King themed verses. The verses title a list of kings with traits such as the most powerful king and the wittiest king. In Arthur Ontario authorities report an attempted poisoning with Paris green in a well and livestock feed belonging to Alexander Cole.
A playful, circular verse about a guide guiding a man who hires him to guide and ends up guiding himself. The narrator notes the paradoxical situation as the roles reverse and people taunt the “guyed” guide amid a chorus of wordplay.
In a 1882 83 Dublin incident six men were seized then released after six months as witnesses failed to identify them. A private star chamber at Dublin Castle led by Mr Adye Curran and detective Mallon pressured unwilling witnesses. On Jan 13 the six men were re arrested along with twenty others including the four men who struck the blows. Mallon praised as an ideal detective.
Five submarines built at Barrow for the British government by Vickers Sons and Maxim will soon run open sea trials. They aim to prove speed and firing ability, with surface speeds near nine knots and submerged speeds around seven knots. The craft displace about 120 tons submerged and carry five 12-foot torpedoes.
The Wei-Hai-Wei harbor on Shantung coast, once a British naval aim and Japanese fortress, is reportedly to become a sanatorium for Hong Kong. Critics note the hub of plans around an Anglo-Japanese agreement era, with past actions including the 1895 destruction of the Chinese fleet and later fortifications.
An 1895 sketch of Wang-Tuh4ial fort on Wei-Hai-Wei’s west northern coast illustrates the strong, untouched defenses since the Japanese bombardment. The image comes from a photograph by N. F P. Wad wards, Littlehampton, Fayrland.
A terse exchange hints at reassurement amid a guarded mood as one speaker rejects intimacy, while another muses that Browning's notion of success rests in constant failure, framing a tension between restraint and desire.
A public dinner honored Isaac Hull in Boston. Gilbert Stuart, famed artist and braggart, entertained Hull with tales of English fame. Mrs. Stuart interrupted in the studio with a kitchen apron and head scarf asking about dinner, prompting his witty reply.
In Borneo and nearby islands pearl divers keep a bottle for seed pearls or breeding pearls. They place every ninth pearl inside the vial and seal it with a dead man’s finger, believing the pearls will reproduce. Two grains of rice feed the pearls, a practice shared by some white dwellers along the coast.
A London Spectator excerpt discusses beliefs about ghosts in a village divided. Some dismiss ghosts as nonexistence while others claim someone they know has seen them. A skeptic argues that if ghosts go to the right place they will not return, and if they go to the other place they will not be allowed back.
In south Germany a local belief links street soldier play to a coming war and funeral games to epidemics. A boy recalling the event says an old miser shouted he would not die yet, prompting him to report to the mayor that the youths should be punished.
A tender hearted youth at an Oxford supper speaks up after a long silence. He pleads that the fathers of the assembled, who supply the sons with sustenance, are our fellow creatures and deserve consideration amid harsh criticism.
Edith says the theater feels like enchantment and nothing is as it seems. Fred notes after touring the house that it appears to be paper with woodwork and fresco painting.
In a terse exchange, Wrong Was Right and Bogges challenge claims about Brown’s poor health. Brown retorts that happiness comes from finding something to complain about, implying ongoing dissatisfaction.
Liver regulator claims prompt relief and lasting benefit from bile poisons. Letters from users praise cures of biliousness headaches and kidney liver derangements. Pills priced 25 cents a box sold by Edmanson Pates Co Toronto.
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