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Newspaper
Hamiota Herald
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 06, 1902
Page
2
Ruric endures capture in a dungeon as masked assailants attempt murder. He overpowers one attacker, escapes through a hidden passage, and narrowly evades death with Vladimir and the monk’s aid. The humpbacked priest Savotano is missing as Vladimir’s group pursues justice and frees the captive.
Nighttime hearers watch as Vladimir the monk returns to his mother the widow and Ruric learns of peril from the Duke of Tula. Olga plots with Savotano as the body is concealed and danger grows for Rosalind, Ruric, and their allies.
A powerful explosion at Mount Kimba colliery in Wollongong traps miners. Twenty seven bodies are recovered and one hundred forty nine remain entombed as a section of the mine burns. At Rossland BC a separate fatal mine accident claims Louis Dunkle and injures William McDonald and Dan Gunn.
Officials estimate 20 000 harvest workers needed across the west with August start from Maritime Provinces and Ontario. A crop report from the CNR on July 31 shows widespread good conditions and strong yields expected across towns such as Steinbach, Morris, Portage, Beavor, Gladstone, Swan River, Carman, and others, with ranges from 18 to 30 bushels per acre depending on location.
Rowland Barren, Liberal, defeated Conservative Arthur Lawson by 7 539 to 6 781 as North Leeds seat turned Liberal after the vacancy caused by William Lawes Jackson's peerage. The result unsettles the government, with Liberal gains cited on education and grain taxes and a Cabinet reshuffle risk. John Wason, Liberal Unionist, also defects to the Liberal party, adding Conservative unease.
Major Wood is acting Yukon commissioner Canon Matheson of Winnipeg will be appointed Dean of Rupert's Land. The Yukon telegraph linemen threaten to strike. VP McNicoll of the CPR will study western transport. A drowning death at Westbourne Manitoba July 3. A boy Roy Stewart five by drowning in White Mud River. Ship collision near Malacca sinks Prince Alexander with forty dead. Colin McKenzie suicide in Beaver Lake area July 24. A five year old Galician child killed at Fast Selkirk July 28.
The passage contrasts belief and truth with lines about affection missing from breach of promise suits. It notes men’s prices and women’s bargains while observing how average men practice economy and how a wife should manage her husband by feeding him and trusting luck.
A noted donor, Mr. Andrew Carnegie, has presented the Acton library to Mr. John Morley MP, a Liberal statesman. Other items note a railway surplus, Winnipeg building values, and various regional events including coronation day plans and local incidents.
A Copenhagen dispatch dated July 28 reports the greatest Scandinavian emigration to the United States since the eighties. Crowded transport lines and new ships are expanding capacity to handle the flow. Most emigrants are skilled and headed for western states to take agricultural lands. nine months ending March list Denmark 3,384, Norway 4,840, Sweden 15,601.
Arthur Brock fell from a small boat into Port Dover harbor on July 80th while adjusting oars. His companion Taylor jumped in to help, was pulled under and became unconscious. McDonald, crew member on an American yacht, rescued Taylor and Brock's body was recovered unsuccessfully.
The Toronto Globe notes two largely unused Canadian navigation networks beginning in Alberta. One extends to the Arctic Ocean, the other toward Lake Winnipeg linking to Hudson Bay. As settlement moves north, testing their utility grows, challenging earlier doubts about northern rail operation.
The London to Shanghai route now on the way takes thirty three to thirty six days. A faster Siberian railway path will reduce the journey to sixteen days.
Fragmentary text mentions a death at Brockville while loading cost and a hostile quote about wives and men. Also includes random aphorisms on independence, criticism, and sports comparisons.
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