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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 09, 1897
Page
1
Local notices list new ventures in McGregor including a brick van service a lime kiln a legal firm a tailor and a photographer. The fragment notes interest from outsiders seeking openings and hints at advertisers welcoming newcomers to town markets.
The Herald reports in Montreal that the Pope’s envoy, described as fluent and urbane, seeks to ease church tensions in Manitoba and Quebec. He explains his remark about the Manitoba settlement bill was not a critique of Manitoba’s actions and stresses his mission does not intervene in federal or provincial legislatures.
A large Liberal convention met at Portage Prairie with over seventy delegates from North Norfolk Westbourne Cypress and Portage la Prairie districts. Dr Rutherford was nominated unanimously as Liberal standard bearer amid resignation by President Patterson and pledge to reduce rates. Conservatives offer no clear candidate, leaving Rutherford’s prospects strong as canvassing begins.
Editorial notes discuss Hugh Macdonald joining the provincial Conservatives and the Winnipeg byelections. Nominations occur April 20 with polling April 27, John Smith and Albert Monkman named returning officers for Macdonald and Winnipeg. Widespread talk of election timing and the school question as a political issue in Manitoba.
A garbled 19th century dispatch notes railways closing, a cook’s arrest in Barkdate, deaths linked to Poplar Point, Lord Wolseley to inspect fruifications at Gilebs, a Montreal gambling gang of twenty five, rising Canadian bank clearings, unrest in St Paul and Minneapolis, Merry del Val’s Ottawa reception, possible delay of a new franchise bill, Anglo-Venezuelan treaty ratified, papal delegate lines drawn in St Donal East, western and southern road disruptions, Dobell in England with Chamberlain, floods deranging southern states, CPR vision workers, Col Burland aids Jubilee regiment, Catholic archbishops meeting, Ontario mining act changes proposed.
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