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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 28, 1906
Page
7
Fragmented report claims Scidere troops refuse police duty amid panic and fires. Widespread violence and prison unrest flare as nobles’ estates burn and authorities scramble to restore order. Canadian-US talks stall with Durand awaiting Canada’s consent for any settlement steps.
The report describes French Canadian visitors in Paris at the Giul studio and the planned Strathcona monument for Dominion Square in Montreal. It details a Strathcona scout statue, a mounted police officer, and a Boers trail scene, along with the drowning death of Constable Jackson in Medicine Hat and the Royal Northwest Mounted Police history, including Constable Jackson’s career and burial near Fort Walsh.
S Depheus of Advancing Senerme discusses training the naval militia with Canada. The Canadian Pacific Telegraph Company tests a copper wire line between Montreal and Windsor to enable direct communication and faster dispatches. Meanwhile a swift court ruling pins a murder sentence for Jonah Kean, with sympathy for his family and a note on potential sentence reduction.
Report notes Komura’s pending arrival and Booth’s reaction after a cable message. Consul-General Nosse mentions sending a sail from Yokohama to Victoria aboard the Empress of Japan on July 20. Reference to Portsmouth treaty, Baron’s Canadian route home, and the Japanese government’s appreciation for a high appointment.
The medical officer of Stepney borough reports five years of rotten canned foods from Stepney wharves, mostly colonial meat fish and fruit not from American concerns. He notes New Zealand raspberries with sulphur and aniline baths to restore color on arrival. He warns diseased canned meat evades detection and calls for stricter carcass examination and stronger public health funding.
A religious meditation on Christ’s humility and childlike dependence, urging believers to embrace God as Father and rely on divine protection. It cites Scripture from Matthew, Philippians, Romans, John, and other passages to comfort and exhort, stressing that believers are secure in Christ and that even little ones merit God’s care.
Hungarian farm laborer Vincent Makar was found guilty of murdering Donald Cameron at Frobisher last March and sentenced to be hanged at Regina on September 6. He claimed self-defence, saying the fork in Cameron’s hands discharged the gun. The sentence followed a brutal, premeditated act after Cameron refused Magyar’s request to renew his employment. The trial noted the accused appeared largely unmoved by the ruling.
The funeral of Premier Seddon, who died suddenly aboard a steamer en route from Sydney to New Zealand, drew a vast crowd as the hearse was followed on foot through packed streets. A general holiday was observed across the colony.
The US steamer Pierre Marquette discharged fifteen cars of binder twine at CPR freight seats in Fort William Ontario, destined for Massey Harris agencies across the west. The cargo loaded at Cleveland and will be followed by three more ships within a week, marking a new marine freight record as a full twine cargo arrives.
The House of Lords passed the measure with a comment, paving the way for legalization of marriages with a wife's sister across British possessions. The act allows such marriages to be legally contracted anywhere within the empire.
A new 300000 hall of humanities at Cornell University was dedicated with Prof Goldwin Smith present. Smith, aged six years less than a century, spoke vigorously and predicted Canada and the United States would remain separate. President Seuberman and Dean Thomas Frederick Crane also spoke as Richard Watson Goldcrowe read a poem.
The market report surveys wheat markets last week with bullish mood in American markets amid nervous trading. World shipments remain liberal but prices hinge on U S weather and crop prospects. Western Canada shows strong crop potential with rising futures. European and Australian crops progress. A mail theft and grocers’ guild case in Edmonton are noted, along with a post office rate talk in London linking to Canada.
Parliamentary Papers attack Haggart scheme for colonies in British possessions. Lyttleton and committee oppose funding colonization via religious body control. They warn costs may exceed returns and favor limited migration aid while leaving workers to self-sustain. Canada and South Africa cited as precedent of poor colonization results.
A Canada relief fund allocation, after discussion with His Majesty’s representative in San Francisco, reports that $8 of $100,000 was sent to J. D. Phelan, president of the Red Cross and Relief, with $20 retained under canal-suggestion and to be discussed in further correspondence.
The University of Wisconsin agricultural department reports experiments show spray of iron sulfate over crops destroys Canada thistle and wild mustard seeds. They claim this could raise farm land values by about 2 percent. A German spraying machine covers an acre at a cost of fifty cents.
Mrs. Kauffman wife of a wealthy local brewer faced a preliminary hearing for allegedly causing the death of her maid Agnes Pearse. Crowds shouted lynching cries as she left the courtroom and the case was set for trial in November. Pearse, 17, died June 1 and was buried in Parkston. authorities later exhumed the body finding forty five wounds.
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