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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Aug 09, 1912
Page
1
Mayor Nelson Spencer to host public meeting Thursday August 15 at eight o'clock to discuss the Industrial Bureau report and future policy. Delegation seeks to report progress and elect a new executive, urging citizen turnout to shape Western Canada's industrial development.
Hon. C. R. Mitchell and John Stocks toured the Hat area with Deputy Minister Wm. Fallon to review Public Works matters. Plans include grading and upgrading Porter Hill and the Medicine Hat to Nortons road, new Bowell graded road, and bridges north of Medicine Hat and Irvine. Telephone system overhaul is being pursued. Stocks praised local manufacturing, notably Redcliff Ornamental Iron Works, with a major government project order already placed.
Wheat expert John Ingalls reports prospects for a magnificent crop from the Canadian prairie west. He returns from three weeks touring the spring wheat country for Logan and Bryan and says harvesting could begin about ten days earlier than last year. He notes timing shifted from blossom to ripening between August 7 and August 10 in Moose Jaw district.
Two workers were killed and five seriously injured at the bottom of a 260 foot shaft to the new aqueduct on 106th Street and Central Park West when a steel drill hit an old forgotten powder charge. The incident occurred early today in New York.
In Chicago on August 9, the Western Power Boat association announces $50,000 in prizes for cups and cash as its championship races run with the international water carnival and naval pageant. Entries pour in from Mississippi river cities and most Great Lakes ports, with speediest power craft ready to compete. The Daily News reminds readers to subscribe.
In Great Falls Montana P F Hanson is found guilty of assaulting 15 year old Retta Honner with his wife and three children in court. Hanson faces sentencing Friday. Mrs Hanson arrived penniless with 45 cents and is helped by local friends.
Elaborate preparations are under way for the thirteenth annual reunion of the army of the Philippines in Lincoln Nebraska with delegates expected from many states.
London August 9 Winston Churchill has received an invitation to address St Patrick's Society in Montreal during his forthcoming tour of Canada.
Regina Sask August 8 The north bound CPR train from Regina to Saskatoon derailed at Liberty leaving four injured and possibly one fatally. Two coaches left the track and the cause is not yet known.
Edmonton reports the liquor license department fined A Stevenson and Murphy $450 each in Edson for bootlegging along the G T P main west of Edmonton. Since year start fines total $7,000, reflecting tougher provincial enforcement after dominion jurisdiction changes. Chief Detective Nicholson led the prosecutions.
Hongkong report says pirates struck the Island of Colo Wan and the Portuguese dependency of Macao near the Canton River mouth. Forty Portuguese reinforcements were sent from Macao. Since July 1910 a garrison of 150 Portuguese soldiers has been stationed in Colo Wan due to ownership disputes.
A severe tremor lasting about ten seconds sent the entire population of Constantinople into the streets at daybreak. Many buildings were shaken violently but overall damage is reported as small. PIRATTS
New York August reports indicate Becker may offer a confession to avoid murder charges. District Attorney Whitman discussed leniency with Becker or a plea for truth telling. Grand jury expected to indict Rodenzweig Whitey Lewis Howits Cirofifi Sullivan Schepps. graft indictments possible for police officials.
Toronto announces arrangements for the International Geological congress in August with delegates from leading nations. The meeting will center on the world's coal supply as the principal subject of consideration.
Sir George Ask, chairman of the Industrial Commission of the Board of Trade and noted mediator, is to be sent to Canada shortly to investigate the workings of the industrial disputes legislation in the Dominion.
Ottawa reports that W. Sanford Evans former Winnipeg mayor is expected to be the Conservative candidate in the MacDonald Manitoba bye election caused by Staples appointment to the Grain Commission. L. Richardson the ex M P who was discussed as an independent will not run. Liberal candidate status unclear.
The Unionists win the northwest division of Manchester seat in the House of Commons filling the vacancy from Sir George Kemp. Sir John Randalls defeats Gordon Randalls Herwort 5573 to 4371 as Liberal majorities from prior years are recalled. The result follows wartime holiday migrations and travel from the Isle of Man and Germany.
The German steamer Sermia docking in Antwerp was detained after authorities found large quantities of cartridges gun powder and other explosives hidden in rice bags among her cargo bound for Turkey.
A nine man crew from the Canadian Cruiser Rainbow under Lieut Moore has been detailed to guard southern Vancouver Island salmon fisheries. The Bluejackets, armed with a Maxim gun, deter American pirates preying on the fisheries.
In Sydney Nova Scotia on August 9 the Duke of Connaught fished with J J L Ross. He hooked a tuna over an hour but the line snapped when he tried to hold it on shore. The fish sped the boat across the bay before escaping.
An explosion of black damp and coal dust in the Lorraine shaft near Goe thes village four miles from Bochum kills 108 miners, with ten severely and 23 slightly injured. Death is reported as instantaneous. Cause not yet determined, suspected gas blast.
Ole John Johnson a Norwegian from Minot North Dakota faced a police court hearing for stealing cherries valued at 25 cents from E B Lively's store. He pleaded guilty to four or five cherries but claimed Constable Pickering took them. Johnson said Pickering took some as a court sample. He received one month imprisonment and a recommendation for deportation.
Paris on tenterhooks as Lausanne talks hint stability yet civil strife and Montenegrin clashes threaten Ottoman endurance. Rival blocs align, Bulgaria and Serbia unite against Turkey while Russia backs the Adriatic frontier and Austria Germany resist expansion.
Montreal August 9 The Canadian Pacific Railway telegraph department has installed an automatic telegraphy system between Montreal and Toronto. The transmitter uses a typewriter style keyboard and prints the message in Toronto via a perforated roll system. If successful it may spread to the entire railway.
W E Fisher died this morning from injuries after two tramps attacked him near his Winston ranch. The assault occurred when Fisher refused money, one tramp threw a rock, and Fisher was knocked senseless. The assailants were jailed in Townsend.
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