27 Mar 1912
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Mar 27, 1912
Page
1
At a full Miners Federation meeting a ballot will decide if miners accept the government wage bill and return to work. Delegates will report results to districts promptly. Official text asks whether to resume work pending district wage settlements under the act.
A report from Benghazi via Turkish headquarters states Italian forces suffered 47 officers killed and 3,500 men wounded or killed as the Turkish army claimed a decisive win in Tripoli. Separately in Regina Saskatchewan William Grant the inspector of weights and measures was dismissed and Stewart Gibson appointed in his place with assistant Humphries also removed amid partisan controversy.
John Arbuckle famous coffee man died early today in Brooklyn after a general collapse due to old age. He was 84. The body will be taken to Pittsburgh tomorrow for burial.
Fort Wayne report says Colonel Roosevelt denounces New York primary results as a farce and claims most delegates are not true Republican representatives. He promises a detailed speech in Chicago to expose the method by which delegates were chosen and says no action should bind the party. He notes Indiana’s convention outcome but declines comment.
Arrangements are complete to launch the men and religion movement in Canada with a two day Hamilton gathering starting tomorrow. About a dozen prominent evangelists and church workers from Canada and the United States will speak.
Rear Admiral C B T Moore, recently detached from Yerba Buena Island Naval Training Station, sailed on the steamship Chiyo Maru to the Philippines to become commandant of the naval stations at Cavite and Olongapo.
Ottawa March 27 The February bank reports released yesterday show demand deposits at F821 snore up five and three quarter million from January. Deposits total 6 0 0 252 028 with Canada deposits rising four and one half million and deposits outside Canada at 5 9 9 6 7 9 9 7. Total liabilities 9 0 0 0 0 4 6 up seventeen million. Dominion notes in circulation 87 0 0 7 1 5 7 up two million. Current loans 7 8 5 c 0 4 7 up eighteen million. Call loans Canada about steady at 371 181 410. Call loans outside Canada 5887 5 8 8 ATZ up seven and a quarter million. Total assets 8 8 4 8 8 4 9 0 5 up twenty million.
London March 27 rumors spread that David Lloyd George will resign immediately and that Winston Churchill may take his post as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Lloyd George is said to be in poor health and his allies fault his failure to sway Prime Minister Asquith on a miners wage clause in the government minimum wage bill.
City residents show strong interest in Captain H W H Ross entering the Manitoba election as an independent. The Hud son Bay Herald notes town sentiment favors his candidacy and says he has promised to consider it. Ross is described as an old timer with long residence at Le Pas and familiarity with local needs.
Seattle March 27 Satsuma Nakon 24 and Kosai Marukin 24, Japanese sweethearts, killed themselves by poison near Seattle after family opposition to marriage. Satsuma found convulsing in his cabin and the woman was later found dying at her home. Authorities suppose a suicide pact.
Mr James Fleming plans to buy a young pair of moose near Duck Lake. The bull and cow are halter trained at one year old and can be harnessed easily. Fleming expects to drive them to fall raiders. He notes moose become tractable with careful handling and can become fine roadsters.
Miles City March 2 Nickola Sancheli was sentenced to five years imprisonment for shooting and killing his father during a quarrel last December. The son pleaded self defense.
Inspector Milne reports on two ferries north of Cabri and Pennant awaiting river break. At the Landing the mail and foot passenger cage is opened and Miss Yates becomes the first aviator to test it, aided by a self constructed telephone by Mr. Mackie.
The bill includes two scenic pieces, one drama and two comedies all of high order. The drama Regeneration, a top Vitagraph Company product, is worth the price alone. Come early. prices are the same.
No new smallpox cases in the quarantined area north of Suffield. Constable Darmuan reports patients showing recovery while awaiting a doctor for a full diagnosis. One serious case remains precarious as large families in some homes sustain the outbreak situation.
In Ottawa, Premier Borden cites a government inquiry into grain storage capacity at Minneapolis and Chicago elevators. A West conference agreed to determine available space, while discussions on Osborne barracks transfer to Manitoba proceed with a $200,000 price and land details.
The C P R plans one of its busiest years with heavy labor and investment for local expansion. A forthcoming timetable will add two new trains to run through Hatters, to begin with the summer season and excursion rush, once issued and in effect.
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