Youth Drowns While Paddling Near Whitemouth
In Whitemouth Manitoba on May 14 Charlie Herzog aged 16 fell from a canoe into the river and drowned while paddling.
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Whitemouth
Man
Charlie Herzog
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
May 15, 1913
Page
1
Cement plant boom to reshape Medicine Hat traffic
A. Tagge of Montreal, general superintendent for Canada Cement, arrived in Medicine Hat to finalize plans for a new cement mill with a capacity of 4000 barrels per day. The project is a consolidation of two firms and will require up to 700 builders and 800 operators, with daily outbound and inbound train traffic expected to rise significantly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taggee
Medicine Hat
Whig
Hunt Engineering Co
Canada Cement Co
Tagee
Presbytery Meeting Deliberates Cemetery Title Issue
A Presbytery meeting in this city with Rev. Wm Shearer as moderator discussed Dr Mc Queen's letter on cemetery property title. The property was held by Presbyterian churches of Medicine Hat, not St Johns congregation. Edmonton committee finds transfer possibly not legal. matter to be reviewed at Calgary meeting late July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Shearer
McQueen
Mr. Mahaffy
Mr. Shearer
Presbyterian Churches of
Edmonton
Calgary
Peace delegates gather in London to draft near East treaty
Delegates from Greece Servia and the Paurbish have arrived in London with Montenegrin representatives in Paris as talks begin. Allies may meet in conference before signatures. The accord will define Albania Aegean Islands frontiers and postwar arrangements for the Near East and Montenegro.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bondom
Mas Dt Atp
London
Paris
Turkey
Near East
Aegean Islands
Albania
Montenegro
Scutari
Waldo
Seodhartes
Tedegares
Warket Case Against Lam Moves to Next Week
In Irvine area hearings a local butcher faces breach of market by law over buying a calf carcass from farmer Hiskai. Evidence shows veal was discussed at the market and delivered to the defendant’s store with payment completed. The case was adjourned for another week to allow defense time to summon witnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiskai
Irvine
Biskai
British ambassador to Turkey resigns over ill health
Constantinople May 14 The British ambassador to Turkey Sir Gerald Augustus Lowther resigned today due to ill health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantinople
Turkey
Gerald Augustus Lowther
Poachers Caught Near Vancouver Harbour
Government fisheries cruiser William Joliffe arrived from the north with the fishery schooner Valiant of Seattle in tow. Valiant had been caught poaching halibut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vancouver
B. C
William Joliffe
Valiant
Seattle
King and Queen Escape Mine Blast Near Aldershot
The King and Queen narrowly escaped injury during a mine explosion at Aldershot as a 160 pound charge was fired from fifty yards away. Strong winds hurled clay over the road, covering spectators, sappers, a motor car, telegraph wires, and a staff photographer, who was splattered with clay while the blast lit the sky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King
London
Daily Mirror
Aldershot
Son Kills Guilty Father in Selma Fishing Tragedy
Selma Alabama May 14 A seventeen year old boy Jack Bell is charged with shooting and killing his father during a fishing trip and then saving his two year old brother from a creek. Police say the elder son challenged the father over attentions to a neighborhood woman and opened fire first as both reached for weapons. The younger boy reportedly drowned in the creek during the fight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selma
Ala
Jack Bell
Bogue Creek
Charming wedding unites George Daxter and Ruth Degan
St Barnabas hosts the marriage of George Daxter of Medicine Hat and Ruth Marie Degan of Chicago in ivory silk and lilies of the valley. A small reception followed at the groom’s mother’s home with friends in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Barnabas
George Daxter
Medicine Hat
Ruth Marie Degan
Chicago
Thames Brantford
Turmoil Ends in Fatal Family Tragedy in Sparta
In Sparta Wisconsin on May 14 William Plagae aged 70 a retired farmer killed his wife with a stove poker shot his daughter Mrs Gay Wilson three times wounded his son in law with two shots and then killed himself with a razor. Mrs Wilson is dying and her husband may recover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sparta
Wis
William Plagae
Gay Wilson
Albanian siege forcible route tied to Vienna as Turkish hold
Fragmentary report links a military force described as therapy aiding tactics to a Turkish stronghold near Seqearri and a later march toward San Giova and Pi Muathie Peen with references to Abbiiians and Monas in a strained historical note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Gaverieiaedt
San Giova
Monas
Commissioners Grant Licences at Alberta Meeting
Alberta License Commissioners renewed all Medicine Hat licenses at their annual city hall session. Twenty seven wholesale liquor and hotel licenses were under review with four licenses denied. Attending were Dr O S Strong chairing, Bayne and Menkwereher commissioners, Betanger and Teviotdale officials. The Temperance and Moral reformers were not represented. Renewals included Gottfried Roloff Atberea Hotel Irvine John Borth and Nikolas for unspecified establishments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alberta
Medicine Hat
O. S. Strong
Mdmonton
Coamaiissioners
Bayne
Banff and
Menkwereher
Olés
Betanger
Alberta Licensed Victualiers’ Association
Teviotdale
Moral
Fornlearme
Gottfied Roloff
Atberea
Irvine
John Borth
Nikolas
Former employee held for housebreaking at residence
J Cairney, a former worker for Fr C Metzner, was arrested after being found in the basement of Metzner's residence late at night. He claimed he entered through a basement window seeking a place to sleep. He appeared before Magistrate Kealy, remanded to tomorrow at ten.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fr. C. Metzner
J. Cairney
Mr. Metzner
Kealy
Cherry Coulee Local Notes Highlight Family Visits and Illness
Fred Schell stays with sister Mrs A West in Burdett. Myrtle Thorson ill this past week. A Grage family visited N Ancion home on Sunday. Mrs C Foster made Winnifred call on Monday. Mrs A Grage sick on Monday. T Thorson plowed Wim Wilbur’s glace on Friday and Saturday with the engine. Fred Martinson seeded wheat for T Thorson on Wilbur Wilson land last week. C Foster visited several farmers in Fairleigh district on Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Schell
Burdett
Mrs. A. West
Myrtle Thorson
A. Grage
N. Ancion
C. Foster
T. Thorson
Wim Wilbur
Fred Martinson
Thorson
Wilbur Wilson
Fairleigh
Strikers Plant Explosives Beside Mount Hope Railroad
A bomb planted in three spots under Mount Hope Mineral railroad tracks near the Mount Hope Mine of the Emydire Steel and Iron Co exploded within minutes. The blast bent tracks, scattered ties, and raised debris along the four mile line as miners continued a two month strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wharton
Mount Hope
Emydire Steel and Iron Co
Empire Company
Local notes on oil drill progress and community events
Mr Arbuckle reports progress at the Irvine well with 1010 feet reached and a predicted big flow. Other items include travel plans of Mr Welsford and family to the coast, a Vancouver visit by Mr Bell, and dances by the Medicine Hat United A F C. The W C T A canvass plans for the Girls Shelter are outlined with assigned streets and hosts. Ruth Rebeccans report eight new initiates and officer nominations for the coming year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arbuckle
City
Irvine
Dunmore
Tiss
Lewis Welsford
Southern Alberta Land Company
E. Pordham
General Hospital
Mr. Welsford
Columbia
Ruth Rebeccans
Miss Jardine
Direct Legislation Defeated in Springfield House
Springfield Illinois May 14 Lacking one vote the initiative and referendum resolution failed to pass the house at 1 am today. Speaker McKinley ruled a motion prohibiting further consideration carried and then adjourned the house until 10 am with an uproar in the chamber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
McKinley
London Shines in Long May Sunshine
London enjoyed a rare fine day with sunshine lasting from morning to night. Temperatures reached 72 degrees, the highest since last July, as residents banished the memory of Whit Monday gloom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Strike Ties Havana Tobacco Trade As Sailors Strike
In Havana on May 14 1500 sailors and warehousemen walked out for higher wages. The boycott halts tobacco business in Havana and nearby towns handling the 1913 crop. Merchants expect a settlement within four or five days after a committee begins talks with the strikers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Deadlock in Cincinnati Street Car Strike Paralyzes City
May 14 report from Cincinnati shows Mayor Henry T. Trunt mediating between the Cincinnati Traction Company and its striking workers. With company officials refus ing union recognition and union leaders demanding their terms, the stalemate leaves the street car system completely idle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Henry T. Trunt
Cincinnati Traction Company
Traction Company
Canadian Parliament to vote funds for Capt Scott family
Four inebriates appeared before Magistrate Kealy this morning on the charge of being drunk and incapable. Premier Borden announced accepting a suggestion from Hon. R. Le Mieux Sam Hughes and the Orange Oratory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capt
Scott
Kealy
Borden
R. Lemieux
Sam Hughes
Orange Oratory
Bombs Left in Railway Train by Suffragettes
London May 10 police investigated two suspicious packages found on a Western Railway train to Waterloo. The canister filled bags were wrapped in suffragette placards and did not explode. Separately militants burned a vacant house The Highlands at Sandgate near Folkestone. Postcards attacked Prime Minister and Home Secretary were found on the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Thas Pass
Sant
Waterloo
Carson Squad
Highlands
Sandgate
Folkstone
Reginald MacKenna
Home Secretary
Birmingham Broke Bone of Right Leg
Cleveland May 8 Manager Joe Birmingham broke a bone in his instep sliding into second base in the ninth inning of today's game with New York. The injury could keep him out of action for the remainder of the month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
New York
Joe Birminghambrote
Missionaries Expelled From Kortchan Albania
Boston May 14 the board of missionaries received word from the American consul at Saloniki that Rev Phineas Kennedy and Mrs Kennedy had been expelled from Kortchan southern Albania by the Greeks and are now in Saloniki they had led a school for Albanian girls. Kennedy aided distressed residents and a guard was set at his house with visitors recorded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Board of Commissioners For American Missions
Saloniki
Phineas Kennedy
Kennedy
Kortchau
Albania
James Ll. Barton
Kortcan
Abolition of Three Dollar Homestead Purchase Discussed
Premier Borden signals supplementary estimates will include a grant to Captain Scott’s family from the Canadian government. Debates touch on re abating per acre fees, Orange Hall remarks by Col. Hughes, Ghent World’s Fair representation, and a raised annuity limit from $600 to $1,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Borden
W.T. White
le Iieux
Capt
Scott
Suffragette Plot to Kidnap Cabinet Minister Reported
London reports reveal a planned suffragette kidnapping of a cabinet minister. The scheme involved luring him to a country house, dressing him in old woman’s clothes, handcuffing him, and a mock trial with a suffragette judge and jury, sentencing him to three years penal servitude.
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Canada Cement Company
Tagge
Presbytery Meeting
Warket
St. Dlohd’s Missionary Society
Ff Aelock
Threehoreh
Vegreyville School
St. John's Women’s Missionary Society
St. John's Church
Malcolm
Dr. Falconer
Moose Jaw
BE. F. Castle of
Montreat
Tange of Commons
Droughin
Charence Da'miegon
M.P
Torden
Mr. Young
Falconer
B. F. Sonch
R. H. Kent
Lethbridge
A. M. Wright
Esplanade
William Cousins
R. H. Bayles
Taylor Hunter and Co
Elkwater Lake
Cypress Hills
J. A. MacDonald
The
Mr. Heald
Whitla
Carlstadt
N. McDonald
Miss Smith
Mrs. LePage
Charles Sr
View Court
Mrs. J. Haw
Ontario
E. W. Campbell
Hollinger Agency
Winnipeg
W. P. Gillies
Mrs. Mervyn Brown
Mrs. Alex. Johnstone of
Outlook
J. H. Molter
H. C. Beatty
Mrs. Steward
Roe Weir
Caleare
Do. Bell
Medicine Hat United A. F.C
Becker Hall
Connec
Montreal
Rand
Main
Toronto
Broughton
Walton
Deadlock
Cincennaty
Birmingham
Barton
Naniamo
Lenny Wagner
Constable Westaway
Union
Wagner
Buchanan
Jacques Bureau
Hintonburg
Orange Order
Canada
United States
Col. Hughes
Beland
Ghent
Hutchinson
J. D. Hazen
A. K. McLean
Globe and the Rainbow
W. A. Buchanan
Hon. L. Pelletier
William Stone and Company
Lloyd-George
Golf Links
T. P. O'Connor
Mega
Mr. O'Connor
Griceels
Wales
the Admiralty
Churchill
J. A. Cobdanhoff
Canada Western Natural Gas, Heat, Light and Power Co
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