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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Oct 28, 1925
Page
2
A Liberal candidate announces for the House of Commons, cites a lower tariff policy, immigration, and continued management of the Canadian National Railway. He urges canvassing by letter due to limited time and explains the voting method for October 29 with an X mark for a single candidate, McDaniel.
Berlin reports Dr Edmund Stinnes son of Hugo Stinnes has secretly departed for the United States amid family quarrels with bankers and receivers over the fortune. Friends say the move signals a shift in the Stinnes business circle and unsettled relations with heirs and executors.
Stavely October 26 A man known as Robert Nairn or Robert Watson Sr with a long criminal record including jail breaking was arrested Sunday after a letter from a young woman in Arkansas reached federal authorities. A US post office inspector and ICMP officers located him on Rodgers and Rush's threshing outfit west of town and took him to Lethbridge.
A Mortlach farmer Harold Clack dies after a double barreled shotgun hidden in a hay pile exploded as he lifted feed. The blast injures his chest and stomach, and he dies after four hours. The gun was left in the hay unnoticed.
Wilson Johnson, superintendent of the Long Island Orphanage, was held in $1000 bail in the Cone Island court. He faces a criminal assault charge on a girl inmate. Police allege he was intimate with four other girls. the orphanage is supported by the Amalgamated Baptist church and houses fifty girls aged eight to sixteen.
Farrell Figis a Trish journalist and Free State parliament member was found dead in a lodging house with escaping gas from a jet. He had testified last week at the Coroner's inquiry into Rita North a young Trish dancing teacher who died after an operation. The inquiry continues on November 5.
In New York on Oct 28 threat robberies and a burglary were added to the police crime blotter. Seven gunmen were involved in the different robberies occurring within a few hours.
An insurance company avoids liability after a beneficiary murders the insured, in a San Francisco case from DeCei on the 28th. The ruling centers on the killer beneficiary and the chain of beneficiary rights.
The Court of Appeals reversed a verdict for Equitable Life and remanded for retrial in a case where Rivh Plumlee killed her husband Plumlee on March 11, 1922, after paying premiums on life policies. Evidence suggested motive to collect insurance and domestic troubles.
Very Rev Norman L Tucker praises Rt Hon W J Mackenzie King during his London Ontario visit. Dean Tucker recounts King’s school audience speech and emphasizes character, public welfare views, and leadership. He recalls encounters with King and praises his steadfast principle and manhood.
Mr and Mrs Robinson of Lethbridge were found asphyxiated in a closed car south of Great Falls Montana while returning from Ontario. The car stalled in mud near Spion Kop and the door was locked. An inquest is underway at Stanford Montana.
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