Valen tines wedding day and Conrad's failed strike in Milan
In Milan on Valentine Visconti's wedding day, the monk Conrad attempts to assassinate Visconti with a hidden dagger. Caught, he is condemned to leave the city with money and a safe conduct, while Visconti continues his triumph and Mastino della Scala’s forces falter elsewhere.
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Milan
Valentine
Church of San’ Apollinare
Conrad
Della Scala
Visconti
Valentine Visconti
Gian Visconti
Ee . Visconti
Conrad von Schulembourg
Count Conrad
Viscorti
d’Orleans
Saint Hubert
Germany
Churl
Messer
Novara
France
Mastino Della Scala
Mastino
Pavia
Treviso
Cremona
Vincenza
Verona
Mastinoi
Lombardy
Can’ Gran’ Della Scala
Six bodies recovered from Niagara Falls area over ten days
A Niagara Falls Ontario despatch reports two more floaters found in the Whirlpool on Thursday, lacking limbs and heads. Combined with four earlier bodies from the Whirlpool and Lower River, six victims are recovered. The fatalities are not tied to recent personal crisis reports but are believed to be long-held by the rocks.
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Niagara Falls
Ont
Niagara
World markets brief notes from telegraph across oceans
A digest of global economic and political items. Fire destroys a Gooderham home with a child killed. Canada sees business deals, tariffs, and university honors. Farming prices and commodity rates from Toronto and regional markets are listed with grain and dairy figures.
Ottawa Power Station Floor Collapse Fatal for James Ingram
Despatch from Ottawa reports James Ingram of Ottawa Electric Railway Company died from injuries after a floor collapse at the power station. He fell about twenty feet with two coworkers, John Canty and John Wilson, who escaped with minor injuries. Ingram was rescued unconscious and taken to the Chaudiere.
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Ottawa
James Ingram
Ottawa Electric Railway Company
John Canty
John Wilson
Ingram
Chaudiere
Canty
Wilson
Conductor Ardell Killed Near Markstay After Wreck
Ashland Ardell C P R conductor was struck and killed near Markstay while returning to his stalled train after a freight wreck blocked the line. His body was found the next morning. he leaves a widow and one child in North Bay.
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North Bay
Ashland Ardell
Markstay
Ardell
Winnipeg Express
Amalgamated strike hits U S Steel subsidiary mills
Pittsburg despatch reports the Amalgamated Association strike over the open shop order is now effective in nearly all American Sheet and Tin Plate Company mills, a United States Steel subsidiary. An estimated 7 000 to 10 000 workers in Pennsylvania Ohio and West Virginia are idle. No meetings or strike-breaker import announcements have been made.
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Pittsburg
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
American Sheet and Tin Plate Company
United States Steel Company
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
Dairy and grain market updates from Canada and US
Market notes show butter and cheese prices in Canadian markets with eggs and lard figures. Western Canada oats and barley quoted with flour, feed, and mouille. US markets in Buffalo Chicago list wheat corn oats barley values and a Montreal cattle and hog report with prices and weights.
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Ontario
Toronto
Western
Canada
Bay
Manitoba
Shorts
Montreal
Manitoba Shorts
Finfest Creamery
United States
Buffalo
Chicago
Diplomat Assassination at Imperial Institute
A Indian student shot and killed Lieut. Colonel Sir Willian Bull Curzon Wyllie and Dr. Calas La Loaca of Shanghai during an Imperial Institute at home event in London. The assassin was seized by guests and police were summoned. Lady Wyllie, wife of the slain man, identified the scene with horror.
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London
England
Imperial Institute
Willian Bull Curzon Wyllie
Calas la Loaca
Shanghai
Wylie
St. George's Hospital
D. W. Thorburn
Curzon Wyllie
Toronto Customs Records Tie June Peak Amid Revival Hopes
Despatch from Toronto reports June customs collections at the port reached 921063.21, the highest for June. This exceeds last June by 276763.05 and contrasts with 1907 and 1903 figures of 909594.51 and 732677.70, signaling renewed business activity and likely prosperity ahead.
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Toronto
Crops Look Promising in Saskatchewan and Alberta
Dr. Saunders of the experimental farms reports from Indian Head Saskatchewan June 30 that crops across the region and Alberta show a very healthy, rapidly growing yield. Winter wheat in Southern Alberta partly winter killed has been reseeded with spring grain. some varieties are heading while some districts saw late sowing. Conditions now favorable suggest an abundant harvest.
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Ottawa
Saunders
Department of Agriculture
Indian Head
Sask
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Fatalities in Toronto after sports day and river drowning
A Scotsman named John ID Wilkie died after being struck by a street car at King and Simcoe streets in Toronto on Thursday night. Earlier, 14-year-old Leonard Bulstrode drowned while bathing at the island pond, and Alfred Frost jumped to his death from Glen Road bridge. Montreal note reports Senator Aldrich backing Trunk Point St. Charles shops for corporation tax.
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John Bowers
Gooderham
Amherst
N.S
Montreal
Rhodes, Curry Company
Ogilvie Flour Mills Company
Elk Lake
Sweden
Canada
Toronto
Oakville
John ID. Wilkie
King and Simcoe
Long Pond
Island
Leonard Bulstrode
Cooper Avenue
Alfred Frost
Orr Bros
Glen Road
the Grand
Aldrich
Trunk’s Point
New Working Hours Increase Weekly Pay at Point
The new order extends weekday hours from 7 to 6 and Saturday hours from 7 to 12, adding ten hours per worker per week. Since last August the schedule was 7 to 5 on weekdays with no Saturday work, raising total earnings for each man.
Double drowning near Sorel claims two Montreal youths
A squall struck the yacht Red Feather near Sorel on Lake St Louis. Herbert Shaw and Archie Crossley drowned while Bert Hanna, owner of the yacht, was rescued. The trio had left Lake Side for a cruise to Lake Champlain to attend the tercentenary.
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Montreal
Sorel
Herbert Shaw
Archie Crossley
Bert Hanna
Lake Side
Lake St. Louis
Lake Champlain
Gasoline Explosion Kills Two Boys at Yarmouth Station
Reports from Yarmouth Nova Scotia describe a disastrous blast at the Halt and Southwestern Railway station in Shelburne County. A barrel of gasoline on the platform ignited causing the station and freight shed to burn. Two boys died and four were seriously injured as investigators work through the scene.
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Yarmouth
N. Y
Southwestern
Eta Harbor
Shelburne County
Boyating
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Lord of Verona
Niagara Whirlpool
Great Britain
United States Senate
Texas
W. L. Mackenzie King
Dr. Grenfell
Harvard University
Mississippi
Standard Oil Company
Tennessee
Tuan Fang
Chihli
von Buelow
Georgian Bay Ports
Timothy
Metal Workers
HOG Products
Point St. Charles
Sorel, Que
Nova Scotia
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