Foiled in the Attempt in Governor Ward’s Library
A despondent ex governor, grieving his wife and daughter’s drownings, faces an intruder, Woodsey, who reveals he is the forger Mower seeking vengeance. Mower traces a past betrayal to Ward’s late wife and recounts years of pursuit from prison to island hideouts, culminating in a Chicago visit and a plan to strike when Mrs. Ward returns to Cleveland. The tale shifts toward a confrontation as the plot thickens.
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Lake Huron
Beevil
Gliddy
Woodsey
Griddy
Great Duck Island
Mr. Ward
Mower
Great Lakes
Lake Superior
St. Lawrence
Ben Stobie
Agrippa
Chicago
Andanada
Chapter 28 and the arrest tied to Miss Upson
In a dramatic exchange the visitor claims Miss Upson caused his arrest and imprisonment. The governor casts doubt, noting the forged employer signature as the real crime, while Woodsey contends the blame lies with Miss Upson despite her lack of awareness.
Finder Gets Diamonds in English Case Mystery
Report from Montreal states a man named Cooper found ten thousand five dollars worth of diamonds during a road inquiry. Cooper was arrested for car theft but the jewels may become his property after a Crown inquiry led by England’s special commissioner. Burrows of Longen renounce all claim to the gems, which remain with police until transfer. Meanwhile floods in Folsom New Mexico claim ten lives.
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Montreal
Cooper
Trice Lafontaine
Crown
Ayning
England
Lafontaine
Burrows
Longen
Ontario Wheat and Grain Prices in Leading Markets
Toronto market summary lists Ontario and Manitoba grain values and freight. Wheat No. 2 white and red 854 to 864c, No. 2 mixed 85 to 86c. Manitoba No. 1 northern 1.16 to 1.17, lake ports. Barley No. 2 58–60c, No. 3 56–57c. Oats Ontario 39–40c, Manitoba No. 3 45c to 45¼c. Rye new 68–70c. Corn nominal 87¾ to 88c. Bran 16–18 per ton, Shorts 20–21, Flour Manitoba first quality 6 euros per 100 lbs, seconds 5.40, bakers 5.30, Ontario winter wheat patents 3.30–3.35 per unit.
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Toronto
Ontario
Manitoba
Local Butter and Dairy Quotations Digest
Local wholesale prices for dairy and poultry items are listed, including butter prints at 28 to 24 cents per pound, dairy prints 28 to 21 cents, tubs 17 to 18 cents, cheese 13 to 43 percent varieties, eggs 20 to 21 cents per dozen case lots, poultry live weight 15 to 16 cents for springs, fowl 10 to 11 cents, kidneys 10 cents to 11 cents per pound, primes 2.00 to 2.10 dollars, hands 2.10 to 2.90, and onions 65 cents to 80 cents per bushel in farmers’ wagons by the load.
Pork and meat prices in a late listing
A price list shows pork short cut at 23.50 per barrel, $19 to $19.50, lard tiers at 12 percent and pails, smoked and dry salted meats with long clear bacon 11 to 15 cents, hams 12 to 15 cents, backs 17 to 18 cents, shoulders 10 cents, rolls 10 to 11 cents, breakfast bacon 15 cents, and green meats out of pickle 1 cent less than smoked.
Toronto Cattle Market Sees High Prices and Steady Hogs
Choice butcher cattle are scarce with some sales at 5 dollars per cwt and many between 4 and 4.50. Milch cows range 25 to 65 each, springers sell well, calves light. Sheep and lambs appear in large numbers with sheep 3 to 4.25 and lambs 5 to 5.75. Hogs steady at 86.50 for selects and 6 for lights with little demand.
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Toronto
Montreal prices for grains and commodities in Sept trade
Montreal markets quote flour patent prices from 5.50 to 6.20 for second patents and winter wheat at 5.00 to 5.50. Oats and cornmeal range, butter and cheese at modest rates, eggs around 23 cents for selected and 20 cents for No 1. Provisions include barrels short cut mess at 22.50 and live hog prices listed at 6.75 to 7.
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Montreal
Manitoba
Ontario
Windsor
Wheat and grain prices quoted in Buffalo market note
Buffalo on September 1 reports spring wheat easing and fall firming prices for No 1 Northern carloads at 1.18 with winter firm. Corn oats and barley show firm or variable values. Rye No 2 on track at 0c. Wheat Sept 1.00 to 1.0074 Dec 0.87c cash listed. Prices for flour range around 5.60 to 5.70 with earlier sections quoted. The CN coal piles at Fort William have been extinguished.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Fort William
Mail Bays Rifled Near Montreal in Railway Mail Robbery
A Montreal despatch reports an extensive postal robbery during a strike by federated trades against Canadian Pacific Railway. Two mail bags ripped open lay near CPR tracks west of Montreal, with opened letters and cheques totaling near 7000 dollars. Post office and postmaster officials examined the scene to determine losses and seize torn items for investigation.
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Montreal
Federated Trades
Canadian Pacific Railway
L. J. Gaboury
Canada ahead of Britain in agricultural education say Scots
A despatch from Guelph reports Scottish agriculturists touring Canada visited O A C and met President Creelman. They toured the campus, had lunch at the college, and praised Canada's agricultural education, urging the Imperial Government to recognize the advantages of such institutions.
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Guelph
Canada
Creelman
Britain
Quebec Reports Surplus After Fiscal Year End
Official revenue and expenditure statement for Quebec shows total ordinary receipts of 6,016,615.77 dollars and total ordinary and extraordinary expenditures of 4,980,919.06 dollars, including 41,000 dollars for public works, leaving a surplus of 1,035,696.71 dollars. The report was issued by the Provincial Treasurer and certified by Assistant Treasurer G. H. T. Machin and Provincial Auditor A. H. Verret.
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Quebec
G. H. T. Machin
A. H. Verret
Good Crop Report From Lacombe Alberta Weather Favourable
A Ottawa despatch notes from Lacombe Alberta dated the 25th reports winter wheat in the district all cut with crops good. Spring wheat mostly standing and ripening fast with plump heads. Frost on the 20th did not much injure wheat. Barley and a large acreage of oats cut. Grain crops on the experimental farms very heavy. Winter wheat and early spring wheat varieties cut.
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Ottawa
Department of Agriculture
Lacombe
Alta
Canadian Arctic Lands Taken If Possible
The Canadian Government cruiser Arctic sails from Quebec with orders to force passage through Lancaster Sound and Melville Sound to Bank's Land and nearby islands if ice allows. If blocked, it will go to the Gulf of Boothia and may return in 1909 or stay until 1910, with Captain Bernier barred from actions causing international trouble.
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Ottawa
Arctic
Quebec
Lancaster Sound
Melville Sound
Gulf of Boothia
Bernier
Thirty Miners Despatched from Montr Seme Revealed
A startling revelation from Montr Seme details a civic inquiry into a division housing twenty dwellings. Officials report years of escaped assessments and a $9000 property value, with an $900 targeted increase and new scrutiny of urban safety and oversight.
Sensational hold up kills Midway hotel owner
A Phoenix dispatch reports masked robbers shot and killed Charles Thomet of the Midway Hotel during a Wednesday night hold up. Four men were forced to surrender at gunpoint. Thomet fired from behind the bar, was wounded, and died after retreating through a door. Bloodhounds from Spokane are being used. one desperado is believed seriously wounded.
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Phoenix
B. C
Midway
Charles Thomet
Midway Hotel
Thomet
Spokane
Canada Briefs and Elections Mark A Turbulent Period
Police Captain Cameron of Glasgow robbed of 200 by Montreal pickpocket Sir Louis Jeune to retire as anti Governor of Quebec. Nova Scotia peel & Cox output to exceed records. Kerrs three year old daughter killed by horse in Milltown. Delorimier to join Montreal October 1 with population near 7090. Four American tourists stoned at North Bay near ring zone. pulpweed carries drop on Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway. Bithel acquitted of assaulting a Montreal constable as he was defending fire lines.
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Canada
Cameron
Glasgow
Rabaet
Montreal
Louis Jeite
Quebec
Nova Scotia
Peel & Cox Company
B. H. Kerr
Milltown
Delorimier
North Bay
Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway
Joseph Bithel
Britain to launch fifth pre dreadnought battleship at Portsmouth
Britain announces the launch of its fifth battleship of the pre dreadnought type at Portsmouth scheduled for September 10. In a separate Royal death, the wife of Major General Laurd has been found murdered in a dense wood near Sevenoaks, close to London, with investigators probing the circumstances.
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Britain
Portsmouth
Laurd
Sevenoaks
London
Multiple global disasters and crimes mix in late 19th century report
Reported floods kill laborers in Augusta and drown several in Camden Georgia while mine explosions near Wilkesbarre claim lives. A highwayman robs seven Yellowstone tourists coaches. a New York sewer inmate drowns. Reverend Albert Frick shoots himself in a New York hotel. Sage estate taxes reach 667583 dollars and Atlas Portland Cement secures Panama Canal contracts. Detectives in New York uncover leads.
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Augusta
Wilkesb Sapa
Yellowstone Park
John Lynch
New York
Albert Frick
Russell Sage
Camden
Frank Bryant
Thomas Brady
Chicago
Bryant
Panama Canal
Discover
Mixed global tensions and trials dominate early 20th century news
Reports recount jewels seized from Mrs. Minnie Curtis’s home and arrests for complicity in robberies. English detainee Charles Kinsley faces deportation after a life sentence in England for murder involvement. Abd el Aziz seeks refuge in Damascus while Argentina plans battleships and torpedo boats. Maxie Moouski likely to replace Count Komura as London’s ambassador. Baron Speck von Sternberg dies in Heidelberg. A Perlin teacher triggers a bank run over insolvency claims. A Venezuelan court fines the French Cable Company $5.09 million for involvement in the Matos revolt against President Castro.
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Minnie Curtis
Charles Kinsley
Port Huron
England
Abd-el-Aziz
Morocco
Damascus
Argentina
Maxie Moouski
Count Komura
London
Baron Speck von Sternberg
United States
Heidelberg
Perlin
Freidrichberger Bank
Advis
Azuelan
Matos
Castro
Two Galician Men Die Placed by Train Near Deception
Despatch from Kenera Ost reports two Galician men, unnamed, killed near Deception when struck by a locomotive while crossing the track near a standing work train. One man died instantly from a crushed skull, the other died within twenty minutes.
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Kenera
Ost
Two Children Burned in Manitoba Farmhouse Fire
Despatch from Dauphin Manitoba reports two children of farmer Peter Good near Ethelbert died in a Sunday night blaze. The six year old boy and three year old girl were trapped on the upper story and could not escape. The fire originated upstairs where both youngsters perished.
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Dauphin
Man
Peter Good
Ethelbert
Cannibalism Case Reported Among Lamuts of Siberia
Despatch from St Petersburg notes Yakutsk papers on a revoking cannibalism case among Lamut nomads on the Korkodin River in far northwestern Siberia. Hungry tribesmen devoured his brother's wife and four children after a desolate encounter by hunters who found the remains and no food at the encampment.
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St. Petersburg
Yakutsk
Lamuts
Korkodin
Siberia
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Okla
Coal Vine
Lone
Reed
Maskel
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