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Newspaper
Nanaimo Semi Weekly Mail
Location
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Oct 30, 1896
Page
4
October is praised as a golden clear air season where the blue sky and white clouds sail. The speaker notes summer has passed yet October brings richer calm and sweeter peace, with a spicy balm and a thankful spirit for the year’s ripened calm.
In Syracuse western Kansas the annual school meeting stirs a rift over taxes term length teacher gender and clerk selection. Mrs Gray declines to vote while a neighbor presses for women’s civic participation highlighting pioneer values and local politics around George Melford the popular principal.
A $40,000 fire hit Notre Dame de Grace Que on Saturday destroying numerous houses. Levis Que suffered $25,000 to $50,000 in losses at Oullette's lumber yard and Beaulieu's foundry. A heavy storm hit St John s N B raising fears for shipping while other items note lumber sales to English dealers, fishing mesh rules, and new veterinary inspections for sheep exports.
Boston Oct 27 ex-pugilist champion John L Sullivan is diagnosed with a dangerous cancer in the right hand. Dr Calvin of Emergency Hospital warns the ailment risks losing his arm if not carefully treated. He laments lacking true friends while admitting he has sought loans, per the Truth.
Rev C M Tate a British Columbia missionary lectured at Albert College on October 14 his vivid description of native schools showed marked improvement in native pupils and praised mining fishing towns and shipping while noting two Chinamen had faced a magistrate in ten years The Fearless and Linlithgow maritime incident and rescue hopes loom with a cargo valued at $200 000 and potential profits for the tug owners
The Norwegian steamer Tyr, now in Vancouver, is chartered by G. W. McNear & Co. of San Francisco to haul 2,800 tons of wheat from Tycoima to Calcutta India due to India’s drought. Two San Francisco wheat cargos bound for Calcutta have already sailed this month. The dispatch also recounts a string of robberies in Carney and Keokuk districts, including thefts from Mrs. Fanny Whistler and J. W. Motlin, with guns fired at the government Indian school.
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