Wheat Market Shows Rust Fears Ebb In Northwest
The Winnipeg market reports little change in wheat last week with rust concerns easing due to favorable weather. July futures rise to 13 0 cents as buyers seek delivery. 1 and 2 Northern premiums surge while other grades stay weak. World supplies remain ample and shipments steady. U S and Canadian harvests face no major disruption. Local price moves also reflect liberal movement in winter wheat and steady cash prices.
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Winnipeg
United States
Minnesota
South Dakota
North Dakota
Northwest
Manitoba
Canadian
Bradstreets
Fort William
Port Arthur
Ontario
Winnipeg Market: Grain and feed trade quiet with price shifts
The Winnipeg market notes quieter grain and feed trading than a year ago as teamsters accept lower prices. Millfeed and ground feeds show varied per ton bids, while oats and barley spot prices and feed grades are listed with on track and delivered terms.
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Shorts
Abolition of Gambling at Agricultural Fairs Urged
A Toronto dispatch reports the annual fairs and exhibitions ministry study arguing to end all gambling at fairs. It pictures gambling devices and notes horse racing and betting as illegal, risking fines and imprisonment for fair directors and participants.
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Toronto Dispatch
Minister of Agriculture
Montgomery's Wife Defends Self in Hat Pin Death
A Sandwich Ontario coroner's jury ruled Josephine Montgomery acted in self defence after Fred Montgomery died in a Detroit hospital from a hat pin wound two weeks earlier. The couple had a prior fight and Montgomery was hospitalized under an assumed name. witnesses did not alert authorities. His mother testified he said the death was accidental. Authorities' next steps were not disclosed.
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Sandwich
Ont
Fred Montgomery
Josephine
Detroit
Montgomery
Paris Seeks Stop to Betting on Horse Courses
Paris authorities declare that all betting on French race courses must cease from Sept. 1 and that bookmakers caught in activity will face thirty days in jail. The justice minister remains firm as the government targets the lucrative practice of betting on horses.
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Paris
France
Canadian discovery places Vermont mills in Canada
Richford and Stevens mills in Vermont near the boundary are found to be in Canada. Mr King for Canada and Mr O H Tittmann for the United States report the monuments’ condition but not a line change. The 1842 treaty line is considered fixed and repair work is noted.
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Richford
Stevens Mills
Vermont
Canada
King
O. H. Tittmann
United States
Byler
Tittman
Drowned in the Boyne at Rathwell
Walter McDonald Millington, a recent arrival from Edmonton, drowned while bathing in the Boyne River near Rathwell. A party nearby failed to rescue him as he went beyond his depth. Kennedy later recovered the body. Dr. Tyndall viewed the body and deemed an inquest unnecessary. burial followed at East Treherne Cemetery. Millington was a machinist who arrived from Nottinghamshire, England in April.
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Boyne
Rathwell
Walter McDonald Millington
William Kennedy
Kennedy
Tyndall
Distrct
New Road to Yukon Progressing Favorably
An Ottawa dispatch reports a Mounted Police detachment of thirty men and forty horses trekking from Peace River Crossing toward the Yukon. Supt Constantine leads the eight foot trail toward Fort Graham on the Findlay River in British Columbia, with huts every thirty miles and dynamite used for rock difficulties.
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Ottawa
Mounted Police
Peace River
Yukon
Constantine
St. John
Fort Graham
Findlay River
British Columbia
Christian Scientists Neglect Child in Shelburne Dispatch
A Shelburne report says a 2-year-old daughter of H Skace of Melanchthon, Evening Lights member, died after illness likely pneumonia or diphtheria. Dr A T Stole, coroner for Dufferin, investigates as a jury is to be empanelled.
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Shelburne
A. T. Stole
Dufferin
H. Skace
Melanchthon
Evening Lights
Martin
Dundalk
Trampled by Range Cattle Claims Norman Farmer
Medicine Hat dispatch reports Alex Deatchman a Norman farmer from Willow Creek was killed by a herd of range cattle he was driving from his crops. Coroner Smith conducted an inquest and the verdict found death from being trampled by cattle on the prairie. Deatchman recently moved from Oregon where he ran a private bank. he had not joined his family. The body could not be shipped due to advanced decomposition and was buried at Willow Creek.
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Medicine Hat
Alex. Deatchman
Willow Creek
Smith
Deutchman
Oregon
Sailors Scuffle and Crown in Halifax Dispatch
A Halifax dispatch reports two sailors aboard the Norwegian barque Hugo, docked at the railway terminal, were involved in a scuffle. No further details on injuries or outcomes are provided.
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Halifax
N. S
Hugo
Granary Fire Near Eden Under Suspicion
Neepewa dispatch reports a granary owned by Bernard Mec Faddyen two miles north of Eden burned recently under suspicious circumstances. No fire had occurred nearby this year and workers were not present. The building contained oats wheat a fanning mill bags and other items belonging to Louis Hutchison. Tracks of the suspected incendiary were found leading to and from the site.
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Eden
Neepewa
Bernard Mec
Faddyen
Louis Hutchison
Gibbons Is Found Not Guilty In Vancouver Shooting Case
Charlies H. Gibbons a well known newspaper man was tried before a jury and Judge Morrison on a charge of shooting J. K. McCreedy of Vancouver with intent to kill. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty after the judge summed up the evidence.
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Victoria
B. C
Charlies H. Gibbons
Morrison
J. K. McCreedy
Vancouver
McCreedy
Gibbon
Canadian oats misrepresented as heavy Canadian
Ottawa dispatch reports Edgar Tripp the Canadian commercial agent in Port of Spain Trinidad writing to the trade and commerce department about oats sold there as genuine heavy Canadian though grown in the United States as clipped No 2. Bags bear misleading lettering and grain is shipped from New York as Canadian grown.
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Ottawa Dispatch
Edgar Tripp
Port of Spain
Trinidad
Trade and Commerce Department
Canada
United States
New York
Man and Horse Escape After Bridge Collision
Thomas Mills, a sewing machine agent, was driving on Dundas street bridge when a Dundas car rear ended his delivery wagon. Man and horse rolled over the embankment fifty feet to railway tracks below. Mills and the horse were only lightly injured, Mills spraining a finger. He re attached the horse and began moving along the track toward a gate.
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Toronto
Thomas Mills
Dundas Street Bridge
Dundas
Mills
Quarantine Standoff Over Coolies Shipment Leads Rosalie to Tacoma
The Rosalie received approval to transport all 125 passengers after customs and immigration debated batch limits. The Rosalie then departed Tacoma at noon with 421 Japanese workers from Honolulu, bound for the Northern Pacific Railway project, while the Stanley Dollar remained at the quarantine station awaiting resolution.
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Victoria
B. C
United States
Honolulu
Rosalie
Sound
Tacoma
Northern Pacific Railway
Steamer Corinthian Aground Near St Helens Island
A Montreal dispatch reports the steamship Corinthian, outbound to Liverpool, grounding on the St Helens island shoal due to a tug tow line parting. No damage expected. current eight miles per hour hampers release. The vessel carries general cargo 696 cattle and a few passengers. cattle are being unloaded to lighten the bow.
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Montreal
Allan Line
Corinthian
Liverpool
St. Helens Island
Poisons Himself in Jail Shocks Montreal Jail
A Montreal coroner's inquest revealed Adelard Prevost, 22, died after drinking shellac in the jail hospital. Prevost and a fellow prisoner, both carpentry shop workers, found a bottle with a strong odor of alcohol, drank liberally, and suffered. Prevost died. the other prisoner survived after transfer to the hospital. Prevost had been jailed for six months on July 4 for vagrancy.
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Montreal
Adelard Prevost
Prevost
Japanese Army gains ground near Puku and Purlong
From northern Korea, Tokyo reports the army dislodged the enemy and occupied a line northward near Puku and Purlong. In Fusan and Manchuria, recon operations show minimal losses, with lines seven miles apart and Japanese forces probing Russian positions along the railway. Reports also note a Japanese landing near Dekastries and possible riverine moves toward Harbin to pressure Sakhalin and Vladivostok.
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Tokio
Korea
Puku
Purlong
Fusan
St. Petersburg
Linovitch
Thirteenth Army Corps
Smolensk
London
Daily Telegraph
Osaka
Japan
Tumen River
Manchuria
Siberian
Dekastries
Alexadrovsk
Sakhalin
Straits of Tartary
Vladivostok
London Morning
Amur
Harbin
Asshuri
Sungari
Kirin
Fenghwa
Taft Arrives in Yokohama for Japan Visit
United States Secretary of War Taft and party receive a warm welcome in Yokohama Japan. City decorations, harbor shipping, and daytime fireworks mark the arrival aboard the steamship Manchuria. Taft and Miss Roosevelt greet officials and attend a deck reception before boarding a special train to Tokyo.
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Yokohama
Japan
United States
Taft
Manchuria
Legation
Imperial Household
Asiatic
Ansonia Woman Burned Alone in Ruined Home With Two Dogs
Elizabeth Sessee was found burned to death in her Ansonia Connecticut home with two dogs as her only companions. The fire origin is unknown though burglars are suspected to have ransacked the house.
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Ansonia, Conn
Elizabeth Sessee
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