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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 02, 1908
Page
7
Federal authorities may impose a sweeping audit of all Canadian banks as amendments to the Banking Act are pressed. The Banque de St. Jean failure fuels demand for stricter oversight and public safety. Finance Minister W S Fielding, engaging with bankers, studies proposed changes to be sent to Ottawa.
Indications point to a major Provincial Sunday School Convention at Portage la Prairie on June 30 to July 2. The interdenominational event invites delegates from all areas, with program plans drawn from broad church life and a travel certificate requirement for railway travel. Delegates should send names to E. K. Marshall in Portage la Prairie.
In the Lemoine diamond case Henry Lemoine fled after being charged with defrauding Julius Wernher. He claimed he could manufacture diamonds but failed to appear at court. An envelope opened in court yielded only a jumble of phrases, exposing the supposed formula as a farce.
At Regina meeting the Saskatchewan Masonic Grand Lodge elected officers led by Grand Master Co. O. Davidson of Prince Albert and Harold Jagger as deputy grand master. Rev. W. B. Tate served as grand senior warden and John Maguire as grand junior warden. The next annual meeting will be held at Moose Jaw.
Ottawa reports Sir Charles Fitzpatrick will not resign as chief justice of the supreme court to join the Hague tribunal. The decision notes the role is not onerous, as the tribunal convenes only when cases demand attention, allowing him to retain his current duties.
James J. Hill arrived from Washington and will stay in the city until his annual fishing trip to Labrador, accompanied by Laken. The trip is a regular event in Hill's schedule.
William Howard Taft of Ohio was nominated for president by the Republican National Convention on a single ballot, receiving 702 of 978 votes as 15,000 attendees endured heat and a tense seven hour session. The motion for nomination was made unanimous and backed by leaders from Indiana Illinois Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
The Admiralty plans a new leviathan battleship at Portsmouth to outrun the Dreadnought class, expected 21 000 tons and 11 250 000 dollars, possibly completing in eight months after keel laying. It will use 13.6 inch guns and gas engines to create no smoke and no funnels, per the Telegraph.
France will dispatch two premier vessels to the Quebec tercentenary celebration the battleship Leon Gambetta and the armored cruiser Admiral Aube. Vice-Admiral Jaureguiberry will command the Gambetta flag and head France’s delegation while Count Bertrand de Montcalm will represent the Montcalm family at the fetes.
Vancouver Chief Engineer Van Arsdal of the G T P western division says no British Columbia laborer should be idle with work along the Grand Trunk Pacific line near Prince Rupert and up the Skeena river. Contractors are active and newcomers can find good wages. hundreds more workers will be needed in a few weeks as much of the initial 100 miles east of Prince Rupert has been sublet.
British ambassador James Bryce spoke at a Hamilton club banquet in Chicago praising the citys convention system. He said conventions advance popular rights by selecting party candidates and electors, and emphasized that voters influence both officials and party representatives.
Fire rages near Minto and along Lake Labarge in Yukon and Dawson City regions. Fifteen miles of Canadian shee wiks wires are burned near Minto and five miles along the lake. Hundreds of square miles of timber destroyed.
The lesson contrasts Israel's history with God’s unchanging love, noting how Israel demanded a king, forsaking Jehovah who led them from Egypt to Canaan. It warns that people today similarly prefer worldly treasures over the living God, as Samuel warns Israel of the king’s oppression and Christ’s followers trust in faith like Samuel and the heroes of Hebrews.
Prof. Campbell, renowned soil culture authority from Nebraska, spoke at Medicine Hat to a large farmer gathering. He outlined universal soil methods for semi arid, irrigated, or moist conditions and urged early spring work, deep plowing, loose surface soil, solid subsoil, and two‑section alternation of crops with timely harrowing after rains. Hon. W. T. Findlay introduced the talk.
A Toronto newspaper summary says good Ontario crops in 1908 could add 55,000,000 bushels of grain and 1,585,524 tons of hay over 1907, boosting grain value by 80 million dollars and hay by 20 million. If realized, crops may erase last year’s losses and strengthen farmers’ finances amid rising dairy sales.
J A Worrell resigns as chairman of the church state committee after Hon Blake’s resolution defies the report. Worrell calls the resolution a vote of no confidence. Rev Moore backs Blake arguing the report ignores the church’s visible worldliness.
Ottawa notifications show Hon A C Rutherford informs the central committee of the Quebec battlefield association of a $10,000 government grant to the battlefields park fund. E B Osler MP contributes $1,000 by cheque as his personal gift.
Miss Katherine Hughes, a biographer and journalist from Edmonton with Prince Edward Island roots and relation to Archbishop O'Brien, is named provincial archivist of Alberta with an initial salary of 1200 dollars.
Finance Minister Kokovsoff unveiled a bill for an immediate internal loan of 100 million dollars to cover the 1908 budget deficit and urgent spending. Fifty million goes to the deficit, eight million to famine relief, and thirty million to war and marine ministries.
Ottawa reports the Dominion government informed Tokyo the number of Japanese arrivals since the start of the year has already reached the maximum set in talks with the Japanese cabinet.
Viscount Morley, secretary for India, voices grave view of India’s crisis and supports recent acts curbing the press to prevent murderous outrages. He says native resentment risks British statesmanship and asserts no interference with press liberty amid seditious articles. He condemns broader rhetoric of freedom.
Montreal police outline a grisly murder case tied to cannibalism. Lemieux, a guide, was found hacked with liver and kidneys missing after a hunting trip with two companions, Gousett and Bernard, who disappeared after their Lake St. John expedition.
Paris Professor Marie Depresse announced in a paper to the Academy of Sciences that he solved stationary hovering for a heavier than air body, mimicking eagles and vultures. He offered to repeat the experiment for observers, noting the finding could win M Quinton’s prize if confirmed.
Housewives face higher dressed beef lamb and pork loins with upticks of about half a cent to two cents per pound. Stock on the hoof remains high and outside demand for manufactured products grows. Artificial ice costs jump from 35 to 40 cents per hundred pounds.
The Berlin representatives of the Dusseldorf Iron Industry were invited by the Canadian Mining Institute to join Iron and Steel Institute members on an inspection tour of Canadian industrial establishments next August.
Tokio reports 350 fishermen drowned after 50 boats wrecked off Kagoshima coast. Governor seeks aid from government and navy yard at Sasebo to assist survivors and recover bodies.
Reports from the west coast of Africa describe the Ville de Bruges sinking on the Upper Congo river after a tornado. Six Europeans died four were killed and devoured by cannibals. Seventy Africans drowned.
Lethbridge Alberta Reverend W G W Fortune field secretary of the Alberta Temperance and Moral Reform league predicts there will be no bar rooms in Alberta within five years. He cites hotel men agreeing. Temperance advocates will push for seven o clock closing in the legislature.
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