Winnipeg Industrial Exhibition Promises Broad Educational Fair
The Winnipeg Industrial Exhibition, a major Western Canadian event, begins July 20 and runs eight days with twenty exhibition buildings. The fair showcases agriculture, horticulture, livestock, manufactures, domestic arts, science and trade, emphasizing education and public enjoyment with redesigned grounds, new Dominion Fair spaces, and extensive amenities for visitors from across the region.
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Winnipeg
Prairie Province
Winnipeg Fair to Open July With Record Purses and Big Races
The Winnipeg Fair promises top attractions and lavish purses totaling $50,000 with lavish vaudeville acts. Racing features include a $1,200 free-for-all and the Dominion Industrial handicap, in a season expected to draw many American visitors. Exhibits will fill the Industrial buildings as Eastern and American firms show. The event runs from July 20 to the following Thursday with daily entertainment and bands.
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Dominion
Winnipeg
the Stars and Stripes
Canada
Golden Prairie
Heavy tax on Marconi stations in Newfoundland
Premier Bond outlined plan to raise revenue by taxing Canadian Marconi wireless stations in Newfoundland four thousand dollars each if they are found to be conducting commercial business. Government to cap Anglo-American Cable tax and levy twenty thousand dollars per year on banks operating in the colony.
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St. Johns
Mld
Bond
Marconi Company
Newfoundland
Cape Cod
Cape Breton
Anglo-American Cable Company
Train Struck Spread Rail Kills Three, Wounds Twenty-Nine
An eastbound Southern Railway passenger train known as the cotton special, carrying Confederate veterans to a reunion in Louisville, Kentucky, derailed on a 20 foot high trestle at Gold en Gate New Jersey after striking a spread rail at about 50 mph. Three men died J J Whiler of Greenway Arkansas J D Johnson fireman of Princeton Indiana and the engine overturned. About twenty nine were injured, many from Arkansas.
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Albion
Ill
Southern Railway
Golden Gate
Louisville
J. J. Whiler
Greenway
Ark
J. D. Johnson
Princeton
Ind
Arkansas
Honored by the Czar for Ethological Research
Morris K. Jessop, president of the Natural History Museum, is named a knight of the Imperial order of St. Stanislaus of the first class by the Emperor of Russia in recognition of his services to science and ethological study. Official notification arrives from Count Cassini in Washington.
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New York
Russia
Morris K. Jessop
Natural History Museum
Detective heist ends in box car shooting at Williston
At St Paul dispatch reports Chief Markell of Williston North Dakota shot and killed a man riding an eastbound box car. Conductor Salisbury of the Great Northern telegraphed ahead that a desperate character held the car. When the train stopped, two men emerged Wandrel of Great Falls Montana being one.
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At. Paul, Minn
Markell
Williston
N. D
Salisbury
Great Northern
Wandrel
Great Falls
Mont
Miners in Nova Scotia Strike Over Dismissal
In Spring Hill, Cumberland Coal and Railway workers left the mines after the dismissal of lamp cleaner Wm Hyatt. About eleven hundred men and boys protested, arguing Hyatt was unjustly removed and should be restored to his post or reassigned. The company says Hyatt was incompetent and refused to place him in an equivalent role.
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Halifax
N. S
Cumberland Coal and Railway Company
Spring Hill
Wm. Hyatt
Contraband Liquor Smuggling Suspected Off Nova Scotia
Halifax special reports the schooner Mary B captained by J C Donovan was seized Friday near Scatterie C B for alleged liquor smuggling from St Pierre. Gladiator chased and detained the ship, brought it to North Sydney, then sailed to Glace Bay after papers listed as for Glace Bay. Liquor vanished from the vessel at Lingane and is said to be handled by a Glace Bay syndicate.
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Halifax
Scatterie
C. B
Mary B
J. C. Donovan
St. Pierre
Gladiator
North Sydney
Glace Bay
Ottawa
Lingane
Two Prisoners Sentenced In Manitoba Case
Walter G Woods of Whitewood to Winnipeg for five year term and nine lashes at Stony Mountain for a crime against a girl under 14. Judge Wetmore calls the act the worst he has seen and brands Woods a cowardly brute and menace to society. Joseph Ossoway of Lemberg N W T aged 19 gets two years and six lashes for a similar offence against another young girl.
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Walter G. Woods
Whitewood
Winnipeg
Stony Mountain
Gladys Appleby
Moosomin
Wetmore
Northwest
Joseph Ossoway
Lemberg
Katie Janskewiczy
May Extend the Preference Reported by Ottawa Premier Ward
Ottawa Premier Ward of New Zealand is said to be willing to negotiate with Canada for extending the existing preference. He notes a possible preferential arrangement between New Zealand and Australia. Victoria commercial agent Ross says manufacturers seek higher protection and expects no tariff changes during the current parliament.
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Ottawa
Ward
New Zealand
New South Wales
Canada
Australia
Ross
Victoria
Commercial Men Call for No Subsidies Until Free Trade
James Sargent of the Commercial Travellers' association says Canadian travellers’ groups backed by boards of trade and manufacturers ask the Dominion government to withhold more subsidies until all provinces enact laws giving interprovincial trade full freedom by removing taxes and restrictions on commercial travellers.
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Toronto
James Sargent
Commercial Travellers’ Association
Travellers’ Associations of
Canada
Boards of Trade
Canadian Manufacturers’ Association
Dominion
Gaynor and Greene Appeal to Canadian Supreme Court
Montreal report notes Judge Hail granted permission for Gaynor and Greene to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada against Justice Davidson in the extradition matter. The decision delays their release and keeps them in Canadian custody for at least six more months.
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Gaynor
Greene
Montreal
Hail
Graynor
Supreme Court of Canada
Davidson
Lafontaine
Tug Sunk In Canadian Waters Confirmed By Telegram
Ottawa dispatch reports Commander Spain stating the American tug was sunk in Canadian waters, about one mile and a half inside the boundary. He notes the tug was fishing when first sighted and has taken bearings and distances.
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Ottawa
Marine Department
Spain
Port Stanley
Vigilant
Misfortune Tags the Taylor Home in Toronto Dispatch
A Toronto dispatch reports death has struck its last blow to the Taylor family, marking a fatal turn in a local household misfortune.
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Taylor
Toronto Dispatch
Diphtheria and Typhoid Claim Family Line
Months ago a child contracted diphtheria and three months later the mother died of typhoid fever. The surviving child was sent to Detroit to live with its grandmother.
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Detroit
Agreement Signed Between Ft William and GTP Rail
Fort William council signed a formal agreement with the G T P Railway as directed by a special council meeting. Mayor Rutledge and Clerk McNaughton signed the document while minor amendments are expected with railway representatives. The council also appointed J J Wells commissioner and W Phillips town treasurer.
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Fort William
Ont
Rutledge
McNaughton
Ft. William
G.T.P
J. J. Wells
W. Phillips
Eight Hundred For Territories Arrive From Liverpool
The Allan liner Tunisian arrived after a swift voyage with 800 immigrants, mostly bound for the Northwest Territories. Liverpool reports three heavily loaded passenger trains bringing many easterners, delayed four hours by a freight wreck with five cars off the track. English passengers from the Bavarian and Ontario travelers were aboard. trains departed at 3 p.m.
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Liverpool
Northwest Territories
Ontario
Dominion orders halt at Signal Hill fortifications
The Victoria special reports the Dominion government stopped work at the Signal Hill fortifications in Esquimalt where mounting for a nine gun battery to command the Straits of San Juan de Fuca was nearly complete. The guns will not be mounted.
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Signal Hill
Victoria
Dominion
Esquimalt
Straits of
San Juan de Fuca
Japanese Attack Advances Across Mandarin Road War Report
Despatches from St Petersburg describe Japanese forces advancing along the Mandarin road on June 9 and 10, with infantry, cavalry, mountain and machine guns, and an additional column along the valley east of the Mandarin road. Russian positions on the Aud river hills are reported under pressure as Field Marshal Oyama prepares a broader offensive. Washington to host peace talks. Roosevelt’s mediation leads to Washington as the conference site after refusals of Chefoo Paris and The Hague.
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St .Petersburg
Linevitch
Mandarin Road
Aud River
Liauchitchen
Kendache
St. Petersburg
Europe
America
Russia
Washington
Oyama
Linovitch
Gunshu
Kaoche
Omosu
United States
Japan
Far East
Presdent
Roosevelt
Loeb
White House
Chefoo
Paris
Hague
Navy orders remove guns from Alabama tops at New York yard
Washington directs the removal of guns from Alabama fighting tops and bars replacement by range finders on Indiana during repairs. Report indicates range finders were used by Japanese gunners in the Sea of Japan to detect Russian ships at long range, shaping U S naval practice.
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New York
New York Navy Yard
Navy Department
Washington
United States
Alabama
Indiana
Fraudulent Standard Oil cheques sweep Indiana region
In Van Buren Indiana merchants report losses totaling about 100000 from forged Standard Oil payroll cheques. The forgeries imitate the real signature of treasurer F S Blake and spoof a range of 80 to 1000 dollars. Banks were fooled until internal checks uncovered the fraud as investigators from New York arrive to inspect suspected fields in Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana and Kentucky.
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van Buren
Ind
Standard Oil
JF. S. Davis
New York
F.S. Blake
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
British Ship Sunk in China Sea By Dneiper St. Petersburg
A New York special cites a cable reporting the steamer Dneiper sunk the British steamer St. Kilda in the China Sea. The St. Kilda, bound from Hong Kong to Yokohama with general cargo, carried 41 Chinese crew and mails. It was insured for £30,000 and owned by Rankin Gilmour.
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New York
The
Times
Japan
St. Petersburg
Malacca Straits
St. Kilda
China Sea
Rankin, Gilmour
Hong Kong
Yokohama
Swiftest afloat boat built for speed and torpedo use
A Bridgeport Connecticut despatch says the British and American Manufacturing Co is building the fastest craft yet. It follows a Herreshoff model and uses a fifty horsepower motor to reach about forty six knots. Details are withheld and witnessing is limited to those directly involved. The project is expected to revolutionize torpedo boat design.
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New York
Tribune
Bridgeport
Conn
Whch
Herreshoff
Norway seeks formal recognition from Roosevelt
Norwegian residents in the United States have appealed to President Roosevelt to recognize the new government of Norway. Norway plans to seek recognition from all civilized nations, and while Sweden has not protested yet, one may occur.
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Washington
United States
Roosevelt
Norway
Sweden
Telegraphers' Strike Threat Clouds Grand Trunk
A Toronto despatch reports serious mood among Grand Trunk telegraphers amid discontent over arbitration awards. Labor insiders warn Perham may order a strike, with potential impact beyond the main line to several divisions and neighboring lines.
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G. T
Toronto
Grand Trunk
McGuigan
Perham
Chicago
Central
Vermont
Canada Atlantic
Northern Division
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