Market Report 1905 Wheat Market Shows Upward May Rally
The market report notes a local revival in American wheat trading led by Chicago May with a sharp advance, while July and September lag. World shipments stay strong but American exports lag, suggesting potential future price declines unless crops fail. Prices for Manitoba and domestic wheat rise modestly with stronger cash demand and muted option gains.
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Chicago
Minneapolis
Duluth
New York
America
Europe
India
Argentine
Australia
Russia
Bradstreet’s
Manitoba
Live Stock and Commodities Market Report
The oat market remains firm with limited gains sought and not realized. Hay supplies exceed demand amid heavy snow risking spoilage. priced at $5 to $6 per ton for baled hay and loose loads.
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Winnipeg
Ontario
Manitoba
Express
San Marino Refuses Treaty With United States
San Marino, the world’s smallest republic, has rejected a treaty of extradition submitted by Secretary Hay. After weeks of careful study the regents unanimously declined to sign, arguing the US preserves too many medieval institutions including the death penalty for first degree murder.
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Rome
San Marino
United States
Hay
Calgary Baptist Church to rise on former site
A Calgary Baptist congregation approved immediate rebuilding after a fire. Excavation began Monday, the brick veneer structure will seat 600, feature a new pipe organ, and be built west of the old site. Estimated cost 18 000 to 20 000 dollars. 5 500 already subscribed with 5 350 insurance to anchor the fund.
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Calgary
Sleighing Party Injured In Montreal Crash
A Park street sleighing accident involving four St. James Methodist Bible class members left several riders severely injured and multiple others slightly hurt. The overturned sleigh near Pine avenue tossed out 40 occupants, with Mrs Allan, Mrs Macdonald, George Salter and an unnamed young woman among the seriously hurt.
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Montreal
St. James Methodist Church
Park Street
Pine Avenue
Allan
Chenville Street
Macdonald
Bleury Street
George Salter
Hutchison Street
Engineer Sues for 25000 Damages in Montreal Court
Charles Henry Farrar locomotive engineer sues Central Vermont railway for 25000 for injuries from a Dec 13 1908 collision between St Johns and St Armand. He was scalded by escaping steam and permanently disabled after instructions at St Johns were ignored.
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Montreal
Court
Justice Archibald
Charles Henry Farrar
Central Vermont Railway
St. Johns
St. Armand
Engineers May Strike Over Rigidity in Eye Tests
A Toronto special reports uncertainty in a railway department as the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers urges railroad presidents to change the required physical examination rules. The threat of a strike on or about March 1 stems from complaints that the eyesight test is too rigid.
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Toronto
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Brotherhood
Woman Found Guilty in Montreal Husband Assault Case
Mrs Purcell of 245 Centre Avenue faced Recorder Wier on a wife beating charge. She was convicted of assaulting her husband and sentenced to ten months. The husband testified she had abused him for years while he endured for the children's sake.
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Montreal
Recorder Wier
Purcell
Centre Avenue
Night porter at Grand Central falls head first
Harvey Crack, night porter at the Grand Central hotel in St. Thomas, slipped while moving trunks to the sample rooms on Friday. He fell twelve feet, tearing scalp from the top of his head and nearly severing an ear. He suffers concussion and is not expected to recover.
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St. Thomas
Harry Crack
Grand Central Hotel
Body of murdered woman found in Union Transfer yard
A Philadelphia dispatch reports the body of a woman with a deep head wound and throat cut found in the Union Transfer Company stable yard by a carter. Officials have not identified her but believe she is Florence, a known fallen woman, with no clues about the killer.
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Philadelphia
Union Transfer Company
Carter
Florence
Mother Mortgages Farm to Save Child in Tetanus Case
Elizabeth Periconi, fifteen, survived lockjaw after a rusty nail injury on January 9. Doctors treated her at Bridgeton hospital with antitoxin every three hours and drastic care, costing about 975 dollars. Her mother pledged farm proceeds to cover expenses to save her child.
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N. J
Elizabeth Periconi
J. S. Halsey
Bridgeton Hospital
Attempt to murder Buffalo bishop Kaminski shocks Poles
A lone assailant fired two revolver shots at Bishop Kaminski of the Independent Catholic Church on a Saturday night in Buffalo. The bishop avoided injury, the shooter fled, and no arrest was made. The episode sparked unrest among the Polish community on Buffalo’s east side.
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N. Y
Kaminski
Independent Catholic Church
Halifax Ravaged by Worst Snowstorm in Memory
A Halifax dispatch from the 16th reports a ferocious snowstorm following a month of severe blizzards that crippled Nova Scotia railways and threatened trade. No trains entered Halifax all day, coal and fuel run short, tram service halted, and widespread disruption risks factory shutdowns and heavy hardship.
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Halifax
Nova Scotia
Strange Debris Forest Blocks Steamer Panama’s Path
The City of Panama departing January 21 for Central American ports met a floating mass of vegetation and dead animals, trees five to six feet wide, debris eight or nine feet thick, impeding progress on January 28 at 16.28 N 100.29 W. Officers could offer no explanation, speculated volcanic eruption on Central American coast, Acapulco telegraph reports.
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San Francisco
Panama
Central American
Acapulco
Murderer Raisinger Hanged After Brutal Crime
Bridgeton New Jersey reports Frank Raisinger was executed for the murder of his wife. The drop at 10.04 failed when the rope broke, back of the head struck scaffold, causing immediate death per physicians. Raisinger killed his wife in 1904 after threatening her with a gun and attempted to stage a false assault. Detectives connected him to the crime and he confessed.
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Bridgeton
N. J
Frank Raisinger
Raisinger
Mrs. Raisinger
Handy Man Charged After Threatening Letters to Gould
Albert E. Leighton of Philadelphia is arrested in New York on a concealed weapons charge after a loaded revolver is found and a letter to Helen M. Gould is discovered. Police say he mailed notes proposing marriage and spoke of five billion dollar sums for a new heaven and earth. An ambulance report cites religious melancholia.
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New York
Merica
Young Men’s Christian Association
Heaven
Albert E. Leighton
Philadelphia
Helen M. Gould
Leighton
America
Y.M.C.A
Albert E. Leigh
Grand Duke Sergius Assassinated in Kremlin Attack
A Moscow to St. Petersburg dispatch reports an explosion near the Kremlin killing Grand Duke Sergius as his carriage was attacked. Dispatches say assassins were arrested, one wounded, and students detained. Sergius, born 1857, was uncle to the emperor and former Moscow governor general.
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London
Reuter’s Telegraph Company
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Kremlin
Grand Duke
Sergius
Reuter
Court of Justice
Revolutionary Party
Nichouske
Russia
Elizabeth of Hesse-Darmstadt
Associated Press
Jewish Colonies in Canada Negotiated by London Visit
J Obed Smith of Winnipeg has spent weeks in England negotiating with Lord Rothschild and others to form large Jewish colonies in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories. He reports satisfactory talks and will return to Canada to brief the Dominion Government. Colonization is a favored Rothschild plan with Canada offering known farm prospects over Uganda.
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London
J. Obed Smith
Winnipeg
England
Lord Rothschild
Manitoba
Northwest Territories
Mr. Smith
Canada
East Africa
Uganda
Women Doctors Better Than Men Says German Expert
Berlin dispatch reports Professor Ludwig, famed for mental health care, urges employing women physicians in lunatic asylums. He cites a trial in a South German women’s asylum where a female doctor’s influence proved highly effective and predicts broader use of women physicians.
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Berlin
Ludwig
Germany
Illusory Chinese Parliament Scheme Appears Approved
Pekin dispatch reports the emperor has approved a memorial urging an official parliament to discuss key matters with metropolitan officials, Hamlin college members, censor boards, and grand secretaries. The body will meet only by imperial command and rely on correspondents for reports. Foreign observers see it as decorative.
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China
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