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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 02, 1920
Page
3
The Canadian Bank of Commerce notes no general slackening in external or internal trade despite lower prices for wheat and wool. Buyers are cautious but domestic confidence remains, and labor shows no trend toward normal conditions. The Dominion Government’s withdrawal from wheat market control signals reliance on usual methods for above average cereal crops.
Stockholm reports a German hospital ship sank on the Neva with 1200 spotted typhus patients aboard. Patients were locked in cabins as Bolshevists looted the vessel and left them to drown. About 300 believed to have perished. Bolshevik papers note 200 crew dead.
Reported rescue of valuable bloodstock from Bolshevik control after General Denikin's defeat. Horses moved by British authorities to Constantinople include Aboyear, Derby winner of 1913. A son of Sunstar in Russia was court-martialed and shot for alleged dealings with the old regime after winning a cup offered by the late Czar.
The Minister of Militia announced the government will cover railway expenses to bring together Canadian Victoria Cross heroes in Toronto. A deputation led by Captain Patterson recently urged government support for the plan.
British Sikh units battle Arab forces near Hillah and repel them with heavy losses. Arabs concentrate at Karaba about 20 miles from Baghdad. Reports say everything quiet on the Tigris, at Baghdad, and toward Mosul.
A nephew of Lloyd George tours Canada to study labor conditions. He will interview Hon. Walter Rollo, Ontario minister of labor, then proceed west.
C. H. Horne, federal superintendent of forest reserves in Alberta, says roaming Indians are to blame for incalculable forest damage across Alberta and British Columbia. He asserts the Department of Indian Affairs won’t act and that no law punishes the redman for wrecking wealth.
A visitor from Vancouver reports rapid U S army and navy recruiting after crossing the border. Recruiting staffs boarded his train and targeted likely men. Minneapolis St Paul and Chicago zones show offices on nearly every block. Some observers fear Japanese aggression as a motive.
Captain A H Living of the Dominion Parks Branch Ottawa is sent to Labrador to supervise expansion and domestication of the reindeer herd and to implement development plans under the project.
A Jackson prisoner asserts a compulsion to steal, saying he is ill until he commits a theft. He describes the urge as a disease from which he suffers, implying a psychological provocation behind his alleged criminal acts.
Four hunger strikers removed from Cork jail to the city hospital amid reports they will die. The mayor has written to Cardinal Logue and to all mayors and lord mayors in Ireland to inform them of the situation.
Longshoremen found a torso of an unknown woman in the Hudson River. The arms head and legs were missing and the body, wrapped in a blanket and heavy paper, had surfaced after two weeks. Police estimate the woman was about 25 to 30 years old and weighed around 130 pounds.
Andrew Morrison aged 100 obtained a marriage license in Los Angeles to wed Mary Augusta Barney who stated she was 72. The ceremony joins a pair with wide age difference and unusual ages for both spouses.
At Hearne Bay near London a hundred couples study eugenics and civics as they are engaged after medical certificates. The summer school limits enrollments to ninety nine and focuses on whether couples are well tempered and physically matched under beachside conditions.
Wholesale sugar prices fell by one dollar per hundredweight several days ago affecting all grades. The decline signals eased costs for manufacturers and bakers amid ongoing market shifts.
The United Farmers of Ontario plan a convention in Peterboro at the end of August. Attendees will gather to discuss policy and organizational matters.
After heavy rains three bridges were swept away and tracks torn up on the Lackawanna and Delaware and Hudson railroads. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in property were demolished as floodwater reached first floor windows. Many homes were marooned, cut off by darkness and scarce rowboats.
Ienac Allard of Pembroke Ont. died after falling from his bicycle while riding from his barber shop to home. He was found dead on the roadside.
Not a Private Dwelling County Magistrate Hunt in St. Thomas Ontario has decided that a summer cottage occupied by more than one family is not a private dwelling.
A band of Shushwap and Kootenay Indians rode in full dress to greet delegates arriving for the Imperial Press conference at Windermere B C. Lake activities included golfing and swimming while the group planned to tour the Okanagan Valley fruit district as guests of the Vernon Board of Trade.
An order in council directs refund of transportation expenses incurred by Imperial soldiers based in Canada who returned to the country from England before the armistice.
Six year old Bill Henderson of Lindsay Ontario was saved after grabbing a live wire. Stewart Flavelle climbed a tree and lifted him to safety.
Six women formed part of a Bristol quarter sessions jury addressing the panel as Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. Six cases were tried, including a man convicted of assault and sentenced to nine months. All women jurors voted for the conviction, with the prosecutor praising women’s role in justice.
The Industrial Farm at Fort William will be converted into an Ontario government Experimental Station. Prisoners currently housed there will be transferred to the prison farm at Burwach, Ontario.
The Canadian Pacific Ocean Steam ships company announced a 20 percent fare increase on all trans Pacific liners effective September 15. Regular travelers and freight customers will see higher costs across routes linking Canada and the Far East.
The body of Mrs Alma Simpson wife of a Great Northern brakeman was found in a Vancouver rooming house with her head smashed in. She had lived there for three months and police had not released any clues.
The first D C M man to return from the war in Toronto was fined 1200 dollars and costs or three months plus sixty days at the jail farm for selling a bottle of liquor at six dollars from which he earned a dollar. Forest fires sweep coast districts with at least 250 reports across mainland and Vancouver Island, many in green timber.
Louis O'Brien and Albert Shaw died from injuries after their automobile overturned near Montreal. Both men succumbed at Notre Dame Hospital in the city.
The joint council of industry seeks provincial permission to start an investigation into rent rises in Winnipeg. A public meeting of tenants and interviews with cabinet ministers are planned to push for a fair rental bill at the next legislature. Apartment owners and rental agents back an inquiry into general rent increases.
Mrs. Charles Aukler of Quebec has given birth to two sets of twins, the first born in May 1919 and the second in August 1920. The mother and both pairs of twins are reported to be doing well.
Hamilton business figure James P. Steedman was fined $2100 for failing to file his income tax return. The case highlights enforcement of tax compliance among local merchants.
Canadian Car and Foundry workers return to jobs as plants restart after a closure lasting since August 16. The shutdown affected about five thousand men across the company.
Sixteen girls arrived in Regina from the Old Country and were placed upon arrival, most going to Saskatoon. Another shipment is to depart England soon and will be allocated to various provinces, but vacancies in thousands limit any relief for ordinary households.
Inmates at several New England insane hospitals reportedly attempted simultaneous escapes. Maine scientists question if telepathic links existed among the lunatics as one escapee claimed to have 500 telepathic correspondents.
After thirty six hours of grilling Mrs Virginia Clark of Oakland confessed she shot and killed her husband Chester Clark as he slept beside her in their home.
Sir Thomas Lipton telegraphed Mayer Church of Toronto that he expects to visit Toronto at an early date. Lipton is currently in Hoboken.
International Nickel Company to spend about 3 million dollars on a new rolling mill to process Monel metal at Sudbury with later full Canadian operations at Sudbury Coppercliffe or Port Colborne Ontario. The firm now employs 2500 workers and produces about 3000 tons daily. plant capacity will reach 7000 tons per day. Also, Peace River region foresees a strong harvest as experimental farms expansion gains support across western Canada.
R. E. Bray, a strike leader in Winnipeg, will serve a six months jail term that expires September 16. There is no talk of parole before then, so he may have to complete the full sentence.
A reader responds to Mr Muir on church union, criticizing the proposed plan and questioning the motives and facts cited. The letter disputes the Fathers as well as the notion of a broad union including many denominations and questions the role of Doukhobors and other groups in the discussion.
Invites from Congress Germany Bavaria Austria and Hungary to attend the League of Nations financial congress in Brussels on September 24. Alberta suspends the Migratory Birds Act sanctuaries from September 1 allowing unrestricted duck and geese shooting. permits to shoot in sanctuary areas must be obtained from the commissioner of public parks.
Terence MacSweeney Lord Mayor of Cork has been sentenced to two years in jail after a trial on charges that he controlled a secret police cipher. The case centers on governance and security implications in Cork.
Dalhousie University will have a board representative in R. B. Bennett of Calgary chosen to ensure the university's interests are voiced. The nomination comes as the university notes many graduates are in Canada West.
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