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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 23, 1920
Page
14
Charles Jackson on a ranch near Calgary was badly burned when his gasoline soaked clothing caught fire during engine repairs. It is expected he will die. Norman Harris, the ranch owner, suffered minor burns. Jackson’s relatives live in Ontario.
At the Calgary convention delegates of the One Big Union received a cable from Robert Smillie of the British Federation of Miners urging a simultaneous strike on September 28. In response, the Alberta Miners Federation sent a cable to the British Government.
An ex-soldier named Mazurich in Steelton N J shot into a seven person auto party killing sisters Sadie and Susie Felter both music teachers and injuring others. The assailant wearing an army uniform confronted the group and fired before escaping as a posse pursued him. He was described as eccentric and known locally as Crazy Mike.
Charles Duran, described as Mexican, is held without bail on a murder charge after a shooting that killed Antonio Barron, another Mexican. The incident arose from a quarrel over a girl.
The Crow's Nest Pass is described as dangerous and lawless due to rampant bootlegging. Many bootleggers openly disregard the law, carry guns, and boast about it. Liquor is sold in small bars and Chinese joints along the pass, raising fears of escalating violence as the foreign element becomes more lawless.
Five planes operate daily from New York San Francisco and other city pairs. Routes include New York to San Francisco, San Francisco to New York, Cheyenne to San Francisco, Chicago to San Francisco daily except Sunday, and Chicago to New York daily except Monday.
The season's first wheat car from Coaldale to Western Canada Flour Mills, consigned by Willard Gemming & Co. of Calgary, sold for 4,429.98 dollars. It held 1,702.10 bushels at a price of 2 dollars 77 cents per bushel, and is regarded as a possible carload record for wheat.
Imperial Press delegation head from Montreal says his journey through Canada opened their eyes to Dominion possibilities. Delegates then proceed to Quebec before sailing the Empress of Britain on September 15.
Mrs. Pearl H. O'Dell, imprisoned for murder of Edward Kneipp, was taken to a local hospital to give birth to a baby girl under a new state law. The baby’s father, James O'Dell, is in Sing Sing death cell awaiting electrocution. he was not notified.
Many exiled Russian nobles in France take up work to eat. A Russian Duke farms near Tours while a Prince becomes a bank clerk. Princesses apply art skills to interior decorating. A former ambassador farms, a former General drives a truck, and many officers become chauffeurs or taxi drivers.
The Matane Lumber and Development railway owned by O'Brien and Doheny sold all assets to Hammermill Paper Company of Erie Pa. The deal, worth several millions, closed last week in Montreal. Timber lands adjoining the mill on the Matane and Capachat rivers cover 133000 acres on the St. Lawrence south shore.
The Hon. C. M. Hamilton and Hedley Auld depart on a fort night tour of experimental farms across Northwestern States. Principal John Bracken of the Manitoba College of Agriculture joins to observe first hand American Experimental farm methods.
A violent storm with gale force winds struck Rhode Island causing extensive damage. Thousands of glass panes shattered, homes and businesses flooded, and fruit trees stripped. Utilities were interrupted and hailstones reached up to 1.5 inches. A Cranston market gardener estimated losses at 200000 dollars and a nearby factory reported 2000 broken panes.
A telegram from Winnipeg labor men states Premier Meighen will attend the Dominion Trades Congress opening September 13. He is scheduled to deliver the opening address as the feature of the ceremony.
Since 1914 about 275 Montreal policemen have resigned without replacements. The force now cannot attract enough men and the city battles rising crime while struggling to police its streets.
A Scotch immigrant girl Eva Beattie died while trying to save her younger sister who ventured beyond safe depth. Guards at Hoffman Island rescued the sister. Eva’s body, with a bag of their funds around her neck, remains unrecovered.
Persistent rain damages root crops rotting in Fredericton district and oats cut a week ago lie in fields risking serious loss. Grave fears grow over potato yields as rivers rise rapidly in New Brunswick vicinity.
Five year old Regina Bolan, daughter of John Bolan, was struck by a J I Case Threshing Machine Co truck in front of the Allen theatre while walking with her grandmother. The child escaped serious injuries and was taken to the general hospital for examination after the impact.
Driscoll, manager of Gooch's Limited in London, states prices are bound to fall before long. He cites already refusing to pay levels and warns factory closures if labor continues to demand high wages. Once unemployment rises, wages drop and buying resumes.
Neo profiteering gloom quoted Neo Profiteering lon. F B Carvell chief commissioner of the Board of Railway Commissioners said the highest possible coal price increase would be 15c per ton and any dealer rising more than that would be profiteering. He noted rail freight increases were kept under half of what they should be to aid railway firms and promised to deny coal to violators for the season under the new law.
The missing secretary of Ambrose Small, Toronto theatre owner, last seen December, is believed abroad. Eight thousand multilingual circulars offer a $15,000 reward for arrest for theft and kidnapping charges.
Estimates from American and Canadian revenue officers put illicit liquor profits for 1920 as high as 100000000 dollars in some quarters. The figures reflect profits from rum running during prohibition era cross border channels.
About 400 women gather in Christiania Norway for the Quinquen nial Congress of the International Council of Women. Discussions cover education reforms public health housing social diseases and the League of Nations. Delegates visit Queen Maud at the Royal Palace and attend a luncheon as meetings proceed in the Norwegian Parliament Building.
Nine men are dead and four ill at Edgewood Arsenal Boston from drinking a liquid mainly wood alcohol. Three died the same night and six more perished the following day. The Justice Department has begun an investigation into the fatalities.
John Headstone aged sixty five in the Trochu district near Calgary attempted suicide three weeks ago and was released on a suspended sentence today by Judge Winter. Authorities are contacting his family who are said to be cashing him adrift, a factor in his distress. His sons own 960 acres north of Calgary.
Provincial police arrested widow Agnes Ryan after an infant found near a train at Inga Ontario. Ryan, a restaurant worker at Redditt station, traveled to Winnipeg for medical care the day the body was found and upon return faced murder charges based on coroner's evidence.
An eleven year old Montreal boy survived four weeks by eating leftovers from picnics and fruit from nearby orchards. He was found on Mount Royal and returned to his parents.
Mrs Gretchen Menken, a well dressed American, was fined £50 after pleading guilty to bringing nine pistols into England by air without declaring them. She claimed the weapons were for her fourteen year old son, a pistol marksman, and implicated a porter in moving six pistols to a taxi. Authorities confiscated the pistols after a room search following the porter’s tip.
Australian crop outlook sets 167 million bushels as the harvest forecast. Farmers anticipate a record price of ten shillings per bushel amid strong market demand.
The Himalaya Company's sugar plantation near Napoleonville Louisiana sold for 350000 dollars. It had cost 20000 dollars when purchased eleven years earlier, illustrating the rise in sugar prices.
A retrospective review of Frank Norris and his novels The Octopus McTeague The Pit and the planned trilogy on wheat trade. It notes Norris's promise before his 1903 pneumonia death and compares him with Winston Churchill and Booth Tarkington. Also mentions Otto L. Fisher seeking a Saskatchewan divorce.
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