Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 24, 1891, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba daily free press. Winnipeg. July 24 telegrams. She Ebeb a Bess Telegraph. Fam Olbes Are the Moat valuable hold by any newspaper in Canada. They include the exclusive Crifie in of the telegrams collected by All the world s news gathering associations Viz the associated press United press cad press news association. By reason of these advantages readers of tto daily free press and the evening free press and Sun Are certain to be furnished with lie news from every part of the world Down to the last moment before going to press. Buoh a volume of matter a brought in from All these sonic to that instead of expanding it and inventing More to to palmed off non the Public As genuine telegraphic matter Tho editors Ore compelled to sift boil Down and condense to find room All the news at their disposal. All matter purporting to to telegrams published by Tho daily free press and the evening free press and Sun is what it pretends to be not re dated clippings from exchanges or editorial concoctions. In addition to these exclusive fro Chiwa for world s news at every important Point in Manitoba and the territories and every Newa Centre in the Dominion special Telegraph Terrero indents Are employed. For Tele or Phi o franchises and service the. Free press expends Money More liberally than any paper in Canada and As a result Teifel the Groat newspaper of the Dominion. Evening dispatches Boodle and bribery a tale that took two and a half hours to Tell Robert Mcgrevey relates All the in Side Workings of the firm of Jar Fin Connolly co evidence corroborated. Drawings of dudes. One of them got Over in one year another per month extra since enterprising clerk kept an assistant at Home to help him out. Ottawa july Interior department irregularities were again under consideration by the Public accounts committee this morn ing. Burgess gave evidence a to Money transactions Between Richard White of the Montreal Gazette and Peoria assistant Secre tary of the department. Peoria he said As far As he understood had secured a loan of Money from White upon the understanding would see that he White waa reimbursed from Money paid by the depart meat to Peoria for extra work. Foster objected to the production of private letters. Finally a sub committee waa appointed to see whether the letter should be produced. Lister moved for All tenders and vouchers for payments for paper during 1sss and 1889. Harry Kin Tomb of Tho Interior department examined said he did Nob know that permanent clerk draw extra for ser vices in contravention of the civil service act. Witness never shared in any irregular ments. He was not aware that w. Mcmahon assistant superintendent of the printing Bureau had done extra work for the Interior department. Somerville then showed witness an account he had certified for Mcmahon for doing extra work. Witness now recollected that work had been done by miss m. B. Armstrong who did not wish her to appear. The account was made ont in Mcmahon a name to shield miss Armstrong. It amounted to fifteen dollars. Witness under farther examination admitted that he and t. E. Rothwell an other permanent clerk had made ont an official Index of Dominion lands. Mcmahon in this instance had allowed them to use his name. Witness declared that the Money had been Well earned. The Job was Worth at least Mcmahon always sent witness All cheques. When Kin Tooh and the other cashed them he always shared with Rothwel. Murphy s hands for Choquette m. P., Drew the attention of witness to an item in the auditor general s re port for 18s9 representing a payment of s600 to Bourgeois Post office inspector at three Rivers. He had direct information that Bourgeois never received a cent. Postmaster general Haggart explained the affair. He said s600 had been voted Bourgeois by parliament in settlement of a claim. The inspector refused to accept the amount because it was too Small and the auditor general having been notified of the Issue of the Cheque charged it in Hia accounts. T. G. Rothwel being called declared the extra he received was for work done be fore he was appointed a permanent clerk. Or. John k. Hall acting Deputy of the Interior department said he had Given extra work to clerks who were in need of financial assistance. He did not recollect having asked Mccabe an extra share with Brough on on the plea that the latter needed Money in View of his approaching marriage several years ago. Witness never certified to accounts unless he waa aware thu work had been done. He made out checks in name of Joseph Wright for h. H. Turner and b. Turner an extra clerk. It also transpired that Jos. Tower Book keeper in the Crown Timber Branch Drew s15 per month since 1887 for doing work after hours. The cheques were made payable to his sister in Law miss Charbonneau. Since june last no payments had been made for extra work for Interior department works. In future parliament will be asked for special rates when required. Somerville pointed out to witness an account for work alleged to have been done by Mcmahon and really done by Kinloch. Witness replied that he did and also that Kinloch was not legally entitled to it but that it was the practice of the depart ment. This a aftem waa in Vogue As far Back As 1883 when he came to the department. Hall in the course if Hia evidence declared that though the system May be illegal it resulted in saving Large sums to the Public service. Somer Ville severely criticized the Large amounts paid h. H. Humphreys extra clerk who one year Drew in All Over implying that favor its existed in the department. Hall raid the Case of this clerk was exceptional. The work waa All Well done and the Deputy minister recommended him for permanent appointment but the Treasury Board Over ruled it As Humphry had passed the Maxi mum age of 33 years. Subsequently a vacancy occurred in the land office at Winnipeg and Humphry waa awarded a position at per Day. Mcmahon assistant superintendent of the government printing Bureau admitted that he had Lent his name to several clerks. He never saw the accounts but endorsed the cheques without compensation. O. 0. Rogers permanent clerk admitted that he Hod done extra work at Home. His sister in Law Misa Gordon gave him assist Ance. Witness checked the time himself and the account waa certified by Cote. Asked How he kept Tho record he said he had a clerk at Home the enquiry will be resumed to Morrow. Eight or ten More witnesses have been summoned. Thank offering to Boshane. Montreal july a thank offering for the interest mayor Mcshane took in the recent fete celebrating the fall of the Bastile old country frenchmen headed by Schwab French vice Consul Are getting up a petition to president Carnot requesting him to Confer on Mcshane the legion of Honor and make him a Knight commander of that order. Got. Saultz will do All he can. Kingston july Lieut. Governor Schultz of Manitoba has accepted the Posi Tion of honorary vice president of the Mac Donald National memorial to be erected Here and promises to do All in his Power to be of service in the matter. Will Are acc the Combine. Montreal Judy the meeting of railway freight agents Here yesterday the Canadian Pacific announced they would quote rates that will be so Good As to break the com Bine. Tha austrian government is informed of fresh arrivals of russian troops on the oian Border in numbers far beyond the Ordin Ary requirements of Frontier duty. It a also reported that the russian fortifications have been greatly strengthened and equipped with guns of heavier Caliper than those hitherto mounted. Ottawa july Mcgreevy was on the stand two hours and a half this Mora Ine before the tarte investigation committee. The first half hour waa spent in discussing the allowances to be paid witness and other minor matters. Davis moved that Valin b evidence which is now printed in French Only be printed in English As Well As this carried Ouimet asked what Are we to do about the English Evi Dence talking about the Cross Wall tenders Murphy told witness that bad to be paid for the Oon Traca to Thomas to Greevy that he would have to his share. He had a subset quient conversation with his brother about the matter in which Thomas said that what Murphy had declared was Correct and sent witness to get the notes. Murphy objected at first that the Money was Only to be paid As the work went on but he persisted and got tha note. The latter were prepared just a Murphy de sired in his office on Dalbo Aie Street which is reached through Hia Brothers by a trap door. Geoffrion handed him the historic bundle of notes and he recognized them As those made out that occasion. They were for 000 each. When the notes were completed they were handed to him by Murphy he handed them the aame Day to Thos. Mcgreevy he had personal knowledge that a judgment against his brother for was delivered at that time by Mclaren and Cameron and that some of these notes went to that debt. The notes were discounted to raise Money to meet this judgment. H. J. Chaloner had discounted them at the Union Bank. Witness gave his note for As Security to the firm As his share of this Twenty five thousand. They kept it for two years in their Safe and finally returned it to him As part of his profits of the two missing notes. One was for three or four months and the other for twelve months. He sub sequently asked Murphy to change the twelve months note for a Shorter Date which he did. He made this request Mercer taken to task. La Prosso makes some bold assertions regut Diimig Hia financial transactions in trance. Most bal july 23. La Presse takes Premier Metcer to task for his financial negotiations in Paris and plainly Tella him if he floated merely a temporary loan for two years he exceeded his Powers. It declares that according to the statutes the lieu Enaut governor could not authorize a temporary loan for four million dollars unless it were shown to my in Black and White that the present deficit of the province waa it further declares All that has been said on the subject of the financial transaction is false. Id says that Mercer has borrowed four Mil lion at 4 per cent. It is false that he has borrowed without commission. It is Fula that the provincial government is Nob bound Over to the financial institutions which have advanced it four million dollars seeing he has had to hand Over to them Tho debentures of the province. Harvest holocaust. Swearing sportsmen great indignation Over the Hall Fitzsimmions fiasco. Hall and sheriff bean get the most abuse ticker holders Reim Lonh out prospects of a fight. Boiler of a steam Thresher explodes killing three men and fatally injuring five. Litho fiend ky., july disastrous explosion occurred yesterday afternoon on the farm of James Darbin in Edn Ionson county. The boiler of a steam Thresher exploded when surrounded by men and quickly transformed a pleasant Harvest scene into one of terror and death. Three men were instantly killed by flying debris and escaping five others were fatally injured. By direction of Hia brother Thomas. A to the other note he remembered nothing about it. A letter f rom Robt. Mcgreevy from Ottawa to Murphy said i will get my brother to interview Perley about the some other sentence ran wherever there Are lawyers in the Case there is sure to be i am sorry to be delayed a i would like to be with you at prayer meet ing the supplementary con tract at lie vis was fully understood by Thomas Mcgreevy and the letters sent to Perley about the matter by the firm Wau first submitted to Hon. Thomas. Dur his brother informed the witness that he waa expecting to receive but or. Murphy objected to the largeness of the Bud and finally gave notes for made on 2nd june 188-1. He gave three notes making payable to Thos. Mcgreevy that Day and later on the product of the other notes. Thomas told the witness that he wanted the for the newspaper be Monde. On nov. 28th, 1884, he gave Thos Mcgrievy and did not know what it was then came out the old Story of the firm sub scribing to the elections of 1887, if they got Yards of dredging in Quebec Harbor and the same amount if they got the Extension of the Esquimalt Dock. A memorandum put in by Murphy of these promises was identified by the witness As in the writing of Michael Connolly. He witness showed this memo , who said after Reading it it is All this s25-, 000 waa paid almost immediately. He gave he got from Murphy to Thomas Mcgreevy. Murphy it hex or nun waa Quebec West elec Tion. Geoffrion asked the witness frequently How do you know to which he said Thos. Mcgreevy told me. Talking of the 35 cent dredging in 1887. He thought that the work was easier than that previously done at a lower Price. They not 45 cents extra for All they put in the embankment under another contract. Geoffrion then tried to see what the inspectors had done for the bribes Given them and Learned that during the month of october 1867, the Progress estimates gave the contractors about for their dredging while the dredges could Only dredge about Yards which at 55 cents reached Only the bribed inspectors made out those Progress estimates. Other months were compared similarly and showed the same startling results. He pro tested strongly against this payment of Money to snap Clors and finally reduced his protest to writing and sent it to each member of the firm. He read a copy of one of the protests in which he charged that there waa an expenditure of that he had not been consulted about and which he refused to his share of. When the Esquimalt tenders were up the witness had a formal interview with sir Hector about the matter. Sir Hector told him that the tenders were not extended yet but that he had telegraphed Hon. Thos. Mcgreevy about the matter. Behring sea matters. The British minister and Washington authorities draft a document for sub Mission to the arbitrators. Toronto july a Washington Dis Patch dated yesterday to the Globe Sayn Wharton assistant Secretary of state said to Day that the British minister and himself had practically agreed upon the draft of a document which would be submitted to the judges of arbitration in in Behring sea matter when they should be chosen. The state department is not yet prepared to announce the names of the commission stood has been whom it is under tempest in a Teapot. The Globe trying to Woyu no a sensation Over the Mcgreevy revelations. To Konio july 23. The Globe has an Ottawa dispatch on the departmental irregularities in which it is declared that Bhe statement that the government Are probing for the naked truth is hardly Correct and that every Effort in being made to get the liberals to Aid in saving sir Hector. The Globe has a Strong editorial on the scandal declaring that respect Able conservatives have now no option but to Souris happenings. A Breezy budget in mails football a cries. Souris july change will shortly be made in the running i t the mall when it will be brought in by i rain and the train will arrive on monday wednesday and Friday instead of tuesday thursday and saturday As at present. This will bring the mail in Here before noon and out to 5 o clock on the same Day and will do away with the stares to bran Don and Hartney. Dempsey and Fairfax mails will Likely b changed to run Friday afternoon instead of saturday. The Breeze Awn football team added an other Victory to their unbroken record by defeating the rangers 1 goal to 0. At first it was thought that Breeze Awn would lose As several of their Best players were not Able to play but once the game started they soon gained courage and kept the Ball continually Down on the rangers goal the rangers Only succeeding in getting the Ball near their opponents goal once throughout the game. The following a the record for this season of football matches in this District june 24, Breed Elan is. Monteith a draw july 1st, Breeze Awn Creek won by Breeze Awn july 9, Breeze Awn is. Monteith won by Breeze Awn july 9, Breeze Awn a. Rustics won by Breeze Awn july 16, Breeze Awn a. Bangers won by Breeze Awn july 16, Plum Oralek a. Miller Way won by Plum creeks. The annual picnic under the aspic ii of court Glenwood j. 0. F., which was help in Souris Park on thursday was a grand Suc Cess. Shortly after noon the members of the local Lodge accompanied by visitors from court Hart nay formed a procession opposite the Post office and headed by the citizens band marched Down Crescent Avenue thence to the Park where they were joined by their friends to the number of about 350. Games and Sporta were then indulged in also two football matches the principal event being an Indian pow wow in the evening which some say waa the Best they Ever witnessed. A committee came out from Brandon yesterday to arrange for the preparation of the Park for the a Ionio 011 aug. 4th. The bran Don Odd Fellows Are uniting with the sunday school and it a expected that about people will come out that Day. A committee has been appointed in Souris to prepare the grounds and put up a table 100 feet Long with beats on both aides. The Brandon methodist sunday school will picnic in Souris Park on August 4th. It is rumoured that the sunday school of Portage la Prairie Are uniting with them and that a train has been chartered to run from Portage. Messes. Davidson bros., photograph pm arrived on thursday and pitched their tent on the vacant lot on Crescent Avenue in the rear of Patterson Bros implement Ware House. Or. T. C. Mcfarlane general agent for the Temperance and general life Assurance com Pany was in town for a few Days last he appointed w. A. Dalmage agent for this District f an ice Cream social under the auspices of the society of Christian Endeavor was held in the presbyterian Church last evening and a Good time was spent and a Short programme rendered. Messes. Brandon Thompson implement agents went to Brandon on Friday to attend the funeral of the late e. N. Johnston. Or. Miller a brother in Law of the Man also at tended. Messes. Mcculloch Harriott Are going to erect an elevator near their roller Mill. It a rumoured that one or two More will be erected near the station. The Loyal Orange lodges of this District in tend holding a Dicirio in the Park on August 12th, in commemoration of the shutting of the Gates of Derry. A football match Between the Plum creeks and the Whitewater rangers will be played on the grounds Here on saturday next at 3.30 p. M. Or. Irwin photographer of Brandon was in town a couple of Days last week. He in tends opening a Branch gallery Here soon. Several heavy rain storms have passed Over this District of late and much fear is expressed of rust setting in on the wheat. Snowden has just finished a Beautiful Tennis Lawn on the vacant lot beside the residence of j. Y. Bambridge. Or. And mrs. Brassey who have been Liv ing in this District for the past two years left for England on saturday. De. Johnston who has been in the employ of Hughes Vav Street Over Bank of Ottawa. Hazel Boniab barristers to Entrance 16 Dona Dion Block Cornet Halo and por Bago ave. N f. Haintel . R. A Bonnar. Mining fifty acres of ground settles Down into the damage. Wilke Babbe pa., july in much excitement in the town of Edwardsville just across the River. For several Days Subterran Ean sounds have been heard evidently coming from the Kingston Coal company s mines. The residents knew what the noise meant and pre pared to vacate their houses but the crash came yesterday before they expected and the Earth Sank. The area affected covers fully 60 acres and the damage is great. The Earth a broken and cracked As if an earthquake had occurred. There Are great holes Large enough for a horse and Wagon to fall into. In other places there Are Large cracks that run in All directions for half a mile or More. The streets Are seamed and broken. All the Wells have inn dry and water and Gas Mains Are ruined. Many houses went Over when the crash came and even the foundations have collapsed several families Are rendered homeless and have sought shelter of More fortunate neighbors. As the land is useless for further building that portion of the town is ruined. Several Hundred thousand dollars will necessary to put the Interior of the mine in condition. The settling has not yet ceased and the people Are still Vacat ing their Homes. To idiot 4 Moon ear baeei8iee8, Amoe jul neb solicitor a Eto. Bit b87 main Street aver Union Bank of oui Adu. Leo a. Gulott w. F Moorvary p. O. Box 167. Ronson b Allan bab.k18ters, Attoul Bou Oltorf Eto. Offices Western Tda Block Oor. Stif and Portage Winnipeg. J. H. Monson a. Allan m. L. Trim a 1kins, Oulu by Patterson it Hoo Lenbo j. A. H Alkons j. 0.1 Irge Patterson a v Pitblado. A Boh Bald Howell Oumi Skylard a barristers Eto. Heber Johl bold h. M. How ., 2. D. Cumberland. Soond door North of to Stoffle. Main Street Winnipeg. Music. Mrs. G. Delaware to bather of piano Lorte Pupil of or. J. Deavenport Korr Teon Toronto. For terms apply the Winnipeg hotel. Provincial land surveyors association. Under authority of sections 18, 19, 25 and of the provincial land surveyors act to and 47 vic., Cap. The following Only we enl Itu a to Pra a provincial land Surrey Ora in Manitoba Alcomb m. In incl j. Boyne o. A. Hirris j. Be Nieter o. B. Chan. Bourne Row. Mrk Adden Brown c. K. C. Dichon h. G. Rombou Gli m. B. Dou pc Joseph Simpson o. A. Doupe j. L. L. S. Duster w. A. , r. K ssh order. J. Harris Secretary i. L. S. Annotation. N. Practice of surviving in Manitoba by any other persons ii illegal Mil renders Thodi Lla Ile to prosecution. New foe summer Wear. Ladies and tenth boots made Cool durable and Beautiful. To has no equal. Quality a the first essential 0 our manufactures. Repairs prompt. Morton Alexander Morton 171 and 173 King Etric to. Please note the address to or. Anew physician and s0koeon. Elf diseases of the Eye and ear a specially. Resi Dence 316 8th Street South Carlton outbreak expected. Demand the expulsion of nation of the Cabinet. Langevin or Resig n. S. Government sustained. Sydney n. S. W., july the course of a parliamentary debate yesterday on the sheep shearers strike Dibbs Leader of the opposition moved a vote of want of Confidence in the government. The motion was lost on a vote of 80 to 57. Fort William shipping foot William ont., july tug jaws a. Walker with schooners Kildonan and Mir Nedosik in Tow Are in port loading kill inc of a convict by a guard causes great excitement at to Orvllle. Knox lib tenn., july killing of a convict by the Namo of Harris this morning by a guard has caused considerable excitement among the convicts and an outbreak is not improbable. By. 800 main St. Next door to Rose s drug store. Office hours 9 to 12.30 p.m., and 8 to 0p.m. Special attention to diseases of lungs rectum and treatment of piles. Telephone House 449 office 103.____________ b. I. Wilford Good. , nose and Throat. Moe Corner main and Lombard hours 10 to 12, 8 to 6, and t to 8. Sun Days 9 to g. Telephone 670. Professional Jos e. Hannah a. Mem. I. Civil e. Mem. I. Mech. E. England civil and Heth Anjool consulting Engineer. Water works Engineer ing a specially. 28 years experience Winnipeg p. O. Box 769 Winnipeg heal estate association. Following brokers Are members in Good stand with this association my insurance pm of Conn. Established 1864. Canada Branch Gerald e. Hat gun l manager Montreal a general fire insurance Ilus new transacted of lowest current hates. Paid up capital of 39 assets Wright ;