Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 24, 1904, Winnipeg, Manitoba May sixteen 31 news of the Page s Page raided in new rowing is Camp its municipal offi Tho Tow Fite Case breeders stakes 1 team Defeated tit occurred n 1ase on strike rumoured losses discredited japanese government have received no advices of heavy fighting at port to be Orel damaged by an will take several months to make settlement in sight expectation that the Lake tie up will be broken this May Joseph of the state Board of has returned from Cleve and states that he expects the Lake carriers association and the officials of the masters arid pilots association to get together this week and effect a settlement of the Lake May in three cruisers bought by the japanese new arts build nil terrorized the View of the rumours by Way of Paris j j and Petersburg that disaster hcs the Lake traffic befallen the japanese announce tins eco officially tonight that it had been in communication with its Manchur i he French govern Jan base As late As 4 and there i Are less was no report then from the naval j commander in charge of the Cable s at Ottawa to Lay i showing any results North of port Arthur other than had been expected in the investment of the fort port Arthur will not be invested thoroughly for several to capture May changes in the japanese plans Are due to their Endeavor to take Dalny this the japanese first army has fallen Back and is entrenching at Feng Wang with 400 is keeping in touch with the advanced outposts of the Japan Ese cavalry in the the head quarters of Mistchenko Force is at ashore in the Little or 110 tins of the Nurs be Giuld thurs the Ward Superior and i in of yesterday in citizens of of the motion the japanese second Are army is advancing slowly South from vianese pits Ewo part Adams for combined t the attack by land and sea on Kin was seriously and location of j Liau May has been h o fighting on land except Small Skir mishes in the finc Herling where the japanese have Many scat stationary j tired divisions on High roads and de files extending Over a territory thirty Niesay and from sixty to ninety Miles East of Cossack patrols in Here today carried out an extensive reconnaissance of the Section on wednes Day and under o m and term meter from China and cholera ravaging Liao May to the latest reports the japanese Camps Are infected with and there is an average of one Hundred deaths the military situation is comparatively russian patrols Are successfully harassing the left of the japanese Rumor of big May is reported that foreign minister Lamsdorff has received a message from the russian Consul at saying that the Jap anese have made land attack on port and that in doing so they lost fifteen thousand men killed or wound the russian loss is placed at three thousand the ultimate outcome of the fighting is not another disaster to the May Petersburg correspondent of the Central news says that there was an explosion on Board the battleship Orel at Ronstadt today and that ten stokers were the the correspondent was and it will take weeks to effect the Accord ing to the was the result of an accumulation of Gas in the marching on May and Crews of chinese Eastern railway steamers at Dalney and Many arrived Here today on four they left Dalny yesterday morning and report that the japanese Are within a Day s March of the probability is that the russians destroyed vessels in the docks at railway lines May communication southward is chinese bandits having been driven getting ready to at Pilot Hurch Union considered methodist conference appoints com Mittee to investigate and May methodist protestant conference Ebay appointed a committee to con Ider Church the cooperation f the conference was asked in a movement for an expression from All protestant denominations on the question of remarriage after his request came from the general Assembly of the United presbyterian it was referred to a com tending to May today session of the general Assembly of he presbyterian Church in the United states Moderator Neel announced a Ommittee to consider Oil overtures rom the churches of calvinistic newly organized municipality unites on civic officers without Pilot May first elec Tion for the newly organized Village of Pilot Mound was Here the four councillors and three trustees were All elected by acc Lama the following will constitute the civic authorities Baird d Robt snowball school Baird May russians 4s tit orders from i ure hurriedly removing stores and the conclusion provisions to the co Clui general and report that s drawn they Are preparing to Ujj ithe largest division of the about sets ii you j six companies of infantry and three their Wei Tut Bureau at Jaik Sonville batteries of is Northeast of smaller divisions Are South and North of Chen Salin chinese Aid to Liao May commander of the chinese is m i in constant communication with Tou the chief of the chinese ban 4 i Gaiti action under Marine i a York York Point Antwerp London York Montreal new Yort new York new York Uva Rawol Antwerp pct car asst 1 Atha May for Kineston Harbor re elevator tank gave Way i vetting in fort William elevator the May of the tanks at elevator d save tie tank leaning to it will not extent with the for As soon out the machinery there was about Wriedt in the it tin urst it is or rivets gave adopting military or r japanese instruct Toul sans District is the Gran Ary of he is a great organizer and built seven immense Gran which Are strongly to Ulsan ordered the inhabitants to Rinir in their surplus forbid Ding them Selling it to the and ordering them to Reserve the Gram for the chinese armies which Are com ing from the hundreds of Dise Uisch soldiers Are coming up the River styling themselves Thev remain Idle and Are Well fed while the russians Are unable to get swarms of disguised chinese soldiers Are in the Vicinity of Lik Tang and chinese troops Are guard ing the Shan Hai Kwan Shin my the russians Are having the Ereat Post difficulty in pacifying the Moab cleverly take advantage of the Quad wounded japs Tokio May Hundred and fifty japanese who were wounded in the Battle of Talu River arrived this they brought with them some gun car and and three Fine Homes captured from two were russian and one an Ara Bian they wer presented to the Mik ado and were taken to the who Darling net loss final report of Lurling company losses general committee this the the Street warehouse and placed by the company at the committee allowed i insurance there thus being a Jet loss of for the the i Feroni had also a loss of Wellington Street fac which the committee allowed ii net Joss of the company insurance was military Otsu May following Mili were gazetted to Winnipeg pro i Houston is to to be 2nd Mountain 3 to be provisional 2nd vice Hicks Day Visio runnions championed by the classes of mongols the 5sv be Berss Arnon the Banner men tin May russians have completed the mining the Harbor and month of the Liao River it is now believed that there Are immense supplies at new Chwang and that that place is thoroughly protected against any incursion of the if Paris May Peters Burg correspondent of the Matin says it is persistently rumoured that the Vladivostok Squadron has captured much less friction Between Paris and the Vatican May received from France by the Vatican authorities today indicates that the situation growing out of the papal pro test against president Lou bets visit to rooms and the recall of ambassador Wisard has assumed a More satisfactory it is understood the Vatican has been assured that the unless compelled by action of the chamber practically intends to allow the matter of Cardinal merry Del Al s note to thus avoiding a conflict with the holy see before the Genera elections of the Madrid correspondent of the Tri telegraphs that King Alphonso has indefinitely postponed his visit to president which was planned for september in order to avoid friction with the Vancouver arrives May Dominion liner which grounded at Mattano during a fog last passed inward at father Point this of and is expected to arrive Here and will go into the Basin to be the Vancouver has been very and has been in Many accidents on the River in the Gulf of were raided new police still pursuing race track gamblers new May places suspected of being were fourteen persons wer taken into custody arid nonet you telephones and two Telegraph instruments were confiscated today in polic raids in new the raids were made in the tenderloin District police inspector of manhat was in direct charge of the raids inspector Captain cottnel1 and Twentyfive Plain clothes men car ried out the orders in the tenderloin where ten of the several alleged books and one prisoner were the other raids were made in various parts of the of the places visited in the lower Section of manhat it is was a racing news sex and Here nine telephones and a lot of racing sheets were confiscated by the in another place Twenty telephones were and in a Bird eleven were taken the tenderloin police visited the place supposed to be kept by honest John and found Kelly on the you cant get in Here unless you have Kelly is said to have Ive had too Many visitors and in showing people Joe the officers made no Effort to All the places reputed to have dealt in bets on races were it is the hour selected being when it was supposed they would be in full swing but most of them were vacant terrorizes town three Hundred striking Brick makers compel other workmen to May Hund red employed in the Haver Straw Brick struck today be cause they were receiving ten per less than a year they armed themselves with shot and picks and marching through the Bick making District compelled work men in All of the Yards to Stop there is great excitement at Haver but there has been no rioting thus Eastern boating fatalities two of Johns most prominent citizens drowned while Treut agricultural College Stu dents use their lives while drowned in a May reached Here this afternoon of the drowning yesterday of three of Johns Mist prominent business men at orom Soto where they had been the victims Are John of Thomson shipping owners of the Battle line John Royal Bank of Canada and inspector the Bank of new Bruns and brother of its their left this afternoon for j the which is fifty Miles from i with divers and apparatus to recover the the three with Wetmore Macrae and went up the South Branch of the Lake on intending to re main Over the on Foster and Stavert went out on the Lake in one of their when they did not return a search was and the boat was found floating Bottom up and Dis Mast no Trace was discovered of the three and it is presumed All were Mer Ritt and Jones this morning had a Tele Gram sent announcing the sad and they remained at the Lake to assist in the efforts being made to recover the to a Man who has just returned from the Stavert was saved and will re he swam half a mile through a rough and Lay unconscious on he Shore for two then wandered in the Woods and reached the House in a delirious he says that Foster went Down before he left the and Thomson was clinging to the the last two Are certainly students drowned at May Guelph this the High when the police to test May 23magistrate Saunders handed Over the decision m the test Case brought by the License hold ers association against of the grand Central for sell Ink after 10 Oclock contrary to the recent regulation passed by the License the Case was brought to prove the legality of the Resolution by reducing the hours but the decision had no bearing on the question the Case was decided in favor of Wil Liams on a father Hayden May father Hay Den of Patricks died this morning after three weeks illness m t Michaels he belonged othe redemption and was aged bout the mail robbery Case thirty witnesses will been june particulars of the four counts of the May Crown prosecutor Johnstone asked for too Many French for the j May hibernian a e a Resolution protesting a of French at they ask for b i cation for English speaking in rum this by Virner killed while Many Fanner of new of was kicked on the head and Salu Raay while Fload when picked the Joseph Duggan May estate of the Ali the Well known is reported Worth the succession duties will fn1eywood enquiry May jury on after hear inst the i adjourned til to the Speet fhe where Uaen happened n elevator in Ivas arraigned before Justice new lands this morning and the charge against which covers two sheets of typewritten was the accused pleaded not owing to his lordship having to be absent until the next regular sittings of the court the Case will not be tried until june and accused was accordingly remanded until that the prosecution expect to Call about thirty witnesses covering territory from Winnipeg and Carman to Vancouver and there promises to be a very interest ing regal Point argued at the Wilcox trial when it comes on next the question to be argued will be would the act of breaking the Seal of a mail bag and extracting a letter constitute the act of stealing ii Baz charge against Wilcox which was read in court this contains fou7 the first of which is that Wilcox stole a Post letter bag from mail in connection Witti this count leave to prefer Norman Mac counsel for the con tended that the charge against the prisoner by the Crown must be based solely on the evidence adduced at the preliminary and us the Evi Dence did not go to show that Wilcox had stolen the mail the Crown should Only prefer this charge by Mackenzie stated that he did not intend to oppose she crowns application for leave to prefer the first count of the charge at the present time but he called his lordships attention to the fact that he in no Way intended waive the but would Reserve the Point for should he see in the evidence adduced at the the importance of the Point lies in the fact that under the criminal code the theft of a mall bag is punishable with a maximum sentence of life in while maximum for the theft of a letter is Only seven years the other three counts in the charge that Wilcox stole a letter the property of the postmaster general that he stole a letter addressed to the Bank of con Tain lne in Bank of Hamilton notes that he stole f two students of Ontario Agri cultural went out for a Canoe trip on the River shortly after the Canoe was found upside and the bodies of the Young men were later discovered in shallow where weeds grow they were both fair fell into Mill May Clara the fourteen Earold Daugh Ter of slipped off a where she was sitting into the Mill and was her Othor Young tried to Rescue her but in mining accidents in Alberta polish Miner killed at Frank and a second horribly mangled at the Lille population of in crease nearly 100 per since May completed census of the City shows hat with the two suburbs by a Small Cavern of Coal from t Koule Auville and has a roof and knocked or else slipped of this is within a i fell into the Coal help was new of double the number recorded in j quickly summoned and he was soon he government census of Cal Gary alone has a population of the German settlement May a Polander living in Blair met with an Accident in the mine of the Canadia american Coal a which resulted in his death while leaving work with the other miners and in the act of entering the Manway in 2 room to descend into the main Guidon was either hit across the has a population of and of this number in the Are and females there Are married and there Are children under Fly in the population by nationality Are 597 Ameri 525 229 Rish 218 German and 121 in the census of religion the presbyter ans Lead with the anglicans Lave 2 038 the methodists roman baptists lutherans salvation lists or of Clarkson who was engaged to make a special audit of the City accounts has1 the report is very the Fin ances of Trie he reports to be in Good and the books to have been Well he makes a report of the waterworks which he says is or at least not the debentures and sinking funds Are in very Good the programme of sports for to Morrow is better than has Ever been presented excursions Are run Ning from All directions to the at 111115 uncovered and hauled but in spite of efforts to revive him it was found that he was dead from another sad Early last monday a mining Accident of the most lamentable and serious a occurred at the Lille Camp of the West Canadian through which Antoine a Bohemian min now lies in the Hospital Here in it very precarious it appears that with his Antoine he was working in the face of the main Gangway and that they cutting out for a main set of they had drilled two Piip a roof and one a Corner shot in which they loaded and fired hearing Only one report they concluded that one of their shots had missed and after waiting about fifteen min Cerny went Back to just As he stooped to examine the shot in the which had apparently it hurling Rock and powder directly in his it was round on examination that the injured besides several other minor in had three ribs broken and that both eyes were badly one so fear fully mangled that the doctor found it necessary to remove the other Eyo the doctor is doing everything in Power to and although badly injured he still has Hopes of saving the the victim of this unfortunate Accident is an old time Miner and fij3y acquainted with the danger of a hang fire or a miss he is also a married Man with a family and his wife gave birth to a daughter the Day after his by a piece of rare Good for he had but lately taken out an Accident policy for a Small Haggart elected t Defeated Barclay in the Aldermani Bye election in Ward by 112 Alexander was elect Alderman for Ward 2 by a majority of 112 Over Robert in yesterdays rendered necessary by the sudden death of thet late John considering the Superior or there is a a animation of the victorious candidate which May interfere with both the majority was not unduly Large and rain which May programme and to quash local May application was made by chief Justice Falconbridge this morning at Osgoode Hall to quash the local option bylaw at Tor onto Junction on the ground that the second Reading was not properly mov judgment was Bill of fare for pleasure seeking Winni Eggers today with Good weather the eight seventh anniversary of the birth of her late majesty Queen will be right loyally observed by pleasure seekers Are offered the following Choice of attractions j excursion to 730 j excursion to Portage la Prairie at 9 Field Day at 90th near Sturgeon Ras Balu at River 1030 and Winnipeg Lacrosse at fort Garry Park in afternoon Winnipeg Rifle association Winnipeg gun clubs open Cricket matches at James and exhibition t Lawn Bowling play Mikado at Winnipeg theatre in vaudeville at afternoon attractions at River afternoon i excursions on Steamer afternoon and the majority to those who had watched the vote being taken to the polls the result was no Barclay has been a resident of the Ward for years and has represented it in previously he never went to any pains to organize his sup leaving his candidature in the hands of his friends and those who considered him the Best candidate in the yesterday he ran against a Complete organization of hag arts Many of whom came from other wards to work for him and bring voters to the Haggart received the Many congratulations of his friends on the re sult of the vote becoming he is now Alderman and school trustee for the Ward and will take his seat in Council next monday evening when the vacancies on committees created by the death of Russell will be the vote at the four polls stood As follows Piil 34 56 97 Barclay 107 77 majority 47 20 the polling subdivisions were Loc ated As follows 311 Maina treet South fire Hall 405 port age Avenue 322 notre Dame it being election Day in the Ward All the saloons were closed tight and As the election caused Little sex Al Sementi Many wondered Why fhe bars were closed in the South end and open farther Twenty years ago today items from the free press of this the Queens birthday will be fittingly celebrated being ust cred in by Royal Salute fired by the Field Bat the sporting programme includes football Between the centrals and Winnipeg and a Lacrosse match Between the Garry and the Lacrosse team will be As and and Cullen Grant Henderson Henderson a Cameron i Sherwood i Gordon Turner Hodgson s Johnson Mathews Dickson the annual Ball Harry Finch j Farrell Merritt inc Yriart Pete Wood j Patterson Toohey p Mcguire Harry Quigney doll tiie Graham Poulan Munro we troop to make arrangements for the Anee of troupes Here Tot the next theatrical the newly appointed general freight and passenger agent of the Western is expected to in Winnipeg a few Days with Van the Winnipeg Telephone company com Plain at the assessment of their property which the City values at the company asks that the assessment be reduced to senator who has sufficiently recovered to be Able to has sons on a trip to new York with an Indian b threatening trouble in the Broadview he has summoned other chiefs to a r Vic and the police fear that at this the probation motion at resolved to ask the cd Ern ment to Strait the Scott Ana historical society Chicken Mckilligan occupied the Arr a vote of thanks was passed on option of seconded bar Bell c of the Princess Pera left yesterday for new York opera gliomas Noti a Ferguson Whon Irwin Ferguson and Willis la Tonche Tupper has been appointed License inspector for the and i an official announcement that App cations for hotel qle4 with him at ;