All the news that fits
Friday, 06 November 2009 05:00
November 6, 1894. "All the news that fits, we print" might well have served as the motto for Toronto's Empire, with its front page column, News of the Day in Brief. Herewith, a few items:
Jacob Dolmage, postmaster, of Lacombe, N.W.T. [now Alberta], who swallowed a dose of laudanum [a pain killer laced with morphine] when found short in his accounts, is dead.
President Cleveland is said to have chopped 20 pounds off his weight during his vacation. He felled trees and cut the firewood for the family.
Mr. Gladstone's "Odes to Horace" will be published today.
Because of a report from Buffalo that members of the A.P.A. [American Protective Association, an anti-Catholic organization] there proposed to rob the grave of the late Count Mercier, a guard has been placed in Cote des Neiges cemetery [Montreal], where the body lies.
A Gunpowder Plot celebration, under the auspices of the Orangemen, took place at Mono Road last night and was a great success. The proceedings wound up with a banquet. [Gunpowder Plot celebration aka Guy Fawkes Night or Bonfire Night. The event celebrates an alleged plot to blow up Britain's Parliament. It is still celebrated in England, and some former British colonies, including Newfoundland].
The president of the Austrian Reichsrath yesterday delivered an address eulogizing the late Czar. The Polish members hotly protested and left the chamber.
A movement is afoot at Brantford to get the main line of the Grand Trunk diverted to that city.
It is learned that at least 16 people lost their lives by the earthquake at the City of Mexico last Friday evening.
The Minister of Justice declines to interfere in the case of Truskey, the murderer of Constable Lindsay, of Comber, who is to be executed on the 14th inst.
The four [railway] conductors, Deires, Tamblyn, Stone and Mulligan, have been committed for trial at Montreal, charged with defrauding their employers by means of forged tickets.
St. James' Presbyterian church, London, Ont., has decided that hereafter, each communicant will have a cup. The system has been in vogue in Rochester and other places across the line, but St. James' is the first church in Canada to adopt it.