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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 19, 7 September 1911, Page 6

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By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United t i ess Association. (Received 7, 1.5 p.m.) Ottawa, September 6. It is announced from enilgary tnat a flow of gas struck at Bow Island is the largest; in America. Canada intends to from the Fisheries I reaty concluded witii the United .States in 10Uo consequent on the failure of Congress to ratify the treaty. .New 'fork, ;-Vevim r t>. The incoi uoration is announc-l o; the Atlantic and Pacific I ransp.n cation Companies, with headquarters at Baltimore. The new company uin i i.n a weekly service between Now ’fork and Sail Francisco, when the Panama Canal is opened. Mark 1 wain’s old homo in Hig.i Street, Hannibal, Missouri, has been bought by a wealthy attorney, and presented to the city authorities, 'ine nouso is only a few feet distant from the alley where Tom Sawyer made the other boys paint the fence. it has been established that the collision, on the Erie Line between a passenger and freight train was accidental, being due to the death of tho engine-driver at tiie throttle. Ino train ran four miles at full speed past tiie signals and through tns dock junction. (Received 7, 1.30 p.m.) Paris, September 6. The Ministerial Committee for Food recommends a modification of tiro rs-o-’T'tions relating to th° importation of frozen meat and similar articles. Houssard, in a letter to the examining Magistrate, confesses that, j.e murdered Guillotin owing to his passion for Madame Guillotin. He declares that the latter is innocent.

It is reported from , Georgetown, Guiana, that the natives in the interior, becoming exasperated by his preaching of anti-polygamy, fatally poisoned Mr. Davis, an American missionary. Received 7, 11.0 a.m.) London, September 6.

Roberts who fired a revolver at j strikers in 1 the Minories, who at- ] tempted to stop his car, and slightly wounded a boy, was acquitted at the Old Bailey. Evidence was given that the police were powerless to deal with the mob. The Recorder said that if the Government were unable to protect the public they must protect themselves. The jury stopped the case. The Trades Union Congress, by 9300 votes to a million and a half, rejected a resolution in favour of a citizen army entirely free from military law during peace, and to be used for defensive purposes only. Mr Will Thorne supported the proposal. Mr John Ward ridiculed Mr Thorne’s scheme, which he said was indentical with Lord Roberts’, arid stated that the army in Switzerland killed eighteen workers during trade disputes. Katherine Thurston, novelist, was found dead in bod at Cork.