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Newspaper
Olympia Tribune
Location
Olympia, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1892
Page
1
Local jewelry house announces retirement on January 15 1893 with stock valued at upwards of $75,000. The inventory includes diamonds watches fine jewelry sterling silver silver plated ware clocks and related items.
Washington report from December 19 describes James G Blaine waking and showing no worse than the day before after a near fatal sinking spell. Doctors caution no immediate danger but warn against over optimism amid intense public interest.
Sine Sina New York December 19 Fred McGuire a Middleton farm hand murdered his employer Noah Gregorys wife to obtain 100 he shot her then stamped on her head with bloody footprints leading to arrest He was executed at Sing Sing the first shock killed him the second was precautionary witnesses saw no burning flesh and said he died within twelve seconds after the initial 1800 volt jolt In Houston Texas a horse trade quarrel ended with Richard Smith firing a shotgun at John Mason Lige Dickson and Frank Tubbs wounding all three two fatally Smith jailed
Dr. Francis Charles Scott Sanders, once manager of the Lyne club in London, was sentenced to six years penal servitude for forging Earl Landesborough's name on a £3733 check.
The Tacoma Seattle corridor reports Mary M Anderson sues Louis Anderson for 25000 damages after a 3 year divorce. She alleges renewed affections and a promise to remarry led to consent for a second marriage before he later wed Gunda Thompson.
A Tacoma Tribune report details a former Northern Pacific clerk who prepared a list of state officers and other officials using railroad passes and drawing mileage since state organization. The pamphlet aims for legislatures access in New York. A separate note cites missing executor Edward P. Chamberlain facing misappropriation charges totaling $16,000 linked to Northern Pacific bonds.
The United States Supreme Court dismissed Henry L Yesler in error v board of harbor line commissioners of Washington for want of jurisdiction. Yesler owned Seattle wharf property and sought to stop harbor line changes claiming due process and deprivation of property. The decision noted a defective federal question affidavit and affirmed dismissal.
Thurston County led by W O Bush aims for top honors at the Chicago world’s fair after a 1876 Philadelphia centennial wheat award. Bush funds a 2000 dollar exhibit of cereals, grasses and crops, plus tobacco and cigars, to showcase local agriculture.
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