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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1906
Page
3
Chicago April 16 Judge Deacon of Zion City and its legal head met with a Dowie representative to discuss a settlement proposed to give Dowie a share from 1 008 000 dollars. Dowie will leave Shiloh house this evening for Beach at 7 40 and Pier 2 Fare round trip.
Deputy Collector of Customs Mitten announced the Oregon smuggling case is closed for local authorities. The cargo aboard the battleship Oregon is now in the office with an average appraisement of about $1 per crew member if divided.
Washington, D. C. April 16 President Roosevelt nominates General Corbin to be lieutenant general of the United States Army. The Melville Dollar arrives at Pier 6 with freight from San Francisco and the Chas Nelson at Pier 5 from the same origin. Steamer Jeffersonia due from Skagway tonight.
Five people were wounded and 65 arrested after four men attacked M. Jadowsky, Russian minister to Switzerland, during Sunday mass in Geneva. Detectives guarding the minister exchanged shots as assailants rushed the corridor. The attackers sought to remove Jadowsky, accused of spying on the revolutionary society.
Prince Ernest of Hohenlohe Landenburg is slated for the chancellorship of the German Empire. The report notes his expected appointment as chancellor designate, with anticipated leadership under Chancellor von Bülow and strong influence over foreign and domestic policy.
Washington April 14 the free alcohol bill passed the house this afternoon by a vote of seven to six. The measure provides for free admittance of denaturalized alcohol for manufacturing and for fuel purposes.
Directors of the Seattle Commercial club will meet tomorrow afternoon at 4 p.m. to determine sending a commission to the Orient to study trade relations. Telegrams will seek President Roosevelt’s appointment of members, with the commission likely to represent the United States government. The board will audit expenses from the recent California excursion, and includes several Seattle citizens.
Charion Mitchell, a longshoreman, died after a 10 foot fall from a balcony at the rear of his boarding house in Interbay. He broke his neck and died about midnight at the Emergency hospital after being removed there. Mitchell, a native of Australia, leaves a mother and two sisters.
Captain Richard Manetier White, appointed special representative of the Beattie Commercial Club and several fraternal orders, is preparing resolutions commending the federal commissioners' action. He will present the resolutions at the Commercial Club meeting on Monday, April 24.
New York April 16. The grand jury finished its inquiry into Washington Life Insurance. Its report is expected tomorrow and will include indictments for perjury and forgery.
Organized labor in Beattle protests governor Mead's refusal to remove the labor commissioner. Secretary Frank W. Cotterill of the Central Labor Council says Mead sidestepped a precedent against removing an incompetent officer upon charges. Union members say they will prosecute laundry proprietors themselves in the future.
The Supreme Court today considered delaying a hearing in the Pettibone Moyer and Haywood appeal, the Idaho miners jailed over the Steunenberg assassination, asking to advance the case for a hearing. A gasoline steamer Oakland at Pier 4 readies for the Siberian voyage with supplies for the North French Company.
A reader notes lower travel costs achieved by buying dairy essentials at Cow Butter Store on Piret Avenue and Pike Street. Butter eggs cheese and lard purchases reportedly reduced transportation needs and overall expenses for daily errands.
Reports from Madrid say serious mutinies appear on several Portuguese warships. Local censorship hides details. It is claimed mutiny has broken out on the battleship Vasco de Gama near Lisbon as crews resist conditions.
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