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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1910
Page
9
Victor Murdock electrified the Alhambra audience shouting at Cannon and praising Roosevelt's insurgency as Poindexter campaign leaders packed the theatre. The rally followed a Woodland Park speech and a dinner with Poindexter managers before Murdock’s Tacoma and Chehalis itinerary.
United Press reports the navy plans a secrecy drenched sham battle between an airship and the battleship Tallahassee. Volunteers will switch roles between airship crew and sailors as they test bomb and shell defenses on a towed replica hull.
Princess Anita daughter of Chief Melik of the Aleutian islands is under arrest in Pittsburg charged with shoplifting after escaping Chemawa school with Hilda Carroll and joining a traveling carnival. They allegedly took six shirt waists identified by the store manager.
A first person account chronicles 10 hour six day work weeks in a city laundry. It shows young girls 14 to 16 sorting mangled clothes next to steam, with stories of illness, hardship, and bleak futures for mothers and their children.
London August 25. Defense solicitor Arthur Newton says the Crippen trial will be fought on legal technicalities not emotion. Fragments of a body were found in Crippen’s Hilldrop Crescent cellar and experts doubt sex or origin can be determined. Prosecution expected to hinge on jewelry Crippen pawned after wife’s disappearance.
An untitled early 20th century wreck reports 20 killed when Engine No 14 crashed into a sleeping car train near Flint. Engineer Spencer survived while his fireman was missing and a rumor placed 156 dead. Rescue efforts and an official investigation followed as officials disputed warning signals and lighted tail lamps.
Fred Morris charged with operating an opium den in a lodging house on Pike Street was arraigned and fined $100. Hazel Richard a waitress and Harry Mitchell and Harry Williams bartenders arrested with him were released after the raid found the outfit.
Reports from multiple districts describe heavy losses with 30 dead at Grand Forks, 12 at Avery, 20 on Setzer Creek, 1 on Boulder Creek, 6 on Placer Creek near Wallace, 13 on Hig Creek, 2 at Pine Creek, and 2 at Rock Creek. Rescue efforts head toward St Joe headwaters as fire scene stabilizes with rain and snow.
Wendling a small town near Eugene Oregon was burned to ashes last night only three houses and a store survived. The blaze started from slashings and spread rapidly sending women and children to Marcola and later toward Eugene. Booth Kelly mill employees saved the big sawmill while several mountain fires threaten homesteads and cut Wendling’s wire communication.
Chief of Police Wappenstein refused to relieve the ten special patrolmen on duty in the Intertay and Fort Lawton district despite Captain Doome’s request. The patrols began after the June 5 assault of Private Nathaniel Bledser on Mrs. J. W. Redding at Lawton Park.
Frederick W. Becker was killed and his wife and her father W D Fowler were wounded in a desperate rifle duel in a shack near Greenfield California. N Tognazzini, other resident, was arrested charged with murder after the night clash that left Mrs Becker and Tognazzini asleep at the scene.
A daylight burglary at the home of GK Hoffman yesterday left the thief with clothing items and four wig cheater rifles. The intruder gained entry through the front door and fled with several garments and other articles.
Old fishermen near Fort Worden report salmon dying by the thousands during firing practice over the sound. Dead fish seen in large numbers in the waters around the sound.
A special Suffrage Club meeting will be held at the Lodge home of Mia on Ra venna park opposite entrance next Friday August 2 at 2 30 p m W W Beek will give an address explaining why his world tour made him a suffragist.
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