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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1910
Page
3
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Workers describe a deadly wreck on February 12 where a Key Route steamship car collided near the Oakland Pier. Seamen, passengers, and locals were injured. several were severely mangled. Victims include Bennett, John S and James Levy among others taken to Merritt hospital. The incident disrupted service on the Berkeley to Oakland route.
Fragmentary bulletin describes insanity claims regarding defendants in a case tied to a late Senator W. The report notes a verdict and mentions a memorial banquet and police chief, with references to a manslaughter case and a prolonged investigation spanning over ten days.
Service changes reported on Fourth and Fifth avenues stop the streetcar line between Pike Jetteraont and Wasaleo. Cars were rerouted over alternate tracks as the Beattie Renton & Way line ceases operation. The exact timing and locations were outlined in a late-night notice.
The fragment references an event at the Grand Canyon involving Restine, United Prem, and Arizona, mentioning a party of friends and a private gathering. The readable bits point to a travel or expedition context with a February date and President-related wording.
Fred Schaefer and A. D. Condo leave home for Washington to capture its character through pen and pencil. They seek anything humorous, not tourists or muckrakers, and promise fresh, unexpected impressions. The Star will publish their reactions, noting the humor in official life and Washington society.
United Press reports at Sandy Hook life savers used breeches buoy to rescue seven teenage crewmen from two wrecked fishing schooners. The Franklin D Nelson sank after all aboard were saved. Libby rode out the surf with all hands saved and potential salvage seen.
Two construction workers on a road project between Clipper Gap and Colfax died when timbers toppled from a freight car and buried them. The victims were H Jones and Charles Stull. one man was fatally injured, the other died on the scene. The incident occurred late yesterday near tanneel.
Stull died shortly after arrival at a local hospital. Mike Fleming may die from the injuries he received. Half a dozen other men were seriously hurt.
Bervian and Bravonian club presents a play The War at Kestove Field at the Maccabees temple corner 35th Ave and BF Harrington St. Rev Marvin Dean leaves for San Jose to take a new church post.
Mrs. L. Clough offers a $10 reward for her near-Scotch collie Commodore who vanished near the Seattle waterfront. She suspects the dog ran to the docks or toward the sea, and told Patrolman Waltrip she has alerted an expressman. The search drew boxed humor from dockside bystanders and the YWCA crowd.
Bronislaw Niemannezek of New York, aged 10, was jailed as the youngest debtor in bankruptcy history after being unable to pay a $96.35 judgment for injuring a boy with a bat. The court awarded $75 and costs. bankruptcy proceedings were cited as the release mechanism. Assets listed totaled 76 cents across shoes, suit, stockings, cap.
An advertisement claims Pepe's Diuretic cures backache, kidney and bladder symptoms within days. It asserts removal of rheumatic pains, headaches, sleeplessness and urinary issues, urging a fifty cent treatment from any drugstore and promising worldwide availability through a physician or pharmacy.
Dr. Jean M. Charcot led twenty men toward the South Pole and reached latitude 70 degrees south, 120 degrees west, with much of the winter in Peterman's Land spent on sickness. He completed the French map to Advinide land despite scurvy and fatigue, praising the expedition as satisfactory though Pole aim not achieved.
Charles Pavin, a Che Lan rancher visiting his wife who runs a Smiths Cove hotel, was found dead in his room at the N and G Landing. He had been drinking and a recent quarrel with his wife suggests possible premeditated intent, though most believe death resulted from a gas jet left on by accident.
The preliminary hearing for Patrolman Tom Walsh on manslaughter charges in the Dec 20 shooting of Antonio Partopilo ended with Walsh bound over to the superior court in $1,500 bond. Walsh’s defense offered no challenge after the state rested, and he plans to plead not guilty.
Beattle had one good figgerer for the city, B Baxley, secretary of public works. The Star reported about "The Pussled Clerk" who blotted a long division so only a few figures remained. Bagley completed the missing figures, with correct answer neatly penciled and delivered to The Star office.
Lieut FE H Shackleton holder of the Furthest South record will sail for the United States March 19. After a lecture tour he plans an extended hunting trip in Northern Alaska. Judge H L Caples pioneer resident and seven session member of the territorial legislature is dead aged 84.
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