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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1912
Page
7
Tacoma reports D. H. Allen, a Seattle-Tacoma Power Co. lineman, severely burned when he touched a 26 000 volt line. Witnesses describe the current hot enough to burn holes in his shoes and scorch his underwear.
Mataafa once resisted treaty powers in 1808 and is reported dead today at Levuka in the Fiji Islands. The ex-sovereign, significant in Pacific history, passed away after a long career marked by conflict and diplomacy.
Portland telegram reports Marty Cortes, a Grand Trunk trainman, chloroformed by a doctor after being pinned under wreckage in a head on freight collision at Yarmouth. He died fifteen minutes later as two other trainmen perished. The account notes the crash caused by a freight train collision and lists damaged goods and partial local notices.
The Willamette river locks at Oregon City owned by the Portland Railway Light and Power Company will be sold immediately to the government for 375000. Authorization to close the deal was given by Major J P of the engineers corps who arrived from Washington to conclude negotiations. In Stockton California J W Williams, sought in Portland for the January 22 post office burglary, was arrested by a deputy US marshal.
Market list shows butter from Native Washington and fresh eastern butter. Wenatchee apples priced at 2.60 to 3.00 per unit, native apples 1.66, naval oranges 2.60 to 3.00. Meat items include No 1 hind quarter loins and full cuts.
Excavations continue in the gardens and cellars of Abdul Hamid’s former palace in Constantinople to locate the famed sword of Bulelman the Great. Tahir Pasha, once trusted with the weapon, claims it lies buried at the Yildisi kiosk but recalls no precise spot.
The department of justice stated Samuel Gompers and Frank Morrison may testify in the Indianapolis trials of the alleged dynamiters if the McNamaras are re-arrested. The move would link the AFL leadership to the case.
Gov Eugene N Foss and his executive committee weigh a state-wide ban on women in foundries and iron works after an Iron Molders union inquiry cites 760 Massachusetts women affected. The move reflects reform pressure in the nation’s leading New England state.
A fragment notes that dangerous foundry labor ruins health and shortens the lives of big strong men, highlighting unsafe conditions and the toll of heavy industrial work.
Two hundred blue jackets on the battleship Vermont at Guantanamo Bay are reported in irons after mutiny erupted when ordered to submit to typhoid inoculation. A special court martial will be ordered to try the men.
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