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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1920
Page
10
An 18 percent colored man named Spencer used an extra knife during a fight with a fellow countryman at Eighth Avenue and Welser Street on Sunday night. Patrolman Fred Nicolar arrived before bloodshed and Spencer is detained by police.
Boston Feb 16 The United States Shipping Board steamer Red Mountain is disabled and adrift about 4,000 miles east of New York. A wireless message says it will likely be towed by the steamship Elma Port. Captain Gott reports all three boiler tubes blown out. Also distress news cites the steamer Orton in trouble.
Government agents arrest Valdemar Deitsch amid liner arrival on Oscar II. U S marines execute Dragon Demon Ruin in Peking. Senator Poin dexter spoke at Maine memorials at Fort Meyer. Harria Trust profit sharing fund for employees in Chicago. Older boys conference ends two day session in Everett. Charles McVeagh Jr dies on a snowshoe trip in Dublin NH. Steamer Orton sighted off Nova Scotia. Sixteen tourists killed when bus falls into a river near San Remo Italy.
City hospital expressed considerable hope Monday for the recovery of Sam Lynch, 19, of 1402 19th Ave, who was shot in the abdomen Sunday afternoon by Ray Henagen, 29, in Henagen’s Waldorf hotel room during a friendly scuffle. Henagen is held by police pending Lynch’s condition. Lynch exonerates his friend from criminal suspicion.
Paris Feb 16 The new allied note to Germany on delivery of war guilt does not reduce the list of individuals demanded for surrender. The note says Germany is failing to execute the Versailles treaty and acknowledges Germany’s bid to try the accused herself, but the allies will not participate in any German trial.
Marion H Richardson, a widely known Seattle jeweler and authority on precious stones, died Sunday evening at Swedish hospital. Services will be held Tuesday at 11 o'clock. He valued stones for many jewelers along the coast.
Health official and Red Cross leaders offered legal aid to May Loomis superintendent of nurses at City Hospital. Prosecutor charged Loomis with appropriation of 12.50 from late patient J P Minard. Hearing set before Justice Otin Brinker on February 26.
Mayor Pitagerald to name the zoning commission later this week to report a downtown replat and apartment redistribution. If adopted by the city council, the plan could trigger radical changes in industrial activity and factory sites.
Mrs Ep Tuomas of Morrice Michigan reports relief from dizziness after taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound during and after pregnancy. She praises its effect and urges others to seek her free advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
A druggist can supply a small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm that, when applied in the nostrils, soothes inflamed mucous membranes and opens air passages instantly. The ad touts fast relief from colds and catarrh with a fragrant antiseptic cream.
Sherman Catt touts Adler-i-ka as a stomach gas and sour stomach remedy that works within twenty minutes. The note describes the product as flushing both upper and lower bowels and removing foul matter, with ingredients listed and distributed by Swift Drug Co and Bartell Drug Co.
William J. Flynn head of the U S Department of Justice Bureau of Investigation arrived in Seattle early Monday with operatives J P McCarthy and J B Dunn. He met with Frank Garbarino head of the local DOJ office to discuss the red situation. Flynn said government vigilance will be maintained and that they will pursue every red preaching anarchy and sedition. His visit length was not disclosed. he is touring western DOJ offices.
Pat F. Duffy of Tenino Washington was struck and tangled with a street car at Yesterday and Third Ave. He was pulled free and treated for a non serious shoulder and left side injury. RL H Drake assistant cashier at Citizens Bank of Georgetown crashed his car on Duwamish Ave after glare from headlights. he sustained cuts and bruises from hitting a phone pole.
Mrs. C Foes of 4045 46th Avenue 8 W was fired from her job and later reported a $20 roll hidden under her pillow vanished. She told police the money disappeared before she returned to the room that day.
London reports today that Lord Reading may take a temporary appointment as ambassador to the United States. If he prefers not to stay permanently, he might be sent to Paris later, officials noted.
Four constables were wounded when Sinn Feiners dynamited the Ballythan police barracks. A revolver battle preceded the blast. Separately a group of armed men halted an ammunition train from Dublin to Athena. one soldier was wounded but the guard repelled the attackers and the train moved on.
Inquiry into the death of Julia Buckmaster 62 of 6721 19th Ave N W Seattle after an automobile crash at Tacoma Junction ordered by Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney William D Askren. Driver William Hines held. Buckmaster’s daughter Myrtle Buckmaster injured.
Chicago door crime report: State's Attorney Hoyne will present evidence to the grand jury on Moss Enright's murder. James Vinci confesses he drove the car carrying the killer. Zada Morris, 26, held on an open charge, protests innocence and faces a separate $110 robbery claim by Henry Seaborn, a Finn logger, at Eighth Avenue and Seneca Street.
Walter Wallace of Parkland stabbed his wife during a weekend assault in Tacoma. Neighbors intervened, he was arrested and jailed to face an insanity hearing. the wife survived with neck wounds.
An advertisement touts Preexone as a cheap cure for hard and soft corns and calluses between the toes with no soreness. It markets Freezone as a new Cincinnati breakthrough, sold by druggists.
An advertisement touts 8 8 8 as a pure vegetable blood purifier that cleanses the blood to treat pimples boils and other skin disorders. It claims healthy skin results and urges readers to seek free medical advice from Swift Specific Co at 443 Swift Laboratory Atlanta Ga.
In a Pr. hotel near a movie house on 1xth Ave, Bill Hart and King Sr. clash with a drunken crowd. Sheriff closes in on a villain called Gyp the Bleed as police uncover a hidden weapon and flee to unknown locations.
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