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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1902
Page
4
A second story wall at a Belfast spinning mill collapsed trapping many workers, mostly women. Rescue teams found five dead and ten seriously injured, with nine still buried. Later reports say all dead and injured were recovered and eight hundred workers were present at the time.
Governor Dockery received a letter demanding the death sentence for J. I. Craft be commuted to life. Craft, a convict, was to be hanged tomorrow for a prior offense after a pardon, with secret service on the case and suspicion falling on an ex convict named Howard as a possible instigator.
John Fitzpatrick once valued at over $15,000 died of starvation in Croton Falls New York. His hidden fortune was found later in an old feather bag bound with chains beneath his bed in Massachusetts. Two sisters will share the money.
H B Smith of Moorefield West Virginia and Mary Floyd of Cumberland Maryland eloped and married by Rev J M Moore on the Potomac bridge between Maryland and West Virginia because they had only a Maryland license. The weather was stormy and the ceremony hurried as a train was due.
Claude Edwarde won a prize in a local Kokomo social voting contest to crown the ugliest man. He refused to electioneer for votes but endorsed others. after the tally a defeated candidate assaulted him with a glass cup, triggering a scuffle, several faintings, and arrests as the event ended abruptly at Ladies Furs shopfront repairs and making.
The Grand hosts a lavish Quo Vadis production praised for scenery costumes and flawless casting led by Adolph Jackson Charles Button and Thomas M Hunter. The Manhattan Stock Company and Cari Hereh Company also stage strong supports with Ralph Stuart Rowan and Frank Readick delivering notable performances. Curtain calls are frequent and audiences applaud widely.
The Grand hosts the Pollard Australian Juvenile Opera Company on Thursday with The Geisha, followed by A Gaiety Girl and In Town. Critics note strong acting but a routine melodrama level compared with grand productions, and the show runs all week with a Saturday matinee.
In New York the coroner's inquest heard witnesses Robert Myrtle and Edmund Tyler. Myrtle said he heard a signal torpedo after the danger signal sounded. Tyler testified signals were set and the torpedo exploded, but factors blamed missteps on the morning of the collision.
Victoria, January reports the H M S Phaeton left Requimait this morning for a two hour survey of her rebuilt machinery. On return she will continue joint search for H M S Coné overdue at Honolulu. She expects noon return and plans another outing at 6 tonight.
National meeting of the United Mine Workers of America opens in Indianapolis with about 1000 delegates. Opening routines fill the first session as committees are named. Real work begins tomorrow with a likely 10 day session focusing on wage increases amid rising coal prices.
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