Crawford Faces Federal Court Fight Over Seattle Firm
The dispute pits William R. Crawford, former president of the Seattle Renton & Southern, against bondsmen Peabody Houghtering on claims the bonds sought to freeze him out. Receivers were appointed in state court. Rudkin grants federal jurisdiction due to inter-state parties.
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William R. Crawford
Seattle, Renton & Southern
Peabody, Houghtering & Co
Rudkin
Crawford
Frater
Superior Court
Hanford
Kerr & McCord
Federal Court
Jury Discharges in Hillsville Murders Case
In Wytheville Virginia on July 15 the Ellen jury discharged in the Claude Allen case charged with complicity in the Hillsville murders. The jury stood out for first degree murder and four for acquittal. Claude Allen, son of Floyd Allen patriarch of the Allen family, was previously convicted of murder in the first degree.
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Wyjheville
Claude Allen
Hillsville
Sequitta
Floyd Allen
Allengars
Republicans Join Royalists in Braganza
Reported today that republican troops sent to Braganza to fight royalists have joined the enemy. The republican government will not shoot captured royalists and instead will send them to penal colonies in Africa.
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Lisbon
Braganza
Africa
Roosevelt declines speak at Jackson birthplace event
Theodore Roosevelt said his Chicago progressive convention prep keeps him busy and declined an invitation to speak July 20 at Jackson Michigan under the historic oaks where the Republican party was born.
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Oyster Bay
Chicago
Theodore Roosevelt
Jackson
Mich
Potlatch Safety Measures Ordered by Mayor
Mayor Cotterill directs public works to cover all holes in the strand and halt street work next week. Railings and platforms where crowds gather will be reinforced to protect visitors and participants.
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Cotterill
Board of Public Works
Strand
Prevention lecture on industrial accident prevention in Seattle
David Van Schaack Ford of the Aetna Life Insurance Company will speak at 8 20 tonight at Assembly Hall Central Building Seattle Chamber of Commerce on preventing industrial accidents. He authored Safeguards for the Prevention of Industrial Accidents and Wood working Safeguards. The talk stresses cutting deaths and injuries among workers. In Washington today the Senate confirmed Philip J Hickey Jr as Seward Alaska postmaster and Wm Marshall Bullitt as solicitor general.
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Assembly Hall
New Seattle
Washington, D. C
Senate
Philip J. Hickey Jr
Seward
Alaska
Wm. Marshall Bullitt
United States
Real American Goat Hilles Named National Chairman
A narrative portrays C D Hilles as the enduring go to political fixer and secretary to the president, tracing his rise from a juvenile reformer to assistant secretary of the treasury and then to a White House role. The piece asserts Hilles owes his ascent to patience and a knack for managing people, with a suggestion of shifting methods in politics.
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George Bruce Carter
William Loeb, Jr
Charles Norton
Charles D. Hilles
Hilles
National Committee
Taft
Hiller
the Treasury
Ohile
Boys’ Industrial School
Lancaster
Hilleo
Treasury Department
Norton
White House
Threats against heiress bride before California wedding
Miss Jennie Crocker, California's wealthiest heiress, faced anonymous threats on the eve of her marriage to Malcolm Whitman. Police guard gates to her grounds as detectives tail entry points and plainclothes officers accompany her publicly. The $60,000 wedding is scheduled tomorrow with about 200 guests at a San Mateo church.
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Hillsboro
Cal
Malcolm Whitman
Jennie Crocker
Calfornia
Crocker
San Mateo
Willam Ford Nichola
Nat Goodwin Relocates After Cat Incident at Hotel
Nat Goodwin moves to new rooms after a run in with Florence Roberts' cat. A bellboy mistakenly delivered the cat to his suite, triggering a clash that led hotel management to banish the offending feline.
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Los Angeles
Florence Roberts
Nat Goodwin
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Ghawford
U.S. Court
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Jeddy
C. D. Hilles
New York Juvenile Court
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Chas. C. Hillis
United Press
Commission Merchan
Egees
Wenatchee
Valencia
Oran Dressen
Selfley Price
Perries
Logan Perries
We At
Dreamland
Anington
Warner
Kleinert
W. S. Peck
Allwood
W. S. Peck & Co
Lonsdale
PRS
James ST
Redding
G. J. Kindstrom
Anna Rogers
Rogers
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