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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1899
Page
2
The article discusses the Britain Transvaal war drift, noting Britain’s troop and munition moves and Transvaal volunteers. It dismisses U S mediation as unlikely, cites anti American sentiment among Transvaal outlanders, and blends in social commentary on public ignorance of science and health. It ends with reflections on aging and biological limits.
A fragment from a 19th or early 20th century phrenology style text links eye characteristics to temperament and intellect. It claims upturned, wide, side glances, eye width, color, lids, and lash patterns indicate dispositions such as rashness, nobility, discernment, jealousy, or weakness, with many claims stated as universal truths.
Pack of large gray wolves attacked Mrs. Allie Johnston while she drove through woods in Leaver county Oklahoma. The wolves killed her two small children and left her to suffer shock. Local authorities investigate the bizarre rural incident with no immediate explanation.
Committees of the local Y P C E prepare for a large convention at First Baptist Church and Plymouth church. About 125 members will meet tonight to finalize plans including housing for 1500 guests, train and boat logistics, decorations, and sessions led by Rev Ira B Landreth and Dr B S Tyler.
Rushville Indiana residents chase leads after George Palmer is shot in a rear post office alley. Abe Leonard and his brother George are jailed on suspicion. Anna Palmer defends her lover against the charge amid no witnesses and jealous overtones.
STOUGHTON, Wis June 20 Ow ing to the failure of one of the largest debtors of the Dane County state bank to remit a portion of his indebtedness as agreed the bank has closed its doors The assets are 225000 with liabilities of 174000
State notes show Pomeroy on the boom while Puyallup seeks a fruit cannery. Timber land sold near Graiate Falla and a horse theft case in Pomeroy dominate rural news. Mount Vernon to host July Fourth orator Vance. Snohomish town votes 4200 bond for water. Spokane grocers demand indemnity bonds. Deep Creek cheese factory sold to Hastewood Dairy.
A public notice asserts the Seattle Mining Exchange is backed by ample capital, guarantees merit stocks, and promises that funds will develop mines boosting property value. It touts a Western Washington mining boom and urges readers to invest a few dollars for a chance at future riches, with daily calls at 1280 PM.
Mines and Mining In the Northwest reports extensive activity in the region around Republic and nearby camps. Rich ore values, assays around 285.44 per ton, and new crosscuts indicate substantial potential. Surface prospecting, sinking shafts, and tunnel work continue as companies push to prove richer leads and expand output for summer plans.
Mrs Mary B Y Owen of Indianapolis writes Chief Reed asking about her son William E Owen who was to leave Index Washington about February 20 for Seattle to board a steamer for Alaska and has not been heard from. Boston's Charlies 8 Miller seeks inquiry into Oscar H Becker who left Boston in July 1897 for the Klondike and was last heard waiting at Fremont hotel with passage on the Carlyle to Dawson City. Caleb Gray of Halsey Oregon asks about Eugene Clark a typewriter repairer said to be in Seattle. Fitzgerald and Delp of Indianapolis want Jacob Wise, once mail at Box 557, located as they prosecute a pension claim. W C Rummel of Napa City asks if a Seattle firm called Ajax Freezing Machine Co exists after sending $6 for a machine and receiving no shipment.
The executive committee has authorized the chairman and secretary to secure suitable quarters for the bureau. Rooms in the 8th and I.R.K.R. building near the depot were offered but found too small. C. C. Denny provided many city maps to the secretary for free distribution.
Word arrived in Austin that two principal murder witness in San Saba County were assassinated Saturday. Names not released. The feud between factions has been active with several murders occurring recently.
A stubborn fire broke out in the Empire mine of the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company in Wilkes-Barre Pa early today, raging in the Red Ash vein about 1.5 miles from the shaft roof. A force of men fought the blaze. three thousand feet of hoist cable was moved in but no streams could reach the fire. Superintendent Richards Superintendent Morgans and Mine Inspector Williams were overcome by gas but recovered, while some rescuers also collapsed during evacuation.
In Chicago two near Washington boulevard a man unnamed attempted to gag and choke Minnie Walsh a West Eighteenth Street resident. She broke away and fled along the boulevard and Forty-eighth avenue, where a cyclist who stopped to light his lamp aided her until she calmed and explained the assault. Several riders searched for the assailant but found nothing.
The United Labor League of Philadelphia rails against government contracts for soldiers’ clothing, claiming a million dollars in work may move overseas. They say contract factories use filthy shops and urge President McKinley to halt new 31 million worth of advertised contracts, allowing 9000 local workwomen to keep work at the arsenal.
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