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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1916
Page
8
Mothers may enter babies for The Star contest with a closing date this Thursday at 6 p m. A movie operator will film entrants on Saturday at 2 p m at Bon Marche park. The clips shown at the Clemmer next week accompany the play Where Are My Children. Four babies share 50 dollars. photographers take entries at Jacobs building.
In Tacoma three watchmen guarding strikebreakers are jailed after a waterfront riot injures union longshoreman John Mow who is fatally wounded. Other union men are shot and beaten as strikers clash with strikebreakers at Sperry flour mill yard loading the Santa Cruz.
WAUKEGAN ILL June 27 Will Orpet prepared for a grueling cross examination as Special Prosecutor Joselyn aimed to extract details of his romance with Marion Lambert and how he lured her into a supposed trouble. The defense argued Marion invited trouble and died by her own action.
New Jersey completes mobilization with all militia en route to the border. Seventh Infantry trains out of New York for Jersey City ferry to join the border mobilization. Connecticut troops finally entrain from Mantic after delay overnight.
Harry Agee a 30 year old barber colored stated he was struck by a rock and wounded on Jackson street near Sixth avenue at 12 30 yesterday morning. Officer A J Woodlock asked how it happened and Agee insisted only that a man threw a rock that hit him.
Heppner reports three inch hail as the worst storm since 1903 with thousands in crop damage. Bridges washed out and swollen streams hinder recovery after yesterday’s storm in northern Morrow County. In Washington a cyclone followed the system destroying farm houses and stripping fruit trees.
San Diego coast artillery reserves were activated at 2:45 AM for duty at Fort Rosecrans, relieving regulars to guard the southern frontier near Campo Tecate and Calexico. Regulars and reinforcements from San Francisco were assigned for similar patrols and expected in the city today.
Letter to Dr. George Warmburg of Seattle states Dr. Walter Gellhorn, a Seattle physician who joined the German army last year, died by his own action while held in an English prison camp at Edinburgh Castle. He was removed from a ship near Rotterdam and taken to Kirkwall.
Clarence Gerald, once placed in a padded cell at Providence Hospital following a nervous episode, showed improvement by Monday. He fled the hospital Saturday afternoon, then was recaptured when motorcycle officers joined the search after police were alerted.
Germany plans a major push as reinforcements rush to northern France and Flanders. British artillery pounds from Ypres to the Somme while trains move heavy guns toward the Bavarian crown prince’s front. Paris and Rome papers predict a new allied offensive across multiple fronts. In the east, Russians push into the Carpathian passes toward Transylvania.
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