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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1905
Page
3
The Presbyterian general assembly will convene in Winona Lake Indiana on May 3 and remain in session for several days. The meeting will be held in the assembly room of a spacious church auditorium.
The Third Avenue house presents The Two Orphans praised as a grand, well acted production with 21 speaking parts and handsome settings. Critics call it the best attraction of the season and recommend seeing the show as the bill changes Monday night at the Star.
A Sunday night crowd at the Grand Opera house yawned through Herbert Bashford’s alleged comedy Hon. John North and a weak company. The Ferris company ends its Seattle run with Friends praised for enduring appeal as The Two Orphans plays appear at Third Avenue theater with Russell & Drew.
May 1 beat sees all journeymen and helpers at Master Plumbers Association shops on strike. Agreement with union to discharge helpers on strike day and raise journeyman wages to 5.50 starting January 1 1966, conditioned on union supplying women workers. Non association shops threaten injunctions over alleged plan to reduce shops.
May 1 reports show Patterson Coal drivers strike with gunfire between union and non union workers in Chicago. A colored non union driver, Louis Street, shot into a crowd wounding John Neubauer while a planned 1600 non union wagon drivers armed with rifles looms. Tacoma and Bellingham also see brewery strikes as plant managers anticipate quick replacements. Secretary Loeb states no intervention from the president in Chicago matters.
In Olympia workers at the Brewing Company may strike tomorrow if a labor action is authorized. The move could affect production and local supply chains pending official notice and a vote by employees.
President Schmidt says the firm can run with a non union crew though some men may seek retention. The union met this morning in anticipation of a strike affecting about 100 workers. The brewery was cloned today due to the May Day holiday.
Salt Lake City report says Captain Raibourne of the Twenty-month Infantry killed himself at Fort Douglas after an apparent murder assault by Lieutenant William H. Polmt. Barbourne then shot Point, and Balbourne, hearing the shooting, turned the pistol on himself, dying from a head wound.
The bank clearings for April 1906 total $21,130,001.71, up $5,000,000 from April 1905. City reports call this one of the most wonderful gains. Another April figure shows $16,073,028.99 for April 1904.
Business Agent Gill of the Sailors' union states the port jurisdiction dispute with the Longshoremen's union cannot be settled until the longshoremen capitulate. He asserts no side is advancing and the strike remains quiet as of Monday morning.
Telegraphed briefs report the Players' Club held services in memory of Joseph Jefferson at the Church of Trenefiguration known as The Little Church Around the Corner Reverend George C Houghton officiated Many actors and actresses attended in New York May 1 Samuel Greason granted a new trial in a murder case in Reading May 1 and exonerated from involvement Ed and Kate Edwards noted In Washington D C May 1 Bowen cabled the State Department that he would leave for Washington today from Caracas
An old small ad touts fresh drugs and a large assortment including Newbro's Herpicide at 1.00 or 0.75, Cream Tartar, Lyon's Tooth Powder, and a $2.00 handbag. It markets beauty and household items with prices and daily patronage implied.
Labor union official J W Akers failed to block 610 Japanese workers from leaving the Olympia at Emithacove. They were bound for Great Northern railroad jobs via Hawaii and had been employed on plantations. Akers claimed alien contract labor law was violated though officials said workers came from Hawaii. The Olympia arrived Sunday night, landing occurred Monday morning. A train waited to haul workers to sections of the railroad. In Washington DC, the Supreme Court denied John A Henson’s bid for a rehearing in his case on defrauding the government in Pacific coast land deals.
The Minnesota of the Great Northern line departed for the Orient carrying 97 locomotives for the Japanese Central Railway. Captain James Dreary, second officer, fractured a leg and was hospitalized after a fall from a Ballard car at Smith Cove. Company officials have yet to announce a new senior officer. Later reports describe clashes between troops and protesters with numerous casualties and ongoing violence.
J H Benkley of Garden Station died Monday morning after a long illness at age 60. He leaves a wife and four children.
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