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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1901
Page
4
Despite martial law in Barcelona, riot-related clashes persist as authorities deploy troops and escalate orders. Authorities have ordered tighter controls while tram warfare continues, with further measures planned to restore order.
A heated dispute in Topeka centers on which candidate, Albert or Mayor Hughes, will receive the President when he arrives. Proceedings are expected to conclude with McKinley’s visit and determine who will ride with the chief executive in the parade.
A committee outlined a plan to place all utility wires underground by district. It would set time limits and apply regardless of street paving, with districts covering areas from Third to First avenues and Lake Union to Broadway. Representatives of companies were to meet the committee soon to discuss logistics.
Lyceum stock company elevates Belmacco and De Mille with strong society drama The Wife satirizes fashionable New York humorfully. Shamus O'Brien replaces The Shaughraun at Third Avenue theater tonight and runs the week Chas Erin Verner shines with growing popularity at the venue Portland and Seattle baseball teams visit Manager Russell The eee No 106% Second avenue shows moving pictures to crowded audiences.
City Clerk George K. Coryell received the first street number 5712 Agard Place under the new ordinance naming streets and fixing house numbers. Applications for numbers are expected to follow quickly.
In Chicago on a May day the Chicago Theological Seminary board by majority vote accepted the resignation of Dr. George H Gilbert professor of New Testament Literature amid charges that his books voiced heretical teachings.
The Duke of York opened the new Australian Parliament in Melbourne on May 9 in a ceremony described as brilliant with about twelve thousand attendees present.
A late Port Townsend report mixed up a quarantined vessel. It claimed the City of Seattle was quarantined, but the ship was the Senator. The City of Seattle had arrived a day earlier and carried the first news of the contagion aboard the Senator.
Chris Evans a longtime train robber sentenced in 1897 to life imprisonment announces plans to apply for parole under a recent amendment allowing life-term prisoners to seek parole after seven years. He lost an eye and an arm in an escape attempt and remains 60, with his wife in Visalia supporting the family.
An Erie detective has bought two bloodhounds to train on the tracks between New York and nearby divisions. The railroad plans to deploy the dogs to deter tramp activity, a long time problem for the Erie line in the East. Officials welcomed the idea as a practical measure to curb vagrants along the route.
The Evil Eye closes its engagement and reopens tonight at Seattle's Grand Opera House with The Wife playing tonight and The Sporting Duchess taking its place for a Saturday matinee. Clyde Fitch is highlighted as a leading American playwright with Nathan Hale praised for its charm and strong cast led by Howard Kyle.
Naomi Burns three years old drank carbolic acid. Doctors tried a stomach pump without success. Dr Walter Griess inserted a tube and filled the stomach with olive oil then sucked out the mixture. His mouth burned by the acid but the child eyes show hope of recovery.
A lightning bolt at the Ozark apartment building on Thirty-fifth Street and Wabash Avenue shocked 22 residents, with three seriously affected. Panic spread through 230 occupants as stairs and exits were used, an elevator operator was knocked unconscious, and the fire caused by the strike was quickly quelled.
An ominous warning signed by U S Judge John R Thomas was issued in the northern district and given to Marshal Bennett for service. The complaint by Hon James Hix acting chairman of the Dawes commission targets Creek fullbloods who refuse enrollment.
Portland overwhelmed Seattle 9 to 2 as fans enjoyed free admission for women. Dugdale rallied the Portland lineup with brisk hitting and sharp fielding while Seattle’s Salisbury struggled on the mound. Rand and Frary produced late two runs as Seattle finally scored, but Portland held on with strong defense and a late Portland rally.
The corporations committee reviewed Chas. B. Carpenter’s 0 year franchise for building a crematory and garbage collection. The ordinance divides the city into four districts with varying collection frequencies and seeks vehicle standards, but details remain disputed and the measure was laid over.
Prof Crook of Northwestern argues a point echoing a recent claim while his rival Prof Frederick Blarr of the University of Chicago counters. Blarr is noted as never having smoked or chewed any substances.
Students at Midway University recount Prof Starr’s blunt lectures and aphorisms on women tobacco and alcohol claiming his rhetoric pushed boundaries. He joked about moral failure tied to women and warned against indulgence while recalling a near fatal incident with a Mexican belle.
In Salt Lake today probate court records the will of George Q Cannon, a leader in the Mormon church. The estate is valued at 1,000,000 dollars, with four surviving children and four former wives listed as heirs in the gift of the will.
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