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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1899
Page
4
A report by F M Hitchcock notes dramatic gains in U S farm exports in 1898 with wheat flour and corn exports surging to new highs. Wheat flour value reaches 145 million dollars aided by higher prices, while corn shipments total 208 million bushels.
London May 11 It is expected that Sir Julian Pauncefote the British ambassador to the United States will be elevated to the peerage on the Queen's birthday May 24.
Travelers discovered under a Pear Creek bridge a tied sack containing a human scalp and garments from a woman and infant, plus a horse blanket and quilt. Authorities opened a homicide inquiry into the deaths of a woman and her baby.
The Steam Schooner Albion has been chartered for a reindeer expedition from San Francisco on May 11. She will sail north with the revenue cutter Bear and Rev. Sheldon Jackson will take the Albion to Petro Paulovsky for the reindeer.
The Pennsylvania Steel Company will build a major Burma Railway viaduct in India for 700000 dollars. The 2240 foot long 220 foot high structure spans the Goktelk gorge near Mandalay, opening the route for substantial railway expansion.
In Chicago on May 11 the Quinn chapel trustees debate allowing a Sunday morning solo by a theater soubrette famed for short skirts and agile heels. Pastor Dr A J Carey opposes such theater, while congregants remain divided over the performance at the South Side church.
Robby Gaylor stars in McBorley's Twina at the Amusement Bulletin hosted by the Third Avenue Theater. Local program notes highlight the performance and venue.
Mise Alexander, once a goblet in Quinn Chapel Choir, resigns to pursue acting with The Coon Town 400. She writes from Louisville to return for a solo on Sunday, but Dr. Carey questions the idea citing congregation support and declining to comment on his position.
The British sloop Alert will sail to the treaty coast of Newfoundland to enforce the herring fishery lane for France. Runsard heads to Île Pierre with French colony interests, and the cruiser Comua will visit St Johns. A French squadron is expected within a month as laborers land along the coast. Colonists await imperial government action.
In Bath Maine on May 11 a plan to form one of the greatest shipbuilding trusts is underway. Options have been secured on major yards including Cramps Philadelphia Newport News and Hatch Iron Works. The proposed corporation will be incorporated in New Jersey with headquarters likely in New York and aims to unite government vessel builders under a single giant concern.
PURCHASE YARN MILLS NEW YORK, May 11. It was authoritatively stated today that a syndicate of English capitalists is negotiating for the purchase of a number of cotton mills in and near Fall River. The Cotton Spinners Fine Yarns association is the English group, aiming to buy about ten Fall River mills. An investigation is under way through a New York accounting establishment and a deal is considered likely. A separate report says the American Thread Company may consolidate Fall River mills, with English capital behind the move, a form of the earlier English effort renewed.
A Washington to St Paul elopement ends in marriage for Catherine B. Rudd and William F. Campbell. The couple fled relatives and detectives across half the continent. Campbell is a Chippewa attorney for White Earth Indians. The bride previously left a fiancé, and a wedding followed a swift stop in St Paul with a court commissioner performing the ceremony.
The revenue launch Beout arrives in port from Port Townsend and schooner Doncaster comes in from Cape Flattery with halibut. Tugs New England and Active are at Moran's wharf and sound trials proceed. Glenogte near ready after collision repairs to sail to Tacoma then Orient. Sakura Maru waits for the Orient with 240 bales cotton and 12007 sacks flour valued at 151564. Ripjun loading at Smith Cove bound for the Orient on the 17th.
In Montpelier Indiana May 11 a report shows April oil field activity less brisk than March but with better overall results. Four wells completed in April produced five as failures with all new productive wells in the western field. Thirty one of sixty four completions are in Wells Adams and Joy counties and none were non productive. Average first days output of new wells was twenty four barrels.
The revenue commissioner told Collector Hershey not to hand over the Jacobs and Kendly factory contents to the marshal but to conduct a public auction. Jacobs factory holds 7,000,000 clears and bundled leaf tobacco appraised around $12,000. Kendly factory stock valued under $600.
Mount Vernon residents discuss the death of Mrs. Charlotte M. Barguet who died of dropsy at home without medical care. Family confirms no physician was called. relatives urge a coroner inquiry, with authorities promising to investigate and pursue responsibility if negligence is found.
Daniel Weipert a Surviving Victim of a 5 Year-Old River Bridge Collapse Is Sent to Tren ton State Insane Asylum As a Hopeless Case After Weeks of Violent Mental Illness He Suffered a Fatal Fall Into the Dead River Near Liberty Corner Years Ago Fueled by a Scarred Scalp Wound From the River Struggle The Man Later Regained Sanity But Recurring Insanity Attacks Occur Each Year Around the Time of the Original Accident
Pittsburg May 1 The retirement of Andrew Carnegie from the area business has stirred interest in the old home. Observers note he opposed trusts and his stance may influence anti trust and anti expansion forces in the coming campaign. His ties to Frick and labor relations are cited in the discussion of his public positions and possible shift away from the trust dominated field.
Sandusky Ohio May 11 Fannie Mila known as the big footed Ohio girl is dead Her real name was Mrs William Brown She had feet measuring 22 inches and died on a farm near Sandusky yesterday.
Special government officers are in Anderson Indiana to investigate the sale of American and National Tin Plate factories to the tin plate trust. The claim states plants were valued at 250000 and 75000 instead of 1500000 and 250000, with the government incurring $1000 in internal revenue.
Willlie Horne 18, son of rancher P N Hogue, vanished from Wagner Creek foothills near Ashland last Thursday. About 150 searchers failed to locate him until yesterday afternoon when his body was found about half a day's journey away on the Applegate River. Authorities believe he died two or three days earlier from exposure after wandering and growing weak minded.
Mrs. Kate Mitchee was committed to the insane asylum by Judge Benson. Judge Jacobs appointed John H. Powell to succeed J. W. Harvey, who fled. A shed near Western mills on Lake Union burned, loss about $300. cause unknown. Cedar river water project begins with crews clearing reservoir site in City park and preparing camp buildings south of the park. F. W. Cappelin, ex Minneapolis city engineer, is consulting for Pacific Bridge and Omythe Wakefield & David. The Unitarian church, without a pastor for three years, will resume active work.
A small boat found on the Delaware River near Pennegove is identified by Albert Miley as belonging to his father, James Martin, a Marcus Hook fisherman. Miley says his father left home Tuesday for Wilmington, then Newcastle. The drifting boat's discovery suggests he may have been drowned.
In JOSEPH Missouri on May 11 a thief blew open the Standard 611 company safe and got away with 209 dollars. Pieces of the burglar proof safe were scattered across the wall and ceiling of the office. The blast shattered the safe with debris blown into the woolwork as if fired from a gun and occurred as a train passed, preventing neighborhood alarm.
In Norton Kentucky on May 11 Jim Bowie Arch Combes Noah Fally and others gathered at Cox's house to drink. A card dispute led to a fight spilling into the yard with stones picks and axes. Fally was killed two others fatally injured and three seriously wounded.
W E F Gooding, longtime editor of the Minneapolis Times and recent traveling freight agent for the W C R R, shot himself in an outhouse near his lodging in Walla Walla on Sunday. He had come to take the new post but was under a physician care for health issues. He left letters for the coroner and for McCabe, the railroad’s general manager. The coroner was told in no inquest was needed due to “too much politics and bad luck.” The McCabe letter was lengthy.
Commissioner General Peck cables Maj. Fred Brackett that an additional 000 feet of Vincennes annex space has been secured for displaying American bicycles at the Paris Exposition. Peck plans to leave Paris for New York on May 15.
Kansas Grain Growers Association secretary K. J. Smiley issues a confidential crop report noting Kansas cannot exceed 25 million bushels of wheat even with favorable conditions. Acreage is estimated at 4,899,000 with 28 percent plowed up, 2 percent higher than winter kill. Remaining area is 56 percent good, 12 percent below state estimates.
Portmaster Charles A. Gordon announced that Col. Roosevelt's Rough Riders will stage their first reunion in Chicago in October. Gordon chairs the general committee of the Chicago autumnal festival and made the announcement last night.
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