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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1912
Page
6
Supreme Court Justice Charles E Hughes denies a reported letter and states he will not be a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. His secretary confirms he is not a candidate under any circumstances.
A Seattle resident under the care of Dr C F Lathrop reports rapid relief from appendicitis after a twenty minute treatment. The letter praises Lathrop and notes offices at 2135 14 15 People's Bank Building Second and Pike.
In Los Angeles on May 11 authorities pursued leads in a murder case of an unknown woman found in an unoccupied suburban house. Clues include religious organization badges, an initial K on a handkerchief, and clothing labels from Marshall Field in Chicago. Patrolman Ferguson suggested a recent encounter with a woman who asked for car fare and hinted her name might appear in the papers.
Copenhagen May 11. Danish inventor Elle Hamer has found a device to detect icebergs or rocks within 1,200 yards of a steamship even in fog or darkness. It allows ships to learn exact position and size of hazards and will be shared with all transatlantic lines, not sold to a single company.
A Bremerton report says several crew members of the U S West Virginia were jailed for breaking liberty rules to stay aboard. Sentences were commuted after officials learned loyalty to the ship was the real motive behind the breaches.
Washington May 11 The house approved the legislative judicial appropriation bill as amended to abolish the commerce court retain the mint and assay offices and consolidate several national government bureaus.
The notorious Paris taxicab bandit Gouzy is implicated in 22 murders as authorities pursue him. A dramatic scene shows him bareheaded, with mouth open, amid the arrest.
St Louis May 11 Joseph Meyer 161 years old who served in the Mexican and civil wars has started a trek to a Chicago charity with five cents in his pocket He declared he would walk the distance The Galveston tidal wave killed his two sons and four daughters and his flood ruined his Hickman Kentucky chicken farm and $30000 fortune
Four celebrated alienists examine Rev. C. W. T. Richeson in jail here for the murder of his sweetheart Avis Linnell to determine his mental condition. If a majority declare him sane, Gov. Foss may seek commutation of the death sentence set for May 19.
United Press report from Philadelphia says Mothers Day will be observed in public and private schools across the United States and Canada today. Adults observing the day will wear a white carnation on Sunday.
Sherwood Gillespy, 58, Pacific coast manager for Mutual Life Insurance Co of New York, died after an appendicitis operation in St Joseph's hospital Victoria B C. He had travelled from New York with a golf party and felt no pain until illness prompted hospital treatment. After surgery he initially improved but complications caused death. He had served with Mutual Life for 25 years since moving west in 1897.
The federal grand jury will investigate Stephen A. Glass a Beattie post office clerk charged with pilfering letters believed to contain money. Glass admitted taking the letters after officers Wayland Perkins and Temple questioned him. He has worked five years and supports a wife and 17 month old child.
Madrid May 11 The cook of the steamer Ciervana seized a homing pigeon bearing exactly two leg bands with letters to a young woman known to English aristocracy, daughter of a popular peer. The letters, signed by a British naval officer, reveal affection and disappointment in the pigeon's delayed arrival.
Emilio Aguinaldo once again visits Manila after a 12 year absence from active life on his Cavite Viejo ranch. Fearing assassination by Luna relatives over General Luna’s death, he has kept near his farm and visited Manila only twice since the end of the rebellion.
Ten youths ambushed Geo. Hallas, an employee of Pete Arcadres, near Colman dock at 9 30 last night. They searched his pockets and were about to continue when a policeman appeared, causing their escape. Hallas was uninjured.
After Commerce Court in Washington on May 11 Homer Ferguson, vice president of Newport News Shipbuilding Co., urged that railroad-owned vessels be allowed to use the Panama canal to build four 34,000 ton ships for the New York Orient trade.
Frank Rowe a prominent West plane salesman was killed in Chicago after being struck by a car. He had lived in Seattle for many years and came west in 1889 with Winter and Harper. Rowe was a member of the S. A. C. and had many friends in the city.
Leonardo Ferrato and Benne detto Arnaldo were convicted in Judge Ronalds court of bilking Joseph Alassa out of 3000 in a boccie game.
A six year old girl named Rebecca Russ plunged six stories from a New York tenement on May 11 but was saved by clothes lines at each level. She escaped injury due to the stops and remained unharmed.
Deputies seek to identify the shooter who killed Clarence Merrill a rich cattleman. Merrill's body lay near Burke station after he alighted from a Pacific Electric car in Los Angeles. A sum of money remained in his pocket.
Ralph Emerson wandered from his room while asleep and climbed a fire escape to a boathouse, where he slid into the Willamette River. Neighbors watched as he woke in cold water and swam back to shore, then sought medical treatment for sleepwalking.
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