21 May 1902
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1902
Page
1
Reports from Martinique describe a violent eruption on May 20 and continuing explosions. Refugees flee as lava flows threaten Fort De France and the Diamond Rock area. Death toll reaches about two thousand as survivors seek shelter aboard ships and in harbors.
Reports from Goliad Texas tally 125 fatalities from Saturday's cyclone. Nine more dead among the injured, and three additional corpses were found today, raising the confirmed death count as search continues.
Managers Smith of the Jessie Shirley company and Russell of the Third Avenue theater extend invitations to the telephone girls to attend the play tomorrow evening. About one hundred fifty girls have accepted the invitation to be present.
Mine disaster at Fraterville Mine in Coal Creek Tennessee reports 159 bodies recovered by noon and total fatalities estimated at 237 persons.
A sympathetic walkout by 2000 workers in ND Oregon ends weeks of brewing discontent. Trades unions and Amal gamated Woodworkers demand a nine-hour day, prompting an order halting carpenters plumbers plasterers painters and many trades. Planing mill owners resist and foresee extended conflict with potential non union labor filling mills.
The Senate Philip Committee in Washington hears Richard O'Brien claim dum-dum bullets exist in test reguirements. Dietrich and Patterson clash amid shouting as the chair restrains tempers, while Crozier and others defend war conduct in the Philippines.
Thomas McGuire was seriously injured at Valentine station on the Renton car line at 12 30 this afternoon while alighting from a moving car. He was found unconscious and taken to Beattie General Hospital after being brought to the Seattle terminus. He lives at 1801 Twenty first avenue and is under care of Dr.
The chamber of commerce votes to stop involvement in city gambling matters after a special committee reports the duty done. The group urges deferring to legal authorities and curses mayor and council for disrespectful treatment while condemning municipal actions.
The Seattle chamber of commerce endorses the Great Northern tunnel and union depot plans. Resolutions urge city leaders to grant reasonable concessions to speed completion and position Seattle as a link between the United States and the Orient.
The Portland chamber of commerce proposes a study on base fare effects for flour and local business. A mercantile affairs committee is tasked with action and state affairs panel to aid in funding and a governor Rogers memorial, while Alaska roads needs prompt review by W. D. Wood. Three new members join: T. R. Ellis L. D. McCutcheon and R. B. Spencer.
The Ballard council passed an ordinance for a June 7 special election to decide on funding and plans for a new lighting plant featuring two 250 horsepower boilers, an 80 by 60 foot steel stack, a 26 by 48 inch Corliss engine, and a DC generator. The election also considers a $25,000 project cost with $10,000 water system bond.
The fine new schooner FH. K. Hall owned by Mali brothers of Port Blakeley will launch Saturday May 24 at 6:80 p m. It is expected many Seattleites will attend the ceremony.
Hon Rasmus B Anderson, famed as Father of Norwegian literature in America, arrives in Beattie with Dr A C Amundson and will lecture at Ranehall on The Inheritance From Our Forefathers. A Norse Club banquet follows at Lincoln. He later speaks at Wilson Business College on The Discovery of America by the Norsemen.
Washington State Dental Society holds its fifteenth annual meeting May 22 in Tacoma. Dentists from the coast attend. Dr. C N Thompson of Chicago will give clinics. Notable speakers include Dr J W Savinge on Facial Neuralgia and Dr W A Fishburn on Facial Pain.
In Salt Lake City a mayoral veto blocked a franchise for the California line extension over the Rio Grande Western route. Survey crews on the San Pedro road were to disband except one locating on the California line, with construction now ready to begin. A restraining injunction barred the Oregon Short Line from laying tracks for the California extension on Fourth Street West.
Plans drawn for a $5,000 residence at Seventeenth Avenue and Columbia Street by HM Leghorn. Magrath & Duhamel begin a $15,000 lighthouse and coal bunkers project for Seattle Electric Co between Utah and Massachusetts streets with a spur to the bunkers from the Seattle Tacoma Interurban railway on T Avenue South. Bunkers will load coal ferried from Renton mines to street cars for the new Post Street powerhouse, with completion in about 20 days. Nearby, James H. Perkins of California will clear land for two brick buildings. Rebb & Mendell have let Weeck & Behrens build a $5,000 residence at Sixteenth Avenue and John Streets for Wil H Morris, and will also construct L B Casady’s $6,500 residence in Washington Park.
All Quiet in Wilkes Barre as President Mitchell denies knowledge of any plan to end the anthracite strike. No colliery is operating and miners await developments. Three executive committees met to study a proposal to call out engineers, firemen and pumpmen, a move viewed as an extreme step by officials.
Ellensburg officials chose Wm. Herald to fill the unexpired term after Marshal Freyberger resigned. James Million and Joseph Auch amboit were tried on larceny charges before Judge Vne Ast, and bound over to the superior court.
The report notes today’s balances totaling $512,820.50 and $126,856 in Washington. A bill by Senator Foster for relief of Henry Bases, then United States shipping commissioner at Port Town Send, seeks $1,260 appropriated and was reported to the Senate. In Chicago on May 21 wheat prices were noted.
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