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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1899
Page
2
The Navy department will open bids for 24000 tons of steel armor for new monitors cruisers and battleships on the month’s end. Two major armor makers may not bid, others unlikely to be ready, with government paying 300 per ton and up to 400 per ton for the plate. Estimated profit exceeds 3.6 million dollars in under four years.
A compilation of quirky data items notes 15000 artificial limbs produced annually in England, Brazil hosts the National rolling mill employing 400 operators, and London’s water use reaches 199,656,939 gallons daily. It also mentions Ireland’s public dissection critique and Korea’s mountainous peninsula.
The Peace Jubilee enters its second day with ideal weather as flower and civic organizations prepare to parade. The President and his cabinet will review the processions in the court of honor.
In Hazleton Pennsylvania Michael Novack and Michael Lapschack of Stockton were attacked at a celebration by Michael George and John Barton last evening. Novack sustained a fatal head injury and will not survive. Lapschack lost a portion of his ear, and one assailant has been arrested while the other two escaped.
New York May 24 promoters of the corset trust report the consolidation of the business is nearly finished with options on a majority of plants secured. Capitalization will exceed 60,000,000 though an exact figure is not fixed, with tentative terms noted in Pratt's Orchard Addition.
A Seattle meeting organized The Fort een Relief Corps as an auxiliary to the Washington Volunteers in the Philippines. Initiation fees raised 25 cents with $7.75 collected to secure a meeting hall. Officers include Mrs F W Daniel as captain and Mrs C D Stam as lieutenant. About 100 members expected. next meeting planned at Mrs Daniel's home.
Tacoma May m In the not distant future another steamer will be put on the Tacoma Seattle run to alternate with the Flyer. The two boats will share the run, doubling service and keeping pace with growth in both cities. Captain A B Beatt, president of the Columbia River Puget Sound Navigation Company, says a new steamer is being considered though time and details are not set. The new boat would be cheaper to operate than the Flyer and faster, with a European style dining room and 10 cent lunches. Repairs on the Flyer will cost over 14000 when she resumes service late next week, heading to Seattle for furniture and final touches.
Texarkana Arkansas May 4 Colonel Thos Parish of Nashville Oregon passed through the city en route to Howard county Arkansas gold mines. He carried mining apparatus and two experts. Howard county's ore yields claim 109 dollars per ton with new discoveries of lead and iron nearby increasing the district's allure and drawing prospectors.
Former Mayor J. D. Clark and Palmyra Telephone Exchange president Thomas J. Sutter clashed over a bank stock sale on Maine Street. A fight ensued and Sutter stabbed Clark twice in the left neck with a small steel screwdriver.
Four burglars broke into Orson Moffatt's Ulsterville home in Middletown New Jersey last night bound gagged and tortured him until he revealed the location of two hundred dollars. Bloodhounds are being used to trace the thieves. Korn Drag Co Fifth and Pike Prescription specialist bone Viko is noted in an odd closing fragment.
Armour & Co of Chicago is negotiating to buy a 22.5 acre waterfront lot just above the Newport News Abattoir site, with plans for a rival plant to export beef to Central and South America and the West Indies. The deal, viewed as near completion, coincides with revived talk of Newport News as a Baltimore & Ohio railroad terminal, aiding the abattoir project and beef exports.
In Paris Texas a federal court jury after three days returned a verdict of manslaughter for Isaac Burrus and Charles Faudry, and acquitted Leflse Byington and John Oibaon. All four had been indicted for the four year old murder near Colgate I T. Bohannon was once a United States Deputy Marshal. Faudry is white while the others are Choctaw Indians.
In El Paso Texas May M, Antonio Floreng was found guilty of murdering Ramona Viscayna a teen girl who refused his marriage proposal. A jury fixed the punishment at hanging with two quarantine guards nearby as witnesses to the fatal stabbing weeks earlier.
Negotiations to resume between William Atkins manager of Pottsville Iron and Steel and New York capitalists aim to restart the extensive plant. The mill, once employing over a thousand, has been shut down for two years as local efforts from the Pottsville Board of Trade push for operation.
Preparations underway by the International Yachting Association of Puget Sound for the annual regatta to be held this year under Elliott Bay Yacht Club management. Races on July 4 and 6 feature yachts from Tacoma Port Townsend Anacortes Whatcom and Victoria with international trophies and 200 in prizes from the Elliott Bay Yacht Club.
An earthquake shock was reported in Hartford Connecticut around 15 o clock last evening. The tremor rattled crockery and bric a brac in many homes and was felt in Saybrook Middletown East Hampton New Britain Cobalt Colchester Cromwell Moodus and other river towns with reports of swaying lamps and a distant explosion.
Holman and Robinson offer lots in Pratt's Orchard Addition on special terms for those seeking homes. Located at 12 Columbia Street, the development centers on large bearing fruit trees and ready-to-build sites in a family friendly neighborhood.
Treasury ruling on counterfeit stamp seizures highlights that buyers who paid before seizure get cigars released after repaying stamp costs, while credit purchasers face collection of the debt and stamp deductions. The piece ends with a grim moral about buying on credit.
The USDA Weather Bureau report covers the week ending May 22 1899 noting prevailing cold rains in the west and cold winds with frosts in the east. Growth was slow except for grass and weeds with later milder days improving vegetation. Wheat remained steady, oats looked sickly on wet ground, potatoes were frosted in the east but fared better on western high lands, and overall fruit outlook was uneven.
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