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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1899
Page
2
A Southeast Seattle column muses that youth springs from the city breeze near Front Street and hints at a long future of Alaska mining and territorial growth. The piece contrasts exploration motives in Arctic regions with southern seas and forecasts intensified settlement and boundary disputes as new gold discoveries emerge.
In New York at Hall's hotel on Duane Street and Park Row, at about 1 PM, John Fahiey, ejected earlier, reentered and fired a bulldog revolver at lawyer Robert Mc Mann. The bullet pierced his coat and waistcoat, passed through five bills in his pocket book, and lodged in the sixth bill a ten, while Mc Mann collapsed but survived.
Indianapolis May 25 Holt described as the tee millionaire of the city plans a trust to govern ice operations in ten or twelve central states. The deal will absorb plants in St. Louis Chicago Milwaukee Indianapolis Cincinnati and other cities.
Holman and Robinson reference Pratt's Orchard Addition in a local land development note. The item highlights property boundaries and the official recognition of the subdivision within the city plan.
A widow, Mrs Lott Sherman of Tifton Georgia, sick with a doctor prescribing pills containing strychnine left in small amount, child aged about eighteen months found and ate all, dying within two hours despite efforts. The incident occurred several days ago in Bouth Berrien.
Ontario officials announced a strict policy preventing American lumbermen from exporting sawlogs. After an investigation into rafting logs to Michigan, authorities plan to deploy customs officers as magistrates to enforce the no export law.
The Snowdrop shaft in Republic reaches 100 feet with a vein of quartile ore valued at $22 per ton. The Yakima mine on Myers creek yields good ore. the Review tunnel shows five feet of ore and a rich one foot streak. At Ymir B C a four-claim Porcupine group displays a four-foot concentrating ledge with pyrites and galena, plus assay returns of $60 in all values, $29 gold. Additional ledges, shafts, and crosscuts reveal rich chute ore and a Spotted Horse find returning $10,314.23 per ton in gold and a separate $202.56 in rich samples. Shipments include about twelve tons daily from Ymir concentrates and 80 tons weekly of crude smelting ore. Porto Rico mine at Ymir poised to resume operations.
Rear Admiral Bradford endorses transferring the collier Alexandria to a private sea captain who would operate it at his own expense between specified ports. He estimates $12,000 to fit the ship and a 60 day timeline, with the government saving money by the arrangement.
H B Crawford former city judge of Hammond aged 75 in frail health was found guilty of embezzlement and malfeasance in office. He faces an indeterminate sentence of one to five years. The case name Pratt overard Addition is noted in special terms.
Dr Thomas O'Toole of Missouri faced multiple life insurance policies totaling about eight thousand dollars. A Texas burial was staged with a rock-filled coffin, as lodges questioned the death reported as smallpox and the wife’s delayed, quarantined travel from San Angelo. Suspicion mounted as investigators probed the charade and financial motives.
Clay Clement opens tonight at the Seattle theater in A Southern Gentleman with two crowded houses expected. The Third Avenue theater features The Three Guardsmen with strong audiences. Ringling Bros advance car arrives and posters go up citywide. Philharmonic concert at Beattie theater next Saturday promises a large ensemble. Excursion to Olympia Sunday under Good Roads club aims to boost bicycle path funds. Melbourne McDowell Blanche Walsh star in Sardou plays for three nights and a matinee. Melasco-Thall and Osborn present two weeks of major drama at Third Avenue. The Girl I Left Behind Me and Peaceful Valley also staged with multiple performances.
Miss Walth Marie Allen daughter of Mr and Mrs C Lile Allen will marry Albert Percival Mall won of Albert Hall Chicago boards trade in New York on June MM Andeapel Mine Viola Allen will be maid of honor with four others from Newfork Junetown Los Angeles and more unnamed guests.
Brest Ma The new cruiser Suffren begun on January 5 will be landed on July 25. French naval authorities claim this is the shortest time on record for completing a large warship to launching stage.
Mrs Andrew Wed of London, south of Marylvn, was fatally mangled in a runaway yesterday. She was thrown between the body of the vehicle and the wheel and became entangled in the spokes as the wheel turned. Battered road bones and splinters were scattered as bystanders tended her before help arrived.
The Star lists the encampment programme for five days starting June 20 with G A R at Hotel Dillon W R at Hotel Beatle and W Vets at Hotel Butter. Uarth details include quarters and the main committees with members led by H Hurd and Langley, plus reception decoration and finance groups named.
New York May Flower succeeds his brother Rowell P Flower as a voting trustee of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company. Other trustees named are F P Olcott of Central Trust and Anthony N Brady.
Henry J. Christiansen twice attempted suicide at Anna Smith's home after she refused marriage. He tied a rope to a transom and hanged himself, was cut down, then set a lamp alight and again tried to hang himself before being arrested.
In English Indiana on May 24 Lee Jamieson, a religious crank, struck Rev. William Duffey as he walked to the Petronta church with his wife. Duffey was knocked senseless, but Mrs. Duffey fought him off and Ed Conklin arrived to restrain Jamieson. Jamieson, once in a Tennessee hospital, was known as odd but considered harmless.
An auction style ad notes strong durable goods with a casual call to examine item references at 1022 Avenue FF. Mentions spinning and agent labeled M in a brief, light tone.
Second day of the state Red Cross convention in Tacoma reports officers elected by acclamation led by Mrs. John Lt. Allen of Seattle. New secretaries and treasurers named, committees appointed, and delegates thanked for making the gathering a success. A related Tacoma Jubilee celebrated peace ratification with speeches by Judge Hanford and others.
Shelly B Hutchinson, a San Francisco millionaire, married a Alameda girl Miss Clare Usinger. He plans to send his wife to school to study arts and sciences to fit her for a society life with a New York magnate. She is nearly 18 and previously completed one term of high school.
The era’s rail notes discuss railroads easing scalper activity through self interest, deny a giant rail trust forming post Morgans Monon stake, and outline Chicago Great Western plans to invest about 2,000,000. Upgrades include bridges, track ballast, yard expansions, signaling, and 14 new engines with 700 box cars. A New York Central fast train to Saratoga Springs is slated with four silk lined cars for morning returns.
In Alexandria Indiana Judge McClure voided last Monday's sale of the Union Steel plant after creditors remonstrated. An additional sale is ordered for June 15. The plant is appraised at 400000 dollars.
Two gypsy factions agreed to settle grievances by a knife duel in a ring near Brady Park. In the fight Ben and Wes clashed, both cut, Ben sustaining a horrific head wound and collapsing. Wes escaped.
Jefferson City Mo May 25 Superintendent of Insurance Orear has refused to renew the license of the Western Mutual Life association of Chicago Illinois The Missouri department with Michigan conducted an examination of the association in 1908 and found the results unsatisfactory Within walking distance Pratt's Orchard.
Korn Drug Co located at Fifth and Pike offers prescription services with phone contact Pike 2.
In Northville Michigan on May 25 a crowd of about two dozen residents tied Thomas Evens with a rope to a tree and forced him to admit guilt before releasing him. Evens, previously accused of misusing his two young stepdaughters, denied wrongdoing at first but later claimed to tell the truth as the mob pulled. The incident follows reports of a failed conviction and the couple’s children being placed in care and the wife at a neighbor’s.
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