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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1913
Page
1
Louise L. Maloney, Catholic, tells Judge Tallman she will remain a wife until death, resisting a divorce from M. T. Maloney. He refused to grant a decree on desertion and incompatibility, urging separate maintenance of $75 monthly for three children. Maloney admitted affection for another woman. Maloney family resides at 1148 Franklin Ave.
The jury in the Peter Miller murder case was unable to reach a verdict and was discharged. Prosecutor Murphy announced Miller will be retried for the killing of Hugh McMahon, a bartender, on Thanksgiving night 1908. Judge Glasgow and Miller view the result as a partial victory with a jury split 11 to 1 in favor of acquittal, a lone holdout woman among the jurors.
Ex-President Taft, about one hundred pounds lighter than in the White House, visited President Wilson at the executive offices to offer warm congratulations on the administration's success. He stayed briefly and left his card, having come to lecture before the National Geographic Society.
Local single taxers plan a Spokane conference on November 19 270 to organize a state tax league. The group cites Pueblo Colo election gains and aims to extend the victory in Washington elections with special railroad rates for delegates during the National Apple show.
At the A F L convention delegates debated accepting an invitation to visit Bremerton navy yard with Col A J Blethen. Delegate Duncan MacDonald urged declining over concerns about Blethen and labor stand, while President Gompers pressed for acceptance. A count then showed 152 in favor and 32 against.
Harry Toy a Chinese man held on a white slave charge under the Mann law allegedly admitted to Assistant U S District Attorney Sullivan that associating with white convent girl Goldin Goodel was not unusual at the Cottage Inn Portland Ore He reportedly boasted of taking girls to the inn and having white girls come to the hotel Toy cannot post the $5000 bond set by U S Commissioner Totten awaiting grand jury action
A serialized excerpt from The Confessions of a Wife announces a daily chapter in next Mon day’s Star. The note promises a real and wonderful story about a woman and her intimate diary confessions.
Salem, Ore. November 14 Oswald Hansel who murdered Frank A Taylor of Victoria paid the death penalty at 8 37 am in the execution chamber after collapsing repeatedly on the way to the scaffold and attempting suicide in his cell earlier this morning with a wrist laceration from a tobacco can.
C D Melville of Edmonton and John McKenna completed a nine week journey 1300 miles by wooden canoe along swift northern rivers and 300 miles overland to study northern waters rich with white and other fish. Anthony Judson Hayward of Tacoma died at his home after an extended illness.
Reports from Cleveland dated November 14 state the toll from Sunday's and Monday's storm now reached 275 with 181 men confirmed dead across eleven wrecks near Whitefish Point and Huron Islands. About 75 bodies were recovered from Lakes Huron and Superior as more wreckage and victims are found daily. A second gale hampered rescue efforts and the wooden freighter Major sank in the renewed blow.
Registration closes tomorrow for the December 6 agricultural district school and port election. Due to an error an alternate date was published. Books will be open today and Saturday at the Prefontaine building on Yesterday Way opposite the city hall.
Taking testimony in the Widney case began before Superior Judge Dunne. A. B. Widney of Los Angeles is charged with accepting earnings from Noel Murphy, a woman of the underworld, and is defended by his elderly father, Judge Robert Widney.
Sergt Willis B Corps spent 250 dollars stolen from the Presidio quartermaster department on October 31 and later killed himself with cyanide of potassium. His body was found at the Olympic hotel after his estranged wife of a week, Mrs G Lynn, identified him. She fled to avoid implication and was found by police with her brother C Minor. Corps had formerly lived in Vancouver Washington.
Any four coupons numbered consecutively clipped from The Star and presented with 15 cents at The Seattle Star office entitles the holder to a 65 cent Pennant. Nebraska Pennants are issued and will be mailed for 5 cents extra per Pennant by mail. Send or deliver to The Seattle Star 1307 Seventh Ave near Union.
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