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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1899
Page
2
The Seattle Star reports the Alaska boundary dispute nearing a settlement with a likely modus vivendi to be signed in Washington within days. The plan would retain U S sovereignty while granting Canadian warehouses transit access to sea, balancing competing claims.
Butte Montana awoke to a city on a toboggan slide with cracks running through the county courthouse and Senator W A Clarke's residence. Geologists say a rock earth seam is causing a sliding fracture along the hillside affecting West Granite Street and surrounding blocks.
Yon Yonson attracted crowded houses at the Third Avenue theater last night with a strong company led by Donalson as the Swade man. The Modjeska repertoire promises a rich season including Much Ado About Nothing, Mary Stuart and Marie Antoinette with Jon Kellerd and Madam Modjeska. Baker and Parker showcase opera potential and Gorton's Minstrel troupe performs Wednesday and Thursday with songs, stories, and timely satire.
A vivid description notes athletic and acrobatic specialties with dancing by white and colored folks, executed in a manner eminently pleasing to spectators.
The steamer City of Beattie waited in Lynn canal last night carrying ten passengers including Mrs A G Hreidenstein, Wm Hollingsworth, Mrs E J Mig er and son, Mrs F W Mays, Mrs George Lyons, Mrs H E Leon, Charles H Hunt, Miss Nellie Cox, A Broom, and others.
In Fond du Lac Wisconsin Mrs Johanna Sell a long time sufferer from a stomach ailment vomited a live three and a half ounce frog during a paroxysm. Doctors could not diagnose the case and note the creature appeared to move in her stomach while she described the sensation as an animate object. The frog was reportedly blind.
Reader notes urge careful study of the First Seattle Exposition copy, inviting attention to details amid fair page entries and event listings. The brief emphasizes thorough reading of the provided expo material.
The Tirown ticket led by John Young Brown gains momentum in Louisville with strong organization. observers predict it could draw a large vote and threaten the Goebel faction. The effort is described as one of the strongest and most respected campaigns in the state.
Bremen October 17 A rise in rye flour prices pushes imperial military officials to test a bread mix using one third wheat flour for soldiers. The commissary department will trial the plan in Saxony where current prices exceed those of wheat.
Hamm and Schmits of the Muller hotel now own the entire frontage on James street from Third to Fourth avenues after buying the Scurry property for forty thousand dollars. The site will be used for hotel purposes.
A steamer overturned while towed by a tug near the Imperial mine, releasing crew to a life raft. Fireman Harry Bilis drowned as the vessel capsized. other crew members were rescued after drifting until picked up by nearby vessels or shore escort.
At Enghien les Bains nine miles from Paris a bull leaped over the barrier during a bullfight today. The panic sent spectators fleeing with several women fainting and being trampled. The bull then ran into the street where it was shot and killed by cendarmes.
The council debated buying Woodland Park amid party lines and opposition. Members Cantleman Crawford Crichton Gill Hill McArdie Muldoon Navin and Taylor voted in favor. Diller and Rinehart opposed. The bill advanced on final passage after suspending the rules.
The Democratic County Central committees meet tomorrow to discuss local party policy and the push for early action and Democratic clubs. Building permits are issued to G. W. Dickenson for a two story dwelling at 826 82 Broadway costing 9200 PH, Whegan for a one story frame residence in Denny Hoyt's addition costing 100, Thomas M. Green for repairs at 345 Fourth Avenue costing 200.
A Chicago central passenger meeting moved toward charging for bicycles and excess baggage. The English course ruling that a bicycle is not luggage sets a path for future charges. The New York fall meeting of the American Railway association covered signals, the metric system, and box car dimensions. Halstern lines hint at rate increases for lumber and coal affecting central ventures and the Atlantic seabord, with related notes on Annie Hassell Diseases of women.
Fire erupted at 6 o clock in Shepherd destroying about half of the town's business district. Sixteen business houses were burned after a lamp explosion at Marks and Franks. Alma and Ithaca departments arrived too late to help.
Listing of deeds recorded yesterday including transfers in Seattle and Snohomish County. Notable transactions cover Nelson to Nelson, Blair to Anderson, Nottingham to Tvete, Collings to Northern Counties Inv Trust, Pryan to Toole, Whitelaw to Grey, and various/minor owners with items in Madison Street and University Heights areas. Prices range from 20 to 2900 dollars with multiple October 1890s dates.
A furniture department clerk asks what the customer wants and the floor walker speculates she wishes to view some of the store's entertainment bureaus, hinting at a misunderstanding of a catalog card.
Captain J. H. Coghlan of the Puget Sound naval station returned with Mr Coghlan from the fleet yesterday evening and proceeded to Bremerton. Coghlan, a committee member to receive Admiral Dewey, is noted as a distinguished Manila Bay officer.
F Lewis Clark of Clark & Sweeney in Tacoma with attorney Hl M Hoyt explored the Beattie Tacoma Electric railway project. A Seattle visit is planned as they review the 83 mile line. cost estimates exceed 1 million dollars with bonds of at least 750 thousand floated in New York and Boston.
The Beattie Steamship Co. sends the Townsend from San Francisco to St. George Island to rescue the Laurada and her cargo. Captain White, Purser Corey, two engineers and four firemen depart for Frisco to join the effort, with a Thursday evening departure anticipated. Laurada valued at about $60,000 versus a $20,000 insured loss.
One man died and four persons were injured when a Trumbull electric line trolley carrying twenty three passengers was struck by a Baltimore & Ohio train near Warren Ohio last night. Local authorities investigated the collision and the victims were identified as passengers aboard the trolley.
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