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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1904
Page
8
Escaped five men who allegedly held up a Rock Island train near Letts broke through a cordon of deputy sheriffs detectives and farmers. No trace of the fugitives was found.
Captain William T. Burwell former commandant at Puget Sound Navy Yard traveled through Seattle bound for Washington with his family. They had just returned from the Orient where he had been detached from the Oregon at the Asiatic station. His family remained in Seattle staying at the Summit while he continued on to receive orders.
Mrs W W Jones of Interbay reported to police this morning that a small gray purse containing six dollars in change a sixty dollar Great Northern pay check two unset diamonds valued at one hundred dollars and papers was stolen. She could not determine how the theft occurred.
Two complaints filed in Prosecuting Attorney Beott's office accuse Nelson Grimony of the Grimaley Sherwood Company at 219 Second Avenue South of selling adulterated foods. The claims, by BB A McDonald a state food commissioner, allege imitations passed as real items a quince jelly and an imitation olive oil. The firm says the goods were purchased in the east and handled in the usual course. Grimaley agrees to pay the prescribed fine.
James McCloskey, 60, narrowly escaped death when struck by a Great Northern passenger train shortly after 1 AM near Gaffney’s dock. He suffered facial and leg bruises, was driven to police headquarters, and later admitted he walked along the waterfront not noticing the oncoming train. He was taken to Wayside Emergency hospital.
The union sheet workers strike at the Bemis bag facility was called off after an agreement deemed satisfactory to both the Sheet Metal Workers unit and Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works. Dispute centered on scab window frames imported from St. Louis. The strike began last Tuesday morning.
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