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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1906
Page
1
The Wenatches Commercial club scheduled a March 19 social with all 120 members invited plus their guests. The gala includes songs, dances, talks by members, a tal fest program, and dancing after an orchestra performance.
In a distressing sequence, a bereaved mother cried for her dead child for hours, then suffered a violent fit of hiccups. Physicians were summoned but have yet to find a relief, and the attack shows no sign of stopping.
At Plymouth Church Men’s Club meeting in Seattle on March 15 the group adopted resolutions praising Mayor Ballinger for a clean administration and suppression of slot machines. They extended congratulations to Mayor-elect Williams Hickman Moore for his pledge to keep Seattle a closed town and uphold the policy. A copy of the resolutions was to be sent to both mayors.
In St. Petersburg a conspiracy among reactionaries to counter the Liberal October manifesto is uncovered. Witte at the cabinet presses suppression of the Black Handred with Trepolf Vonderlaunitz and Darnovo among the officials. Plan calls riots and Jewish massacre to justify harsher measures. opposition controls governors and soldiers while a general strike among the proletariat is organized with Easter expected as a flare.
A Portland Maine dispatch reports the first lodge of a scrub women union organized last night. Brunswick members elected Delia Nelson as president and Cyrus Cobb as secretary treasurer. They adopt a uniform 20 cent hourly scale and plan to contact Portland and other chapters, signaling wider state action. A separate item notes a gas well near Caney Kansas that burst into flames after a prolonged burn and wreckage from a protective hood.
J M Day, Olympia saloon keeper, convicted for keeping his establishment open on three Sundays. Jury returned a guilty verdict after witnesses for the state proved violations on Jan 6 Dec 31 and Dec 24. Prosecutor Crass praised the evidence while defense attorney Griffith contested only parts of the testimony.
New York dispatch reports from Rome that a prisoner in an infirmary confessed attendance at an anarchist meeting planning to kill the king of Italy at the Milan exhibition on April 18. An investigation into his past is ordered.
Steve S. Bailey, former Northern Hotel proprietor and builder of Cashmere in Washingtons fruit belt, arrived in Seattle from California and registered at the Cecil Hotel. He noted on the register that California looked good and planned to return to Cashmere soon.
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