Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-05-22
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary of News Gathered From
All Parts of the State.

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killed. The driver of the wagon has
been arrested.
Hoquiam took the second league
game Monday, in that city, from Aber-
deem, by score OF to 4. The wealth.
er was not the best for baseball. The
attendance was good.
Mrs. John Iquist, aged 67, OF Wilson
Creek, received a severe and nearly
fatal injury while sleep-walking last
Monday night. She fell down flight
OF stairs and struck her head on a
sharp projection, severing an artery
George Hugg lost both his legs in a
railway accident in Seattle, Monday
morning, the wheels OF the Car passing
over his limbs which were almost
severed and the surgeons knife fin
ished the work OF amputation. Hugo
is but 10 years OF age.
Thomas McManor, Sunday night,
killed Mike Romano, an Italian, in
drunken quarrel, which occurred four
miles from Whatcom. The men
fought a desperate dual with knives,
McManor stabbing his opponent to
the heart. He is in Jail.
Mrs. Elizabeth McGregor, of Aber.
been, has just finished one OF the most
remarkable fasts on record. For 4S
days after sustaining a shock of
paralysis, though able to talk and
make her wants known, not q particle
Of food had passed her lips. She died
Tuesday and was IS years of age.
John Reynolds, who shot and killed
William Mentally at Wellington, was
Saturday. in Seattle, sentenced to be
hanged. The date of the execution
was not set. Reynolds surrendered
himself after the shooting, and has
| claimed he shot in self-defense. The
evidence showed that he waited for his
man and fired without warning.
Mrs. ]. L. Kline, aged 46, wife of
the town Marshal at Medical Lake,
committed suicide in the Cottage Ho.
tel in that city, Saturday afternoon,
and Julius Perkins, son of q Deer
Park farmer. shot the top of his head
off Sunday morning. Mrs. Kline took
strychnine and morphine. Mental de-
rangement is supposed to have been
the cause in both cases.
Sunday evening, about 6 40, an in.
bound Point Defiance car, crowded
with passengers, jumped the track at
a curve and crashed into a tree. Gill |
bert Farr, night Clerk at the Tacoma
Hotel, who was among those riding on
the front platform, was thrown be.
meath the trucks and crushed to in.
slant death. Three other passengers
were more or less injured, though none
it is believed dangerously.
An attempt was made at North Yak
ina, Sunday afternoon, to burn the
lumber yard of A. Z. Larson, situated
among a number of frame warehouses |
on the west side. Kerosene had been |
poured over a pile of flooring boards
and set fire. but was discovered by a
person who happened along at the
time and put it out. A strong wind |
was blowing and had the fire got start
ed we'll conhagra,ion could not have
been averted.
Eight idle vessels on Puget Sound,
all owned by the California Shipping
Co., which have been laid up, some OF
them for nearly year, to await an
improvement in freights, have just
been chartered practically in a bunch
to load lumber on Puget Sound for
South Africa and Australia. This is
probably the largest fleet of vessels
ever chartered at one time on this
Coast to carry lumber, the total capac-
ity of the fleet being 1O.3OOOOO feet.
Frank Harrison, a carpenter, work.
ing on the Northern Pacific coal bunk
ers at Whatcom, Saturday, fell seventy
feet into the bay. He struck some
timbers twice in the fall and was dead
before striking the water. He went to
that place from Seattle three weeks
ago where his mother lives. His neck
was broken and he was badly bruised.
He was member of the Odd Fellows
lodge. His sister. Mrs. Belle Hensen,
resides at Tacoma.
Mills Nettleton, one of the grocery
clerks OF the Sloane Paine Co., OF Spo.
kane. was entombed for an hour in the
freezing atmosphere of large cold
storage vault in the basement of the
store, Saturday, and was almost frozen
to death when discovered. II appears
that Nettleton had an GRAND that
carried him into the vault, and as he
entered the big door swung to and
locked him in. Thirty tons OF ice had
been placed in the big vault the same
morning.
News reached Aberdeen, Saturday,
OF an explosion OF seventy-five pounds
OF giant-powder at the camp OF Hack
EFT & Deneen, five miles up the Wish.
kah river. The powder was taken I'D
by steamer and placed near the log.
ging boiler. and a spark is supposed to
have ignited the combustible. The
boiler and lot of provisions we're
blown into the river and other dam.
age done, but no person injured. The
engineer was saved by being protected
by large tree.
Two young girls. Bernice Baker and
Nellie Hanson, aged about ii years,
disappeared from their homes at Cen.
tralia, last Saturday. The police in
the various cities have been furnished
with description of the girls, but up
to this lime they have not been located.
The Baker girls mother is widow
and two of her sisters work in the
Centralia telephone Office. Bernice
took all her sisters best clothing and
all the money she could find in the
house. The Hanson girls father runs
a livery stable there. Both girls were
inclined to be wild and objected to
their mothers efforts to restrain their
actions.
Charged with importing a French
woman for immoral purposes, Alex.
Fachin, well-to.do sheep dealer OF
Walla Walla is under 81 900 bonds to
appear in the U. S. District Court in
Seattle, June1. The girl in the case
is Blanche Masclez, a very pretty