The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 25, 1903, Page 1

LAST EDITION CHICAGO'S SUBURB, raging tp this F ) crashed Into Milwaukee & Paul a Pitter t Wayne + this morning the fretght tra the passenger and engine | PASSENGER AND FREIGHT The Seattle Star SEATTIL WASHINGTO! TRAINS COLLIDE IN MAIMING BOTH CREWS Frank Beothwick was fatally tn ). A Stacker, fireman on the pa» | Ager engte nad te freight conductor, were sertor and Engineer Whttmore had both legs | broken | A number of passengers were alleht- | ty Injured The biiasard was so blinding that the| trainmen coukl see but a few feet of them. ane Offictal announcement by 4 rec Dy the statg department this morn ing from the London embassy to the st that Great Hritein has for ally recognized the new republic The state department port " of Pasiuma. also received IS A WAR FEMRE GOVERNMENT WILL SEND CA- BLE SHIP BURNSIDE TO THE ORIENT, VIA HONOLULU the consular ‘The local United States quarter- master’s office received a telegram yesterday from Washington tostruct jit hire tocmend the United States cable steamer Burnside, which is to ‘saji to Mantia, January 1, by way of Honotutu instead of Nagasaki. Un der former orders she wax to go te the Philippines by way of the Jap anese port, but evidently fearing war between Russia and Japan the goverument has decided to send her the southern route. he ia said that Russie, has ‘secret nts in the United States pre ing supplied ‘and forage. This is the reason aasigned by some for the fact that when the local quartermaster's office recently advertised for 10,000 tons of hay and oats for. the Pali. joes were found to Pimeigh as to be almost prohibitive and a supplemental call was issued LOST ANTI-GAMBLING BILL IN ORE- GON LEGISLATURE MISSING PORTLAND, Dec %.—The After pa the House. would have made gambling a felony wan started on its way towards the | Senate, but it never a the Legislature are fc siderable time in | happened,” but # expinined. The Leginiature haa adjourned and the proposed law is ead. RESIGNED WASHINGTON, D. Dee. 25. Conmul General Hughes, at Coburg Germany, resigned and his place {will be filled by Henry Sayler, a | present consul at wron, in the | Klondike. ‘The state department de- | clines to discuss Hughes’ resignation | Some time ago charges were filed against him, but alrnost at the same time & press dispatch from Bertin JOHN BULL SIN LINE GREAT BRITAIN ALSO RECOGN 1ZES THE NEW REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT OF PANAMA ————_— WASHINGTON, D. C. Dee. | partment also 7 tated that the cause was of a fam-'her the truth state de nm the ap. paintinent of Professor John Mili of Connecticut to be consul at Grayhton, Nicaragua, ly nature, Sai hin successor AT BAY AGGRESSOR IN FATAL SALOON er ROW FORCED TO RUN FOR HIS LIFE INDIANAPOLAS, Ind. Deo. 2 Preston Bett fatally shot Aber Waleh this afternoon in a drunken street quarrel. Walsh's. friends at- tempted to mob hie siayer. They made @ dash for him, but Bell held them at bay while he reloaded hie revolver, He then fired on his pur. fuers as he ran to escape from them. He succeeded in escaping into the felis and bas not been captured up to « late hour this afternoon RESTORED TO FAMILY SALVATION ARMY RESCUED JOHN WILSON FROM A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH Rescued from @ fate worse than death, onn Wilson, tormerty one of the most notorious “dope fiends’ in Seattle, today received as a Christ- mas gift a letter Informing him that his wife and children have been found and are waiting for him to, come home. For four years his fam- ily had been lost te him. Mrs, Wii non and the children were discovered in a Southern Washington town by the local Salvation army, and « re union ar \ To the army is due Wilson's rescue the grip of the morphine habit was supponed to be dying when the police found him covered with loathsome sores in @ boxcar on the waterfront, a month ago. The army took an interest tn case and went him to o sanbtart in Portiana, re he was cured of his craving for drugs. The letter was delivered to Wilson at the santtartum. Wilson was for- merly a locomotive engineer, but jony his position through bis bad habits His wife believed Dim dead. until the Saivationiats found her and told IN, FRIDAY, STORE WILL GIVE AWAY ‘The Bone have hit show that th perity ar theirs during the morrow thin big # away thousands little boys and girls of Beattie, whom | automobiles, fire dear old Banta Claus has | thin year. DECE past ye ore te The firm told The ing that it might extend an invitation] away unt!) the supply te exhausted O¢ THE STAR WISHES ITS READERS A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR BLINDED BY BLIZZARD CAUGHT + THOUSANDS OF TOYS STONE, FISHER & LANE WILL PLAY SANTA CLAUS TO THE POOR CHILOREN WHOM THE OLD MAN OVERLOOKED eclate bd Fisher & Lane company upon a neat Hltthe ap good fortune tha the prow eon tor te to give toys to the poor Star this morn-| of litte overiooked | detia to the children of Beattie to viait the store and get 4 Christmam. gift. These | toys are nice anes and thete is every conceivable kind to Be fund in the list—hobby — horwes, reakne ~—m duck# that rus and quack, ce mt | pure and meow. damm that run about the Hoor monkeys that aim wicks engHR, | rmunion! sod in fact Nundreds ef other Kinde Of things that deligitt the hearts HE WAS MADE THE VICTIM OF A CRUEL CHRISTMAS «JOSH'’\: FOR A MOMENT THE WORLD LOOKED AS CHEER- LESS AS A BASKET OF SNOWBALLS TO WOULD- BE BENEDICT FROM FR ANKLIN A tall, good looking ye yellow hair strode briskly into office yesterday rm tap to the windew wher pers are inmued, 1 @ marriage Henne You can't get an afte th ing man, with (Christmas joriate amile, | anewe clerk's tepping ' Deputy Clerk MeDonala aruffiy, abd went on mak trie in his big books ing « The ones, These will be given! Ne | fe mer Fifth avenue and King street, ning, and ahe streno- | ted to be talked to tn} anner 1 biankly “Dent Know; rule of the office. Never break it,” McDonald anewered, without looking up. ‘Well, I don't know what I am go- 8. Flinn, the bartender, got ing to do, then, ed up in the row and commenced expontyla ted to wield a knife. Frank Smith, Al Brickson, and Ole Anderson mixed up and when taken to pol headquarters had their cletiser full of holes m knife stabs an fow werate their The | woman cxcaped unhurt | DRAM 1 AND DIED. }e | rupted } give me a leer Woy yourself some Don't you try me to break the rules of the office Donald ar awered, with mock anger, an if he| were t over the cour }to Kick the persiatent would-be bene- | | dict downetnira | eee ee ee nee hed war, |JOE RICHARDSON DROPS} ied. the | Gtengoianes. lover. in 2|- DEAD AT THE-BAR-IN} COLFAX SALOON started for Jing his hat over hia eyes the door McDonald waited a minute or tw Hey, young mar Richard Meense window | smtoona, lost # office and ma . test, night You will have better tu to a bet that | In about five min angelic ~xlasnes Of beer smile wan rev A aheepinh one drinking whin 4 the young Jacob who ali day and th cheated out of hie R s. returned @ to the clerk's offios, with a decume bearing the seal of the county auditor ia, aaah aucoes, protruding from his pocke send He handed MeDonaid two good cigars ‘aikan. without saying # word »tifled, but after viewing | 4 learning the ciycum ~ oe hing Richardson's ardeon was Once a well-to-do 66 ” took to drink afd lost Pat MeKeown lin tn the was rebuking Kitty Stockholm | white man went through his pock- » etx overlooking valuables, however. ing swept teday and t are deserted. One of the most wnique celebrations was the one at Zion Clix where Dowle, attired as Santa Claius, distributed | gifth to @ thousand children of his) folowers. ‘ WASHINGTON, D.C. Dec. B—A heavy rain began falling during the} The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News “ KILLED BY! TRAIN \ BUCKLEY MAN RUN DOWN BY NORTHERN PACIFIC ENGINE (Special to The Star.) . H Jenk HINGTON, D, ©. De =| reached here this morning of| int. against Admiral officers of the trainin now at New Orleans from |! Robin signed by the er nboard the flagship Min in alleged that Ship id was drowned Wea-| r ¢y, and that Ad " ‘ his wtaff, without mpect for the dead, dixported them selves at a ball abourd the ship that night Adimiral Wise has made an unof-| ficial reply, in which he says Mc Donald, while drunk, fought another | seaman over a bottle of whisky In| the wl hb and fell overboard ‘The attempt to rescue him failed, # jaan and the current was so swift that It would have been useless to attempt to rece the body THUGS ROB BRAKEMAN TACOMA TRAINMAN FORCED TO JUMP FROM TRAIN RUNNING AT FULL SPEED (Special to The Star) CHEHALIS, Dee, 25.—Frank Ge man of Tacoma had a narrow excape from a horrible death Wed- nesday morning between Tenino and Bueeda Goodman is brakeman on the South Bend freight that leaves Tacoma at an early hour After the train left Tenino, Gooa- man started from the caboose to the engine and about half way along the train was held up by a burly negro and a white thug. The negro covered him with a gun and the They took #0 in money and then| Goodman was compelled ur threat of sudden death to climb} down the ladder on the box car and jump from the train while it was running at a high speed. He land-| ed on his hands and one wrist was! badiy sprained and his hands cut He hurried to Bucoda and notified train crew of the mishap and they returned from Centralm for him. Sheriff Urquhart overhauled the only man who looked like a@ suspicious arrived here, man wanted, DOWIE AS' SANTA "LIGE GAVE AWAY PRESENTS TO CHILDREN IN ZION CITY K snowstorm | | but-he was not CHICAGO. latter part of the night, and Christmas It ts being celebrat- | ea anictty by the pte with" his family. with-no guests. The Austrian | sbservance in this city most labo