John Brown
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- Jul 4, 1883The Seattle Meeting of the Irish MartyrsPro-nationalist activists gathered at Turner Hall to honor Irish martyrs and condemn British rule.Seattle, WA
- Jul 19, 1885The Revenue Collector’s Raid on a South Seattle DistillerFederal authorities shutter a clandestine operation in South Seattle, seizing a menagerie of equipment and livestock from a local man.Seattle, WA
- Aug 11, 1885The Great Soap Bust of South SeattleA federal raid on a clandestine distilling operation leaves a local man out of soap and out of luck.Seattle, WA
- Sep 11, 1889The Ghost of the Underground Railroad in the Pacific NorthwestA peculiar rumor spreads through Seattle of a coordinated, clandestine effort to relocate thousands of Black Southerners to Washington and Montana.Walla Walla, WA
- Dec 18, 1892A Haunting Meeting in the New City of EverettA local dentist meets the man who helped capture his grandfather, the radical abolitionist John Brown, in an unexpected historical encounter.Everett, WA
- Jan 17, 1893Fatal Fall at Manning's WharfA young laborer dies after a forty-foot fall on a piledriver at the Seattle waterfront.Seattle, WA
- Mar 12, 1893City Hall Moves to Consolidate Sewer OversightThe Seattle Board of Health moves to cut the 'unnecessary' sewer inspector position, arguing the city engineer and plumbing inspector can easily absorb the light workload of ten inspections a month.Seattle, WA
- Oct 28, 1893The Swindling 'Boy Preacher' of Discovery BayA young con artist charms his way into the confidence of local ranchers with promises of land purchases and a wealthy mother, only to vanish without paying a cent.Port Townsend, WA
- Jul 20, 1894100 Miners Take a Receiver to Court Over Cut Wages—and the Company StoreA petition filed in King County Superior Court says a coal company's receiver cut pay, forced miners to shop at his store, and fired a man who refused to back his candidate for police justice.Superior Court of Washington for King County, Seattle, WA
- Jul 24, 1894The Officer, the Wife, and the Bouquet: A Seattle Courtroom MelodramaJohn Brown gets thirty days for disorderly conduct, but he blames a handsome policeman for stealing his wife—who arrives in court with flowers and a secret for the judge.Seattle, WA
- Dec 5, 1903The Captain Who Stole Flour to Feed His MenA Civil War veteran seeks to reclaim his rank, decades after being dismissed for threatening a commissary agent to secure bread for his starving soldiers.Spokane, WA