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16 stories matching paddock
- The Passing of a Pioneer Parson
Rev. A. S. Nicholson, an early missionary who built up Episcopal parishes across Western Washington, dies at his home near Hillhurst.
- A Stranger Gored Saving Women and Children at the Tacoma Driving Park
John Christer rushed a mad bull to shield a crowd of women and children. The animal tossed him with his entrails out, and doctors at Fannie Paddock hospital say inflammation will decide whether he lives.
- The Pioneer Governor of Idaho Dies in Seattle
W. B. Daniels, a contemporary of James A. Garfield and a key figure in early Pacific Northwest history, passes away at the Fanny Paddock hospital.
- The Beer Garden vs. The Hospital: A Tacoma Land Grab Turns Violent
When a liquor seller tried to build a beer garden on land encroaching on the Fannie Paddock Hospital, the hospital staff fought back with guards and lawyers, sparking a legal battle over property lines in old Tacoma.
- Violent Workplace Confrontation
A quarrel between a conductor and an engineer at Lake Park ends in a brutal assault with a rock.
- A Steam Pipe Bursts Aboard the Nineveh
A donkey engine hoisting ballast aboard the British ship Nineveh exploded at Tacoma, leaving ship carpenter McPherson badly scalded and fighting for his life.
- The Price of Dirt in Washington
A Senate debate on land values turns into a bragging contest about the Pacific Northwest's booming real estate market.
- Federal Customs Officials Arrested for Opium Smuggling
A sweeping investigation into corruption at the Customs House leads to the indictment of the collector and several inspectors for facilitating illegal entries.
- A Garden Wedding on Lake Steilacoom
Prominent Tacoma socialites Miss Ruby Shera and Mr. Thomas J. Handforth were wed under a canopy of oaks in an elaborate ceremony at the Tyler estate.
- A Mangled Dynamo, A Crippled Provider
A young Tacoma motorman loses his arm while performing a dangerous maintenance task on a moving streetcar.
- A Steamship Picnic on the Sound
A summer excursion by local youth captures the social pulse of Seattle in 1891.
- A Terrifying Drop from a Fir
An infantryman at Vancouver Barracks survives a forty-four-foot fall from a tree while attempting to catch a raccoon, an experience that left him shaken but alive.
- A Horse Theft Led Police to a Stolen Child
For two years Mary Eckelbery searched for the daughter taken from her. A Puyallup horse-theft arrest, a sheriff's hunch, and a little girl called 'Emma' finally brought Annie Florence Dawson home.
- A Dismissed Complaint, Then a Woodshed Ambush in Tacoma
Maggie Kornder had charged Mike Pfeifle with threatening her. A judge let the case go; days later, the rejected suitor hid in her employer's woodshed and shot her before turning the gun on himself.
- The Railroad Man Who Gave Seattle Its First Real Baseball Team — Then Lost Everything
W. R. Thornell organized the Pacific Northwest League and the 'Seattle Reds,' then lost his bank job over a forged note. Bright's disease took him at Paddock Memorial Hospital in Tacoma; he was buried in the city that once cheered him.
- The First Rector of Trinity: A Quarter Century, and a Church Rebuilt from the Fire
Rev. George Herbert Watson marked 25 years in the ministry and 16 in Seattle, where he founded Trinity Parish, started Grace Hospital, and saw his first church destroyed in the Great Fire.