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- The Mail Service Sabotage in Olympia
Local merchants and citizens are suffering as a political feud between the Postmaster and steamboat owners paralyzes commerce on the Sound.
- The Butcher Who Walked to Kill the President
John Bushey, a displaced laborer from Pendleton, was arrested in Walla Walla after claiming he carried a rifle and cartridges for both Theodore Roosevelt and the German Emperor.
- The Midnight Escape from the War Hawk
A maritime labor dispute turns into a dramatic midnight jailbreak from a leaky ship at the Seattle waterfront.
- The Daredevil of Seattle: A Near-Fatal Balloon Plunge
Thousands watched from the waterfront as Professor Van Tassell's aerial exhibition went awry, nearly ending in disaster over the harbor.
- The Tragedy on Howard Street
A household servant disappears after a toddler dies from arsenic poisoning.
- The Final Voyage of the John Rosenfeld
The noble Maine-built ship is declared a total loss after running aground on a reef near Lummi Island.
- Trapped in the Earth
A young immigrant rancher dies in a sixty-foot well near South Bay after being overcome by gas.
- The Town That Rose from the Jam: Mount Vernon’s Wild Start
A new settlement is sprouting along the Skagit River, fueled by loggers, surveyors, and a patriotic name change.
- The Labor Journal’s Defense of the Working Class
An Everett editorial invokes Lincoln to critique the 'damnable' industrial conditions and the 'open shop' movement of 1910.
- The Beat Cop's Bad Joke
A police officer on Queen Anne hill faces suspension after fabricating a robbery report as a 'joke'—much to the chagrin of city leadership.
- 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.
- John Wiley's Whiskers Steal a 25–15 Ballgame
A comedian's two-base hit, a 1,000-person crowd, and a disastrous first inning turned a grudge match between the Jacobites and Philistines into Seattle's strangest sporting spectacle of 1894.
- The Carrie Ladd Runs Aground
A steamship meets its fate on a rock at Cape Horn, leaving passengers and crew to abandon the sinking vessel on the Washington side of the Columbia River.
- The Bureau of Associated Charities Launches Friendly Visitors Program
Eighty local women take up the task of 'personal charity,' aiming to uplift the poor through mentorship rather than simple handouts.
- Kennewick Women Organize to Aid the Needy
A local charitable effort reveals hidden poverty in the community, prompting a call for the destitute to set aside pride and seek help.
- The Wreck of the Brittain
A maritime expert surveys the remains of a vessel lost on the rocks, detailing the disastrous navigation error that caused the sinking.
- The Broker Who Tried to Divorce His Wife Over a Finger Bowl
A distressed stockbroker enters a Seattle law office seeking a divorce, only to find the legal requirements for ending a marriage in 1885 hilariously difficult to meet.
- The Town That Owes Nothing: Oakesdale’s Fiscal Miracle
While other municipalities drown in debt from the boom years, this small Washington town boasts a cash-rich treasury and zero bonds.
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- Tragedy at the Lynden Light Plant
A dedicated engineer is killed while volunteering his time to maintain local machinery.