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80 stories matching michael
- The Bank That Ate Seven Men: A Collapse in the Blue Point Claim
In a gruesome industrial accident on April 13, 1877, a bank of earth at the Blue Point mine in Smartsville buried seven miners alive and wounded six more, halting business for miles around.
- The Dynamite of Gilman: A Murderous Grudge Ends in Lynching
In a fit of rage over a domestic dispute, Albert Schaeffer blew up his neighbor's home in Gilman, killing three people. The town’s response was swift and brutal.
- Tension Rises at the Cœur d'Alene Reservation Border
Farmers near Fairfield arm themselves as a series of skirmishes leaves both Indigenous residents and white settlers fearing violence.
- The Shadow Ledger: Seattle’s Monthly Arrest List
A raw, unfiltered tally of twenty-nine arrests made in June 1878 exposes the policing of Seattle’s streets—where poverty, Indigeneity, and ethnic status shaped the reach of the law.
- The Landmark Case of an Indigenous Heir
A court ruling recognizes a marriage between a white pioneer and a niece of Chief Seattle, potentially shifting land title laws across the region.
- The Ladder Gave Way: A Conductor’s Leg and the Railroad’s Defense
Michael J. Fitzmaurice was hauling gravel when a caboose ladder threw him under the train. He lost his leg at the knee and sued Great Northern for $29,500.
- The Fatal Climb for the Church Bells
A local carpenter attempted to scale a church steeple to settle a debate about height, meeting a tragic end in full view of the town.
- The Hidden Scourge on the Rooftop
When a cigar factory worker in Seattle was discovered to be rotting from a mysterious disease, it sparked a local panic over health, labor, and the limits of the city's care.
- The Missing Penknife and the Body in Lake Washington
Coroner Horton ruled Michael D. Warren drowned himself at Madrona Park, but the cuts on his body and his vanished penknife kept the case uneasy.
- The Great Port Gamble Murder Trial: A Game of Wagers and Blood
In a dramatic courtroom showdown in Seattle, the trial of Ira Hummel for the murder of Michael Michelson revealed a sordid tale of gambling debts, blackmail, and a fatal argument over a silver watch.
- The Devil-Fish of the Chehalis
Two local fishermen survive a terrifying encounter with a massive, tentacled monster in the waters of Grays Harbor.
- A Family's Heavy Toll at the Tracks
Bereaved parents file a massive lawsuit against the Northern Pacific Railroad after their 13-year-old son was struck and killed by a switch engine at a downtown intersection.
- A Newsboy's Tragic End
The parents of a fourteen-year-old newsboy killed by a locomotive seek damages for his death.
- The Bullet That Ended a Bully: A Seattle Man’s Deadly Stand on the Walla Walla
Michael Emerick, a former Seattle job wagon driver, faces murder charges after killing Joe Gordon in self-defense during a long-simmering land dispute.
- The Drunkard’s Fortune: Tacoma Bank Takes Over $1,100 from an Inebriate
In a stark display of 19th-century temperance law, Officer Frank Cavanagh has declared wealthy Tacoma man Michael Murphy legally incompetent due to alcoholism, depositing his cash into the bank for 'safekeeping.'
- The Banker’s Debt
A wealthy philanthropist discovers that his own neglect of small bills drove a local shoemaker to attempt suicide.
- A Bloody Knife Turns Up at Madrona Park After Michael Warren's Death
A woman finds a three-bladed knife near the spot where Warren cut his throat, giving Seattle police a possible missing link in a grim holiday mystery.
- The Unsung Pioneer: A Plank Road to the Beach
While Seattle boomed, a local booster named Michael Kelly set out to connect the rural fringes of the Duwamish Valley to the city, one subscription at a time.
- The passing of a pioneer farmer
Michael B. Ward, who hosted President Rutherford B. Hayes and Governor Watson C. Squire at his Walla Walla homestead, has died at age 75.
- The Yakima Carriage King
How local craftsman Michael Schorn is proving that North Yakima can outbuild the eastern factories.
- The Final Trek of Michael Buckley
A frontier packer and pioneer who survived the rigors of the Idaho mines and the early Walla Walla valley succumbs to double pneumonia.
- The Passing of a Wishkah River Pioneer
A local settler who carved a life out of the river valley dies at sixty.
- A Yakama Chief Falls as the Territory's Indian War Ends
Col. Wright's campaign is declared over; Owhi is shot near the Snake River, and the Herald celebrates executions and hostages as peace.
- The Floor Gives Way: Panic and Death at Seattle’s Morris Opera House
A grand opening night turns into a nightmare when the second-story floor of the newly converted theater collapses into the stables below, killing several and injuring dozens in one of the city's earliest major disasters.
- The Ghost of the Gatherer: A Captain’s Suicide Haunted by His Own Cruelty
Decades after a horrific voyage where officers maimed and murdered sailors to escape their 'demoniac' captain, the master of the ship dies by suicide in Puget Sound, fulfilling a prophecy of vengeance.
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- The Lonely Death of 'Mike the Rooster'
A once-prominent figure in the city's sporting fraternity dies in a lodging house on Washington Street from a morphine collapse.
- A Stalking in the South End
A jilted suitor follows a woman from Portland to Tacoma, leading to a violent confrontation on South 34th Street.
- The Price of Protection
A local businessman pleads guilty to habitual drunkenness to trigger a legal guardianship, hoping to shield his assets from local gamblers.
- The Troubles of Mike Murphy
A wealthy Tacoma businessman faces legal scrutiny for his personal habits as police weigh the cost of sobriety.
- The Brutal Killing of Mike Ivancovich
A grocery store owner in Anacortes is murdered in his home by a man known as 'Charley Sam,' sparking threats of vigilantism in the community.
- A Violent Assault in the Shadows of Third Street
A stranger is brutally beaten in front of a funeral home by an unknown man while a woman watches in eerie silence.
- A Final Attempt at Life's End
After multiple failed attempts, a Tacoma laborer collapses at home, leaving his family in poverty.
- A Mother’s Tragic Descent
A young woman’s mental health crisis in the Harvard House leads to a desperate, late-night intervention.