02 Apr 1902
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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1902
Page
1
A sensational gambling scene surrounds a Vanderbilt contest against the Tiger as public chatter swirls about a sharp drop in roulette wagers and possible improprieties.
A New York report recounts Reginald C. Vanderbilt's son Reginald losing 138000 at Canfield's gambling house on Forty fourth street. Details trace how a society fiancée repeated the tale to her brother, then to friends, making the story public. The older Vanderbilt supposedly urged his son to quit gambling.
A unique one cent restaurant opens at City Hall Place and Pearl Street under Bernard McFadden. The menu offers cheap bowls of pea soup oats barley and beans with bread and butter for five cents and coffee for three to five cents. McFadden argues simple foods can sustain health and nourishment at extreme economy.
Indianapolis Indiana April 2 Squire W H Nickerson a prominent magistrate weighed 265 pounds before starting a strict diet on February first He has shed 28 pounds since then and plans to reach 200 He eats heartily but avoids butter pork sugar and milk His health is reported as excellent and he will continue dieting until he reaches the target weight.
In Bowling Green Ohio Miss Bessie Orwig suffered severe burns to her hands while cleaning gloves with gasoline. Her two sisters consented to donate skin from their arms to graft over the wounds in a procedure performed today.
The tenth annual American handicap shoot in Kansas City draws 453 entries at Blue River Park. By noon contestants completed four traps with over 200 firing at the first bird. many will shoot eight birds today as weather shifts between hazy sun and clouds. Notable shooters include Ed Fulford and Annie Oakley. several others posted perfect rounds while others missed early and later shots.
Washington April 2. The President today appointed Brigadier General R. P. Hughes to be Major General and Colonels Isaac D. Russey Andrew S. Burt and M. S. Sherin to Brigadier Generals in the Regular Army to fill vacancies from retirements.
Chicago April 2 The steel tube mill promised by Carnegie before the U S Steel formation will be built near Conneaut Harbor Ohio this year. Report cites Pittsburg and a semi official source. The project calls for an outlay of ten to eighteen millions and will employ about 6 000 men.
Roosevelt expresses determination to appoint a new Secretary of the Interior, signaling a cabinet reshuffle. Mr Hitghgoge is mentioned as bound to go, reflecting expected changes in the Roosevelt administration.
Washington reports say Secretary Hitchcock faces an imminent replacement as Roosevelt weighs his cabinet. Despite denials, hints of a departure grow, with Western Republicans pressing for change and the president reviewing Hitchcock’s rulings and authority.
The article reports a senator calling on the president to grant a pardon for Rathbone who remains confined in a Guaban jail. The plea emphasizes clear legal grounds and potential rehabilitation.
In Arlysse Kentucky Carl Green eighteen and Grant Green duel after a family quarrel. They meet on horseback. fire exchanged with both men wounded. Grant is shot through the heart and dies. Carl is wounded in the shoulder while delivering the final shot.
President Roosevelt and Senator Hanna held a long White House interview on Rathbone's malfeasance conviction in Cuba. Hanna asks for a pardon, but Roosevelt declines, citing duty and evidence of Rathbone's guilt from General Wood. A Senate inquiry into Governor Woods' Cuba regime may follow.
Manila reports that Private Healey of the twenty-seventh infantry was hanged today for the 1901 murder of Sergeant Moreland. The execution concludes the court martial and aligns with military justice.
S. M. Gillman of Philadelphia and his wife reunite at Smalls in Lehigh County after twenty four years apart. Gillman, who lost his reason for eight eighteen years in an asylum, had learned his wife may be dead. She had remarried Harvey Daubert of Emaus. Gillman inherited $50,000 and now offers Daubert a large share of his fortune if his wife returns.
Miss Ruth Hill daughter of President James J. Hill of the Great Northern Railway and Northern Security Company married Anson McCook Heard an attorney of New York City at high noon in the family residence on Summit avenue Archbishop Ireland officiated the ceremony in St Paul on April 2.
In Vienna on April 2, three of four climbers from a party attempting the Rax Alps ascent in Lower Austria were found alive and half frozen. The expedition's fourth member was discovered dead.
The article notes that the Philippine dollar will be legal tender within the islands but will not be accepted as currency in the United States. It discusses the separate monetary status and limits of circulation for the currency in different regions.
Washington reports that the Philippines will adopt a distinctly silver Philippine dollar as legal tender only in the islands. The coin will weigh 416 grains of silver 990 fine and be issued with American and Oriental designs. Initial coinage expected around 20 million dollars with bullion value governing price. Local office holders and soldiers will be paid in gold-equivalent terms.
Lord Kitchener in Pretoria dispatch says the second dragoon guards fought a sharp rearguard action near Boschmanskop on March 31. Four officers wounded. further casualty details awaited.
May Skeskie a Chicago woman described as despondent over health shot herself in February the bullet lodging in the abdomen. Surgeons found a wound similar to President McKinley's and performed stomach repair. She recovered and was discharged soon, to appear before the Chicago Medical Association in April. Washington chatter centers on candidates for Minister to Cuba naming Charles H. Allen Fitzhugh Lee and H Clay Evans with Allen favored for the post.
Details of a Transvaal train wreck after Barberton show the engineer losing control on a downhill grade for three miles. Five trucks carried soldiers, the engine jumped the rails at a sharp curve, boiler exploded, and the engineer and fireman were killed as six more soldiers died from injuries.
Washington April 2 Society puzzled by the theft of a black silk wrap trimmed with fur, worn by Duas during Mrs Roosevelt s musical evening at the White House two weeks ago. The loss followed an 8 musical entertainment at the executive mansion.
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