15 Apr 1902
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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1902
Page
1
A brief note recounts the New Pension Commission taking part in an exciting poker game. The event highlights the commission members engagement in informal competition and adds a light human-interest angle to the article.
Kansas Clay April 16 Eugene Ware land lawyer chosen to succeed H Clay Evans as Commissioner of Pensions after a long poker game in the Copeland Hotel during a legislative redistricting session. The pot driven by Ware led to a second district that included his county and his election to Congress. Rafael of Los Angeles arrives to oversee Santa Rita hotel contracts and cost estimates.
Lebanon Illinois April 15 Columbus Bradford of Oaksville faces removal from the pastorate and possible trial for alleged heresy at the Lebanon district conference. The dispute centers on his pamphlet Birth: a New Chance and beliefs on reincarnation and immortality.
Tomas Estrada Palma, president elect of Cuba, bids farewell in Central Valley New York where he has lived eighteen years in exile. He travels via Gibara Bayamo Manzanillo Santiago to Havana aiming to arrive May 9 before the Cuban Congress opens. His mother died in Panama Bayamo when Spanish soldiers drove her into the jungle.
Plainfield New Jersey April 15 two newspaper reporters Ralph Marrow and Archibald Harequer were detained at police headquarters after refusing vaccination. They were locked in a cell until Dr Norman H Probasco ordered vaccination. Protesters claim unlawful action and consider suing for assault and false imprisonment.
Miss Bertha Bryant a Spencer high school girl and Henry Ebbetts a colored coachman have been missing since Sunday night. Edward Bryant town constable asked Worcester police for help finding his daughter who reportedly eloped with a colored man. The couple spent Sunday night and Monday in a Worcester lodging house.
April reports that Rock Island plans acquisition and extension to the Gulf as Louisville and Nashville and Choctaw tie into wider Chicago to El Paso routes. The maneuvering signals Harriman interests face intensified competition from Morgan Hill alignments in the evolving railroad map.
Gunner Lieutenant H S Bourne Lieutenant Miller and nine sailors were instantly killed when a 17 inch gun on the British battleship Mars exploded during practice off Bear Haven. Several more men were injured as the breech blew out after two misfires. Colonel McCord arrived from Phoenix for a United States court session.
Washington April 15 bitter divisions grow within the Republican ranks as supporters of the Payne bill denounce insurgent Republicans whose speeches allegedly aid Democrats in the campaign. Payne and followers say such talks threaten to undermine the party unity by labeling the sugar trust influence as driving the legislation.
Washington reports rising GOP push for tariff revision. Grosvenor signals movement toward changes in protectionist schedules. Key supporters include Babcock Overstreet and Hall, with Ways and Means leaning toward reform amid Western momentum.
In Ogden Utah on April 15 a 15 year old boy named George Smith is under a doctor care after a peculiar accident. While playing with three other boys one older lad inflated his stomach with a bicycle pump causing the stomach to stretch and dilate. The boy’s condition remains critical as doctors seek to restore digestion and relief from the pressure.
Report from Evelyth indicates burglars triggered a jail fire in Duluth last night. An unknown prisoner died in the blaze. Burglars also detonated nitroglycerine at Muloth Missal and Northern Railroad depot, destroying the depot safe, but no suspects are yet found.
In St Petersburg on a April day the Minister of the Interior M Sipiaguine was shot at 1 pm in the ministerial office lobby by a man who held a pistol to his person. The minister died later at 2 pm leaving the incident a fatal political assassination in the capital.
Professor Frederick Starr told a class of seventy five University of Chicago anthropology students that the wedding ring is a relic of barbarism and serves no modern function. He likened it to past slave restraints and questioned the dress coat’s origin as hunting wear, arguing such garb survived as a social relic.
Kansas City April 15 The boycott urged by Kansas City live stock commission men to shift shipments to another market had little effect on receipts today, except possibly for sheep. Stock yards company members were weighing injunction actions to force call off the boycott.
New York market notes price levels for metals on April 15 including Mexican dollars 43 silver 631 copper 124 and related casting values. Local figures show the day’s currency and metal trends across commodities traded.
Indications suggest the Growder inquiry into The Mule Gamp is collapsing into a palpable farce. Critics argue procedural flaws and partisan framing undermine credibility and public trust.
War Department orders Col. E H Crowder to conduct a secret inquiry into Chalmette operations with no public testimony. Report to adjutant general. press access to findings left to decision. Critics call the probe a one sided farce as Boer supporters report chilly reception at the custom house and Pearson braces for a witness brigade arrival.
The city engineer started work on the Broadway sewer from McKenna Street to Main, then to Meyer, then on Broadway to Sixth Avenue, with lines running along McKenna to Main, Meyer to Soothway, and Broadway to Sixth Avenue.
Martin Madison, a Madison pressman, rode a Lake Shore locomotive from Madison to Sandusky clinging to the pilot. He faced 40 to 70 mph speeds and gravel missiles before the train stopped at Sandusky. He was arrested and fined 1 for stealing a ride.
In Richland Cente, Wisconsin, the April term opens with Clayton v James over three unsolicited kisses to Mrs. Clayton. She seeks 5000 per kiss or 16000 total, while James offers offsetting claims plus a 50 dollar counter. The case stirs local interest among prominent residents.
Paris dispatch reports President Leubet signed an act providing for France to take part in the St Louis exposition. Details specify official participation arrangements and national involvement in the event.
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