28 Aug 1902
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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1902
Page
1
A report details the actions of a group identified as Oragesmen who restrained an asleep boy found near their alleged target. They then completed their planned task, with authorities providing limited comment on motive or outcomes.
Three expert safe crackers looted the Pennsylvania Railroad office in Bedford between midnight and 2 am. An Italian boy sleeping near the depot was beaten and gagged but unharmed after the pair fled. Even with a drawn revolver guarding the Italian, no arrests were made as investigators search for the criminals.
Maricopa county delegates to the Democratic Territorial convention were instructed to vote as a unit for Colonel J. F. Wilson. The Tempe meeting showed Wilson supporters ahead by about twenty, with Shannon allies yielding. Wilson pledged to back the Nampa dam project as first government water storage work and to support Carlos dam. Delegates chosen for Tucson are representative citizens.
Bodies of five Battle Creek sanitarium employees recovered after their launch was struck by the steamer Welcome in Lake Cognac last night. Victims' names not provided in the report.
General Miles and Mrs. Miles will depart Washington for the Philippines next Wednesday. The trip will last two months or more and will include visits to every army corps in the islands, with aides accompanying him.
TERRE HAUTE Ind Aug 28 The north bound passenger train on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois road was wrecked today Engineer Cary and Fireman Lee were killed The passengers were un injured
Five prisoners are held in a guard house after the first clash with troops in Tamaniqua. Captain Gearhardt of Company F, Twelfth Regiment, is wounded by a stone hurled by a striker. National Guard actions spread to Red Ash Thurmond and Cate Creek with deaths and ongoing danger across Coaldale Lansford Summit Hill.
The piece reports Wall Street and major interests locking funds for Republican campaigns as President Roosevelt pushes trust reforms. It notes Rep Babcock lacks funds, Hanna declining to lead fundraising, and speculation on leadership changes while trusts go on strike.
Reports from London dated August 28 describe returning Boers facing deadly violence at isolated homes and maltreatment of women. Blacks armed during the war by the British hold guns, while confined Boers lack arms to defend themselves. A demand to disarm black populations has been ignored by the war office.
President Roosevelt began a New England tour overnight sleeping on a train in Nashua New Hampshire where crowds filled the streets as he spoke from a platform for ten minutes before continuing to The Weirs. The party reached the Main street station at 9 30 this morning.
Miss Julia Lincoln of Montevlair woke to a rattlesnake two feet from her bed at Mountain View Farm near Wurtsboro. Her strikes and a heavy blow from an alpine stock drove it away. the snake attacked again before the hired man dispatched it. The escape left her shaken and nearly prostrated.
A man driven by bereavement over his wife’s marriage to a millionaire and the loss of his children took his own life. The tragedy appears linked to heartbreak and social pressures, with local authorities noting the suicide followed family turmoil.
In Omaha on August 28 William W Hately, a dry goods clerk, killed himself after his wife left him for Charles Stierle a Newton Montana millionaire. He left his children several thousand dollars policy and a fortune from England. He wrote a final letter protesting his love.
James R. Keene returns from Europe to spur a supposed world scope pool led by Talbot J. Taylor & Co. The group seeks to lift Southern Pacific prices, claims annual earnings above eighty to ninety million, and hints at bond rights as indirect dividends. Rumors swirl about Felton’s possible succession to Harriman amid a railroad metamorphosis.
Three men believed linked to a band that robbed the Northern Pacific train near Sand Point are jailed in Spokane. Arrests followed a description by William Pearson a Chicago tramp who rode the train. suspects Thomas McDonald Frank Niff and J W Murray deny involvement.
Wall Street estimates three million four hundred dollars in losses from John W. Gates and partners after their bid to control Colorado Fuel and Iron failed. Injunctions delayed the annual meeting, leaving Osgood and his board in control while Gates factions dumped stock and faced mounting paper losses.
William Upshaw, 20, returns home after a quarrel over his father’s second marriage. He shoots his father Thomas Upshaw and his stepmother in the house, then shoots himself on nearby railroad tracks. Mrs Upshaw suffers nonfatal wounds, while the father is gravely hurt. The incident ends in Upshaw’s suicide after the family confrontation.
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