Marriage Interrupted by Breach of Promise Suit Served
Papers in a breach of promise suit were served on the groom at the altar, interrupting the marriage ceremony. The action seeks damages over an alleged breach of nuptial agreement.
15 Mar 1902
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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1902
Page
1
Papers in a breach of promise suit were served on the groom at the altar, interrupting the marriage ceremony. The action seeks damages over an alleged breach of nuptial agreement.
Franklin Marcellus Oldy and Agnese Aprile wed after a dramatic scene at Lyric Hall when Isaac N. Jacobson, delivering a breach of promise summons for Olga Landsdorff, interrupted the ceremony announcing Oldy’s prior engagement. The planner and crowd recovered with a wedding supper and congratulations. Olds is a wealthy former lawyer. Landsdorff is related to the de Neuville family.
President offers the Emigration commissioner post to Frank P. Sargent of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen to succeed T. W. Powderly. Thomas Ritchie and Edward McSweeney to be removed from their New York posts. Change to take effect in April.
Washington March 15 Brigadier General Funston lunched with the president after consultations. No arrangement yet on his future duties. it is probable he will not be sent back to the Philippines unless he wishes.
Madrid March 15 Queen Regent commissions Senor Sagasta to form a cabinet after sectional leaders failed to agree on a coalition. Sagasta tasked with reconstructing the ministry.
Reading Pennsylvania March 15 The Rev George W Brownback a Congregationalist minister left Reading to seek a wife He advertised in a Chicago matrimonial paper receiving 250 responses after whittling down to seven he will visit Hartford Glastonbury Dover Gloucester Point Wheeling Erle and Ontario Canada over two weeks He plans to marry upon return in Reading He is 30 years old and a capable pulpit orator
Irven Bennett ten year old son of Allen F Bennett a tenant on the Miller farm at Jones Station near Hamilton Ohio was found hanging from a rope tied to a rafters in a wagon shed He had climbed to suspend a rope for a swing and reportedly slipped from hay losing footing and falling about 20 feet his feet nearly touching the ground before death was discovered by his playmates
The Boston transportation strike narrows to a dispute between freight handlers and freight clerks of the New York New Haven Hartford and the Boston and Maine Railroads. The railroads offer to rehire as many veterans as possible without prejudice, with about 2,060 strikers involved. Most other workers have complied with the strike end order.
The Jeffries Delaney bidding for the Jeffries Fitzsimmons bout is postponed to 5:46 PM after Jeffries and Delaney, delayed by a Vallejo train wreck, fail to arrive from Los Angeles. Four clubs San Francisco Yosemite Twentieth Century and Los Angeles attended the morning meeting. The San Francisco Amelite Club plans to offer 80 percent of receipts. other bids are not yet known.
An explosion in the powder mixing department at Fairmont Manufacturing Company in Cleveland Ohio killed one young woman and seriously injured at least seven others. The incident occurred early today and prompted investigations by local authorities.
In Marion County Kentucky the long Shipp Horton feud ends when sixteen year old Mary Horton marries seventeen year old Clarence Shipp at Mt Washington Church. Shipp had faced murder charges but was acquitted with Mary's support during a snow covered vigil for peace. The feuding clans declare the feud over as the couple unite.
Rev. Roderick, pastor of an East End Baptist Church, was attacked by Charles Lancaster, Cleveland city editor, after demanding a denial and correction of a statement in a separate paper. The altercation began inside the Press office and ended with the minister knocked down and grabbed by the neck then thrown down the stairs.
A pest house near Burgin, Kentucky was blown to pieces by armed men at 11 pm. Police and carpenters examined the site the next morning finding the roof destroyed and a warning on a tree. Bloodhounds and threats of violence accompanied a tense morning as authorities planned a new structure guarded by twenty men amid citizen protests and riots.
Mell McKenzie a young white woman with two brothers went to Z. M. Covington home in Columbia at 4 a.m. and stabbed Covington as he slept beside his wife using a batener knife. Covington died almost instantly. The three suspects are jailed and offer no explanation.
Chicago March 15. Professor James Westfall Thompson of the University of Chicago rejects Mrs Astors claim that to be an American gentleman one must be college bred. He argues education is valuable but not essential and praises the dignity of honest work over formal schooling.
Des Moines Iowa March 15 A J Steele Republican candidate for County Attorney faces a sensational tale as his romance with Mrs Lockwood, wife of his client, becomes public. After confessing to Lockwood they wed with his consent and now live in Des Moines with Lockwood sharing a room in their house.
In Davy West Virginia Fred Couldling returns intoxicated. his wife shoots him dead and then fatally wounds herself. She dies after kissing her sleeping children in the next room. The incident leaves two orphans and two dead adults. Editor Cahriel Mathias of the Chicago Chronicle is visiting Tucson.
A Baltimore man lost his voice during a public dispute with his wife as he shouted insults and curses. The incident occurred in a domestic quarrel drawing police attention and ending with neither party seriously hurt.
Baltimore March 15 John Kelly 44 was suddenly struck dumb last night while cursing and blaspheming after threatening his wife with a razor. He was arrested at 2603 Bruce terrace, later writing his details in court. He pleaded, was fined twenty dollars plus costs, and sentenced to 30 days in jail.
Senator Berry of Arkansas on the minority side of the Senate Commerce Committee submitted a report opposing the ship subsidy bill. The minority challenge both the predictions and facts in the majority report and say the bill is wrong in principle and doomed to fail. They contend the current bill, though less complex than the Fifty sixth Congress version, remains more objectionable in certain respects.
Sacramento March 15. Governor Gage appoints John D. McKenzie of Santa Clara as Harbor Commissioner at San Francisco and names Rudolph Herold to a related post.
The Owls plan a new club house on Main Street just south of S. M. Franklin. Plans and sketches were prepared at the office of Rust in accordance with Mary sketches described in The Citizen. Construction will begin soon and be completed in about 30 days.
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