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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1902
Page
1
Virginia workers and business leaders meet to discuss voting rights under the new constitution. The article examines how franchise limits affect labor groups and manufacturing interests amid evolving political reforms.
Virginia race sees Uncle Richard Cook claim eligibility under new constitution as a veteran and slaveholder provision. Reports note registrars admit some mulatto voters amid unequal registration rates. separate dispatches cover miners strikes and coal conference developments.
Charles A. Jones sues George Gohn for 5000 dollars alleging Gohn alienated the affections of Mrs. Jones. Mrs. Jones left Jones, divorced him, married Gohn, left him, divorced Gohn, remarried Jones, and yesterday filed a second divorce, while Jones also sues. All parties labeled highly respectable.
United States Senator George G. Vest of Missouri is in Baltimore for retina treatment by Dr. Henry Garey who developed an ophthalmic oscillator. Vest, nearly blind, arrived last Saturday and stays until Congress convenes in Washington.
C B Dawes ex Comptroller of the Currency told the Nebraska State Bankers convention that the money stringency threatens a panic unless action is taken. He urged an elastic emergency currency with heavy tax to withdraw after the crisis and criticized the Fowler bill while forecasting a 1903 panic due to crop movement needs and regional money flow.
Senator Quay and Senator Penrose pushed for a White House settlement of the miners strike. Wilkesbarre and Philadelphia meetings led to an accord, warned the President the strike could cost the Republican governor candidate and boost Pattison in a state with a large GOP majority.
MT GILEAD OH Oct 7 A mother Mrs C C Harrison and her daughter Lela were reunited after two decades apart. Lela, abducted in Waukesha Wisconsin while a child for her musical talent, reconnected with her mother in Mt Gilead where Mrs Harrison now lives with her new husband. The pair embraced publicly as surprised spectators watched.
Miss Ella Freel formerly Sister Amadeus of the Sisters of Charity in Cincinnati plans to marry Oscar S. Schuenemann a businessman from Walnut Hills in late November. Born in Aurelia near Toronto, she pursued nursing, led wards at Good Samaritan, left the order due to health, trained as a nurse, and will host a bridal banquet inviting former patients.
Old Tom known as Wicked Tom, a longtime circus elephant, was executed at 8:55 AM with 600 grains of cyanide in bran mash. Betsy, his mate, cried out as Tom convulsed for fifty minutes before dying, while other menagerie animals roared in fear.
The national irrigation congress opened in Colorado Springs as the organization was perfected and Secretary Maxson reported good growth. Mrs. Gilbert McClurg delivered the sole address, and the executive committee proposed holding next year’s meeting jointly with the trans Mississsippi congress, a motion discussed into the afternoon.
In Parkersburg on October 7 Lewis Full of Elizabeth, leader in Wirt county circles, attempted to kill his wife after brooding over evidence in a sensational murder trial. He threw an iron cuspidar and beat her, then cut his own throat. He is jailed. wife not expected to live.
The President has decided to appoint Henry White, secretary of the U S embassy at London, as ambassador to Rome. The appointment will probably not be made until spring.
Florence Colorado October 7. Five year old Joe Lawing wandered from home and was searched for by volunteers and bloodhounds from Canon City. He followed a path four miles east then backtracked into a Santa Fe caboose, reaching Taylor station before being found and returned home at eleven this morning.
The article cautions that diamonds can glitter briefly yet mislead the observer, challenging assumptions about quality and value. It discusses perception versus reality in gemstone appeal and urges careful appraisal by buyers and collectors.
Gus Rahke a local gambler faced two assessors in Indianapolis who valued his jewelry load at 200 dollars after testing a large diamond he wore in his shirt front was deemed a phony. The case arose from a $250 judgment Beck, a butcher, won but Rahke’s legal maneuvering reduced his liability to 600 dollars. Rahke operated at The Farm north of the city and had past ties to Beck in the butcher business.
Alex Morrison a farmer near Sherrard was trapped by a fallen tree from Saturday until a rescue on Monday. He had been unconscious but is expected to recover after being freed by a search party in the woods near Wheeling.
In Pueblo Colorado a tramp who collapsed in a Colorado Fuel and Iron dispensary claimed to be Professor Walter A Wyckoff of Princeton. He admitted he was an assistant sociology professor testing life among hobos, having walked twenty miles in freezing rain. He recovered and continued his journey.
Mrs. Marie Babcock says hypnotist Roy Lord lured her away from husband J. E. Babcock for four days. The Wisconsin couple traveled with Lord who posed as a dynotist. She escaped when he was away and identified Svengali-like control. The youth, daughter of wealthy Oconomowoc parents, married two months ago and still on their honeymoon.
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