Wife of a Rich Canadian Elopes with Forger to Ken
A prominent Canadian husband’s wife elopes with a known forger to Ken. The couple’s departure leaves questions about the marriage and the forger’s origins.
11 Oct 1902
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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1902
Page
1
A prominent Canadian husband’s wife elopes with a known forger to Ken. The couple’s departure leaves questions about the marriage and the forger’s origins.
Interest grows as reports say the wife of a Woodstock Ontario resident, missing since the Beatty affair, works as a servant for a Bowling Green clergyman. Her husband and father-in-law pressured her to return, but she stays on as the clergyman’s servant while detectives pursue the case.
In Guthrie Oklahoma on October 11 Captain Tansey a Civil War veteran and former Kansas legislator faced a divorce, alimony and an injunction after marrying Alta Harvey two months earlier. He was barred from his home and later retrieved his belongings with a policeman’s help. Despite age he stays active and was a noted Republican stump speaker.
In Hyannis Nebraska on October 11 a would be eloper William D. Clark was shot and wounded when Judge Shawberg fired a shotgun from a second story window as Clark and Myrtle Shawberg descended a ladder and sought a buggy. Clark, a lawyer, and Myrtle Shawberg had eloped after earlier refusals.
Dr Ly man M Beckes ordered Dr E C Ventress to employ help and force Thomas Wilson Jr to allow medicine for Wilsons dying typhoid daughter. A shot was fired from the Wilson house but no one was hit. authorities warned further bloodshed may follow. County Attorney Vennington authorized the orders.
A Paris dispatch reports a serious clash yesterday between gendarmes and striking coal miners. One striker killed, two wounded, and six gendarmes injured as the strike spreads through the coal fields.
The Rock Island has acquired the El Paso Northwestern road from Santa Rosa New Mexico to El Paso covering 270 miles. The line links the Rock Island with the Mexican Central and Southern Pacific at El Paso and spurs coal properties along its route into the Rock Island system. The purchase expands revenue and supports plans for enhanced service into Mexico and through trains with the Southern Pacific to Southern California.
Three masked robbers using explosives attacked the Burlington Pacific Coast Express near Lincoln Nebraska late last night, wrecking the express car and ransacking the safe. They escaped with about 1500 dollars and left the crew unharmed. Officials estimate a 50000 dollar loss and offer a ten thousand dollar reward for the captors.
A. B. Chinn a leading merchant and ex Confederate soldier was shot dead in his Lexington home by two masked burglars. His son Asa wounded while trying to defend him opened fire. Asa likely fatally hurt. The assailants fled after the exchange of gunfire.
Eight Irish members of parliament are jailed under the coercion act and six more summoned to the crimes act courts. Prominent Nationalists are imprisoned for speeches, while Dublin Castle expands military posts. William Redmond, grand nephew of Edmund Burke, receives two months for urging tenants not to support a farm thief. A landlord conference with Nationalist leaders on land by purchase is proposed.
New Orleans faces a serious strike situation as talks fail between striking street railway workers and the New Orleans Railway Co. Armories prepare to enforce Governor Heard s order to restore order and curb violence. First car operation under the proclamation is expected Monday.
Washington Oct 11 Miss Alice Roosevelt wears a star shaped beauty patch left of her cheek signaling a fond and playful disposition. Daisy Leiter also sports patches as revival of seventeenth century fashion spreads from London to the capital with varied meanings for placement and status.
Officials of the agricultural department believe sufficient coffee can be raised in the new island territory of the United States to supply home demand and avoid imports from Brazil and other coffee countries. Experiments are under way in the Philippines Hawaii and Porto Rico with satisfactory results. Frank D. Gardner in charge at Mayaguez Porto Rico has returned and is preparing his report. He has been studying culture and growth of orange lemon citron guava and other fruits as well as coffee.
New York markets report Mexican dollars at 40 1 2 cents, silver at 50 sc per ounce, copper trading between 11.50 and 11.65 per pound.
In Wilkes Barre on October 11 President Mitchell arrived at strike headquarters from New York and refused to speak publicly. Strike leaders court the Federation of Labor for support, expecting an appeal to its two million members and to other labor groups nationwide.
Washington reporters herald a major breakthrough calling Mendall's law as significant as the atomic theory and Darwin's origin of species. The principle says first crosses yield offspring resembling one parent with hidden recessive traits, while subsequent crosses produce fixed types showing both parents traits in varying degrees. Examples include dancing mice and bearded versus beardless wheat, each producing four varieties in the second generation with true breeding in later generations.
Three members of the South Omaha Board of Education including President A. V. Miller and members J. L. Kubat and Theodore Schroeder were arrested in Omaha Neb on October 11 charged with taking bribes from teachers for salary increases and for bribes related to typewriter contracts.
In Charleston West Virginia Mrs Jane Wesley files for divorce from Uriah Wesley alleging his method of harassing her family. She describes him siccing his bulldog on her mother and whipping the dog when it refused to bite.
Dr Louis Pretty Eagle of Wichita Mountain Oklahoma wed Miss Etta Reeves near Morganfield in a ceremony with Methodist minister Rev Gregston and Chief Prairie Dog performing. Indian custom included revolvers and an Indian feather, a wedding dance, song, and a somber note tied to Leer's Hill tragedy years ago. Miss Reeves, 18, joined in a union marked by cultural rites and a cautionary past.
Mary E. Hart, a Red Cross worker and famed American newspaper woman, is named sole legatee of Fred Hardy Watkyns who was hanged in Nome, Alaska, for killing two prospectors. The will lists 375 acres in Michigan and 1565 acres in Tennessee, plus funds in Ohio. Hart plans to claim the property after leaving Alaska in late October.
Two Palmer Lake men discovered a four month old infant bound with wire in a creek bed in Douglas county near Palmer Lake. Coroner Hacket removed the body as investigators suspected gypsies or other travelers may be involved. The child appeared to have been in the water about three weeks.
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