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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1902
Page
2
Reports indicate President Roosevelt endured yesterday's major cabinet reshuffle with no evident ill effects. Close aides say the changes aim to strengthen policy and refresh leadership as he faces mounting domestic and international pressures.
Dr. Lung says no serious result for President Roosevelt from yesterday's accident. He planned a light drive, will host Grand Duke Boris of Russia at luncheon, then sail on the Sylph to Washington and a southern trip. Secretary Cortelyou reported better. trip includes Chattanooga for a Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen convention. Messages of congratulations pour in from abroad.
TONDON Sept 4 An explosion hit the Tredegar Iron company colliery in Monmouthshire trapping 112 men underground. Thirteen are known dead and seventeen seriously injured.
Wilkes Barre Pa Sept 4 President Baer says the miners strike cannot be settled except on coal company terms. President Mitchell and lieutenants discussed the statement but would not comment for publication. Mitchell denied Morgan asked him to name best settlement terms.
Congress, led by Hanna and Elkins, plans to strip Joseph I. Bristow of authority by transferring appointment power over fourth class postmasters to Robert J. Wynne. The move follows Bristow's disputed Cuban Rathbone inquiry and his unpopularity with Republican leaders. General Wood's protection by the President is noted as a factor in ongoing conflicts.
Malvern Pa September 4 Alexander Hammond of this city returned from Presbyterian Hospital Philadelphia provided with a new ear. Four years ago his left ear froze and it was amputated. A few weeks ago he entered the hospital where an incision in the neck took flesh to form a new ear. The ear is expected to look nearly natural soon.
New York market wires quote Mexican dollars at 41.5 cents, silver at 52.10 to 52.60, and copper trading between 11.40 and 11.60 per unit.
Reports from Knoxville state a sensational case in Sevier county where a presumed insane Mrs. Earl Sharp allegedly stabbed a servant with a table fork, gouged out their eyes, and placed the victim on a hot stove. The servant reportedly survives. Mrs. Sharp, about 16, surrendered and is held on bonds of less than ten thousand dollars posted by wealthy relatives. She is said to be the daughter of Colonel McMahon and wife of Earl Sharp, son of Dr. Gib Sharp of Trundles Cross Roads.
In Columbia Pennsylvania on September 3, Mrs. W H Hougendobles reported a loss of 500 dollars kept in a pad under her pillow. The pad fell on the doorstep where her husband, upon milk delivery, kicked it aside and later failed to recover the stored banknotes.
Chicago reports a forthcoming giant食 food trust to absorb Armour Swift Nelson Morris Cudahy Schwarzschild firms in a $500 million deal. The new United States Packing Company would use twenty five times last year’s earnings, naming J Ogden Armour as finance head Gustavus F Swift as president and Edward Morris as general manager.
State Inspector Warren B. Stout of the Prudential Insurance Company investigates alleged crookery in Paducah. Death certificates forged to collect about 2000 dollars on a white man's 1902 death and a white woman’s 1902 death are tied to Dr W T Graves signatures denied by the physician. Additional dubious certificates are under scrutiny.
In Beaumont Texas the Neches River yields two more dead men fueling Sabine street gang rumors. Investigations link the new findings to earlier corpses, with arrests and confessions by Mattie Bennett and others, but no indictments or trials have followed.
In San Francisco a Southern Pacific suburban train hit a San Mateo electric car early today destroying the car and injuring several passengers with six taken to St. Luke's hospital. In Chicago a Milwaukee Avenue cable train wreck injured more than twenty as a grip and two cars collided causing a chaotic scene but no expected deaths.
Gile W. Jackson, an African American resident of Montgomery, filed a petition in the circuit court seeking an injunction against the new Alabama State constitution. He asks the court to require state registers to list his name and other qualified Black voters on registration rolls.
Captain Burton C stosman and Billy Stiles captured Juan Chacon, a Graham county murderer, at Sneed's ranch on the San Pedro. Chacon confessed identity and was taken toward Solomonville, likely to be hanged after transfer to Graham county Sheriff Jim Parks. Chacon’s past includes the Salcedo murder during a post robbery pursuit and a jail escape two years earlier.
A baby elephant became enraged during both afternoon and night performances in Washington Indiana, rushing into the crowd and prompting evacuations. Women fainted and physicians treated two cases as keepers restrained the beast with gaffs. The episode mirrors a previous incident at Jeffersonville days earlier.
The Beaumont oil field site Spindle-Top Hill is described as a menace posing risks to numerous workers. Tragedy and safety concerns prompt warnings about hazardous conditions and potential accidents.
Beaumont reports inspector George A. Hill warns daily gas exposure endangers workers at the Spindle Top field. He accuses well owners of selfishness and says only removing every tank and centralizing boilers would provide real relief and safety. He claims many violate safety rules and fear of harassment keeps neighbors from action.
A Hermosillo report states a government decree opens the Yaqui river valley to settlement. Yaqui Indians, who have long held and occupied the land, oppose the move and show continued hostility to authorities.
Miss Sarah Fowler of Beverly, New Jersey, suddenly loses sight after a playful wrist twist. Doctors from Philadelphia and New York failed to diagnose or treat the condition. An operation is planned next week to attempt relief. Only two similar cases are on record in ophthalmology.
In Chicago on September 4 a 17 year old messenger girl, Jaunite Bonneau, used a hatpin to fend off twenty striking messenger boys at Dearborn and Jackson streets. She delivers telegrams for Western Union earning about $1 a day.
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