27 Sep 1902
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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1902
Page
1
A Methodist pastor faced a public dispute as a trial purchase prompted by a nagging complaint leading to the quitting of a male parishioner. The incident centers on church authority and personal conduct within a religious setting.
The Rev. P J Henness declared he will not receive a fair trial at the Iowa conference and resigned from church membership and ministry. He cited his wife as a source of distress and alleged nagging while his case also touched on a bishop's similar separation. The incident prompts talk of broader action within the Methodist church hierarchy.
In Youngstown Ohio John McGlynn fled naked after an apparent clothes theft along the Mahoning River. He hid in bushes for more than a day before police captured him as he moved through a residential area seeking garments.
Levi Strauss, founder of Strauss & Co., a renowned San Francisco dry goods merchant who helped build Pacific coast trade, died at his home in the city. He settled in the 1850s and became a leading figure in local business.
Six passengers on a Missouri Pacific Pullman sleeper traveling from St Louis to St Joseph were robbed of more than $1,000 while asleep. Two men who boarded at California, Missouri, rifled pockets in the forward car as Conductor Day searched the rear cars. One thief was caught attempting to enter a berth, and the robbers alighted in Kansas City around 5 am.
Miss Inez Johnson, about fifteen, daughter of Hiram Johnson of Greencamp, was found unconscious in a carriage near her home in Marion on September 26. The horse delivered the buggy to her parents, where a physician revived her but she remains in a dangerous, mystery shrouded condition.
New York reports metal and money market updates with the Mexican dollar at 4.01 to 4.00, silver at 50 cents, copper trading between 11.50 and 11.75, reflecting current commodity pricing.
In Wilkes Barre on September 27, Candy McWalle a breaker boy defends children in the strike area arguing they cannot be blamed for fathers’ actions. He explains that attending school is essential and night classes cannot replace daytime schooling for working boys.
Rear Admiral Robley D Evans, second in command of the Asiatic station, is to assume supreme command of U S naval forces in the east. He has been sent up the Yangtze to investigate reports that conditions in Chinese provinces may spark another Boxer uprising per Minister Conger.
Syracuse police nabbed a plaster cast dressed as a ghost after residents reported nightly hauntings at a vacant Otisco Street house. A new tenant nearby alerted officers and a sergeant pretended to arrest the specter, only to find the white robed figure was a protective prop.
In New York on September 27, police found a man’s headless nude body in a basement at 388 West Twenty ninth Street in a building housing Chinese restaurants. Six arrests followed as the head was discovered in a furnace and the victim’s clothes lay nearby in the furnace. Thomas Tobin, a waiter, was found feigning sleep under a lumber pile.
At Spokogee Oklahoma Territory a feud clash between Brooks and McFarland factions left four dead and many wounded. Willis Brooks and his kin were killed while John Brooks was mortally wounded. Deputy marshal Grant Johnson and others pursued suspects as the town contends with a violent outbreak on the Fort Smith and Western line.
Charles F. Murphy, newly elected leader, assumed command of Tammany Hall affairs in New York on September 27.
A hasty noon wedding in New York linked Harry W. Morgan and Louise Herr drew a surprised city crowd. The couple wed at 2 pm despite objections from Miss Herr’s family and chased a honeymoon via steamer to Fortress Monroe. Morgan, a mining investor, and Herr move to Arizona afterward.
Evansville Ind sept 27 The German Catholic Central society opened its annual convention with a memorial condemning President Roosevelts Philippines policy The paper argues the friars lands should not be divided and church state separation lacks maturity The memorial was endorsed by delegates and referred to the resolutions committee An executive session reported the Widows and Orphans group in good shape with nearly 250000 dollars paid for charity last year.
Seattle dispatch reports Mayor J J Humes wandered off while walking in woods north of Lake Washington. He sprained an ankle, wore by a storm, slept in a hollow log, subsisted on huckleberries, then was found by a searching party and brought home.
California Sept 27 General orders call for converting all Southern Pacific engines to oil burners within a year. Officials estimate savings of about 100000 dollars per month across the system once oil operation is fully implemented.
Matthew Henson, Peary’s body servant for eleven years, cashed a $100 check at Chase National Bank. Peary had given the check in April 1900 for rounding the most northern point of known land, noting in his handwriting its purpose for gallant and efficient services in reaching the northern limit.
Thomas McGehee 74 a veteran of the Black Hawk and Civil Wars was arrested in Macon Missouri and jailed for a sanity inquiry. He carried a scythe and barricaded his one room cabin at night firing at imagined Indians prompting neighbors to recall his warlike ways. His wife pleaded with him as he waved goodbye from the wagon.
Harry Rose stage manager at the Garrick theater shot his wife at their Royal hotel apartments. After the crime he surrendered at the station house saying I have killed my wife. He cited his wife loving another man as the motive.
News from Salinas Cruz reports a sequence of seventy five earthquake shocks felt on Tuesday at the Pacific terminus of the Tehuantepec National railway. The quakes damaged harbor machinery and toppled a seventy ton crane into the bay hindering artificial harbor work for about six months.
Rail accident injures several people as a high speed Lille to Paris express derails. Emergency crews rush to the scene as passengers receive aid and investigators begin a preliminary survey of the wreck.
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