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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1902
Page
1
Washington dispatch reports beet sugar Republicans and Democrats align to block the rebate plan on Cuban reciprocity. The Morris amendment, eliminating the refined sugar differential, gains support as leadership reels from Roosevelt’s message and party rifts widen.
Index to feature supplement listing items such as Ocean Steamer power, college workers on trolley cars, fresh air tablets, hydrographic notes, Bottles beer Frederick the Great, Germany's South America, Braddock site marking, roof garden hospital, Filipino tortures, moonshiners in New York, social precedence in Washington, Vanderbilt lake purchase, anti policy, Italian amateurs on the Bowery, Mount Pelée rescue, recent feats, deaths of the week, New York theatres, and American trade with South Africa.
A magazine supplement page features cartoons and short items including The Man in the Street In the Street of Discontent Jottings from the Clubs Cartoon Cuban Reciprocity Ping Pong Pangs and various tales and features. Notable pieces include The New Ambassador's Family Snakes of One Summer Mostly Wedding and Dinner Gowns Women Here and There and The Hiawatha's Christmas Dinner.
Washington June 14 The Senate debated a joint resolution by Senator Elkins West Virginia to annex Cuba and admit it as a U S state He argued Cuba’s admission mirrors Texas terms and would avoid tariff disputes He suggested the measure lie on the table rather than go to committee.
President Roosevelt Secretary Root and Postmaster General Payne dined with Senator Hanna at his Washington home. They discussed the Cuban reciprocity issue in general terms, noting the President’s message and reception. The gathering was described as devoid of political significance.
The Union Mills Company a Maine corporation has mortgaged $2,000,000 to the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company to cover the issue of $2,000,000 in 5 percent gold bonds.
An advertisement for Dewey & Sons Co at 138 Fulton Street New York markets wines as pure and made by the makers themselves. The dated phrasing reflects early 20th century marketing language.
In Good Ground New York a trio Foster Lawrence and Louis Disbrow vanished after a night trip. Bodies washed ashore at Tiana Bay reveal a fatal end while Disbrow remains missing. Coroner pending investigation and public demand for full inquiry amid scarce police action.
Greatly improved train service on the Putnam Division of the New York Central between 155th Street and Yorktown Heights. Ask ticket agents for particulars.
In Port Jervis New York Edward Reilly a soldier formerly at San Juan Hill was stabbed by William Ganley a local Democratic politician just before midnight over a cigarette. Reilly heavily bleeding made his way toward Port Jervis Hospital where doctors say he cannot live as the femoral artery was severed. Ganley was arrested at his home and police guarded the jail after threats of lynching from an angry crowd.
In Chicago 700 to 800 telephone operators face grievances after the company adopts a new transmitter. President Sabin pledges wage increases and allows union formation. He urges grievances be settled internally, while operators plan to push for shorter hours and other concessions once a union forms.
Edward C. Johnson fifty years old superintendent of the Little Falls pumping station was instantly killed in an automobile crash near Beattle woods while riding with T A Gillespie of Gillespie Brothers contractors. Gillespie escaped with injuries. Johnson left a wife two daughters and a son. He was a Freemason and had come to Little Falls two years ago to supervise the pumping station project.
Prof Halsey C Ives chief of the Department of Fine Arts sails for Europe to oversee art display work for the exposition over the next seven months. He is accompanied by assistant Charles M Kurtz. Ives was guest of honor at a farewell breakfast at the St Louis Club hosted by Director Skiff with President Francis and others present.
Pretoria reports Gen. De La Rey has surrendered at Lichtenberg in Transvaal with 800 men. A Standerton commando Boer officer died of enteric fever and was buried with military honors. His coffin bore a union jack carried on a gun carriage as British officers and the garrison at Standerton attended.
Two cars on the Lockport and Olcott Electric Road crashed nine miles north of Lockport at 9 PM. A dozen passengers were injured, four seriously, including state Senator Ellsworth who was unhurt. Both trains carried crowds bound for or returning from the beach for Sunday. It was the road's first accident.
A petition in bankruptcy for about 1.3 million dollars was filed in Geneva by Joseph W. Chamberlain a music and piano dealer. The liability stems from Waterloo Organ Company operations of Waterloo in which Chamberlain is a major stockholder. The Waterloo company has been absorbed by the First National Bank of Waterloo to protect bondholders.
Ogdensburg New York June 14 Mr Grow who served as Postmaster in Hogansburg has been removed from office following a complaint that he sold liquor in the same room where mail was distributed Grow held a drugs liquor tax certificate and this fact is noted in the report
A new train between New York and Chicago will cover the distance in twenty hours starting June 15. The service, named The 20th Century Limited, aims to save a day on the trip and marks a milestone for the line.
Dinamite blasts damage the home of James Applegate in West Hazleton. $500 reward offered by Frank Pardee for the arrest and conviction of dynamiters. Bloodhounds to aid police. Applegate held up for his revolver. threats to dynamize fourteen houses reported. District President Duffy forms a committee to investigate.
A carload of coal and iron police and several non-union firemen and engineers arrived from Pottsville to the North Franklin Colliery at Treverton, operated by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, which has been flooded since the firemen’s strike. Pumps were started shortly after their arrival.
Roanoke Virginia June 14 Official statement from the Norfolk and Western Railway notes little change since Friday. Old workers gradually return while striker ranks hold. Yesterday four mines of forty six were idle and about 300 cars were loaded, up fifty cars from the day before.
Huntington reports that strikers concede losses in coal fields along the Norfolk and Western Railway. In the Flat Top and Tug River areas several hundred miners returned to work today.
IRONTON Ohio June 14 A West Virginia miners strike shuts down the Union Iron and Steel Company Sarah Furnace and Hanging Rock Iron Company plants as they lose coke supply. If continued, Belaint Furnace will bank its fires Tuesday and Marting Iron and Steel a week. Ashland Steel Plant and Red Mill in Ashland Kentucky also close. About 700 men affected.
Dispatches indicate an early break in the West Virginia soft coal strike as 60 percent of strikers reportedly return to work. William C. Atwater, treasurer of a Pocahontas region mining company, notes restiveness and reports from Pocahontas and New River fields.
Pain's Manhattan Beach Fireworks are the only ones to buy to celebrate the glorious Fourth as advertised.
General Manager E E Loomis of Lackawanna coal department visits Scranton and accuses Mr Hanna and soft coal interests of steering miners toward a strike. He notes soft coal prices rising from 50 cents to 1 dollar per ton and questions representation on the United Mine Workers executive board.
Marblehead Massachusetts June 14 Carroll D Wright announced he would send his report on the coal strike to the President by Wednesday at the latest He declined to detail contents or discuss the strike Intimate friends say he will recommend a Civic Federation style board with jurisdiction over interstate strikes and court enforceable decisions Practically compulsory arbitration is expected to be urged
Secretary Moody plans to place Admiral Dewey in supreme command of a vast fleet for winter manoeuvres near Culebra Island in the West Indies. The summer movements for the North Atlantic squadron will involve joint naval and army actions defending eastern New York approaches. Moody to witness, with Hale Cannon and Foss among expected guests.
J Arm strong Chanler will leave for Europe spending the summer in England and the Continent after a lengthy Virginia property dispute. He has lived on a Albemarle County farm near Castle Hill, close to his divorced wife the Princess Troubetskoy. The suit recovered all property in Louisa and Albemarle Counties and became a notable Virginia legal contest.
Chicago on June 14 Carl Woltzschlager a union picket at Allis Chalmers plant on Twelfth Street and Wabash Avenue was shot by non union machinist Albert Rogerson. The bullet passed through his upper lip but flattened on his artificial teeth and dropped into his mouth without serious injury.
An analyst provides tomorrow morning's Telegraph with the real meaning of the railroad consolidation. The expert discusses the implications for the Monon line and its links to Louisville and Nashville and the Southern systems.
Gold Heels won the Suburban Handicap at Sheepshead Bay in a record race style, finishing three parts of a length ahead of Pentecost with Blues third. The crowd, estimated around 50,000, set a new attendance mark as the winner clocked 2 05 1 5 for the mile and a quarter.
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