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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1902
Page
17
Washington dispatch reports growing hope for Senate approval of reciprocity with Cuba. Key Republican leaders Platt Aldrich Spooner rally support. caucus ends with 49 present. Steering committee backs Cuban Reciprocity bill to stay on calendar. Edgewood Inn ad follows.
W Bourke Cochran must appear before referee Theodore H Shamen at 41 Park Row at 10 30 AM to answer questions about his role in lawsuits against the Consolidated Gas Company. George A Lamb claims Cochran was paid to drop cases and seeks to uncover associates and payments, including a reported 100000. Cochran denies the allegations and says he will explain all details.
Commissioner Lederle of the Health Department obtained a warrant for the arrest of a former department employee accused of embezzling about $2,000 from the pension fund. He refused to name the suspect, cited influential friends, and said the case was before Magistrate Crane at the Tombs.
Patrick A. McHugh nationalist MP for the North Leitrim division and owner of The Sligo Champion was jailed for three months for contempt of court after failing to answer a summons. He faced charges of conspiracy and intimidation linked to tenant evictions and muttered insults to the magistrates during trial.
Surrogate Fitzgerald ruled the 1900 Patrick will invalid while admitting the 1906 will to probate. The Rice Institute of Houston and other legatees gain a larger share as the Patrick document is rejected for improper execution and forged signatures. The decision ends Patrick's bid to place most of William Marsh Rice's estate in the hands of his convicted lawyer.
Ex Mayor Van Wyck rushed into Broadway between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth streets to save 14 year old Estelle Hawley from being crushed by a runaway horse. He lifted her clear of the street while gripping the horse’s bridle stopping the animal. A cheering crowd celebrated the rescue as the girl escaped injury and rode to the Putnam House. The horse’s driver Jacob Frank was arrested but released. the girl did not press charges.
London reports Bolivia granted an immense territory concession to an Anglo American syndicate led by J Pierpont Morgan and Sir Martin Conway. The 80000 square mile Acre region on the Andes eastern slope would back a trust to control rubber output, amid Brazil and Peru claims and questions of Bolivian rights.
In Westminster the Chancellor Sir Michael Hicks Beach said maize duty would drop by half, costing £200,000 in revenue. The bill clause on grain faced a party-line defeat 21 to 178 as Liberal John Morley pressed to omit the duty amid Colonial conference policy questions.
In Copenhagen June 18 opponents of selling the Danish West Indies to the United States report weak fund response and secret meetings mostly attended by business men tied to a proposed St Thomas steamship line. The government disapproves. the treaty looms in Lands thing elections as Premier Denitzer plans a tour. A Pocono Mountain special train ad follows.
June 18 Paterson amid violent riot led by anarchists as a 3000-strong mob forced silk mills to close and attacked workers and police. Revolver and stone assaults wounded multiple officers and civilians, with mills at Belmont Park Cedar Cliff Bamford Brothers and Hall mill heavily damaged.
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