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Newspaper
Philadelphia Times
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1902
Page
1
A report states that King Edward's life is threatened by assassination plotting. Details remain sparse with authorities investigating and security heightened around the monarch.
A man claims a sudden lumbago sidelined him from activity, with observers suggesting the ailment is a fabrication to avoid duties. The incident raises questions about health reports and personal motives.
A sensational London rumor claims a plot to assassinate King Edward was discovered by Scotland Yard. Officials do not confirm arrests or illness as a ruse, while the King’s Windsor activities suggest no violence, though official denial is withheld.
A meeting of Irish MPs in the House of Commons adopted unanimously resolutions calling on Nationalists to abstain from coronation celebrations to protest misgovernment. The Irish party would be summoned to Dublin to consider Ireland’s condition on King Edward's coronation day.
London reports Rudyard Kipling confronted a mob at Rottingdean Sussex to defend his aunt Lady Burne Jones. He cleared the crowd and delivered a sharp address while halting a public drill ball in protest of the anti Boer display.
Henri Rochefort informs magistrate Laydet that the Humberts fled Paris on May 7 aboard a yacht at St Nazaire bound for Colon Colombia. Police seek the pair on charges of gigantic frauds connected with the French capital.
London observers testified at an inquest into Francis Daniel Muller a reclusive physician who died in a crowded London tenement. He had served as a surgeon in the Confederate Army during 1860 to 1865 and led the medical department before returning to Prussia where he fled political oppression.
The Norwegian steamer Jotun arrived at Georgetown from Venezuela with reports that Venezuelan revolutionaries commanded the vessel on June 6 at Barancas. General Valentin Perez led the crew that embarked about 250 troops to Bolivar on June 7 before Captain Meling was briefly replaced and later killed attempting to return cattle. Venezuelan government ships fired on the Jotun near St Felix, wounding a passenger, as the vessel escaped pursuit.
Six Chinese foreign ministers have not secured terms to restore Tien-Tsin to Chinese control. Britain faces criticism for its stance nine months after the final protocol. The Viceroy seeks American pressure to enforce a return of Tien-Tsin, contrasting Britain’s position and risking loss of U S credibility.
Edwin H. Conger, the United States Minister, was named doyen of the diplomatic corps in Pekin after the Austrian minister departed for China. The doyen holds notable influence in dealings with Chinese authorities as the corps acts as a unit on many questions.
In Shamokin on June 17, five sub-bosses who quit recently reported for duty at local collieries. Union leaders, despite defection, said conditions favor strikers to defeat operators. P F Brennan reports Henry Clay and Bear Valley mines filling with 412 feet of water due to ongoing strikes. Burnside mine under guard by twenty officers. Some bosses and men are returning to work.
A Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company order demands immediate return to work for fire bosses engineers pumpmen and firemen with guaranteed protection and possible higher wages. Fire teams from Richardson colliery move to Glendower near Glen Carbon. Union efforts to induce desertion continue as Denning's colliery St Clair closes and Silverton carpenters join a sympathy strike.
President Thomas Duffy admits foremen and watchmen warnings were not widely obeyed in District No. 7 and predicts their removal by week’s end. At Hazleton, Liford W. Miller, a University of Pennsylvania student, was badly beaten by six strikers allied to non unionists after leaving Milneeville colliery. Miller suffered a torn ear and multiple injuries as crews circulated and vowed to press actions to compel nonunion workers to return to the mines.
William Lowe Bryan was elected president of the University, succeeding the former head in Bloomington Indiana. The appointment marks a new era for the university and its ongoing nondiscriminatory peace education initiatives.
In Westchester on June 17 Attorney General John P. Elkin led a battle against Senator Penrose after losing the GOP nomination to Quay. The Chester county Republican convention backed Elkin ally Senator W. P. Snyder and denounced Reynolds for backing Penrose, signaling a statewide anti Penrose drive.
The Republicans of Pennsylvania nominate the Hon. William P. Snyder of Chester county for United States Senator. The legislature is instructed to give him undivided support and to use honorable means to secure his election.
Washington June 17 The Senate may send a bipartisan Philippine investigation commission following a memorial from Andrew Carnegie Charles Adams Charles Schwarz Edwin Bennett Smith and Hobart Welsh Senator Lodge returned and said the Philippine commission will take up the issue before adjournment and act on it this session.
Montreal reports a note found aboard a lifeboat forty five miles east of Halifax after the steamer Huronian overturned Sunday night. The ship, from Glasgow to St John, N B, vanished February 7 with sixteen aboard. Searches have yielded no further trace.
Park guards at Fairmount Park wore winter helmets pulled low as they left for the day. A mix up with new summer straw helmets led to dye staining foreheads green after a shower. A guard revealed the timing to a friend, noting the dye would not wash out quickly.
Otto Jaehkel was arrested by U S marshals in Trevor Wisconsin on a charge of securing $50,000 from Englebert Hardt and Co of New York Berlin and Buenos Ayres. The plan allegedly formed in Buenos Ayres and executed in Hamburg and Paris with misrepresentation. He reportedly traveled through the United States and Mexico to elude capture.
Chief Justice Gummere announced in Trenton that Greater New York lawyers not licensed in New Jersey will be barred from practicing before New Jersey's Court of Errors and Appeals. He cited New York courts' refusal to grant New Jersey attorneys equal privileges as the reason for the retaliatory ruling.
June 17 The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company issued a circular to shareholders stating preliminary negotiations have begun to greatly develop operations through inclusion in a large British lines association. Details are confidential and will be disclosed for proprietor approval before final conclusions.
The United States Weather Bureau in Philadelphia provides a local forecast showing fair weather with light variable winds for Wednesday and Thursday across Eastern Pennsylvania Delaware New Jersey and Maryland. The report lists mean temperatures around 70 to 73 degrees with sunshine and notes accumulated temperature excess since January 1 and rainfall excess details.
Reading common stock traded heavily in New York and Philadelphia with 36 000 shares changing hands as reports spread of a control bid. Analysts debate John W Gates motive while Morgan is said to control Reading and the Pennsylvania Railroad denies involvement.
Correspondence from Honolulu reports ongoing eruption of Kilauea as many travelers plan visits to witness the spectacle. Descriptions note lava flows and sheets of flame from Halemaumau, with the active crater in a basin seven to eight miles in circumference and surrounded by steep walls.
A well dressed young woman was found on the steps of the House of the Good Shepherd and sent to Philadelphia Hospital. She has spoken once since investigators found her and said a nurse’s cross would keep her safe in a church. Officials deem her condition unclear possibly religious mania or temporary affliction.
Persistent Reading stock purchases drum up a control contest with 105000 shares traded. Traders name possible backers like Pennsylvania Railroad Vanderbilt interests and New York Central Baltimore and Ohio, while Gould Morgan and Jersey Central factions are also cited.
Charles M. Schwab, president of United States Steel, presented Mount Aloysius Academy at Cresson Pa a brick alumnae hall valued at $25,000. The ceremony included Gov. Stone and other dignitaries as Schwab praised the Sisters of Mercy and recalled his childhood hills. He then departed for Notre Dame University.
Assistant Fire Marshal Wilkins jailed Ed ward McNeely at Central Station on arson charges after arresting him at his home 1611 South Carlisle street. A Friday hearing was set while investigators connect him to a Norfolk box factory fire on Fifteenth street and Washington avenue last Saturday amid a string of blazes in the area.
Jacob Timbers a Reading Railway freight brakeman ran half a mile after a collision near West Falle Schuylkill early yesterday morning and flagged a fast express stopping it 200 yards from debris. The wreck killed fireman Richard Toomes and injured engineer Leonard Riegraff whose leg was amputated to save him.
King Albert of Saxony, critically ill, and Queen Karola will observe the forty ninth anniversary of their wedding tomorrow. The king altered mourning rules to ease public amusements as his death nears, while the Imperial telegraph system delays death telegrams until official confirmation.
Two college students quit their deputy roles at Mahanoy City colliery after daily taunts from crowds. The area faces strikers being evicted as coal companies struggle to hire nonunion pumpers due to gas hazards. Local boards urge merchants and transport firms to bar deputies.
President W. R. Harper announced total gifts for the year reached 2,012,000 at the convocation in Chicago. Rockefeller contributed 1,250,000 of the total. Degrees were conferred on 150 graduates.
A 28th ward fight over ward leadership centers on George Sterr from the Republican side. Samuel Towne seeks Sterr's replacement with exposure of King’s discharge as a trigger. Officials and directors dispute the case, while factions mobilize club members and councilmen ahead of the June 4 primary.
S G Hoshall, employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad, left his sick wife at home then rented a room at 16 Bartlett avenue. While alone in the Bartlett house he closed doors and windows and turned on the gas. He was found dead this morning, presumed to have acted under temporary insanity due to his wife’s illness.
In Atlantic City on June 17 Judge Ingersoll presided in the District Court over ejectment actions involving the George Jonas Glass Manufacturing Company of Minotola Buena Vista Township and striking grass blowers. The 61st case, against Walter Adams, yielded a verdict for the defendant. Several more cases are set for Thursday.
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