New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-04
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SUNDAY. DECEMBER 4, 1898.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-No joint sessions Of the Peace
commissioners was held in Paris. the American
Commissioners not having reached an aeIt.
ment on certain points; the next Joint sesst ~,
surgents have captured the important town OF
Capiz on the island of Panay; Filipino nameo
been disavowed by the Filipino Junta IN HONG
Kong - Queen Victoria visited Netie! ,ios
pital and presented medals to wounded souri,
from the Soudan. - Nicaragua mas ssueu I
decree resuming independent sovereignty, owing
10 the collapse Of the United States or Centrai
America - The maintenance OF the Drei-
bund is thought to have been endangered o! tue
recent speech Of Count Thun- II ohensteln -
The Furness Line steamer Londonian was
sighted on November ~ abandoned. with no
signs Of life aboard: she was bound from bos-
ton TO London. and carried a crew OF eighty-one
men - The work Of cleaning the streets
of Havana under American auspices was be-
gun.
DOMESTIC-Th slow progress Of peace ne
EQUATIONS in Paris is explained in washington
IS being due to the great care necessar! IN
drawing up even the minor features OF the
treaty - The Hawaiian Commission mas
completed its bin for the government or the lsI-
ands and placed IT In the Presidents HANDS
60 The War Department investigating com
mission heard further testimony In regard 70
the transport service and equipment or the
Army - The Grdiron Club. Of Washing
ton. gave dinner at which Presidents McKin-
ley and Iglesias and many other well-known
men were among the guests. - The proprie
tor Of a hotel at Duryea. Penn. was Killed by
burglars who bound a servant girl and Dlew
omen and robbed the safe Of about 5000. -
An explosion in a coal mine at NlkespaTre
Penn injured thirteen miners seriously. -
There Is still no news OF the steamer Pentagoet
now eight days out from New-York to Bangor
Me - The students Of Wesleyan University
voted to protest against the system or coeduca-
ton in practice there.
CITY-Stocks were firm and active. - SIX
men were killed and one was injured on the
Mallory Line steamer Alamo by the steam
which escaped because Of the breaking or the
main pipe leading from the boiler to the engine
John McCullaRh. State Superintendent OF
Elections announced that he had been commits
stoned by President Mckinley to organize the
Havana police. and would start for Cuba on
that mission this week. - President Orr OK
the Rapid Transit Board issued statement
outlining the two alternative propositions Tor
making possible the building OF the under
ground road in spite CT the debt-limit obstacle.
1t was announced that William H. Porter.
vice president Of the Chase National Bank
would become active vice president OF the
Chemical Bank - The report Of c. c. Mar
tin. chief engineer Of the Brooklyn Bridge. de-
Glazing the Bridge to be perfectly safe, was made
public - Colonel Roosevelt spent short
time in the city comforting with Messrs. Depew
and Hashrouck. He started then for Boston
William Thorne and William 1nskip, Brit
ish delegates to the convention Of the American
Federation Of Labor. arrived in port and were
entertained by the Social Reform Club.
THE WEATHER.-FOrecast for to-day: Rainy
and cooler The temperature yesterday: High
est. AZ degrees; lowest 80 degrees; average.
41A degrees.