New-York tribune., 1901-12-15
aetu31ork Daily Gribn,re.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER Is. 1901.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN-Signor Marconi IN St. Johns. N
F. announced that he had received wireless
messages Fl ON his station in Cornwall England
solving the problem OF signalling across the At
lantic without wires; the distance traversed by
the messages ]. 700 miles. - General
Bruce Hamilton surprised a Boer laager in the
Eastern Transvaal killing sixteen Beers and
capturing seventy-siX, besides woundlng many
others: in London the government issued a
blue book giving the October and November
reports from the concentration camps in South
Africa, showing q very high mortality, especial
ly among the children. - Senator W; a a;
Clark, of Montana, is said to have pald tOo,oto
for the Preyer collection Of pictures in vienna.
Reports from the Chinese Imperial Court
received at Peking say the Empress Dowager IS
stantinople have turned over the negotiations
for the release of Miss Stone and her companion
to the missionaries. - Many shipping dls-
asters occurred during the recent great storm
around Great Britain, and many lives were lost
Queen Wihelmina and her consort ar
rived at The Hague, receiving loyaI gIeelllIs
from the populace, no hostility being SHOWN
toward the prince. - The LONDON ana Norln
Western Railway England's greatest railroad, II
is expected viii be electrically equipped :"
The Argentine Consul General at Vienna an
rlounced that he had received dispatches stating
that Chilli is ready to accept all just claims, anu
Argentina's fears of war are unfounded-
DOMESTIC--Secretary Long has not yer
acted on the report of the Schley Court OF IN
t1,Iirv: CAPTAIN LeInly holds that Admiral Dewey
concurred in all the findings except those on
which he specifically expressed dissent; OPINION
is divided to the prospect OF Congressiona1 sa
n
prevailed in many parts of the west, ana tne
continuance of the cold wave for two days was
predicted. - The American Eederallon oI
Labor concluded its annual convention with tne
adoptiop of important resolutions on trade
autonomy and socialism and the reelection OF
President Gompers and the other officers. -
The Yale football team earned S2S,O00 over ex-
penses Three men pecished in Long isiand
Sound in the storm. - The university OF
PENNSYLVANIA Will send graduate crew 10 the
Henley boat races next year and to the lrlsh
Regatta SchaeffeT. the swimming cham
pion of America, may go to England and try 1or
worlds records against British swimmers. :"
the amendment to the constitution had been
adopted. - A car company, with S0,VVootp
captal has been incorporated here to operate IN
Europe - Thomas Moran, who made the
trial trip in Carter's submarine boat, says II was
successful. - The Queens County Jockey
Club has increased its capital from soo'ooo 10
100000.
CITY.-Stocks were irregular, closing strong.
The sale announced of a valuable
plot of land at F1fth-ave. and Sixtieth-st, Tor
the William H. Lee estate - Justice Hlns-
dale in Special Sessions raised the bail OF Al
Adams the policy king from $1,000 to Slo,oJo
1t was learned that Assistant Corporation
Counsel Connolly would soon hand down an
opinion holding that the classified employees OF
the departments abolished under the new char
ter would have to be retained by the borough
presidents. - 1t was said that the Alien
with Others escaped from a poolroom on when
Captain Chapman made a raid and failed 10
make any prisoners. - A python IN the Cen
tral Park menagerie devoured horned lizard
of Commerce was laid - The amount Of
Christmas foreign mail sent abroad last week
was greater by six hundred bags than that sent
a year ago in the same time