New-York tribune., 1901-12-17
Aem1lork Dailp Gribnare:
TUESDAY. DECEMBER Ii. 1901.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS-Senate: In executive session
she y-Pauncefote Treaty was ratified py a
vote of - 10 q, and the nolllnatioh o. ul 80,
ney General Knox was confirmed; the sa open
session was brief and no important business
was transacted. - The House was not III
session: arrangements We're made ior the ue-
.hate on the Philippine tariff bill, which begins
To-day.
FOREIGN-Papers were served on Signor
Sarconi at St. Johns. y. F., by the Anglo
American Telegraph Company, claiming mo-
Y1opolv OF the telegraph business in the island
for the company and demanding that ne cease
his experiments and take away ms appaIdtuS;,
failing which an appeal for an injunction Will
he made 10 the courts: the inventor VIII san
for England on Thursday next; there was
saII in the shares of cable companies IN Lon
don - The reply of the Government OF
Argentine to the Chilian note was dlspatcheo
yesterday. and is said 10 be conceived IN terms HE
which leave no doubt of its acceptance; IN Chlil
there was a report that Argentine troops hau
snvad Chilian territory - LORD RosepeIs
addressed an enthusiastic meeting at CheSter-
field England on the current issues of British
politics a modified state OF siege mas
been proclaimed in score OF towns throughout
Russia At the Consistory in Rome the
Pope announced the appointments of tather
John J OConnor as Bishop of Newark. N D.:
ard Father William J: O'Connen as blshop OF o.,
Portland Me. 80 There was oTea9 rlot IN IN
Vienna -= Two counties Of Ireland are 10
be placed under the Crimes Act
DOMESTIC.-A treaty for the cesslon OF sne
Danish West Indies to the United states mas
been completed by Secretary Hay and the Dan
ish Minister in Washington. - secretary
Hav consented TO deliver the oTatlon az tlie
services in memory of Mckinley TO be held oy
Congress - Secretary Long granted until
Friday for Admiral Schley's counsel to lie oo-
sections TO the findings of the court OF inquiry
Governor William Gregory OF Rhcde
Island died suddenly. - Burglars entered the
Fhinebeck IN W Postofice blew open the safe
and stole about $500: they returned the nre OF
villagers who were alarmed by the explosion
The effects of the high water In Pennsyl-
ranja were widespread. but the railroads were
in the main able to resume traffic: there We're
fourteen thousand mineworkers thrown out Of
employment by the floods in the mines; the Ohio
River was rising at Cincinnati - The high
waters up the State have receded and railroads
are getting a few trains through - The en-
tire State of Maine is suffering from the effects
OF floods.
lower --Mayor-el Low announced twelve
appointments: he said that all those holding
slnecures in the city government would have to
20. - Prominent men addressed the meeting
OF the industrial department Of the Nationaa
Civic Federation. - It was announced thaSS
the block front on the east side Of Broadway
between Thirty-frs and Thirty-second sts.
would be mpr1v == A woman hanged her
self in a stateroom berth on the steamer Pris-
ella Of the Fall River Line. just before her sal
ing time. The New-York State Medical
Association discussed the early diagnosis and
treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis last even
ing. - woman jumped from the upper
deck Of a Pennsylvania ferryboat, and was res
cued by man who jumped in after her
THE WEATHER.-Forecas for to-day: Fair,
warmer. The temperature yesterday: Highest
"a degrees; lowest. Ia: average. 20.