New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
Nepalark Dailp G,ibn,se.
SUNDAY. NAY 10. 1901.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN.-The draft of Secretary Hays
proposals for a new isthmian treaty was received
in London yesterday by mail from Lord Paunce-
fote - Two regiments of volunteers sailed
from Manila for home on the transports Han
cock Buford and Aztec. = A special com
mission appointed to investigate the financial
condition Of Havana made its report. -=
Financial experts of the powers are puzzled 10
hnd out ways and means for securing the
Chinese indemnity: ~ Eclipse observations
made at SUmatra. Mauritius and elsewhere We're
only partially successful. owing TO cloudy
weather. - The new sails were bent on the
Cup challenger Shamrock II yesterday, and IT
IS expected that the two Shamrocks will renew
their trials the Solent tomorrow. - The
Ottoman Government has prohibited the entry
os typewriters into Turkey. - Radical
changes have been made in the conduct OF the
royal household in England. - Two directors
Of a mortgage bank IN Berlin have been ar
rested The Colombian Government has
placed an export tax OF 500 a head on cattle
- Efforts to reach a compromise basis by
the Cuban Committee on Relations failed, and
majority and minority reports will be sub
mitted TO the convention in Havana, the ma
3ority favoring acceptance Of the Platt amend
ment
DOMEsTIC.-There was continued improve
Ynent in the condition of Mrs. Mckinley; the
President attended the launching Of the battle
ship Ohio and made speech 10 the employees
OF the Union Iron Works. -= The recent pur-
chase of the Mexican Central Railroad by a
syndicate headed by II. Clay Pierce, Of St
Louis is thought TO mean the establishment OF
a new Oriental line from Manzanilla, Mexico,
by way Of San Francisco. = Thomas w.
Lawson's Cup yacht. the Independence. was
successfully launched at Boston. - The
strike OF the Albany street railway employees
was settled by agreement between the company
and the employees and the troops started for
home. - The Presbyterian General Assembly
decided TO take up the discussion of the ques-
ton OF creed revision on Thursday. - Owing
60 the rain the trial trip Of the yacht Constitu-
tion. at Bristol, r. L. deferred until to-day.
- ST. Louis fireman fell from a line of
hose by which he was descending from roof
and was killed.
( CITY.-Stocks were strong and higher. -
( The body OF Father Phillips shipped TO
{ Pittston. Penn. for burial Coroner Bausch
held Kirk Stanley, in whose rooms the priests
body was found in $1,000 hail. 10 await the re-
suit OF the chemical analysis of the dead mans
organs. - Many Of the employers agreed to
the demand for a nine hour day by the ma
chinists. - Word was received here of the
!. death Of the Rev. DR. Maltbie D. Babcock pas
tor of the Brick Presbyterian Church in Naples
after having completed a tour of the Holy Land
- IL was said that the friends OF the 18th
Regiment men degraded by Colonel Dyer might
appeal 10 BrigadieT-General Butt - Two
men, alleged 10 be notorious green goods men,
were held for examination. Three sisters
were sent TO Bellevue insane from brooding over
their fathers loss OF reason. - Winners at
motifs Park: Scurry. Luciline, Cunard, Janice
McMeekn. Passe Partout
THE WEATHER-Fcrecast for TODAY.
hhowery. The temperature yesterday: High
. eelr ol degrees; lowest. 52; average, 5s