New-York tribune., 1902-03-22
AepDork Dailp Tribnas
SATURDAY, MARCH %, 1902.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGREss.-senate: The War Tax Repeal
bill and the bill to protect Presidents were
passed. - House: The River and Harbor Ap-
preparation bill was passed.
FOREIGN-Mr. Balfour announced In the
House of Commons that he would move to limit
the suspension OF John Dillon to one week. -
Meetings of retail tObacconists were held in the
chief cities OF the United Kingdom, and IN near
ly ali cases the sentiment was favorable TO
working with the American Trust and hostile TO
the Imperial or British concern. == II is re-
ported that the entire force under Marshal Su,
twenty thousand men, had deserted and gone
over in body TO the rebels of Southern China.
DOMESTIC.-The case of General Miles was
considered at the Cabinet meeting; the Presi-
dent said he tired of the friction in the
army, and il is believed that the lieutenant
general will soon be retired. 80 The House
Sommittee on Naval Affairs voted to take no
action on the numerous Schley bills and resolu-
tions pending before it. -= An important feat
ure of the plan Of civil government in the Phil
ippines viii be the establishment of the silver
standard in the islands. - A million postage
stamps Were disposed Of at one sale in the
How, of San Francisco. said that charges made
against him TO the Chinese Emperor We're not
made by the Six Companies. 80 Three nun
dred students in Omaha College engaged in
pitched battle. - United States Senator
Clark is said TO have bought a controlling in
terest in the Los Angeles Traction Company
CITY-Stocks We're generally higher in price
The wall Of the subway excavation IN
Park-aVe between Thirty-seYenth and Thirty
eighth sts, caVed in, carrying away the SIDE
Water Supply Department started a war on
overhead wires. - The Rapid Transit Com
mission opposed the Pennsylvania Railroad tun-
nel bill before the Mayor. - hrebug con-
fesSed to setting the Astor House aTlre. -=
Harry G. Hart Tammany leader Of the XXXth
Assembly District, declared war on Larry"
Deimour. - The Huntington interests were
accused Of depreciating the stock Of the Houston
and Central Texas Railway. - J. Pierpont
Morgan escaped who was waiting to
serve him with subpoena calling for his at
tendance witness in the Northern Securities
suit. - A policeman stopped a runaway horse
so suddenly that the occupant of the carriage
was thrown out and injured. - An aged
janitor shot his daughter-in-law, probably ia
tally, and committed suicide; he said she stole
his sons love from him. = An entire family
was burned by the explosion Of lamp. -
1t said that the District Attorneys office
would have sewers flushed in attempt to find
the pistol with which Walter S Brooks was
killed. - A woman became wedged in a hole
tn the door Of a burning room, ami ex-
tricated in the nick Of time == In the trans
actions Of the late John J. McGarry a check for
100000, signed Della McGarry per John J.
McGarry, Attorney came to light; the banks
now hope 10 prove that McGarry had a power
OF attorney from his mother.
THE Neutrality-suspicious. for to-day: In
creasing cloudiness, probabl!I rain tonight. The
temperature yesterday: Highest, % degrees
lowest, IS; average, Al.