New-York tribune., 1902-02-03
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8. 1902.
NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-Intense Interest is felt in Manila
over the action Congress will take in regard TO
the Philippines; a majority of the business men
3n the city indGrse the statements made by
Governor Taft before a Congressional committee
regarding conditions in the islands - j. San
tos Zelaya was inaugurated President of Mica
ragua for his third term at Managua. ==
Count Leo Tolstoy is again seriously Ill. ==
Prince Henry left Berlin for Kiel whence he
will take his departure for the United States;
-AmbassadOr White was at the railway station
20 bid him goodby and deliver him messages
from the United States; the imperial yacht
t1ohenzollern left st. Vincent G. V, for Ber-
Inuda. fits voyage to New-York. == The
Kaiser assembled a family party and some
eminent theologians at the palace in Berlin 10
hear Professor DeIitzsch reread his paper on
'Babylonish Origin Of Hebrew Ideas" ==
The Italian ship Nicolo AcCame wrecked
the crew were saved. == The Donaldson Line
steamer Alcides went aground in snowstorm
at the entrance of st. Johns HarbOr but was
5oated- == T4e question OF meat supplies for
the British army in South Africa will be brought
before Parliament to-day. = The interna-
-1ional chess tournament opened at Monte Carlo,
with twenty-five masters taking part in it.
DOMESTTC.-The autopsy held on the bodies
OF the Biddles showed that Ed" died from
the effects Of The shot fired by himself, and that
Jack" was killed by the officers who captured
him; agreement has been reached TO divide
the $1,000 equally between the captors. --
Governor Taft viii give his views a cur
9Tency system for the Philippines before the
Senate committee. - The Philippine bill and
the Judicial Salary bill will come before the
Senate this week: the House will discuss the
repeal of war revenue taxes. - II iS possible
that the question Of an interoceanic canal may
not be decided in the present session OF Con-
GTess. == Great economic gains were shown
in most of this country's farming industries in
1901 =- The new bill creating Department
of Commerce Will probably pass the House;
some trouble over its title has arisen. - A
fireman was blown from his engine by a burst
of steam while running forty miles an hour
near Binghamton, and killed. - Walker D.
Hines. first Vice-president Of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad. accused the Interstate
Commerce Commission with encouraging rate
cutting = Six thousand employees of the
American WoolIen Company affected by the
strike against the two loom system.
CITY-Wind and zee caused accidents in the
streets; q woman EerhauS fatally injured
by a sign blown down; ice delayed the Brooklyn
Bridge cars -= The Street Cleaning Depart
tment continued the work OF clearing the streets
of snow. -= Fire Commissioner Sturgis ex-
planned his position the law regarding the
sale OF standing IA theatres: standing
room was sold as usual the Metropolitan
Opera House, but in other theatres where con-
certs were given the regulation compiled
with - The Rev. DR.. Donald Sage Mackay
said that efforts to close saloons on Sunday
were taken as thrust az poverty. and that
The rich should look first to their own condf-
tions. - The identity Of the woman found
dead in the Chrystie-st. house was established
and evidence obtained by the police almost con-
Hrrned the suspicion that she was murdered
- Two prisoners under indictment for
burglary escaped from the Queens County tail
r. In race riot in Yonkers men and women
fought the police with knives and clubs.
THE WEATHER.-Forecast for to-day: Fair
cold wave. The temperature yesterday: High
est "a degrees; lowest. %; average, 33