New-York tribune., 1902-01-02
Aetp-Dork Dailp Gribnne
THURSDAY. JANUARY 2. 1902.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-Emperor William at the New
Years reception of the ambassadors requested
the American Ambassador Andrew ID. White, 20
ask the President to permit his daughter, Miss
Alice Roosevelt, to name the Kaiser's yacht be-
ing built in this country; the Kaiser talked to
eight ambassadors each in his own language.
- President Koch of the Reichsbank in an
interview said that the worst of the prevailing
Industrial depression in Germany appeared to
be past. == The Car and President Loubet
exchanged New Years greetings, in which the
friendship and alliance between France and
Russia were referred to. == Exports to the
United States from the Berlin district during
1901 were valued at 80, I23.OOS marks. the high
est figures record. - It is reported that
the five Central American Presidents will meet
shortly and confer on the canal situation. =
General Estrada Palma and all the Nationalist
candidates in Cuba were elected, General Palma
President by the unanimous vote of the Elec-
toral College: the throughout the island
was remarkably light: interesting New Years
festivities were held in Santiago de Cuba. -
The expiration of the modus vivendi leaves the
controversy over the Treaty Shore of Newfound-
land again open, and no arrangement with
France in sight. == A large drygoodS ware
house in Dublin was burned, causing loss of
100000 = Professor Leopold Mabilleau will
sail from France January II to deliver a
series of lectures at American institutions. and
study social and economic conditions in this
country for the French Government
DOMESTIC.-Presiden RooseYelt's New
Years reception the most largely attended
affair of the kind in many years. over eight
thousand people passing through the White
House and shaking the Presidents hand -
A code of laws went into effect in the Dis
trict of Columbia - The New-York State
Legislature assembled at Albany, and the Ap-
preparation bill. for the first time in New-YOrk s
history. was introduced the opening day;
Senator Stranahan's Mortgage Tax bill met with
general approval, and Governor OdelrS mes
sage commented on in favorable terms;
there seems to be antagonism among up State
legislators against any measure providing for
Sunday opening of saloons; in both branches
only Republicans We're elected to office; the leg
islature adjourned Monday night. -
girl was bought in Eden. n. Y, by an Italian
padrone for $500 but was rescued by her sweet
heart. == D. Raymond Noyes, a Yale fresh
man, seriously injured by being thrown
from a tohoggan at LenoX, Mass - Louis
Bitter. who killed his clerk and his son and
shot other members of his family, says he does
not recall shooting in his own home. = Two
killed and seventeen We're injured in
the wreck of a passenger train the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad near Glencoe.
CITY-Mayor Low, Controller Grout Com
missioner Partridge and the other new city,
The inability of William T Jerome to
find a judge to administer the oath of office to
him left the county without A District Attorney
in a position TO act till to-day. =- Officials of
the Westinghouse company denied that there
was TO be a merger Of that concern with the
General Electric Company. -= The Temple
BETHEL it announced. would be removed
to another site the one it occupies at
present could be sold Four fires, in one
of which probably fatally burned
and three women injured, were eXtinguished.
- George A. Plimpton, treasurer of Barnard
College announced that he had been unable to
raise the remainder If the 100000 necessary
to secure a like amount from John ID. Rocke-
feller: he hopes for extension of time.
THE WEATHER.-Indications for to-day:
Fair and moderating. The temperature yester-
day: Highest, 21 degrees; lowest. l..