New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-28
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SATURDAY. NOVEMBER IS, 1908.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONVERSATION houses, after brief ses-
EiOns, adjourned until Tuesday.
FOREIGN.-Mr. Powell refused TO acknowl-
eege the provisional government, and stated
that 81 would be necessary for the insurgents
10 ratify the action Of Woz y Gil in the san
Domingo Improvement Companys case -
Mr. Balfour in a speech at the United Service
Club defended the War Office asserting that ITS
upreadiness at the time Of the South African
var was due 20 the policy Of the former L1oera-
government - University students at Rome
attempted TO attack the Austrian Embassy ana
were driven back by troops; similar demonstra-
tions took place in other Italian cities -
an opposition at Panama TO the ratification OF
the canal treaty has disappeared, though IL will
not be signed on the day when II arrives. =
Further reports Of discomfort in Cauca and
Antioqua were received. - Advices from
St Petersburg said that Russia and Japan had
reached an agreement regarding Manchuria- and
that the delay in negotiations was caused by
inability to reach an understanding about Corea;
the attitude Of the United States caused resent
nent IN Russia - A favorable bulletin con-
corning the condition OF the Czarina was issued
at ST Petersburg. - Two schooners were
wrecked on the coast Of Newfoundland. their
crews being rescued.
DOATESTIC.-Maser James E. Runcie testi-
fed before the Senate Committee on Military
Affairs that a magazine article attacking Major
General John r. Brooke was written by him at
the request Of General Leonard Wood, and was
planned at a dinner in Santiago attended by
W3od Runcie and Ray Stannard Baker; the
committee summoned General Brooke az wit
ness. - After battle with Chcaeo oe-
lectives Indiana farmers and Pennsylvania
Railroad detectives and labcTers. three despera-
does, who, with other already in custody
in Chicago, have been guilty within few
months of eight murders and many more at
tempts at murder, were captured In Indiana
and rushed to Chicago, where they confessed to
their crimes; in the fighting preceding their
capture all the desperadoes were wounded, and
they killed one and wounded five others
- Pennsylvania farmers turned over TO the
authorities at Wiamsport, Penn, a man Whom
they suspect in connection with the murder OF
william Clendenin. the telegraph operator al
Browns Tower, near Williamsport.
CTTY.-Stoclzs were dull closing at net gains.
g. Despite unusual police precautions, a
crank handed a letter to President Roosevelt as
he was leaving the church where the funeral Of
> x. Oracle was held; Commissioner Greene
made charges Of negligence against Captain
Cottrell, three detectives and two patrolmen.
- President and Mrs. Roosevelt returned to
Washington after attending the funeral Of j.
X Oracle - The cab drivers who struck for
a fourteen hour day won on all points =-
Weber & Fields paid $1,000 out Of their pockets
because Nine. Patti refused to sing unless there
was $1,000 in the house. - There an i'm
preston that the West-st. overhead trolley plan
was being held in allegiance a Tammany
Board Of Aldermen could pass on il.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Fair; brisk north winds. The temperature
yesterday: Highest, 30 degrees; lowest, IL.