New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-05
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MONDAY, DECEMBER :, 1904.
THE NEWS TINS NORNING.

FoREIGN.-There was an uncontiImed report
in St Petersburg that BOB Metre Hill had been
Tetaken by the Port Arthur gafrisoA =-
Legal societies at St Petersburg ana MOSCOW
passed resolutions urging further reforms ---
Advices from Shanghai say that Russia is con-
Nert!ng the port into base OF supplies. =--
Secretary Taft issued an executive order al
Panama, which approved by President
Amador. and which settles all the points IN
United States: the Panaman tariff is TO be re-
duced, rules for customs are made, ana
the harbors of Panama and Colon are defined
60 The Prince OF Piedmont. the heir TO the
Italian throne was chTistened at the Qurinal;
the reception following the baptism was short.
owing TO the serious illness Of the Duchess OF
.Aosta. -==- 1t was reported that Charles R
Flint his way TO Constantinople TO carry
out negotiations by which Argentine and Gillian
warships would be purchased for Russia
through Turkey.
DOMESTIC annual report Of Frank p.
Sargent. Commissioner General Of immigration.
showed a decrease IN the nuInueT OF Immigrants
for the Last fiscal year, and an Improvement
in their moral, intellectual, financial and physi-
cal condition 80 The Secretary OF the Nays
report discussed at length the needs OF the
growing navy. Estimates based on Stats
tics OF The Department of Commerce and Labor
indicate that the exports of manufacturers for
The year will exceed by S66,000OoO the highest
previous record. --= It was stated IN 81. LOUIS
that a Chicago firm would pay S3S6000 for the
larger Worlds Fair buildings. == The New
York night boats from Albany and Troy bat
tied with the fee in their last trip OF the season
which marked the closing OF navigation on me
Hudson River. - Prince Fushimi entertained
President Eliot and Professor Gray, OF Harvard,
H IL Whitney, Judge Lowell and others al a din
ner in Boston. The body of wealthy
Providence manufacturer, who Wysteriously dis
appeared on November I. was found under the
Ice by skater, at Lincoln r. l. == Bishop
Henry C Potter Of New-York, addressed the
students of Wellesley College. == The stable
Of Robert n. Gushing, Of NeW-York, at Newport
was damaged by fire
CITY-Secret Service men began watch on
Mrs. Chadwick. - The New-York City Rail-
way Company gave transfers at Grand. Four
feenth and Twenty-third SITS. and Broadway.
- A boy over by an automobile
and perhaps fatally injured. - The pastor
OF St Janes's Roman Catholic Church ordered
the children OF his congregation to disobey
their parents or play hockey from school If
necessary to attend mass on next Thursday.
t. Controller Grout and Commissioner Oak
ley Of the Department OF Water Supply, Gas
and Electricity, issued statements defending
their action the city lighting contracts. -
4 big wave swept two Of the lifeboats Of the
1ctruria from her docks the voyage to this
port - II was learned that nine Of the jury
at the first and interrupted trial of Miss Nan
Patterson stood for her acquirtal. So The
Rev. DR.. Macarthur 6scribed the conversion
TO Professionalism of the Countess de Monsters
fn part TO the magazine articles of the Rev. Mr..
O'Connor. eX-priest. == w. Emlen ROose-
welt, cousin Of the President. leading a bucket
brigade Of servants. e&tngUished a fire in his
Flfth-ave. home. = Fire in adjoining
cant lot caused a panic IN the Gotham Theatre,
In One hundred-and-twenty -ffth-st., near Third
ave; the precautions taken prevented injury
20 any Of the audience.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Fair The temperature yesterday: Highest, 81
degrees; lowest, 90